They Are The Last Hope...?

We Find An Important Letter...With The Important Bits Missing

Hello lovely readers. My deepest apologies for just a late post and keeping you waiting. I've been quite busy with school and have also been procrastinating a little. I've also began planning another story, which I might begin posting soon. Enjoy this new chapter.  

Sam POV

I know I might not have expressed it that much, but I did really care about Anika and that everything went smoothly for her after everything that happened. Of course I'm not trying to say that I don't always, or that Camila and Charlie don't, but I feel a certain responsibility to Anika personally. Not that I owe her anything, or that she did me any special favours or anything. (I know what your dirty mind went to, don't be ridiculous... She would never say yes.)

It was my main priority that Anika, and everyone else, felt ok when and if they found their dead families. Even though the phone call had told me that my parents were fine, I had still witnessed my sister crumble to pieces, and that wasn't a slight I was about to forget, or bring up to my friends.

Even if I was suffering from the mental trauma, I had to push through it. Not that any of it was bothering me in any way.

Since Anika didn't feel comfortable staying the night, we left the house soon after we had cleaned up everything in the kitchen, so we headed out of her house. Anika picked up her school bag which she had thrown aside when she reached her house.

Once I stepped out of the house, a shift of movement caught my attention. At first I thought it was another person, but I soon realised that it was a small dog with its front paws against the glass door, whimpering and scratching at the door. A horrid realisation suddenly crossed my mind. If no people ever came back, then all these animals would starve to death.

Once I told Charlie, Camila and Anika of this realisation, we all agreed that we should free as many animals as we could. The animals might have to turn back to their wild ways to find food, but it's better than all of them slowly starving to death.

"Come on, we should search around the area and free everyone we can." I said, impatiently gesturing them forward. They didn't say anything, but I could tell that Camila and Charlie looked pretty impatient to free every animal, after all, they wanted to head to their own houses to check on their families.

Even so, seeing that it was just us here, it was our responsibility to protect the wildlife and everything left here, after all, who else would?

I first started by running to the house where I first saw the small dog locked in the house. The door opened without too much difficulty, and I let the dog out. It scampered away though the bush, but it would have to find its own way to get food.

We went up and down Anika's street, freeing as many animals as we could. Not all the houses had animals, and those ones we left alone.

Everyone was going fine until a house we hadn't entered yet had already been entered.

We were reaching the final house, which Anika knew had a pet somewhere inside, but before we could find a way to break into the house, it was already open.

We assumed it had just been left unlocked by the owner of the house, and didn't think much of it, but when we entered the house, the pets which lived in the house were gone.

"Oh, maybe the pet managed to run away when the door was left unlocked?" I shrugged, not able to think of a better option. We searched around the house a little more in case the animals were still somewhere around the house, and about five minutes in, Anika called us over.

By the time we all figured out where Anika was, she was already pissed off. Apparently, our hearing skills sucked so bad that it insulted her, or whatever. Once everyone was there, Anika showed us a small note that was sitting on the kitchen counter.