forum The Summer of 2019 (OPEN)

Started September 23, 2018 by Deleted user

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Sisi rubbed the little wound with his thumb. “I’m feeling fine, thank you. What did you say your name was?”

“Nathaniel Young. You can call me Nate,” he announced.

Caroline awoke with a start. She was always a light sleeper, it was a survival tactic. She crawled out of the bunk and walked into the main area with a yawn. "What's going on?" She looked at the now sitting up figure they'd salvaged yesterday. "Oh look, he's awake."

“Yupand his body water levels are close to average. You’re welcome by the way,”

"Close to average." She chuckled. "Sounds like my life in a sentence. It's about as close to average as a person can get out here."

Sisi glanced back and forth to the new person and this “Nate” person. What the hell is going on?

“What’s your name?” Nate looked to him curiously.

Sisi snapped to look at “Nate”. “Sisi.”

"Hang on Nate, let the poor guy get somewhat acquainted with the world first." She chewed on her lip in thought.

“Sorry,” Nate took a step back to give him room

Sisi tightened his grip on his bag (both hands had snapped back), staring at the pair back and fourth.

She shook her head with a slight smile. She could taste iron again and she sighed. "I swear, I do this like twice a day, it's ridiculous." She wiped the excess blood from her now bleeding lip.

“The ointment is in my bag Caroline.” Nate smiled, “You can get off the table if you want, that can’t be comfortable,”

Sisi stared at “Nate”. “No, I’m fine here.”

She waved him off. "I'll be fine. I do this like every day, I'll survive." How does this keep happening??

“Do you want granola bars?” He was very proud of his granola bars. “I have chocolate chip and peanut butter,”

(He was very proud of his granola bars is the best thing I’ve read today)

Sisi blinked a couple times. “Er, sure, I’ll take a peanut butter one.”

She dug through her own bag by the door and pulled out one of her most prized finds in the wasteland ever. An actual comb. She tugged it through the knots of her hair, wincing slightly at the pulling on her scalp.

He skipped over to the box and got a granola bar for both of the , “Here you go!”

Sisi kept the bag against his chest as he carefully took a bar. “Thanks.”

She finally finished untangling the knots and inspected the blue hairs tangled in the teeth of the comb. There were no mirrors out in the wasteland so she always used the comb to check on the color of her hair. "Still painfully blue. Good." She smoothed down her hair and put her comb back.

The baby woke up first. She was crying. This made Melody become wide awake. She doesn’t even remember falling asleep but she did right beside her sister. “Sh sh it’s ok Lily,” she said holding the baby. She really hoped that she wasn’t disturbing anyone. They already didn’t want her here. She grabbed her bag and took out a little thing of baby food and a tiny spoon. She opened the baby food and lily sat up. She handed it to lily who already knew how to feed herself.

“I’ll be back, I’m going to go check on the other newcomers,” Nate smiled to Caroline awkwardly as he left the room.

Melody watched the boy from earlier enter the room. She suddenly realized that she didn’t know his name. “I’m so sorry I never got your name,” she said her eyes wide slightly.

"You do that. I'll be here." She wiped her lip again. "Goddamn that's a lot of blood, I really chewed through it this time."