Chapter 1 - The Start of a New Beginning

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     "I'm the REAL Jamie!" Jamie cried out at the top of his lungs. "I was the one that helped you! My brother knocked me out and stole my clothes!" The wind whistled loudly, the air thick with smoke. Jamie desperately crawled toward Rajesh, unclothed. Rajesh sat there, ready to accept his fate, but Jamie felt otherwise. A big wave of grey smoke rode across the horizon in their direction, like a dark wave of death coming for them.

     "Can't you see? My brother is in there! Not me!" Jamie screamed at Rajesh. The dark wave of smoke was rapidly coming closer as Jamie grew more desperate. "I've got to get in there! Please!" Jamie begged Rajesh for help. "There's nothing you can do. You can't get in there now that it's locked." Rajesh informed Jamie. Jamie's eyes welled up, he struggled as he crawled closer to the manhole that was infront of him. Jamie tried to pull the manhole cover up with all his might, but he was injured so it required the force of two people. "Help me open this!" Rajesh saw how desperate he was, he wasn't sure who this stranger was, but maybe he had a way to survive? A way to meet Rhonda again? A way to be with the woman and son he loved?

 "Help me open this!" Rajesh saw how desperate he was, he wasn't sure who this stranger was, but maybe he had a way to survive? A way to meet Rhonda again? A way to be with the woman and son he loved?

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    Rajesh reluctantly shuffled over to help Jamie. Together, they pulled the manhole cover off with all their strength. By now the dark wave of death that was riding on the horizon toward them was only a few miles away. Merely seconds from obliterating them to a pulp. "Come on!" He grabbed Rajesh's hand and dragged the both of them down into the sewer. Conveniently, there was a built in ladder against a concrete wall within the manhole for them to climb down. Maybe this really was God's plan? Rajesh climbed down above Jamie and pulled the manhole cover back over the hole as quick as he possibly can (which isn't super fast, but cut him some slack he's sick and like dying). Seconds after they finished climbing down, they could feel the rumble of the dark cloudy wave that rushed over the land like a big tsunami, demolishing everything in its path.

     Jamie and Rajesh head more inward down the dark, smelly path as swiftly as they could to avoid the possible dangers of being near the outside. Were they... in a sewer? The two of them walked for a little bit more before sitting down and resting, they were both injured in a way so their stamina wasn't too high. Rajesh glanced at Jamie for a second before he awkwardly took off his jacket and handed it to him, avoiding making eye contact with him. "Here man, cover up." Jamie took it and put it on, then thanked him. After a minute of resting their weakened bodies, they walked within view of the camera of the sewer door. Jamie walked closer and went to open up the inner door. Jamie jangled the handle, but to no avail: it was locked. Now becoming increasingly frustrated, Jamie jingled the handle with a greater viscosity. Jamie let go of the handle and cursed at the door. "It's locked!" Jamie complained. "At least we're in here." Rajesh tried to reason with him. "Yes, not before we die of starvation!"

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     Ariel sat on the couch smirking to himself, watching the telly as the internet connection went out. Frankie was whacking the back of the couch with a prosthetic leg she found at the medical building where Celine acquired the pregnancy test that she was currently fawning over due to it being positive. Spike was looking down at his hands, bloody from being impaled with some metal from the airplane he rode in to England. Rhonda was trying to cope with the alleged loss of her husband, while Leanne stood pointing a gun at Ariel, whom everybody besides her was tricked into believing was Jamie. Scotty was leaning against a crate with a  woman in it, resting after being wounded from a gunshot while helping Rhonda escape prison for the final time. The woman in the crate desperately screamed for help and to let her out. Dave made flirtatious faces and blew kisses at his new wife, Jamie's mom. Layla stood down there unarmed, unlike Scotty's husband who had a saw resting up against his shoulder. Sutton and her doctor-lover stood peering over the railing of the second floor. As the television shut off, they all drew slightly closer to each other.

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