Kiara and her father spent the whole day sitting on the couch in front of the TV watching all kinds of movies, especially horror movies as they were Kiara's favorites. While they were watching the movies, Mike ordered pizza for dinner and although Kiara had a hard time eating more than one slice, she managed to end up eating two.It was already quite late so Mike was sleepy, although Kiara didn't want to go to sleep. She was afraid, last night she had slept without nightmares and that is why she had energy for the whole day, but she was afraid, she thought that tonight she would not be as lucky as last night.
"Hey, go to bed while I finish cleaning here," Mike said to Kiara, pointing to the small table in front of the couch that had the pizza boxes and a bowl of popcorn next to the drinks that they had drunk.
“You're sure? I can help you,” Kiara said. The truth is that Kiara loved to help whenever she could but this time it was a way to go to sleep a little later.
"It's okay, I can finish cleaning myself. Go rest,” Mike said to his daughter as he kissed her on the forehead.
Kiara went upstairs saying goodbye to her father. She entered her room, closing the door and falling into her bed. She closed her eyes trying to fall asleep and after an hour of tossing and turning in her bed she managed to fall asleep.
While Kiara was trying to fall asleep, her father was downstairs cleaning while listening to the news he had put on so he wouldn't get bored while he was cleaning.The news didn't say anything new, on the contrary everything was quite calm.
When Mike finished cleaning he walked over to the television to turn it off but before doing that something caught his attention. A new virus.
Mike sat on the couch to see what it was about, he would have assumed it would be something normal like the flu but the faces that appeared on the screen said otherwise.
People talked about people eating other people. What virus is this, Mike asked himself. Different images were shown on the screen, it was the first time that Mike felt afraid. Heartbreaking screams could be heard, everything was full of blood and people were running everywhere. Mike turned off the TV and went to his room quickly, but not before checking all the windows and doors that were in the house were well closed.
When Mike got to his room he grabbed the largest backpack he had, putting his clothes inside, he went back down the stairs with the backpack in his hands, putting all the food in.
Most of the food that Mike put in the backpack was canned since it was one of the slowest to expire, he grabbed all the knives he could find and put them in the backpack.
Mike heard a scream, it was obviously his daughter's so he ran up to his room crossing his fingers that she was just having a nightmare and that it wasn't one of those people that he saw in the news who had entered her room.
When Mike arrived at Kiara's room he sighed in relief, she was fine. No one had entered her room, it was just a nightmare.
He approached his daughter's bed, leaving the backpack on the floor. Mike tried to wake up his daughter who was crying and shaking while she was sleeping.
Hey Kiara, wake up, everything's okay, it's just a nightmare, Mike said while shaking his daughter.
Kiara woke up screaming and after a second looking around she realized that everything had been a nightmare and she threw herself into her father's arms while the two hugged each other.
While she was trying to calm down, her father was whispering things in her ear while stroking her hair.
"Do you want me to stay here?" Mike asked when he saw that Kiara was already calming down.
Kiara didn't say anything, she was tired so all she could do was nod her head as she lay back down waiting for her father to do the same. Before Mike lay down he walked over to the door and locked it. Kiara didn't understand why he did it but she didn't have the energy to ask.
Mike lay next to her as he stroked Kiara's hair trying to get her to fall back asleep. He wasn't going to tell her anything about the news he had seen, he would do it tomorrow but she needs to rest now.
Mike hated seeing his daughter suffer, he hated seeing her have nightmares. Kiara was very young, she was sixteen, she should be on the streets having fun with people her age and going to parties but instead here she was in her father's arms after a nightmare. This reminded Mike of when she was little, when Kiara was seven she had nightmares almost every night about a monster that supposedly lived under her bed but now that monster instead of living under her bed lives inside her head and it doesn't let her sleep or live like a normal person.
Kiara has fallen asleep again, Mike is grateful for that, he wants his daughter to be able to sleep peacefully but the one who can't sleep now is him, The one who is afraid now is him. How will he tell Kiara that there are literally people eating each other right now and that they are not safe living here?
This will destroy Kiara and he knows it.
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