Chapter 4: The Dusty Backpack

Evelyn exhaled, as she put up the tent..

- I suck at this. I've never been in such situation before, you know. I've never even been to any camping places like this.

The little boy was looking for beverages and utensils.

He seemed to be focus.

- Can you please shut up, I need to find food.. We're not gonna survive without anything.

- That's the truth, everybody knows.

- Yea, shut up.

Evelyn exhaled, again. She started to feel unconsious.

As she looked down the hills, she saw a backpack, a dusty brown backpack.

There might be something useful inside, for sure.

And they could survive!

As she thought, Evelyn ran down the hill as fast as she could, reaching the backpack for food.

She thought that she was smart, and brought back the things she found to the tent.

The sky turned bloody red as the sun set. Fleeces of clouds floated gently to somewhere faraway.

The boy had already grilled a fish which he found in a small lake nearby when she came back. Evelyn got inside with her own beverages. It was not until she opened a can of sweetened peach, that the little boy shouted and took it away from her.

- Hey be nice, I was trying to eat.

- ARE YOU CRAZY!? WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

- Well these are canned food, and I thought you might want them...

- WHERE DID YOU GET THESE?

- Down the hills..

- IN A BROWN BACKPACK?

- In a brown backpack, yes.

- ALL OF THESE ARE SUPERVISING EQUIPMENTS FROM THEM. IF YOU EAT THIS, THE CHIP CAN COME INSIDE YOUR BODY, AND CRAWL UP TO YOUR BRAIN. THAT'S HOW THEY CONTROL US, THE POOR PREYS.

Evelyn got scared easily. She had never seen anyone be that harsh towards her. It was surprising, but not until she realized that something was wrong.

How could this boy know that much about this organization, if he was only a human, or a prey.

Or to be short, who was he?

- How come you know so much about this. Who are you?

- Well.. it's a long story, I'll tell you later.

- You are no longer reliable to me..

- There's no time to trust or to blame. You've opened the can, and the system I told you earlier was booted.

Run before it's too late.

He cleaned up the leftovers, and grabbed her hand. Together they ran away, in the late late night.

- What if we use those things for a plan, a gorgeous plan to runaway?

- Well, what's the plan you're talking about?

- I don't know, nevertheless, we could come up with something at the end..

- Don't know if we can make it until then.

- Don't be such a pessimist, think outloud.

- You want me to make up something because you can't, don't you?

- Well, I'll try my best at least..

- Hahaha bullshit..

...............

- We're dying here, aren't we?

- I wish we're not...

The conversation ended in silence...

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When they finally stopped at an another road, it was already 1:00 AM. The sky was dark, filled with sparkling stars and purple clouds. Evelyn had already felt tired.

They stayed inside for the whole night..

Evelyn finally decided to talk:

- It has been 1 week since then and I still don't know your name.

- Really? I thought you've seen my profile?

- Nope, that's mine.

- Ah yes, I'm Andrew

- And...?

-...rew.

- No I mean..whatever.

........

- You know what, I don't know who you are, either.

- Evelyn.

- Nice name.

- You know everything except me huh?

- Hahaha maybe.

- So..how do you get all those information?

- Well, I was known to be a genius at school. I once go for a Mathematic competition of international stature. And I won! But they were all bullshit questions, it's easy like, 1+1 you know, but not exactly like that..

- Get to the point.

- I was curious about my family, for some reasons. They lie about everything. That's why I decided to spy on them. I looked for documents in my dad's desk, and I drank his pills. Then I accidently fell into a basement. There were chemical potions down there, and I created an another bottle of pills which was the same to dad's.

I also heard the TV guy speaking to my parents every night. After realizing how dangerous things could be. I packed and ran away...

- Then we met eachother?

- Yea.

- Please tell me this is a dream. I hate this.

But Andrew can't tell her it's a dream. Something has already forced her to believe it's reality. And it was there, because they didn't ran far enough.

Evelyn's family...

They were now completely emotionless, holding guns.

A bullet broke into the car, then hit Andrew's arm.

He got shot.

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