Radioactive

Chapter 7

Charlotte's eyes fluttered open as she became aware of the bird calls, she listened carefully to the chorus of sweet tunes as she sat, ruffled brown hair falling into her dark eyes. She lifted a hand to rub the sleep away as she looked around herself, the boys and girls had been separated so the guys were sleeping outside in tents, they took turns on who kept watch over night and a few times, she and Arianna went on lookout though the guys never allowed them to stay for long.
Charlotte turned as Arianna slowly got up, pretty locks of brown hair cascading down her back and a few clumps hanging down in front of her face, she quickly brushed them away as she gave Charlotte a small smile, she was still pale, she had gotten sick because of the scene they saw. Charlotte wished she was the one throwing up, it'd make her feel slightly more human.
Kale eventually came in, Yao by his side, they had been sticking together more closely since the events of the night before. Kale had practically become Yao's second hand man, or something like that,

"It seems that my original idea didn't work out... so we're going to run this like a democracy. When everyone wakes up, we're going to take a vote to see who is on the 'government' and the 'president' will choose who's who. Do we all agree in this group?"

The six nodded willingly, Dio and Steven had joined them before, now they just had to, first, build up their group, and second, run this by the rest. They've already seen that Yao's group was the strongest, the ones with ideas, the ones who could save this catastrophe that they'd all been faced with.
After an hour or so, everyone began waking up, Yao immediately stood.

"I'm calling a meeting. Wake your friends."

Soon enough, Yao and Kale were at the front of the group, Steven stood to the side and the girls were on the other side. Yao took a breath, he opened his eyes ad revealed green irises as he stared down at the crowd, his gaze honestly looked like it could kill someone.

"This has become quite chaotic so we're going to bring this back and begin a democracy of sorts. The vote will take place today, the candidates for president is everyone here. The president will then choose who else is on the government. Understood? Good. Let's begin."

Arianna came forward, holding a box with a slit on the top, it was a makeshift ballet box. This was serious here, people lined up and dropped their votes into the box. Last was Yao's group. Yao, Arianna, Charlotte, Dio, Steven and finally Kale. They each dropped a vote in before going back to the front of the cabin.
Charlotte tallied the votes, counting them and calling out the written names, she held out the piece of paper for everyone to hear so they knew it wasn't biased voting. Yao won by a landslide, a few other people were voted for but generally, the votes were for Yao, the seventeen year old who had challenged him the day before cursed under his breath and scowled.
Yao nodded to himself and sighed.

"Kale, Arianna, Charlotte, Dio, Steven, Ivan, Eve and Lutz. Those are the people I choose for my government, Kale is our negotiator. Arianna is our representative. Charlotte and Steven are our medics. Dio and Eve will be our planners. Ivan and Lutz will be the military generals. The Meeting is dismissed. I'd like my Government to come meet me outside. Everyone else can go about their business."

Yao walked outside and his group followed, along with the few who had gotten chosen by him. There were two from America, two from Canada, one from France, one from Russia, one from England and one from Germany. He certainly knew what he was doing when he chose who he wanted.
Yao turned to face his newly founded government, he had a calm face as he examined the people he had chosen, Lutz, Ivan and Eve examined him in return with obvious curiosity about their newly found leader.
Charlotte glanced from the trio to Yao back and forth until Eve began to speak.

"Might I ask, why did you choose us over the others?"

"You appeared to be the most competent in your countries."