The App: App-ocalypse (1)

Day 36 - Losing Michael

In less than an hour, I'll find out if Anna's alive. Even if she is, I've lost Michael yesterday and I can't deal with it. I'm angry at myself. Then of course I'm also so happy of being in this car going back to Anton's house. There's still hope for Anna. And then we'll go find Michael together. I'll tell her I love her. I have to tell her.

It all happened yesterday when I was watching them training Michael from my room. It lasted for hours. Then suddenly I saw one of them shooting something in the trees around the house. I startled. Something retaliated and one of the US army guy fell down on the grass. Of course it's not exactly what happened but from where I was standing that is what I heard and saw - and I wasn't even terrified for once.

I instantly knew for sure that those gunshots will disturb the guy who was supposed to keep me in the house so I broke the lock of my room with my empty bottle of oxygen. I couldn't keep it as a weapon because it was still heavy. I glanced one last time at the garden and I was confused to saw Michael running towards the trees where the shooter who retaliated was. Could it be... Was it Anna?

I ran downstairs but - remembering what Michael told me about how he was knocked out - I decided not to go in the garden using one of the doors. I opened a window on the side of the house and fled out. I continued to tiptoe once I was out of the house. Sure one of my enemies was on the floor behind the house but three of them were probably still standing - and there was a mysterious something shooting them.

Of course, I knew something wasn't that bad since Michael ran toward it, I hoped it was Anna. However I was forced to be as careful as possible. I didn't want to end up dead. I had to find Michael for us to go find Anna together. I was strangely rational even if my heart was beating way faster than usual - somehow I wasn't terrified. Maybe I'm used to it now.

I made my way toward the backyard as discreetly as possible which wasn't that easy with a white suit and a noisy bottle of oxygen - yes those things make noise. As I was starting to see the lying guy on the floor someone came from behind me and put his hand on my mouth. He dragged me toward the trees - the house was surrounding by trees so he didn't take me through the garden but behind the threshold of the trees that were on the side of the house.

I tried to struggle but as I was saying that damn bottle of oxygen is heavy and really not easy to manipulate. I saw my last breath coming. What a fool I was !

He finally revealed his face to my eyes and it was a face I knew too well as my eyes were used to see this face in the dark... and in the nude.

I couldn't believe it, but it was Anton in a yellow protective coverall. Anton was alive. Anton is alive.

Anton is a foot from me, in the car, singing as we drove back toward his house! How is that even possible?

When the nuclear bomb exploded he was with Georges looking for some food. Or so we thought. For real, both of them were trying to figure out a way to contact someone for help - anyone in a part of the world that wasn't messed up. We were sure there was at least a safer place than the US - a place without robbers to start with - and apparently we were right : they did talk to Georges' brother!

But first thing first: Anton knew one of his neighbor, Kevin, had an old equipment using radio waves in his basement. So he asked Georges to go there with him, but it turned out the guy had buried the thing down in a shelter against cyclones. Georges and Anton were going from the house toward that shelter - on the other side of yet another corn field - when the bomb exploded.