ꜰɪɢʜᴛ ᴛᴏ ꜱᴜʀᴠɪᴠᴇ || ᴀᴘᴘʟʏ

Chapter 2

Five more people are sitting on this couch. Ruby drops down next to a girl with red curly hair and some piercings. "Who else is missing?" asks Devon to the group, looking around. "Adeline and James, where are they?" "Where do you think they are?" laughs William and at that moment two people come into the room.

"You're so repulsive sometimes." says one, he has brown, blonde hair and next to him is a girl with light blonde hair, but her hairline is darker. It seems they have both dyed their hair the colour of the other. "Just because it's the one thing you can think about doesn't mean everyone has to be like that," the girl explains and then turns to her friend James. "Might be an idea for once." she says, getting a lot of disgusted looks. "Ok, ok. Stop, no more adult conversations or topics in this room. There are some here who don't need to hear that yet," Romeo says as he also walks to the table with the plate of cookies and sets it down. Then he drops down next to Ruby and hands her a cookie.

At first she wants to refuse it, but after the blonde has literally put the cookie under her nose, she accepts it and bites into it with relish.

"If we're complete now, the first thing is we have someone new amongst us. Most of you already know, but once again for Adeline and James," Devon starts and then moves on to Ruby. "This is Ruby, she's thirteen, although that's not important right now, Astrid and I found her earlier." James looks to her and nods as Adeline smiles fruetly at her.

"Now that that's settled, who are you?" asks Ruby immediately, looking around the group. Everyone is either sitting on the couch where she sits or on the floor in front of it where some cushions are laid out. "Well, you know most of them. Astrid, my girlfriend. Romeo, whose cookie you licked. Maxwell, where you think Blondie fits better as a nickname. William, no words.", Devon laughs and looks at William with relief. "So, William, who came out of the bathroom half naked. Juniper, the girl who loves to argue with William. If you hear two discussing, be eighty percent sure it's William and Juniper. Natalia is the person next to you, you always recognise her by the bright colours she wears. And you know me too," Devon continues, taking a deep breath as he turns to the others sitting in front of the couch.

"Scarlett, the blonde one over there, but she changes her hair colour occasionally, sometimes red or brown and sometimes just her natural hair colour. She likes to play chess and can be quite friendly, I think, when she's not trying to be better than me," Devon tells me, being stared at by Scarlett, who challenges him with his looks.

"I don't know her that well, but she is kind of scary, but I respect her for being that way," Maxwell whispers, looking uncertainly at Scarlett, hoping she hasn't heard him. "I heard, I'm not hard of hearing or deaf," she says, snorting contemptuously.

"Anyway, then we've got Oakley, the blond one with the curly hair over there," Devon says, pointing to a youngster sitting more on the edge of the group but watching everything closely. "He's all cool, just doesn't like to show it. And then we have the second skateboard boy Jacob. And last but not least, Emily, she's the Cookie Monster's girlfriend over there," Devon says with a laugh and points to Romeo, who is sitting next to Ruby.

William sits down next to Juniper and gets a withering look from her. "Which one of us thinks who's good?" she asks, annoyed. "I certainly don't like you, you're so annoying. I'm sitting here because it's the only place, smarty pants," William says, also annoyed, and pulls out some games from under the table that's in front of the couch. "Anyone bored?" he asks the group and most of them nod.

But before he can pick a game, he is interrupted by Devon. "We can play later, we'll have plenty of time. First we need a plan on how to survive and how to live semi-normally here," he says, gesturing around the room.