Cold Truths

-Strangers-

OLLIE POV
I was out in the waste land as we call it now. I was out to find food since someone (Cough Ira Cough) ate most of the goldfish supplies. I took a knife with me since I packed one. It was a hunting knife so I hoped to catch something to eat tonight. After a while of wandering around I found a rabbit. I sometimes went hunting when it was hunting season with my dad. I crouched down since rabbits are fast as fuck but also stupid as hell sometimes. I got somewhat close and quickly attempted to stab it but missed and it hopped away. I groaned slightly and followed the way it went. I looked around but lost it and huffed. I threw the knife at the tree. I walked over to the tree and took the knife from it and began walking back to the base. I stopped seeing a bird. I mean food is food right? Right?? I walked somewhat close to it before throwing my knife in an attempt to hit it. With my luck I did but almost missed. (He mostly only got it because he did archery) Look, it wouldn't feed everyone but it was better than nothing right? I ran back to the base and went to the kitchen-ish area. I saw Oliva was in the kitchen so I put the bird on the counter. "You know how to pluck feathers?" I asked. She looked at me with her mouth gaped open. "Well if not learn." I said as I heard Ira yelling at me from the living room. "Try to find someone to help you! See ya later." I said and ran to the living room. "What is it Ira?" I asked confused and somewhat concerned. (I love Ollie's little comment. He's a little silly)

IRAS POV
Finally this crust bitch is home 🙄
"1.did you get me goldfish?" I ask counting 1 on my finger.
"No." He rolled his eyes.
"2. I cut my arm on glass and I think I'm loosing a severe amount of blood but it's fine beca-" he cut me off by shoving bread in my mouth and wrapping my arm up with bandages. "3. Who do you like here?" I ask, finally swallowing the bread, almost choking on it.
He was about to answer when I started aggressively coughing. "IRA? You okay?" He asked me, genuinely concerned.
I was probably gonna die but I was hella embarrassed so I just put a thumbs up.
After Drinking water I was fine again but the bread has forever traumatized me.

OLLIES POV
Ok maybe I shouldn't have shoved bread in her mouth and where did I get the bread? Don't ask me questions. I rolled my eyes at Ira but I was kinda worried for her after that and I refused to respond to her question that I think she forgot about. I really have no idea who I like, and I prefer to keep it that way but I know it won't. I always say that then I fall for someone of course. I sigh and walk back to the kitchen and what The HELL is going on in here?!! There were things all over and I simply just asked Olivia to pluck the bird's
feathers. "Uhhhh- Hi.." She said with an awkward smile. I mentally face palmed myself and walked over.
"Okay out. Out!" I shooed her away as I began to work on preparing the bird and whatnot. I was gonna cook it over the fire because we didn't have an oven and even if we did we don't have working electricity so yeah! Good for us right? I finished up with plucking the feathers of the bird which was a bit different from doing it to a chicken but yeah..

IRAS POV
I sure as hell didn't forget about the question but if he doesn't feel comfortable telling me that's fine.
He never pushes me to vent to him.
He's just there for me
I walked around the place for a bit until I decided I wanted to go out to the wasteland!
Sounds fun right!
So I wrote a quick note with some of ferns crayons and it read
"Hola bitch! I'm going exploring!"
Signed Ira the explorer
I'm so smart sometimes. I put the note on our giant rock which were using as a coffee table right now.
Then I ran out.
On my way out I saw the very same man who had said he would save us earlier.
Wasn't he shot??
I'm so confused!
It seemed he was following me. He wasn't even trying to hide it. He was making eye contact with me as well.
I didn't know what to do so I just ran until I got to the base.
Yes, I just led them to where we lived and I could have taken one for the team and just died. But no. I'm a main character 🙄💅
I started pounding on the door out of breath. Everyone was huddled around the door ready to fight off whatever this thing was. They quickly let me in but slammed the door right in the thing's face. He didn't flinch whatsoever.
"Fern go pack up our supplies quickly!" Ollie ordered.
"Sydney, go get chairs to barricade the door!" He pushed Sydney towards the room where we had all been eating.
Everyone else was holding the door against the man, who was still pounding on the door.
A minute or two later Fern came rushing over with everyone's backpack.
Ollie quickly grabbed his in fear of anyone seeing his cat, Paris.
Nugget was just chilling in my pocket so I didn't have to worry.
Then Syndney came over while balancing 4 chairs on different parts of her body.
Ollie and I grabbed two chairs each and firmly packed them against the wall.
Suddenly the door broke and the whole ass door broke in half. Suddenly a million different people dressed in hazard suits all showed themselves, pointing electric spears at us.
I squeezed Ollie's hand and froze. Fern put her hands up and we all did the same.
Then one by one a person would come grab us.
I wanted to do something like fight them, but I knew I would just end up dying.
Once someone came to grab Ollie, I gripped his hand tighter.
One of the people started pulling Ollie away from me and I didn't know what to do.
Oh shit oh shit I just killed everyone! I shouldn't have led them here, I'm such a horrible person I deserve to be the one dying not them..
Then, interrupting my thoughts, a person grabbed me and led me into a van with everyone else.
Everyone was tied up except for Syndney who had ropes on her mouth instead.
Probably from all the 'Don't make me call my dad on you!'
I don't blame them.
As soon as they threw me in the van with the others the van started moving.
Thankfully we still had our backpacks!
We all rummaged through sour backpacks with our knees and mouths.
(Except for Sydney ha.)
Ollie looked relieved to see Paris safe.
I looked around in my pockets to see if Nugget was still here.
Shit! She escaped again!
I looked around and saw her crawling into Ollie's shoulder. Ollie just giggled and put Nugget up to his rope.
Smart! He knows Nugget loves biting things, so she could bite through the ropes!
Nugget crawled over to the rope and started chewing on it.
Then once Ollie was free, he undid my ropes and everyone else's.
Except for Sydney.
She was annoying, the rope over her mouth could stay on.
Then Olivia reached into her purse and pulled out the seat belt cutter and taser from earlier.
Then we felt the van come to a spot so we all hid our belongings in our pockets and shirts, just in case they would take away our bags. I
I could hide Nugget well considering she's small, but she's really pokey!
I looked over at Ollie who started stuffing Paris into a backpack, hidden underneath his sweatshirt.
Smart.
Everyone hid their things and the people came to grab us.
They led us inside an overgrown looking lab.
It was huge!

Silly Ira. Always getting into trouble. Anyway! We hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! What's gonna happen next? What do you guys think?
Have a great night/day!
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