Tomorrow

Chapter two: escape. //Pattis POV//

" Guys, I think we have a small problem." I say. It's been a few days since we escaped the camp. " What?" asked Molly. " Um... I think we're nearly out of food." I reply, digging through my pack. " What!?" Christina said, " How could we be out of food!?" " I wasn't able to pack a lot okay! We were in a rush and i grabbed what I could! We should find a town or something, I managed to find and take my birthday and Christmas money while they were storming into our house." " How much do you have?" Willow asks, I reply, " Two hundred something dollars." " Whoa." I hear Justice say ( if you remember in the previous chapter, we, uh, kinda bumped into him. Or, more like Molly bumped into him). " What do you guys think? Find a highway and follow it to a town?" I ask. " We can give it a try." Molly says.

We quietly stay in the treeline as we get to the end of the highway and walk into a town. The town was, surprisingly, not destroyed. I start digging through my pack " I don't have enough for everyone, so I'm just gonna give one to myself, Molly, Christina, and Justice." I say as I take out four pistols. " How did you get guns!?" Molly exclaims. " I was able to grab a few, along with some ammo, which I don't have a lot of. So we have to conserve it." I hand them each five bullets each. I say," Only use them if you really need to, we don't know if some of the members from Isis could be walking around, and they probably know what we look like by now so put on your hoods." They put on their hoods and hide the guns and ammo in their jacket's big pockets, and we start heading for a store.
' If only we knew'

" Stay quiet and keep close, the store might be packed with people and we need to hurry, and make sure your weapons are hidden." I say and we head down the aisles, I grab a bunch of boxes of granola bars, then head to the aisle that has the medicine and bandages. Then we go to the checkout line and pay. We walk back out and hide in an alley, " If we're careful with the supplies they should last a long time." I say, " We need to keep moving." Molly says urgently, and she's right, we see a couple members of Isis walking down the street and we quickly walk back to where the highway is.

After several rests and running by the highway, the sun finally goes down and we slow to a walk. We're heading west, which I think is the direction back to California. " Guys, I think we need to rest awhile." Justice says, panting. We all go a little deeper into the treeline and sit down. " Molly? Do you have your phone?" I ask. " Yeah, why?" " First, check what time it is, and second, maybe we can get ahold of your mom." I reply. She gets out her phone and says, " It's 6:30 pm," She says, " I don't know about calling my mom though, she probably won't have her phone anyway. " Okay," I reply, " We should get some rest though. I'll take first watch." They all nod their heads and then lie down to try and sleep.

{ late in the night a woman sneaks Patti's pack, who fell asleep by mistake, and searched through it. She takes most of the food, medicine, and bandages, then takes Justices gun. Then she quietly sneaks away.}

I jolt awake as I hear a noise, I rub my eyes then stand up and look around. I see nothing, and sit back down and lean against a tree. A few minutes later the sun starts to rise, I get up to go wake the others. I shake Molly's shoulder slightly, I whisper, " Molly, wake up and then wake the others. We need to get moving." She turns on her back and stretches, then gets up and wakes the others. I go to my pack to get some food for them. It's nearly empty, " How is this possible!" I say, shocked. " What?" Says Willow and I stand and turn around, they're standing there. " The food is almost gone again! And the medicine and bandages! We still have plenty of water though. " My gun is gone too!" Says Justice, " It was lying right next to me!" ' What's going on?' I thought. I say to them, " We need to get going, we'll figure this out later.

A few hours later as we're walking down the highway we see a sign that says Welcome To Alabama. We hear a noise and turn to the direction it sounded, someone comes out of the bushes and points a gun at me, I recognize who it is. " Mom!?" I say, shocked. She starts advancing towards me, but before she could get close to me Molly and Christina pull their pistols out and point them at her, " How the heck did you escape!?" She says angrily, " We jumped the fence genius!" I say sarcastically. " Who is she?" Willow says, she sounds scared. " My name is Vanessa, leader of Isis." I stare at her, shocked. " What!?" Molly and Christina say at the same time. " You guys are coming back with me!" Vanessa says, and starts walking towards us, Molly loaded her gun and points it at her, " Stop!" she yells. Vanessa looks at her, suddenly points the gun at her and loads it, " NO!" I screech, and dive in front of her as the shot goes off, and feel pain in my shoulder as I fall to the ground.
¨PATTI! NO!!!!!" Molly screeches as I black out from shock.