Hush little baby

Chapter 5

Alice's POV

Hours of silence passed and I actual ended up falling asleep. I guess since I shut my mind off by body at some point just dozed off.

I was awoken by banging

I looked down to see mum and Laura carrying George's body out of the shelter. I instantly jumped down from the bunker and went to go join them.

I walked out and the morning sun shit me and it felt amazing, to be outside, but then the smell hit me and took away the whole aestetic of the area. Instead of a fresh summers breeze it was sickly sweet and rotted. The area was clear of blanks and people which was amazing for us

Dad had just finished digging a hole, god knows how long it took him and mum and Laura were placing him inside. 

"Hey, I'm going to go check out the house for anything while you bury George" my father said as he place his hand on his pocket and began to sprint to the house.

I watched as mum and Laura got him into place before letting out a huge sigh of exhaustion.

I watched as they began to recover the hole.

"I'm hoping as he decays, the smell will cover our smell" mum said "if they work on smell" she added.

I went back inside the shelter and looked at his bloody bed that remained.

I began to strip down the bed sheets so I could replace them with fresh clean ones, so all of us now had a bed.

Soon mum and Laura walking in

"I'll go to the house to check on Steven" mum said as she brushed some hair behind her ears. Brown hair. I always found it funny how both my parents had brown hair, and so did I but George came out blonde. Apparently dad was blonde when he was younger so that's where it comes from. We all had blue eyes though.

"No please allow me" Laura smiled as she grabbed a gun from our little selection.

"Be careful, ill start trying to make us some breakfast with baked beans" mum chuckled as she walked back into the shelter. She closed the door behind her and went to grab a tin. The began to open it and she turned to me

"How are you feeling" she asked

"He's in a better place, I'm more relived than anything" I said to her. She nodded and poured the beans into a fondo pot

"That's true, now let's be serious here, death will be a common thing in our lives now, and each death can be a hard thing to deal with, and you need to come familiar with the idea that you will lose me or your father one day, like we need to come familiar with the idea what we could lose you" she said as she lit a candle and placed it under "just remember to stay strong I guess, fight the fire, rise above the ashes, just do your best to fight this world" she said "don't let death destroy you, allow it to build you" she then turned to me fully
"People in this world are also going to hurt you, and you need to be prepared for that too, you need to learn to sin" she then turned to the door then back at me "if we do die, we will watch over and protect, I guess that's all I'm really wanting to put out" she sighed.  I nodded to her

"I understand" I whispered as I carried on sorting out the bedding

"You are a pretty girl, that's your biggest disadvantage here" she sighed as she walked over and rubbed my face
"My beautiful girl against the world"