My One True Love: Book 1

5 days after

*Clarke

We all woke to the ground shaking again. We all stood awaiting the worst. I squeezed my eyes shut trying not to throw up.

I've been sick these past few days, I've managed to keep it from everyone but its growing harder.

I place a hand against my mouth as if I could stop it. I ran a few steps before emptying my stomachs contents onto the shaking ground.

Bellamy appeared at my side placing a hand on my back. I lightly shove him away not wanting him to see me like this.

"Clarke your sick.." he yells over the commotion. "I'm fine!" I yell back. I grab his arm to steady my trembling legs. He holds me up without another word.

When the shaking stops we return to the shaken up group. There eyes were laced with fear as they clutched to eachother.

"So you gonna tell us why your hurling again.. it's been a few days why are you still puking?" Miller asks cautiously, his voice was laced with concern.

"Just motion sickness.." I tell them trying to ward off there worry. "Clarke it's been everyday since the first quake." Octavia pitches in sheepishly.

I give her a glare, "thanks for being on my side o." I shake my head at them. "I'm fine. I must've just gotten a concussion I'm not sick." I say gathering up our stuff. "Common we need to get moving if we want to make it there by tomorrow." I say taking off in the direction of the space station.

They had space stations built in every other state. The one closest to us is in oregon. Oregon was about 13 hours away, while driving. We are not driving.

They all start to follow me hesitantly. We walk in silence, my mom walks up next to me and grabs my hand. I smile weakly at her.

"God your pale clarke." She says placing a hand on my cheek. "I'm fine mom." I tell her. But the truth was I'm not fine, my stomach has been cramping and my legs are trembling, my head hurts so bad...

Her concerned face was the last thing I saw before everything went black.

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*Bellamy

I dont know how I knew clarke was going to fall before she did, but I knew and I caught her. I cradled her small frame in my arms. Her face was ghostly white, her body was trembling and she was clutching her stomach.

I looked from abby to her unconscious daughter in my arms. "What's wrong with her?" I ask abby desperation creeping into my voice.

"I have no idea.. but we need to keep moving." She says walking slightly faster. I force my legs to move faster too.

We continue walking till darke, clarke hasn't woken up yet. Everyone was starting to get worried for her. Why didn't she tell any of us she was sick?

I looked around the group and saw that they all seemed to be sick. They were all pale and trembling. I told myself that its because weve been pushing our selves to hard.

I flip through channels on the raido. It's all just static until we hear a voice. I look up to see everyone staring at me expectantly.

I cross my legs and have them all sit by me. Sitting like this reminds me of kindergarten. I chuckle to myself for a second.

We listen closely to what the voice is saying;

" attention valued citizens China has declared nuclear war on the states. These bombs they are dropping are the cause of the earthquakes you are feeling. Please we erge you to make your way to the nearest space station. You might be experiencing some radiation sickness. You will be treated at the space station. We need to evacuate earth immediately. This is a time to come together and fight for our right to survive. This message will repeat."

When the voice is done talking we all look to eachother to make sense of what we just heard.

"China declared war?" I heard someone mumble. I couldn't speak or move.

"Common we need to move faster no more breaks we can sleep when we get there." Lincoln says standing up.

I'm thankful that hes taking over leadership for the minute. Were all start to stand when Emori starts coughing up blood. Abby rushes to her side and wipes her mouth off with a piece of torn shirt.

"Its the radiation. We need to go now!" She say gesturing for Murphy to grab Emori. Shes to weak to walk on her own.

"We need to find a car." I finally speak up. "With a car we will get there within a few hours instead of days." I tell them picking clarke up.

We start walking, it take around 3 hours for us to find a car big enough for us all to fit. We all piled in. We gave clarke and Emori as much space as they needed to feel better and not as cramped.

We drove for 10 hours without stopping. We had to stop when the suv ran out of gas. We were stranded in a unfamiliar area. With no way of telling where we are.

I hear abby curse under her breath. I step out of the car. I look to the sky to see a rescue helicopter.

"Hey everyone get out here! Look!" I ran to the back of the suv and reefed open the tail gate. I grabbed a flare that we found earlier and shot it to the sky.

"Now we wait." I tell myself before gathering the rest of the group. It didnt take long before a troup of army rovers stopped beside our suv.

One of the people inside stepped out. He had a large gun in his arms pointed at us. I take a step back shielding my friends behind me.

"We need help. Our car broke down. My friends are sick." I raise my hands To show I'm harmless.

"How old are you son?" He ask lowering his wepon. "Nineteen, sir." I tell him with my arms still raised.

"At ease son. Comon climb in the rovers. You cant all sit together cause theres 13 of ya." He says his voice thick with a southern accent.

I nod splitting up wont be easy on us. "How many to each car?" I ask looking back to my group. "Six. And then one of you can ride with me. Were not to far from da space station." He says. I know from the way hes looking at me he wants me to be the one to sit with him.

They quickly split us up;
Clarke, raven, emori, octavia, harper, and abby, sit together in one car. Murphy, miller, finn, Lincoln, Monty, and kane in another car.

I didnt like the idea of us not being together. And the fact that they split us up by gender rattled me even more.

Half of our women were incapable of defending themselves. I tried to protest but the southern man assured me that they would be fine.

There just wasnt something right about this whole this. Reluctantly I climb into the car behind him. I watch the cars behind me closely until we go through a dark tunnel.

There cars turn off there headlights. I cant see them anymore. I start to panic. When we reach the end of the tunnel there cars dont follow me out.