Chapter 19 - Amber Firelight .

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              --  TWO MONTHS LATER   --

Grey and Cassandra had spent the evening gathering loose wood as usual . Building a small fire in the communal fire pit at the backyard had been one of our constant habits in the last month .

My mom and Unt Laura always made a surprisingly extravagant meals with so limitted resources . Everyone's spirit was high , they still had hope and they still had faith that Ian ,Mr Andrew and Jack would be back . And what happy news they will bring .

My mother's health condition wasn't clear yet , she was getting better but from time to time she lost her memory for a bried period of time  , sometimes she even lose her conciousness . But she was breathing and that all what matters.

The day after Ian and Mr Andrew withdrew  , Jack came to the house with his lovely kid Kevin . He too went along and followed the others to their journey .. the journey that did not want to end yet .

Kevin was the house's sugar pet , he kept the smile on my face even when my heart was broken .

Everyone sat around the burning fire , it wasnt cold outside .. but the fire was a nice way to end our day , as the sparks twisted up into the night sky I sat quietly warming my cold hands preoccupied by Ian . I had no idea where he was , all what we knew was that they went to Ashton Valley .. the place basically was bits of narrow fields that were tucked in between the hills where the mountains flattened out all over the plains . A great place to make a shelter , it would take months , years for the infected people to find it .

They had a plan , first to make a - hard to find shelter - and second to search for as much as  survivors and built a new empire withing the walls of the unnamed shelter , until this messed up plague is hopefully over .

I lost hope after the second week , Ian was supposed to get back in two weeks . Yet none of them had shown up yet . If only I knew that he was leaving that night , I'd never let him go .

I crossed my heart and hoped to see him somewhere , somehow . How ever that sounded naïve and unrealistic , I just fancied amber firelight dancing across his smiling face , but soon the vision was over and nothing but the abondoned melancholy town appeared above the ashes rising from the fire.

Cassandra yawned and wandered off to her bed , Grey followed  holding the sleepy Kevin up his shoulders to take him to his bed . My brother and Cassandra  were a "thing"  , neither of them said anything but it was so obvious that they were a couple .
I just sat there with mom and Unt Laura who were busy talking about anything but the plague . I wasn't really focusing on their talk , as I watched the dying embers Unt Laura said goodnight too .

I didn't feel like going off to the cold bed in Ian's room , realizing that he wasnt there was a nightmare itself .

" Hey , dont worry baby everything gonna be okey .. you know I love you Em ." Mom gave me the most sweet motherly hug . I had missed her hugs so much and I was glad she's finally back .

" You're going to be okey .." she said with as much encouragement as she could muster .

" I love you too mama ." I huged her back letting the tears fall from my eyes , I had a broken heart in the middle of this Chaos . I missed Ian , and now I realized that I have never loved anyone the way  I loved Ian and I would do anything just to see him again .

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