CHAPTER 6 GOING SOUTH FOR DUMMIES PART 1

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Location: Sierra Nevada, California, America. Wednesday, April 26th, 2017. 2:38PM.


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In the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Nick and his friends (now alone) could be seen slowly walking around aimlessly, trying to find the nearest town. It had been almost 5 days since they had been forced to leave all their homes behind back in San Francisco and during those past 5 days, things hadn't gotten any better for them, either.


It was bad enough that they lost their families and were forced to leave their homes and everything behind, but for the first 4 of the last 5 days, they and all the other passengers had all been cooped up together on the bus! The bus ride was ridiculously slow and taking much longer than it was supposed to due to the driver having to keep changing directions and taking many detours to avoid The Anonymous Society and all the crazy, fictional characters running around!


First, they had been forced to sleep on that bus that they and all the other passengers had been traveling in for 3 whole nights and it was almost impossible to get any sleep! It was so crowded on the bus! The bus seats and floor were very uncomfortable to sleep on and those that did manage to fall asleep, snored loudly throughout the night (much to everyone else's annoyance)!


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Most people (including Nick and his friends) would've preferred to sleep outside or at a hotel, but the weather lately had been cold and windy, especially at night! Not to mention most of them didn't even have any sleeping bags, pillows, blankets or anything. Plus, they were all told to stay on the bus at all times due to all the crazy fictional characters running around that made being outside unsafe!


Secondly, they all still got to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner every day, but weren't allowed to have any second helpings, which was hard for all of them since most of them tended to have big appetites and one serving usually wasn't enough to satisfy their growling stomachs. This was because all the security guards and government agents that had been escorting them all to one of the human refugee camps were also the ones who were getting all the food supplies for free (since the government can legally receive food, equipment, shelter, clothes, weapons and other material possessions from others without having to pay for them and get away with it during emergencies) from towns that they passed that hadn't been attacked or affected by The Anonymous Society or its fictional character underlings. As such, they only brought back enough supplies to give everyone one serving each of breakfast, lunch, and dinner and after that, they would do the same thing the next day, then the day after that and so on.

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