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CHAPTER 3: THE FLASHBACK
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FLASHBACK TO 5 MONTHS AGO
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The day is April 6th, 2057, we are a day into our self-lock in the basement of the hospital I work at. We all started the day off by introducing ourselves, I started and said My name is Amara and I work at this hospital that we are stuck in. Dariux went next and he said, Hi my name is Dariux and I am a contractor. Keyla went after him and said, Hi my name is Keyla and I am a hairstylist. Keana went next and she said, Hi my name is Keana and I am a therapist. And Zand went last and he said, Hi my name is Zand and I am also a contractor. We have enough food to last a little while, probably not too long though.
We heard a lot of screaming from the floors above us, and a lot of footsteps. That night, it was hard to sleep with everyone running around and yelling, the poor dog we had with us was so scared that she hid under a table and would not come out. The next morning we all awoke to silence, not a sound from the floors above us, We all sat in silence and just listened for any sound of life from the floors above. After a while we got up and made our way to the ‘food corner’ and got ourselves some breakfast, then we played some Super Smash Bros and chatted about our lives before the bomb, The two guys said they were carpenters and one of the girls said she was a hairstylist and the other said she was a therapist, and I said I was a paramedic.
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We all were laughing and talking when all of a sudden there was a loud bang, we all jumped and froze. We looked around and we saw that one of the guys had a gun and it had gone off when he sat down, luckily no one was hit by the bullet. A few hours had passed when one of the guys said that we should do something but he did not know what to do. I looked around and saw a bunch of soda cans and beer bottles I suggested we set up the cans and bottles and we practiced shooting. An hour later we were practicing our aim/shooting technique and having a good time. A few hours later we were all tired and decided to call it a night, so we ate beans and called it a night.
The date is now June 17th, 2057, we have very little food left, and we are getting thinner by the day. We all woke up to loud crashing noises, we looked around to see a cabinet on the ground and blood pooling beneath it. We all freaked out and ran to lift it, and what we found underneath almost made us all throw up, it was Dariux but he was crushed flat, and It was a big mess. Zand started crying and Kelya joined him. (It turned out that Kelya was Dariux’s girlfriend). When Zand calmed down we asked him what Dariux was thinking, and he started telling us that Dariux wanted to leave the room but he did not want to open the door so he thought he could climb the cabinet and into the vents.
The days following Dariux’s death were filled with sorrow and an awful odor. Becuase the door leading outside the basement was blocked by something on the other side, we could not get rid of his remains. So that meant that each day that passed after he died the smell got worse and worse. And to add to that Kelya was not taking her boyfriend's death very well, she started not eating and staying up all the time, and not sleeping, we could all see that it was taking a toll on her mentally… Then one day we all woke up and we saw her sprawled on the floor, with her head twisted at an unnatural angle. I ran over to check her pulse, but it was too late she was gone.