City Escape by Theresa Shaver

Author:Theresa Shaver [Shaver, Theresa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-03-31T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

It took the group over two hours walking their bikes to reach the first roadblock set up on the outskirts of Pasadena. Three men with rifles and a shotgun greeted them and looked over the newcomers closely. One of the men leaned over and whispered something in Spanish to the others before they all broke out in laughter. Juan chuckled as well and translated to the group what he’d said.

“Carlos said you guys look like you were all hit with a Disney stick!”

All the girls looked down at their sweaters and t-shirts with embarrassment. Every one of them had some sort of Disney character displayed on their clothes. April didn’t care. She studied the men and looked closely at how they held their guns. That was way more important to her than what she was wearing.

The town they walked through to get to the survivor’s enclave hadn’t escaped the destruction that they had seen elsewhere. Smashed out windows and burnt businesses and homes lined the streets they walked. The main difference April and the others saw was the lack of dead bodies. When Mrs. Moore commented on it, Juan explained that after the main rioting and exodus had ended, the people that had stayed worked together to clear the streets of the dead and had burned them away from the town. They had two doctors in the enclave that had stressed the dangers of rotting bodies and the group took sanitation very seriously. He also talked about how careful they were with the only water source they had. The people here had also cleared the roads by pushing all the vehicles to the sides making it easier to use the streets. April was happy that these people seemed to know what they were doing and she hoped they would help her group get that much closer to home.

When her small group finally made it to the main gates of the enclave they were exhausted and very hungry. They hadn’t taken a break since the lion attack and the walking instead of biking had given many of them blisters and sore feet. The walls that led from the gate were stucco but you could see where they had been modified. Bent rebar angled out from the top and April guessed there was a platform erected on the inside because she could see a few men and women walking back and forth keeping watch over the walls. The decorative cast iron gate had been covered with metal sheeting and there were concrete traffic barriers staggered in front of it making them zigzag to reach it.

When Juan called out a greeting to the guards on the wall, a screech of metal on metal rang out before the gates opened to let them in. As the group passed through the landscape changed and April was amazed to see none of the damage of the collapse had touched the community. Large pristine homes lined the wide boulevard. All glass was intact and no fire damage could be seen.

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