What if you woke up one day and everyone over the age of twenty two had just vanished from the face of the earth? How would you survive?
Eighteen year old Ember is faced with this harsh reality, supplies are running low, the world has shut down and...
'Take me back to the night we met when the night was full of terror and your eyes were filled with tears when you had not touched me yet oh take me back to the night we met'
Song: The Night We Met - Lord Huron.
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Her piercing blue eyes looked into mine and I swear she was looking right into my broken soul.
"Kiss me" She whispered, breath hot on my face we were that close, I leant in closer, my heart racing but it was suddenly ripped away, she vanished.
"Wake up H" I heard a voice in the distance. I blinked my eyes open and realised where I was, I'd fallen asleep bent over, still sitting in the chair beside the bed Ember lay on, my head was in my arms on the bed. I sat up stretching from the uncomfortable position I had been in. "Go get some sleep and have a shower and get some food into you" Jax said putting a hand on my shoulder.
"I'll be fine" I argued back shaking my head. I hadn't left Embers side in the two days she'd been here and I had put Jax in charge.
"She's not going anywhere mate, go take care of yourself, you don't want her smelling you when she wakes up anyway" He joked, I guess he was right. He always knew what to say, out of all the boys he was the one who got on my nerves the least but I'd never tell him that, it would go to his head. "I can stay here, if anything happens I'll let you know"
"Thanks Jax, I really appreciate it, everything you've done over these last couple days" I said standing up to leave. He took my place in the chair and smiled at me.
"Allgood man, go have a nap" He said waving me off.
I headed out the front doors of the infirmary, as I walked back to my hut I was getting concerned looks from other community members but I wasn't up for talking to I hung my head and gunned it back to my hut. I went into my bathroom first so I could have a shower because according to Jax I wasn't smelling the freshest but that's coming from the guy who smells like a concoction of cigarettes, coffee and weed all the time so what would he know.
Looking down I realised that there was still a little blood on my shirt from when I held Ember and my mind flashed back to looking down at her covered in blood but I quickly shook it from my mind as I stepped into the shower. I washed away days worth of dirt from my body and the grease that had built up in my hair. I had just enough energy once I was finished to pull on some clean boxers before climbing into bed and falling asleep in minutes.
When I woke up it was late into the afternoon, I could hear the distant chatter and kids playing outside, luckily my hut was out of the way so it wasn't too loud. I went to take a piss before pulling on some jeans and a shirt from my draws and slipping my boots on. I headed back to the infirmary to check on Ember but when I peeked my head in and noticed she was still asleep and Jax was still there so I made my way to the mess hall. I had been ignoring my stomach for days, not really taking notice of the hunger pains but now I knew I needed to eat. I seen Ash and Nate sitting at our usual table when I walked in so I went and joined them.
