Runaway

Now

I walk through the rubble, my black, void boots crunching against the concrete mountains. "So where are we? Are we almost in Canada?" Sam asks me, naive, "no, Sam, we're in California, we left Lily literally 20 minutes ago." Sam frowned, his screen face frowning, "oh, I'm just trying to make conversation, no need to be so defensive..." I didn't reply, the girl I saved had left me... I felt betrayed, yet understanding... I know why she left me, but I didn't do anything wrong, I couldn't let my best friend turn into a droid... he wouldn't have wanted that... but I could've still let her say goodbye.

"Are you doing alright? You seem stressed" I replied, unbothered, "well let it go, I'm fine" Sam was an android, he can track identity and emotion just by looking at someone, "based on your body language and frown, you feel negative, so explain" "Don't be so sassy, but no, I'm not alright, the only person I knew before the apocalypse is gone now, and I'm all to blame." I sigh and lean against the wall of an old restraunt, "should we loot it?" Sam asked me, I take a deep breath and nod, "Yeah... yeah let's loot..." I stand and walk towards the broken, smashed glass door, pushing it open and walking inside, the desks are flipped, scattered around the ancient, abandoned ground. I stare at the broken surroundings, not surprised, I stroll to the register and take out a gun from the chipped shelf under the cash register. "Well, we've got defense now..."