The Basement

Oh, why, Oh, why

The explosion made me slip and fell to the  floor. It hurted a bit. But luckily I didn't harm myself much. I nerviously turned to see the CS

"God" Said the man in the CS "The Death Slayers have taken over Florida, Philipines and Georgia" He said. Then a man appeared in the screen and whispered something to the man. "Um, sorry" he said "It appears that a little town, near the ocean I think is called The Happy Tree has been also taken. Im... sorry for the ones in there. There's nothing we can do now. We'll try to recover your homes. Sorry if we can't do anything. Sometimes there's no option. Just don't leave the Basement"

Mom screamed, Maryanne cried and threw herself to the floor and I froze. This must be a nightmare. Why? Because The Happy Tree is where I live.

It was all dizzy  in my mind. It can't be true, right? They will recover our town. No, they won't. Said that annoying voice in my head. They would leave you to die. You would run out of food, and then you will die.

Chili barked again.

"We will die" Maryanne said "They will never come"

"Of course they will" Mom said, nerviously "We just have to stay in the Basement"

"But we will  run out of food!" I said.

"Thinking negative things won't make any better"Said mom, in a firm note "They would come for us, and I don't want to hear anything about this, understood?"

And yeah, we tried hard to bring up anything else that wasn't about it. Days, weeks, months passed and they didn't come for us. And every day that passed there was less hope, and everyone was more sad. Nothing changed, until a day we realised that we were starting to run out of food. We started to racionate, but we still ran out of food. And then, we realised we were going to die.

"Mom, how do you think is heaven?" Maryanne asked, sobbing

"We are NOT going to die" Mom said "They are comming for us"

"In how much time?" I asked "How much time do we have to wait until they come? Weeks? Months? Years? We will be long dead by then"

Maryanne started to cry. And mom looked angry at me.

"Stop saying that! It won't change anything!" Mom shouted at me.

"But it is the truth!" I screamed at her "We all are going to die!"

I started crying, and mom was going to scream something at me when Maryanne speaked.

"I know what to do!" She cried, hopeful "Let's get out of the Basement and go outside and get food from the orange trees we have! Or from other plants!"

I laughed and Maryanne punched me in my arm.

"The Death Slayers would harm us, Maryanne" Mom said

"Well, the other option is to stay here to die" Maryanne said, sharply.

"Macy, it's not a good idea" I said to her, softly.

"As you said, we will starve here, and then die" She said "Or at least we can try to survive"

Maryanne picked up the baseball bat and she placed the bycicle helmet on her head.

"Who's with me?"