Under protection

Chapter 2. Teleport

May 12, 2020

The next day - it almost didn't differ from yesterday: the morning is still the same cold and gray. The clouds covered the sun and the sky, only one small piece of the sky remained uncovered: it shone a little, as if holding the clouds so that the sun's rays could touch the ground; blew a light breeze, shaking the tops of old trees ..

Cody and Baldi, dressed a little warmer than usual, walked slowly along the carriageway of a small town - this was Baldi's hometown. No one car and no one living soul ...

Silence.

- I grew up here,- Baldi said, his words sounded empty and colorless.- To be honest, I have always hated this place, all these fucking people and everything that happened here ...
- Uh .. what happened here?- Cody asked.
- The fact of the matter is that nothing, - Baldi answered. - Boring life, boring work ... well, not counting the work at school .. our city didn't advance anywhere, everyone who lived here, everyone left for larger cities and never returned here.
- Hmm ..., - Cody was confused by this answer, she thought a little, - to hate hometown just because of this? Hmm, so why didn't you leave this place? - She asked without taking her eyes off Baldi.

Baldi got a little nervous, he really didn't want to say the main reason why he hated his hometown, so he began to come up with an lies.

- W-well .. I didn't leave because of Princi .. He's my best frie-, - Baldi stammered a little, - he was my best friend since childhood, - he continued sadly. - Having become the Principal of the school, he offered me a job, and since I am very good at math, - teacher slightly bragged, - I agreed to give math lessons at his school, he even renamed the school in honor of my name on my own birthday ..
- I see, - answered Cody without looking at Baldi.

A little nervous, Baldi drove his eyes back and forth and stuttered a little, but at the same time tried to answer calmly. And since he walked ahead of Cody, she did not see the lies in his eyes. Cody may have understood that Baldi was lying a little, but she didn't even try to understand where the truth is in his words, and where the lies are.

Distracted, Cody looked at the empty town, she often peered into the empty gray windows of small houses that stood next to each other.

- You know, - Baldi stopped the step, - I remember what this town was then, and, - he made a short pause, looking at the sky, - I don't regret anything at all, seeing it now so - forgotten.

***
2 weeks have passed since the explosion of the reactor: ruins, wrecked cars, destruction and silence are all that remain of the whole world. All people and almost all animals disappeared. Everything became like in a movie, literally, namely that the colors disappeared. Gray houses, gray plants, water, sky, sun, grass, clothes ... EVERYTHING.

It was, as if, an inexplicable anomaly that took over the whole world and captured a billion lives. And what now? ...

- Tell me, Cody, how do you feel, looking at all this?- Baldi asked desperately, not looking at her.

Cody went up to Baldi and stood beside him. They both looked straight ahead: ruined houses and empty streets stood before their eyes.

- Well ... - Cody didn't knew what to say, - everything is so gray ... And, I really don't know how I feel, you know, sometimes I feel sadness and loneliness, and sometimes - fear and pain, but now, I even I don't know, as if I feel everything at once. I ... I don't even know what to call it.
- "Nothing", - Baldi said quietly, - I would call it "nothing", because I feel nothing when looking at all this. - He continued his step going somewhere forward. Cody stood a little in Baldi's place, pondering over his words. She really wanted to do something to cheer up her friend ..

-Baldi, wait!- Cody shouted easily and ran up to him.- Listen, what if we leave this town and go somewhere farther from here, for example, to larger cities? You don't want to be here, so why don't we travel with you? - she asked in an encouraging tone. - There are so many different cool countries that we can visit ... Just you and me. What do you think? - Cody smiled a little.

Baldi thought about it. He found this idea quite interesting, and he had never been to other countries either.

- Well ... here I still have nothing to do, so yes, I do not mind, - he answered, looking at Cody. - But how do we get to other countries? After all, there are only the two of us on Earth now; airplanes do not fly, trains do not run, and you can't fly such a huge distance on wings, - Baldi looked at Cody with a sly smiling glance, so he knew that she was really strong and could fly an incredibly long distance.
- Hey! Do you doubt me? -Cody made a stern face.
- What? No, of course not, I just assumed this, because there are thousands of kilometers from here to other countries, so it's unlikely that you will be able to fly there, -smiled Baldi, he liked to tease Cody and watch her violent reaction.
- I can, don't even doubt,- Cody said self-confidently in a displeased tone.- But, not this time, otherwise you will again scream and whine like a whore, begging me to lower the flight altitude to four meters. Coward, - humiliated him Cody.

Baldi's sly smile changed to a displeased one, he realized that Cody had defeated him by the power of humiliation.

- I'm not coward! I just have a ... phobia, - Baldi made a slightly offended look, covering up his loss. - But still, how do we get there?
- By teleportation, of course.
- What?
- Have you forgot? We still have a working teleport from the school, well, the one that the student used as a last resort to escape from you.
- Ohhh, yes, I remembered. Because of this stupid teleport, Principal and me had big problems at school, - Baldi unhappily put his hands together in front of him.
- What kind of problems did you have? Ahhh, wait, is this when a student accidentally caught you both in the Principal's office during sex? Yes? - Cody smiled, to which Baldi shyly looked away.
- There was nothing between me and the Principal...
- Well, yeah, yeah .. That whole school then learned that you are two gays, you love each other.
- Well, yes, especially after this little bastard took a photo of us and posted it in the social network, - Baldi muttered in a displeased tone.
- Yeah, - Cody smiled even stronger, - that's not good to constantly fuck during the working day ... Heh, I well remember that photo where Princi sweetly fucked your ass-...
- SO! Enough! - Baldi could not resist.- Let's forget this situation already.
- So what? You were the first to start talking about it.
- It's just ... enough ... to talk ... about it,- Baldi shouted looking at Cody from below, he was much shorter than her.
-Oh come on, I'm not at all against your relationship with Princi,- said Cody, to which Baldi just sighed with displeasure.
- Fine, using the teleport, we can of course move to another place, but how far from here?
- I can set up a teleport to move to the city we are going to, don't worry.
- I'm not worried.
- That's good, while I'm going to set up the teleport, you- ..
- I want to do something .. if you need, you know where to find me, - said Baldi.
-Okay,- agreeing, Cody flew into the air.

Baldi watched her trail until she disappeared into thick clouds, and he himself went somewhere in the other direction, left the road and followed the familiar path that led directly to Baldi's school.