Death Lake

Chapter 6

"you're awake! are you okay?" Micha practically screamed, and he ran over to the boy's side. "Who are you, what's your name?".

"F-first, where am I, second are any of you infected or contaminated by those brutes," The boy was terrified of us, I could tell in his shaking and uncertain voice, but he seemed as if didn't want his weakness to show through. The boy was very tall but very skinny. His hair was a sandy blond mullet and had a small purple baret in, holding his curly bangs out of his eyes. Sky was sitting on the back of the loveseat, seemingly watching over him.

"I'm Micha, who are you? And what's an 'infected'?".

"I guess you're not familiar with this area? I'm Phillipe or Phil, which ever one you prefer," He said.

"What do you mean 'not familiar'?", I stated

"You look too young for a mother, perhaps a sister or family friend?"

"She's my sister, Phil, Laura can you get us some dinner and get Phil some dinner and an ice towel, please?"

"Sure, be nice to each other," I had said before going to the kitchen, hopefully this kid has someone with him or someone looking for him, he can't be alone. The towel I grabbed was gray and tattered but it should work for a cold towel, the running water was refreshing and cold, perfect, we might get to have a hot bath later since we have running water. Phillipe should be okay, though I do feel bad about hitting him, I should cook a traditional dish for our dinner. Maybe tamales or enchiladas would suffice for this kid, he seems to be of Portugal ethnicity, so he shouldn't mind, right?

"I made some vegan enchiladas since we don't have any fresh meats, and here's your towel Phil" I stated after walking in the living room and sitting down on the floor.

"Are you using a lot of the food or water." Phil had nervously said, taking the towl and placing it on his head.

"No, we are only eating when we need to, and we're eating the bare minimum."

"Good, we spent the last year stalking this house with reserves."

"What do you mean 'we', phil" Micha had butted in and said, passing out small enchiladas to each of us on the plates on the floor.

"My camp has been scouting this area for a few years now and I need to be going back in the next few hours,".

"You belong in a camp?!" I yelled, shocked but also relieved that we don't have to take care of another person.

"What's it like in a camp?" Micha said expectedly.

"It's not entirely easy, but it's better than being alone, each person has three chores each day, but other than that and gathering supplies, it's pretty fun,".

"Is there a chance we could see your camp?" Micha asked.

"Absolutely not! If we go there we won't want to leave, we need to find someone now,".

"Who do we have to find?".

I can't let him know the importance of the girl who wrote the journal, I want to find her the last update in the journal was from three months ago and it said they had to move because of the monsters that were outside, she described them as spider like and dark red her last entry described the mu.

"Someone who has research and answers,".

"Then I won't take a bath tonight," Micha had said in spite.

"You said you were looking forward to that bath," I recouped.

"Well not anymore, I want to see Phil's camp and other people,".

"I know you want to see friendly people as much as I do, but we can't just walts in to a camp and have people take us kindly." I stated, pinching my nose bridge, trying to stay calm.

"Well, that's where Phil comes in, he could say we helped him or he could personally invite us,".

"I never said anything like that but I do like Micha's idea of coming to camp, we could use the extra hands,".

They teamed up! I have no choice now, it's two against one and I do want them to converse with kids Micha's age. I also want to be able to feed sky proper cat food, for Micha

"Fine, but we stay only for a week, any more than that and we move to the next town over,".

"Yes! I get to see a camp and people,".