WORLDS END by Huffman Marshall

Author:Huffman, Marshall [Huffman, Marshall]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2013-07-26T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

James had just settled in when Linda rolled over on her side.

“James.”

“Yes?”

“Is this how it will all end?’

“Linda, your guess is as good as mine. I don’t have enough information to make a prediction. I don’t know if some of our military survived or if it is only here in America. I honestly don’t have an answer for that,” he told her, hoping that would end the conversation.

“But what if it did?”

“Then we have to accept that and go on as long as we can.”

“But this can’t be the way it was meant to end,” she insisted.

“It doesn’t matter what you or I or anyone else thinks. We don’t get to make that decision. All we can do is respond to the situation as best we can.”

“Do you ever get afraid? You always seem so in control. Doesn’t anything ever scare you?”

“Linda, I am no different than anyone else. Sure I get scared but you just have to suck it up. If you can’t do that fear will rule your life. I certainly don’t want to die before my time but the thing is, when is my time? I sure don’t know and sitting around worrying about it won’t change my time when it does come,” he told her.

“But don’t you have things you still want to do?”

“You bet and I’m going to do everything I can to give myself the opportunity to accomplish those things but I have to take what has been dealt me and deal with that first. I know this sounds mean but I don’t intend for it to be. The fact is we shouldn’t be alive anyway and every day that I live now is a bonus. Why did I live while millions were dying? It was not because I’m special in any way. I was just lucky. The same goes for you and the rest of us. I’m certainly no saint.”

“You know, I have been divorced for two years now and I was thinking how much happier I was to be without someone judging me and controlling me every moment of every day and now there is no one left. I guess I find that just a bit frightening,” she said.

“Life does have a sense of humor or irony at times,”

“What about Alice?” she asked.

“What about her?” James said.

“Did you have a relationship?”

“Relationship? Well she let me share her bunker shelter for three days. I buried her husband for her. I doubt that makes for much of a relationship.”

“Buried her husband?”

James told her about how he had been looking for food and helping Alice with her husband until he died.

“Why did you leave the bunker?”

“Eventually we were going to need additional food and water. Besides that, we both wanted to see if others had survived. There are more, and they are looking for us just like we are looking for them. I believe these things will eventually leave and then others survivors will turn up,”

“You really believe that?”

“I have to. It helps keep me going,” he told Linda.

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