Words cannot describe how I’m feeling at the moment. I stand facing the person with dark hair and a rugged clothes with holes, dirt and blood splattered over them. We stand behind the hospital and next to dumpsters full of medical waste, funny how that is when the doctors their claim they don’t have anything, no medicine and no equipment but here we stand surrounded by medical waste. The dark alley is still a good retreat form the blazing sun that never ends. It never rains and when it dose rain it burns, as soon as the rain starts people retreat to their houses and those who don’t either die or get badly radiation burns and are admitted to the hospital for a while. I stand in silence hearing Sabina and Miles calling out my name. I turn and look down the alley hoping they didn’t see me get dragged down the alley and then I turn back and grab the guys arm and pulls him further to the side. “God damn it Tyler!” I hiss looking into his blue eyes “What are you doing? You’re going to get caught. It’s the middle of the day and the cops still have your ticket.”
He shakes my hand off and smiles “I know accept I needed to see you.”
I know he is my brother and I should be glad to see him but it was too dangerous for him to be here with all the NYR rangers that have been passing through lately and they all know who he is because he was not only in the outlaw group he also was one of the leaders of it. “Why didn’t you send the letter like you usually do, you’re taking a mighty risk.”
He gives me a face that I find hard to describe but it’s a face that is in-between a ‘I know it’ and ‘I’m sorry’ and then he replies “I know but I couldn’t stay out there.” He starts moving his hands now. I see he has a backpack sitting against the dumpster which is strange because he never brings anything with him when I see him, accept a present but it is usually a bag of coins. I frown “Why?”
He sighs “I’ve left the gang and they are after me. I have nowhere else to go.” I don’t panic too much but I do get worried because this outlaw gang is the most powerful gang in the country and once you leave they go after you and kill you for reasons I don’t even know. I can hear Sabina and miles calling me and I can’t make anything look suspicious so I tell him to gather his things and go to my house which isn’t far away but it would still feel like miles for him because he has to pass the ranger station. “Put your hood on and keep your head down.” He nods and we walk out of the alley together.
Miles and Sabina see me pull out and ask me where I was. “Oh I was just helping this little punk kid.”
Sabina gives me a look. I nod trying to make her believe me.“Okay then. Uh, Miles was looking for you" I bite my lip- which is something I do under pressure. “I’m sorry but I need to help this little gutter punk. Can it wait?” He kind of nods “Grate thanks and can you also tell Hayden I need to take a rain check on tonight and tell him that I’m sorry.” I say already walking off.
“Wait!” I hear Sabina call but I ignore her and run off.
Tyler is already in the house hiding behind my bashed up fridge with dint’s and bumps all over it and its silver paint almost fully stripped. I hiss his name and he comes walking out. “Thank god.” He sighs. I ignore it and start to inquire him but before I could get to my fourth question there is a loud pounding at the door. And a male voice calls out “I now you’re in there Honey. And your brother.” We both freeze on the spot staring at the door from the kitchen.
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Tales of the Wasteland
Ciencia Ficción Living in a world 230 years after a world wide nuclear war that damaged the whole world and turned it into a giant wasteland. Water is barely safe to drink and raiders scavenge and terrorise the land in search of blood shed, food, and we...
