We Rule the World

VI

Month Four, Year One

9:10AM

'Your designs for the turbines are wrong still. You haven't been listening to me at all have you?' Jackson Hawthorn.

Looking up from her work Reye's imagination flickered with the thought of beating him within an inch of his life, or better yet wrapping her hands around his throat, she forced those delightful thoughts away so she wouldn't be tempted to act on them. Looking over her shoulder, she saw Jackson staring down at his own workbench with a relaxed look on his face, as if nothing in this world phased him. Reye was sick of hearing his complaints about her plans, she was over his insistence of interfering where he wasn't needed & she was ready to pack up and leave Whitefall for good.

'Jackson... you are a tech guy... you do software and hacking and shit-like that, you don't do engineering or mechanics, so why are you telling me what to do?' Reye Almeida.

'I'm the smartest person in Whitefall, probably the world if it is only us, who else could have read all of those engineering and mechanic books and picked it up as easily if they weren't the smartest person in Whitefall. And I'm telling you what to do because your designs are wrong.' Jackson Hawthorn.

His arrogance bleed through in every word that came out of his mouth, he had spent to long being praised for intelligence without anyone to bring him down. She knew most of the Student Council were like this as well, it's probably this egotism though that made them piece together Whitefall after the first night and kept them going even as everything around them seemingly failed. Because the ego of the Student Council wouldn't allow them to fail.

'Have you ever done a single day of manual labour in your entire life?' Reye Almeida.

'Yes, obviously... and what does that have to do with anything?' Jackson Hawthorn.

'Then you'll know that things don't always work like how they do in instructions and shit; a majority of the time you have to actually think about this shit... if you put them in the valley you're going to get the random gusts of wind yes, but if you put them on the shore then you'll get a steadier stream of wind.' Reye Almeida.

'No, Jacob said there'll only be enough resources to do one or the other and I'm putting them in the valley where they'll get stronger gusts of wind that will produce more energy.' Jackson Hawthorn.

'If you put them on the shoreline you'll get a steady stream of wind. That might take a little longer to power up but we'll get consist power from the seaside rather than from the valley.' Reye Almeida.

This had been a reoccurring argument for them with Jackson supporting the turbines being placed in the valley near the interstate whilst Reye envisioned them on the side of the Hermits hill on the southern side of the bay.

'The turbines are going near the interstate and that's that! Jacob is going to side with me over you any-day since your always rude to him, so change up the plans?' Jackson Hawthorn.

Reye held back from attacking him with the screw driver in her hand, Jackson was on the Student Council so they would always choose him over her which meant that no matter what the turbines were going to go near the interstate. She couldn't stomach the idea of him getting his way once again, but there was little else she could do, like everyone she had been left behind when the world went missing. Now they were the only ones left in the world.

Sometimes she actually wondered why she couldn't have gone missing with everyone else, if only she hadn't of come to school that day, if only she hadn't felt the need to come in to complete the homework she had been falling behind in. If she hadn't of come into school that day though Jordy would be left here alone, fighting for himself probably getting himself into something stupid.