Bracing The Storm: An EMP Survival Story (Survival Series Book 3) by Kip Nelson

Author:Kip Nelson [Nelson, Kip]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

After they finished telling the story of how they had protected the camp, Darren was glad to see that Michelle was looking at her brother with admiration. So was Betsy, which was to be expected since a romance was blossoming between her and his son, but Darren liked seeing his two children getting along. He thought the age difference had something to do with it.

Darren had noticed that when siblings were close in age, they usually were testy and experienced a hostile relationship as they grew up together. But because there were a number of years between Brent and Michelle there was a gap in maturity and the two of them didn’t see each other as rivals. Of course, it helped that Brent had spent a lot of time babysitting Michelle over the past year while Darren had been working two jobs. Brent didn’t know it, and if Darren had his way Brent never would know, but Darren secretly had been envious of Brent because he got to spend quality time with Michelle.

There was always a great deal of friction within families. Spending so much time with the same people led to feelings of hostility. Although Darren wasn’t sure why this happened, there was no denying its truth. They had been fortunate so far that these feelings hadn’t presented themselves regularly, although there had been moments. The introduction of Betsy and Tara had gone a long way to calming matters down, he suspected. They also had enough to be scared of without getting annoyed at each other. Sometimes he wondered if they were just too tired to get angry with each other.

But now, with the presence of the mountain lions, they were even closer than they had been before. The cave never had been the most spacious location. It had been fine when it just had been the three of them, but with the addition of Betsy and Tara things had to be shifted around and they each had to give up a little of their personal freedom. The youngest girls didn’t mind, of course, for they hadn’t reached the age where personal space was an issue. For the others, however, this would be a challenge.

Darren had tried making the cave as accommodating as possible. He was well aware that, as teenagers, Brent and Betsy needed as much privacy as they could get. But while they previously had arranged blankets and bags to partition off certain areas of the cave, now they were huddled together behind a group of rocks. It was impossible not to get in each other’s way, and they were barely able to stretch out.

The mountain lions were using the space Darren had claimed as his own, although he wasn’t going to challenge them for it.

“We can’t stay here like this,” Brent said.

Darren and Brent’s clothes still were clinging to them. They needed to get dry soon. It wasn’t going to do them any good to sleep in these wet clothes.

“We’re going to have to for the time being.

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