Tran

Survive

"Stop....Tran Stop please !"

Chris is shouting behind me. I can tell he is tired and I get it.We have been running for an hour, anyone would have collapsed by now. I have no idea what keeps me going, maybe it is the fear and the shock from what has just happened.

I can't carry on, not beacause I am tired or something but because I can't let Chris behind. He offered to follow me down here I owe him to at least stand by his side like he did . We are far enough from the church and I don't think anyone has followed us down here.
We stand at a corner behind a tall building. I hope they will not be able to find us here. We have brought with us only the essentials to survive for a couple of days, but honestly I have no idea what we will do next. I brought some money with me , enough to keep us going after we run out of food but not for long. There are plenty of cheap hotels in the town but we can't risk it.

Only thing I can think of right now is that few years ago there was this boy, he was playing in the park while they were fixing the city's underground wire system. He had almost fallen in, when I grabbed him with my scooter.We were friends for a while so he told me that I could ask his help at any time.
I heard rumors that lately he has opened a factory and he has storages all around the city , it's a great environment to live in but it's all I can think about and it is certainly our safest option right now.

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Two days have passed already and I have come in contact with Malcolm who  has hopefully agreed letting me and Chris staying in one of his storages. He picked an old one not far from the centre of the city which has been in a sleep mode the past few months.

The last couple days weren't easy. We had to sleep on the floor with a couple of thin blankets covering us which did not stop the cold and were itchy as well.

Last night we had to cuddle because of the extremely low temperature in here. It's January , the coldest month of the year. I sense this winter will not be easy to get through. I'm not really sure about what is coming.

For now we have enough food and luckily for us Malcolm agreed to bring us more in a month from now, so we are carefull with the quantities we take so they can last for the month .The last thing anyone would want out here in the cold is to be malnourished.

"I like this floor better" Chris joked. Nevertheless he was right it was surely a flor like the other but at least it was shiny and we could even use boxes as pillows or even lay on them to get away from the cold floor. I smiled back at him.

He looked so sweet with his pitch red cheeks and messy hair. "Yeah, like a brand new mattress, isn't it" he laughed at my silly joke.

"Hey Chris, I am sorry for what I got us in"

"Don't say this, you did nothing wrong. You didn't choose to be born this way" he is honestly so sweet sometimes, too sweet for his own sake really.

"I mean you could have fallen for anyone. Have a life , adopt kids , build a home for the two of you. You realize it won't be easy, maybe even impossible, to do any of this things with me"

"Look we'll figure it out. And even if I could go back to the beginning and start all over again, I'd still choose you" i know he feels like this right now, but I don't feel like he understands the gravity of the situation. I am a rock tied to his feet in the ocean and he'll soon drown.