A World Without Trust

Chapter Twenty Three

The saying time heals really does work if you give it a chance. At the time of a tragedy it seems like the most stupid saying EVER! These past couple of months gone without Harry has been extremely tough and I have more often than not cried myself to sleep over him. I find myself reliving the positive memories I had with him more than the negative ones and realise how much I did love him. His dimply smile and cheeky smirk will forever hold a place in my heart.

Ashton on the other hand has permanently made his way into my heart and even though relationships seem a distant thing to have since the start of the invasion, we’ve gone ahead and given our relationship the title of boyfriend and girlfriend which always gives me butterflies when I think about it.

Calum and I have become best of friends, without him I may have never found or rescued my brother, so I owe him my life.

Having Luke back is like a place in my heart has been refilled again. Without him here and the death of Harry, I don’t know what kind of dark place I would be in.

The resistance is a slow growing group. Many have joined us and many have died for us. We’re slowly making our way across America and hopefully one day there will be so many of us that we can take back control of our country and begin on helping the rest of the world. But for now we’re just taking out one black van at a time and recruiting strong and determined people who are willing to risk their lives for a cause influenced by the death of Harry. I just hope he is watching us from wherever he is proud that someone is finally kicking some butt.

I walk around the campsite situated deep inside the bush just outside of the Texas border. It’s weird being respected and looked up to from so many age groups, but I guess someone needs to be the leader. Luke joins me and goes over the plan quickly before heading over to his group of people and heading off towards the terrorist’s base. A few weeks ago we stumbled upon a group who had escaped a prison just inside of the Texas border. The past few days we have been scoping the place out seeing if it is a reasonable size to destroy. With about one hundred odd people on outside we figured we could take it down no problem. I call everyone over to a large tree stump I use to stand on for announcements and go over the plan again and reassure them that this isn’t going to be easy and that we may lose some people today. With that I send everyone off to gear up and make my own way to my tent. Ashton is sitting on the ground pulling on his boots and I sit down beside him. He stops and pulls me into a tight hug before giving me a small kiss on the lips.

“Good luck out their today gorgeous, I’ll see you later tonight for dinner!” He says tucking a loose strand of my hair behind my ear.

“I sure will, because it’s your turn to cook tonight!” I tease. It’s nice to have these little moments in times of crisis, it keeps me sane. I give him one last kiss before pulling on my gear and grabbing my gun. Adrenaline fires through me as I assemble my group.

“Every invasion is a step closer to freedom.” I yell, they cheer in agreement before we head off towards our target. I can’t help but smile at how cliché and cheesy I feel, like I’m in some sort of action movie. I’m just proud to have achieve what we’ve set out to do these last couple of months and I am so lucky to have done it beside some of the people I love.

Revenge is a dangerous mind-set to have, but with everything that is going on now, it’s the only mind-set you can have.