Constant Fear

How Are We Supposed to Fight?

              It's been a few weeks. I think this place is really great. I made tons of friends and overall I feel at home. There is even a couple classrooms used for teaching so everyone can still learn. We don't even really need to learn but it's still nice to know how to read and write. I always wondered how the people running the place get food but I recently figured out how. I watched as these men got all geared up and they put a big ladder up to get over and then they lifted it to get down. A few hours later they returned with full bags and that was some of the food they had. Everything else we ate was grown from the garden. I walked over the garden to see if any crops needed watering and it didn't look like the crops were doing too good. I watered them and then headed back to the school. I saw the men who went out and they looked young. They were probably in their early twenties. They were all fighters, they knew how to use a gun and know how to kill them. I wish I knew how to.                                                                                                                                    Later that day at sunset I saw one of the men walk down the hall. I stopped him to ask him a question. "Hey I know that you know how to kill the infected and know how to use a gun. Do you think you or one of the others could teach some of the others including me." I asked"You know i've thought of that. Not many people know how to survive out there. Not many are willing to believe that they need to know how to. They think they are safe. That's why we can't do that. They will think that we are in danger. But to be honest, we are always in danger and we are never safe." he answered. "But what about the people who want to learn." I asked him again. "I don't know. But if you're willing to learn i'm sure that I could teach you. I just don't know about the others. They will have to individually have to ask." He told me. "Well if you are willing to teach me I would like that and maybe you could teach my brother and my friend and her family." I said. "Yes I would be willing to teach all of you and i'm sure the rest of the men would too." He responded. "Thank you so much." I said with I smile on my face.  "No problem." He said with a smile too. I was about to walk away when I forgot to get his name. "Hey, what's your name." I asked."Hunter. Yours?" He asked.  "Olympia." I answered.  He smiled and nodded and then we both walked on the opposite directions.                                                                                                                     I was excited to get to learn how to use one and I was especially excited because he was a really good looking guy. His smile was so cute it made me excited thinking about it. I ran  off to find Belle and tell her so she could learn to and so could her family. I found her in our room. "Hey Belle, we can can learn how to fight the infected. I asked a man and he said he could teach all of us." I informed her.  "Why would we need to know how. We are safe here. It's not like they are going to get in." She told me.  "You've seen them Belle. They are harmful and who knows we might need to leave someday and maybe the wall could get destroyed and we would have to fight them." I told her.  "Maybe you're right." She said   "I'll learn how to fight them and then I will teach you and your family." I told her.  "Yeah good Idea." She said.