Chapter 19

I woke up, my head on Anti's chest. I smile up at his face, admiring the beauty of him while he was sleeping. Anti had consoled me multiple times throughout the night as splitting pain wracks through my entire body. He had hummed while stroking my hair until eventually it stopped.

We never figured out a plan on how to save Mark and I was kind of bummed out about it. But Anti says he'll think of something eventually, which scares me a little. I hope whatever it is, it won't result in something bad.

Anti stirs a little as I untangle my arms from around his body. My head still throbs from the pain last night's episodes of suffering but other than that, I felt fine.

"Mornin'" Anti mumbles, rolling back over to get some more sleep. I smile, rolling my eyes and went back to cuddle him.

STOP CUDDLING HIM! It's weird!! I shot straight up and look around.

"Mark?" I ask looking around. Anti, who was suddenly aware of anything, sits up and looks at me.

"What's wrong?"

"I don't know...." I reply, narrowing my eyes a little bit. "I could've swore I heard Mark say something."

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For the rest of the day, we sat in front of a small television. Alexa, the girl that Cry and Ken found, Sat on the floor. She hasn't said a word ever since yesterday and she's making me very suspicious of her.

But when she does talk, she gets all nervous and gittery, as if she's worried about something slipping out of he  mouth by accident. Or I could be overreacting and she could just be really shy. Either way, I was still skeptical about her.

"Whoa!" Felix suddenly blurts out as some news video footage of a tsunami crashes into half of California.

"Something's not right," Jack says, narrowing his eyes at the television while some news lady babbles on in the background. "That's way too unnatural and impossible for a tsunami to hit the coast of California."

We all grew quiet as we watched how the anchors were predicting that nearly all of California was going to be covered in water by tomorrow morning. And by afternoon tomorrow, California will no longer be California. It will be swallowed up by the unnatural waves, potentially killing thousands of people. Another video footage shows how people were swept away by the tsunami. Vinny sighs.

"There's no hope for us, is there?" She asks, sadly. Anti shakes his head.

"You must not say that, Vinny. We have to see what tomorrow brings." Vinny doesn't say anything.

"We need to go further into Ohio," Felix says. Ken just looked at him.

"There's nothing left dude."

"Wade and Bob are left!"

"Wade was probably killed when his house was destroyed. I don't know about Bob." Cry says, looking over at Alexa, who was staring absent-mindedly at the floor. Jack shakes his head.

"You don't know that Wade is dead for sure. Maybe we will run into him. But we need to find him and Bob, even if they're both dead." Everyone nods in agreement as Anti says,

"Well, looks like we know what we're doing tomorrow."

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