After the apocalypse

The Awakening Part 3

As I started to wake up warren, I felt Macie come up beside me. I could tell she was anxious about many things, but she seemed especially nervous now.

Nathan: What's wrong?

Macie: I Can't find anyone else from the other grades up here that are alive. Are we the only ones left from before the bombs or are there others trapped in other places in the school?

She started to hyperventilate.

I quickly got up from my crouching position and brought her into a great bear hug, trying to calm her down. All this seemed to do was make her cry.

Nathan: shh shh it's ok, I'm here

She relented into the hug as she wept into my shoulder. I felt like crying too, but I knew this was not the time. There were people, our friends that needed to wake up, if not for our sake for their families, they needed to continue on. 

Nathan: It's alright, we will all grieve in our own ways, I'm sure I will cry my eyes out too when I can safely. But for now, I must remain strong, and so do you, I need your help and so do they.

As I started to release the hug, she only hugged tighter, as if her life depended on it. we stayed like this for a while, I don't know how long, but it couldn't have been longer them fifteen minutes.

Nathan: Alright, better?

Macie: Yeah

We went back to work waking up Warren. Now that I look at him, he has changed a little bit from before. He had a streak of white hair where it was usually black, and the shadows seemed to cling to him as if he were a ghost.

Nathan: He has changed.

Macie: How so, I never really noticed what he looked like back before---- you know.

Nathan: He never had that streak of white hair, and I never noticed shadows clinging to him before either.

Macie: Yeah, that is pretty weird.

It took a minute, but he eventually started to come to. As he opened his eyes, I could see a slight encroachment of a black liquid like substance regress away from the front of his eyes.

Warren: OW!

Nathan: Oh, look your finally awake.

Warren: Don't Skyrim me, what happened?

Nathan: War happened, Nuke dropped close to here and I'm pretty sure all across the world. The apocalypse happened and we somehow survived it. I'm not sure what else has changed out there, but we need to get everyone up. Come on.

I helped Him up to his feet. He stabilized himself after nearly falling over again.

Nathan: Alright now that you are up, let's have a little meeting.

I led them both back to the other two by the wall. 

Nathan: Alright, now that there are five of us up and somewhat operational, we can start waking up the rest on mass, so let's get to it.

All: Alright!

So, we woke up the rest up and got them up and at least to a seating position.

Here is a list of everyone who survived

1. Me

2. Macie

3. Collin

4. Isabella

5. Warren

6. Ryan

7. Ethan

8. Charlie

9. Drew

10. Jordan

11. Michal

12. Molly

13. Claire

14. Luke Nelson, these last names are fictional and to differentiate between three lukes.

15. Luke Verbeck

16. Luke Shopie

17. Alexia

18. Abigale

19. Raymond

20. Sophia

21. Chris

22. Bryce

23. Jonny

24. Lauren

Now, Ryan is a tall thin dude, nothing special right? You would think that, but he has one of the sharpest minds I had ever seen.  he also has very good eyes.

Ethan is also very smart, will probably be a researcher of some sort.

Charlie, Ethan's best friend and comrade, they always go everywhere together.

 Drew, short kid, speech impediment, probably won't last long without medication of some kind, don't know what though. 

Jordan, black kid with some temper issues, hangs out with the three Lukes a lot, will probably have to watch out for him and those three.

 Michal, really short kid, smart as hell though.

Molly, Tall blondish girl, athletic as she played volleyball before the bombs fell.

Claire is in the same boat as molly, they practically look the same except Clair has browner hair.

The Lukes are a grab bag of features, Luke N is a medium height blond haired kid, while Luke S is a tanner skin and dark hair. Luke V is the odd one out however, he is tall and lanky with short brown hair.

Alexia was also a sporty girl, if I remember right, she played soccer and lacrosse before, she will be helpful as a melee fighter for sure. 

Abigale was the new girl before so I have no idea what she can do.

Sophia was also new so again unknown as to what she can do.

Chris, Big kid, we dared him to grow an afro out and he did it, so he still has it.

Bryce and Jonny are very similar, Big strong white kids, nothing much else to say really. 

Lauren, she is a black girl with a good skill in writing and other things. 

Nathan: Alright everyone, I'm sure you all have questions, but we need to get our bearings, so since from looking out the window at the dwindling daylight we have we need to---

Jordan:  Why the hell should we listen to you!

Nathan: I--I

Jordan: No! You do not get to decide for me, why didn't we die? The world just ended, and My families probably died! How much time has passed huh? What Happened?

Macie: We Don't Know Jordan! Nathan was the first one of us up and ever since he has been working diligently to get the rest of us up and making sure we were alive. Now shut up and let him lead.

Jordan: tch!

Nathan: Thank you Macie, now as I was saying due to the limited daylight, we have I suggest we find a place to sleep. I know we just woke up, but we need to keep our minds and bodies in the best shape we can. Agreed?

All: agreed 

I went to one of the doors that was our old home room to find it was unlocked.

Nathan: Come we can sleep in here

I'm guessing they were all pretty tired because they all found a place to sleep, some slept on put together chairs, on top of and under tables, some even just on the open floor. I happened to find the only recliner in the room, no-one touched it, so I claimed it.

Before I drifted off again felt someone crawl onto the chair with me, but I didn't mind.

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