The Group

Chapter 7: The Boy

Today we have decided to go to Michael's camp. He gives us the directions and we head there. We when get to the camp, we see walls made from steal with gates surrounding them and a gate door. He takes us up to the gate and it opens we are welcomed by many people. I wonder to myself "was this planed?". I whisper to Zamaria "could this be home? It looks safe to me". She replies "maybe but look closely for anything out of the ordinary. As we walk following Michael to the head office, I see a boy. He looks about our age and is as cute as a button. My face begins to blush when we smiles and waves. We get to the head office and Michael gives it a knock and we walk in. "Hi I'm Rick and I'm the leader of our community. Welcome". Rick is really nice guy and I think this is a good place to stay and it seems they are welcoming us well. Rick lets in the boy a noticed earlier. "This is my son Carl. He'll show you around" Rick says as he gives Carl a little push. "Hi it's very nice to meet you. Welcome and follow me I'll show you around and show a place for you to stay" Carl says. He has the cutest voice. As we walk through the roads of the neighborhood/community I whisper to Zamaria "he's the cutest thing ever. I think I'm gonna get to know him more" we both giggle a little. Carl takes us to a huge house "well here's will you will be staying and if you have any questions I'll be over there" he said while pointing a small building. We walk into the house. Here they have water and I have not taken a shower just cleaned up in the sink. I take my shower and so do Zamaria, Kayla, Rita and Maggie. I still feel so bad for Rita I hate to see her like this. We hear a knock on the door. "Hello I'm Carol. I've made you some cookies as a welcoming gift. I hope enjoy it here". She was very sweet. We decide not to eat the cookies with out my mom inspecting them. We hear another knock. "Jeez! How popular are we? "Hi I know you have probably had lots of people come by. And I'm sorry to disturb you but I'm Jesse and I live next door. We each have a job here and I'm a hair cutter and I wanted to know if anyone needed a good nice haircut". "Oh yes thank you very much" my mom replies seeming a bit confused. We each get a trim and it feels nice to finally have clean hair again. As I walk with Zamaria to look around and explore the place a little I see Carl coming towards us. We talk with him a little. He's very funny. "Hey what kind of people/music do you guys like?" he asks. "Well before this all started I listened a lot to bands like panic! at the disco, pierce the veil, my chemical romance, sleeping with sirens and more" I said. "Seriously same here I have some CDS and a player come on follow me". He grabs my hand as we begin to jog a little. Zamaria follows behind.