The Do Over

2

Amy's pov

"They gave me some carrots." I showed Mark the two cans of baby carrots.

"I got bread and butter."

"If we save up the food, maybe we can have a meal."

He wrapped his arms around me as we walked home and said,

"Right now we need food, maybe with you working in the garden we can get more of it."

I looked around seeing that Lily is carrying a big bag of fresh veggies.

"How did she get that?" I asked.

"Her kids, they all are working small jobs."

"That is another reason they don't want us to have kids, more mouths to feed."

It didn't take us long to get home, when we got there I saw a pot and pan set on the table.

"Mark?"

"I might have done rubble searching and found a few cool things, the pots and pans look like they have only been used a few times."

"What else did you find?"

"A few blankets some canned food and some weapons."

"Blankets and food is nice, what kind of weapons?"

"A gun and a knife."

"Anything for Chica?"

"A bowl that we can use for her food but the toys I didn't trust."

"I am guessing that you are not supposed to rubble searching?"

"Nope, I can get in a lot of trouble but we need things. I am not the only one doing it." He wrapped his arms around me. "I am going to go back out and look for clothes."

"They will notice that we have new clothes."

"We can wear them around here."

I nodded my head yes then sunk into him.

"We need to eat." I said.

He let me go and we walked to the kitchen. As I made a can of corn and some rice, Mark worked on some of the construction of the house. They told him that if he wants to fix it himself then they will give him the supplies.

"Mark, dinner." I said setting the table.

After a few seconds, I heard him coming down the steps.

"The hole in the guest room floor is taken care of, the next plan is for the pipes in the guest bathroom." He said.

"That's good."

"The stuff for the main floor and our room is to be here later this week."

"Okay,"

"What's wrong?"

"Just thinking about that meeting."

He walked over to me wrapping his arms around me.

"They are not going to touch you, and if they think that females will not have rights here. We will pack up and leave."

"It's not just that, we have nothing here. No hospitals, no jails, no anything! We are starting over and we all blindly voted this government in. We all were just so happy that we are alive and didn't think of who we just voted in."

"They are starting to work on the hospital, we have to rebuild schools as well and it's a lot."

"What if we fail and everyone dies?"