Falling Hope- completed in all of its written by a pre teen glory

Chapter 14

YouTube video is of Alice Englert (Emma)
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'All right Ben so basically you have your ammo in this pocket and your knife stored in your sock,' Hal droned on teaching Ben the basics of warfare.
We had been stuck in the hot room for an hour but Tom wanted to guarantee Bens return. Frankly me too but I was fairly certain that I could protect him but still the pressure is kinda on me, like a lot.
'So we ready to go,' I asked.
'Just about. Don't kill yourselves all right,' Tom said.
I winked, 'I'll try not too'.
'Em don't die in your birthday, I'd be kinda sucky,' Lourdes said.
'Nah I am pretty sure I'll be fine'.
'And I should be able to kick some alien ass with all this info,' Ben said.
'Good,' Anne said hugging me tightly, 'Be careful, be safe'.
'Sure Anne I will'.
'Good luck Em,' Matt said hugging me.
Dai patted Ben on the back and handed him a 44 Mag, 'This gun should kill any Skitter with a shot to the head. Emma's rifle is better for long distance. The grenades are for emergencies only and you don't want to be in the way when it goes boom'.
'Good advice,' Ben gulped.
Lourdes hugged me and Ben and left with Anne to check up on Michael and Sarah. Weaver burst through the door, his eyes red and twitchy kinda reminding me of an alcoholic which kinda scared me because an army was at his fingertips.
'You two need to move now, daylight is precious,' Weaver said.
'Right. Hey Benjy,' I said.
'What'.
'How do you feel about going real fast?' I asked.

We were roaring down the road on the motorbikes. The wind blew through my black hair and a scream of excitement escaped my lungs.
'Wohoo,' Ben yelled.
For Bens first time on a motorbike going full speed was very impressive. I had been on dirt bikes for most of my life and a motorbike was not not different so I got the general gist. I felt the freedom that I hadn't felt since the invasion, adrenaline pumped through my veins, but not because there was a threat.
'I think after the invasion I want to buy a motorbike,' Ben yelled.
'When we finish we will both have a motorbike,' I yelled back.
'Awesome,' He replied.
Within reason because of the speed we were going we soon were at a small mall (not deliberately rhyming there). It looked like it was a million years but there was no Skitter signs.
'Come on Em,' Ben said.
We walked up to the locked glass doors and without thinking Ben grabbed a piece of rubble and chucked it at the glass, shattering the pane into a cloud of fine glass.
I flinched, 'Heads up next time Benjy'.
Ben smiled, 'Heads'.
We climbed through the window and looked around. There was a supermarket, clothes shop, stationary store and a pet store.
'Wanna split or stay together?' I asked.
'Um stay,' Ben blushed.
I wolf whistled and Ben blushed even more.
'Hey no I get it. I was harnessed before you realise, you see them in every corner right, you don't want to go back to them,' I stated.
Ben nodded and we looked through the supermarket. We took a hundred assorted cans (baked beans, peaches etc) and put them into Bens saddlebag. He still had room so I put in five massive popcorn packets for tonight. Ben also found a hot chocolate thing where you heat up water and put it in so we wouldn't need milk. We walked out and thought where to go next.
'Isn't that heavy?' I asked.
'Surprisingly no,' Ben said.
It made sense, because of the harness he was probably stronger.
'We should get clothes as well and I need to check something in the pet store,' I said.
'Sure, dog food probably won't go well though,' Ben laughed.
I playfully punched his arm and we went int the clothes shop. Sadly most of it was all the latest pre-invasion fashion so short shorts and cool shirts but Ben found rack of jeans which we took and we also found underwear and bra's (you have to be hygienic in a invasion as well). I found some jackets and t shirts that would work. Ben decided to take two backpacks well so we could hold as much as we could. Finally we headed to the pet shop. I searched through the isles of pet food,collars and toys till I found it.
'Jackpot,' I said.
Ben walked over and raised his eyebrows, 'What is that?'.
'That is carob, it's kinda like chocolate but it's healthier and grosser. Dogs can eat it but it's good for humans as well'.
'Why do you want it if it's gross?' Ben asked.
'Because it's filling for one thing and we could give a small bag of it to scouts if they get hungry. It's not that gross but it's hard to compare to chocolate'.
'Ok how do you even know that?' Ben asked.
I rolled my eyes, 'On my farm before the war we had it as a treat for the dogs'.
'Oh ok. Come on it's creepy here,' Ben shook.
I packed all the carob packets as I could into my saddlebag and filled the backpacks with smaller packets. Ben looked relieved when I told him we could go. We attached our saddlebags to the back of the motorbike and slipped our backpacks on. Ben looked happy again when we could ride. I was kinda happy that Weaver made us do this because we had some time together. Finally we pulled into John F Kennedy school and cheers erupted from the Second Mass when they saw the bags bulging with food. I never noticed how weird it was that no Skitters showed.
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That chapter was not that great but hey at least it's published. I'm about to start high school and I'm kinda scared because I'm the first year seven class EVER in Queensland high schools. Also my Ona came over from Germany so we want to bring her to the beach and go out with her a lot so I can't go on wattpad much.

Bye

Lulu