Drugs

Chapter VIXI

August 25th, 2016

I was home again.

A burning sensation ran across my body as I stood myself up. I grimaced in pain, but this wasn't the first time and I easily overcame it.

I was safe.

Again, I had survived, with more questions now than answers in my mind. The sun had peeked its head through my living room window.

People were alive out there in that world, whatever that was. My lips were parched as I groaned and stumbled myself to the kitchen to get some water. It seemed like Rainbow had still not returned, where had she gone was she lost? The realization dawned on me further about my situation without her being here. Opening the fridge, I grabbed a water bottle, unscrewed the cover and placed it towards my head. The rest was poured over my face.

Taking a deep breath the lingering heat left my body as I followed my routine. Push ups, breakfast, and then a bath. By the time I had finished it was 8 am. I grabbed my pants and a shirt from out of the drawer, not really to my liking, but would have to suffice for now. They were other pressing concerns at the moment. The head one was in the downstairs apartment.

Hearing a swarm of activity beyond my apartment door, I stepped outside to see a gathering of police by the old man's door. There was a loud knocking noise and no response. Followed by the door being hit open by what looked like a battering ram. Watching over the men pounding on the door was the same police officer that I had seen with Zora. His name slipped my mind.

Shifting my gaze from the scene, I focused my eyes towards where I was heading.It wouldn't be good to linger to draw any suspicion. When I reached downstairs, I walked and stopped outside Ash's apartment.

Sweat ran down my face as I lifted my arms up to knock on the door. I swallowed my saliva as my hands came pounding down on the door.

The door slowly rolled back and behind the door looking at me head-on with eyes of contempt was Ash.

I couldn't tell if she wanted to kill me here, but I needed some answers. The ones that only she had.

"Can we talk?"

"Why should I talk to you?"

"I need to understand what's going on... and about those people."

"Isn't that already obvious?"

"Not really, I didn't expect to see so many people in one place. Are you the one helping them survive?"

"Yes."

I looked left and right to make sure no one was listening. "Is your mom home? Can you let me in?"

"No, not here," she replied, "somewhere else give me one moment." She pulled in the door.

I waited for a while, looking around watching and hearing police moving back and forth from upstairs.

It wasn't long before she appeared again and closed the door. She kept an unsure look at me as she walked, placing herself in a strategic position in the car park in the line of sight of the police officers.

"So you wanted to talk? Here would do. What do you want?"

I looked around uneasily as the sun bared its weight on my forehead. The carpark was busy with the police in the area and the shifting of onlookers and people going to their cars.

"Well, why did you never tell me about all those people that live there and how are they so many people there?"

"Tell you? So that you could kill them later with your master? Are or you looking for more souls to sacrifice to save your own existence?"