Forgotten Memories

Day 3 and 4

     "Nora, wake up." Mom shook me awake.
     "What..." I said rubbing my eyes.
     "Remember, you're going shooting today. Eat and then let's go." She had an opened can of meat. She handed it to me and she ate some bread. Canned meat is what I have to eat to survive now, this is awful. We ate and made our way back to the targets we previously set up. I got the rifle and held it in my hands.
     "It's a beautiful gun. Make good use of it." She said getting her rifle out.
     "So, adjust the scope to make it zoomed in at a comfortable distance. If you want you can zoom in all the way. Look down the scope and make sure the target is in the center. Stay still and straight. Remember to keep calm and steady your breathing." She said aiming. I watched her get ready to shoot. She was lined up perfectly, not caring about anythin else. She shot and it hit the target in the center furthest away.
     "Woah." I stared. She smiled and motioned for me to do it. I raised my gun. The scope was zoomed in all the way. It was hard to get straight because of how heavy the gun was, but I can do this. I adjusted my position and breathed slow. I hels my breath and shot. The bullet hit right next to the target, it was close though. I kept practicing all that day and got bettter and better.

After that day, nothinf rwally happened. We decised to head home with our new stuff and reunite with our family. We walked home and we made it early. We knocked on the hatch door for them to open it. We didn't have the keys. We told thwm It was us and they opened it.
     "Oh thank goodness you guys are ok!" Dad yelled running to hug us. Salton hugged us too and started crying.
     "You guys are ok? No one came over here?" Mom asked.
     "It was quiet, no one came. Are there even survivors?" Dad said.
     "Well..." mom looked at me.
     "We saw two people inside one house we went to. We had to fight them. Mom shot one of them, and I killed the other with the metal knuckles we found."I looked at the floor.
     "Well, It's how we survive now." Dad said seriously.
     "Well, we got new clothes. When we go on anoher expodition, you guys can get new clothes too." Mom said trying to break the tension.
     "Yeah. I see you guys got new food, water and weapons too. I guess we're all set for now." Dad said. We all nodded. We packed the items away and lived our life down there for a while. We atayed there for a year ocasionally going on expoditions and to the surface. We practiced shootin above the bunker. It was a boring year. We didn't see other people, and it was quiet. We couldn't spend our life in he bunker, we had to go to the ost likely place people would be. The city.