New World [Gay Chandler Riggs/1D fusion fanfic]

Chapter 3

Cole's POV

We have been hiding in the Superstore warehouse for six miserable months and things were reaching a breaking point; food and water was starting to run low and the smell was completely overwhelming as foods went bad faster than we could eat them and the trash bins we used to keep our bathroom waste in were starting to overflow. The right side of the warehouse was abandoned as that's where all the smelly stuff was kept; we couldn't clean or take any of the stuff outside since the few times we've tried those things where always waiting for us.

The electricity suddenly shut off after the first two weeks and the tap water stopped flowing four days after that, we've been surviving on the canned, dried and packaged foods in the warehouse and drinking the bottles of water that were supposed to be for sale.

In the starting weeks there was a lot of noise from the outside: gun fire, helicopters, airplanes, vehicles; there was even some shaking as what must have been bombs or something were dropped since the shaking was too short for an earthquake and it was always accompanied by a large boom sound.

Whenever those noises went off, people tried to escape; there were a lot of us when everything went to hell, at least fifty; but now we numbered eleven; not counting my family, Zayn and Liam.

Faith, the little girl born in the warehouse, was getting bigger every day; even if her mother didn't know she existed, Dad said it was something called "Postpartum Depression". Her mother spent most of her days staring at the boxes that blocked the doors, waiting for her husband Roger to come since he was still in traffic; she never acknowledged her daughter, even when she started to cry.

Zayn and Liam finally got their wish to have a child and with help from my parents, cared for her as best they could since no one else wanted the responsibility.

It was now June and the warehouse was a miserable, crowded oven. We've spent Pop's birthday, Christmas, New Years, Zayn's birthday Dad's birthday and my birthday in this prison; I was now 18 years old...my sister would have been 18 also.

Shylo and Fenris where both now a year old and very nearly fully grown; you've never seen better behaved dogs though since all I did all day was play with them and train them to pass the time.

I laid on the top rack of one of the shelves as Shylo and Fenris walked in lazy circles around the base of the shelf, their noses to the ground. I chuckled as Shylo placed her front paws on the second shelf and shoved her muzzle in my face as if to say "found you!"

As I petted my dogs for finding me at hide-and-go-seek, I looked over as shouting broke out in the next aisle "James that's your second bottle of water today and it's not even noon yet!" "Bite me Steve, I'm hot, it's like three million degrees in here" the reply came. "Goddammit James it's not all about you! We all have to share!" Steve shot back.

"I'll be back" Dad said, standing up and putting his journal down, Pops followed him. I jumped down from the shelf I was laying on and rejoined Zayn and Liam at the tent; a moment later I heard Dad say "Let's all calm down, it's unbearably hot in here and tensions are running high". "Shut your mouth you piece of gay euro-trash; if you weren't a doctor I would've forced you and your gay family out a long time ago!" James shouted. "What hell did you just say to my husband?!" Pops shouted angrily.

"Watch Faith for us" Zayn said as he and Liam stood up and went over to the next aisle as the shouting got louder, through a crack in the boxes I saw James lunge at Pops and people tried to step in to break up the fight. Shylo and Fenris both started barking at the commotion and over the noise I heard someone say "Someone shut those damn dogs up!"

"Girls, shh" I said, trying to calm them both down; but there was too much excitement going on and they wouldn't listen. "Someone shut those dogs up or I'll do it myself!" a wave of panic washed over me; there was always talk of killing Shylo and Fenris for food and now with the food running low they might actually do it.