The Bryne Runaways (Updated)

Chapter 51

In my head all I wanted to know is the answers about all of what's going on. I'm crazy about them. I needed to know right now because I have been through so much but don't know the reason why people want to kill me and why do those things even exist. All of this is driving me crazy. What is going on with the world! Why so many mysteries? My mind spins around constantly and I felt as if I were about to explode. I can't take this awful silence anymore.

We have entered a random building, blocks away from the burning hotel and Uncle Ben quickly shuts the door behind us both losing finally those things off us. I look around and the place is an abandoned store filled with books and some sort of a cafe. Some of the books are destroyed and as well as the coffee cups barely surviving. This place was absolutely good for me and I wanted to run to all these books but this isn't a great time right now. I needed to know some answers.

I look over at Uncle Ben and right away my heart races like I'm in a track race, I felt something bad about this now. I don't care I need to know some of these things.

"What was that?" I say facing Uncle Ben who looks down at his axe half of his face black from the smoke. He tried saying something but ended up never responding to my question at all. He stayed in silence. He can't stay silent now. I need to know.

"What happened to the world?" I say silently but he is able to hear what I have said. He looks up at me but never said anything still. I am very impatient. I go over to him.

"Uncle Ben I need to know what happened" I stand.

"It's complicated and too much for you to handle-"

"I need to know some of these things" He will not give me that excuse. I want to and need to know. He looks at me and gets up from where he sat, on the cafe stools. He walks past me not telling me anything at all. I'm not gonna take this. I walk after him burying him with questions of this dystopia.

"What are those things outside?"

"We need to rest-"

"What am I?" I kept on walking beside him telling him off.

"Norman, please-"

"What's going on?"

"Please, stop this already-" I didn't, just kept on bothering him getting him frustrated. It's a side I never seen.

"Why does the entire world want to kill me-" Then most heartbreaking thing happens. I finally get cut off by Uncle Ben a pissed off and angry one. Never in my life have I seen him like that nor ever talk to me that way. It was a big surprise. He yelled directly to my face and I wince at such powerful impact I never saw coming my way. I stand frozen looking at Uncle Ben painfully and feeling numb from everything I've seen and witness.

"I don't fucking know, okay?!.....The truth is the fucking world is all shit now. All gone. Haven't you seen it!" He informs strictly and loudly.

He looks at me until I leave his sight feeling my lip quiver but I don't want to cry. No more of it. The entire time I think when will this unbearable situation end. It's too much to put up with. I don't look back at Uncle Ben but I can only imagine what he is feeling currently.

Hurt. Like us all.

It is way past midnight and here I am still awake not able to get some sleep at all. I am in no condition to sleep yet. Everything kept me awake. Leaving camp. Losing Roxy. Meeting those creatures. And finally the argument with Uncle Ben. All this kept me wide awake. It bothered me and irritated me.

I need the sleep.

I lay upstairs where the rest of more books are. Up here is more comfortable than down there where it felt more dark and abandoned, it's where Uncle Ben currently is at doing whatever he's doing. Probably asleep. I'm laying on a rug with my pack as a pillow, giving my back to the abandoned side of the book shops slash cafe. As I look over at the books where I am, I hear the sounds of the outside world. Nothing. It's quite deafening and it killed time. So I didn't mind.

Suddenly I hear footsteps coming up the stairs and I shut my eyes quickly trying to pretend I'm asleep. I have my knife clutch to my hand ready for anything but I know it is just Uncle Ben. I don't want to be around him right now. I want him to leave. He takes a seat on the stairs and takes a breath. I think he knows I'm awake.

"Please don't be mad at me" I feel the sorrow in his words. He also didn't take this so well either. I wasn't gonna answer him but I actually did. Surprisingly.

"I am and this time you are not able to fix it"

"I'm sorry I hurt you. I had so much in mind and I blew up" I ignored it and went back straight to the point.

"I need to know what happened" I ask again but he hesitates again. Why does he always do that?

"All you need to know is that I'm gonna protect you from anything"

"So I'm not immune?" I inform and he stays silent. He had no words to say. He should leave. This is making things much difficult than what they already are.

"Norman-"

"I need you to leave me alone right now" I say and I think he's going to come over to me but he understood perfectly what I wanted. I can feel this rare tension in the air and I begin to hear him going down the stairs when he hesitates for quite a second until he finally left causing much of a mess downstairs and leaving me to finally fall asleep.

Overall this was the hardest part of the journey and my heart couldn't handle it as much as I thought I can. It's intolerable. All this is ten times worse since I am so close to Uncle Ben and he is family. My only family left in this place. He is a big piece of my heart and banishing him like that is pure cold and evil. Hating someone you care about the most is the hardest thing ever, especially since the person you care about is Uncle Ben.

That shall not be permitted.