I awaken with a cold chill through my body in an abandon structure; lying on the cold, hard paved floor in arching pain. I sit there for a few moments then finally decide to get up from the floor to explore the structure. As I explore, I behold stacks and stacks of different sizes of boxes everywhere thinking that who have taken me to this structure. I walk encircle the stacks of boxes to the back and front of the room where there are tall red metal shelves supply to the top with boxes. I also behold two wide open spaces in-between the opposite sides of the room.

The lights come on I run to hide behind a stack of giant boxes. I can see shadows of little people running across the boxes. I run out of my hiding place to look for another one, but I run right into a tall skinny tan skin color with a pointed nose, and crystal blue eyes white man. Wearing small framed clear glasses, light yellow button down dress shirt, beige slats, and dusty strained beige sneakers. He grabs me before I can run to find the door out of the structure. I sense of what mama taught me about do not talk or trust strangers even if they did something nice for you. Strangers all the times will have evil things to do what they want to you. I have my guard up but tire of running from the zombies. “Stop, I’m the one who saved you back there when you were trapped in the fun house.” the tall skinny tan skin color with a pointed nose, and crystal blue eyes white man say as he let me go to stand in front of him for a moment. Shock but ready to listen to the tall skinny tan skin color with a pointed nose, and crystal blue eyes white man.

“Who are you?”

“I’m McCall I’ve been staying here by reason of my clan was doomed in by those no-good undead living. We were all driving back from eating breakfast at a local diner. I drove down a seemingly street going passed this warehouse. When we were getting to the middle of the street, a host of zombies popped out in the street. They made me stop in the street for they mugged the car. They drew all three of my daughters and my wife out of the car to gobble them up. I tried to get out the car to save them, notwithstanding they were too fast.” Rejoinder McCall as I behold the expressing on his face of the deepest signs of homeless saddening pain of losing the ones that he loves the most.

“Who are the little people that were running across the boxes?”

“The people are actual little children that I found and saved them throughout the town. I took them in as my own. Plus, I am training them in parkour by reason of they all need to learn how to outrun zombies.”

“The kids are allowing to live here?’

“Yes, of course you can stay here. There’s plenty of food and clothes here for everyone. Just one thing I ask of you.”

“What is it?”

“In the next room theirs is a room where I stay.”

“Okay.”

“All I ask of you is to never go there unless I invite you to join me in my room.”

“I will never go up to your cabin without you asking me to go to your cabin.”

“Thanks for attempting to my one rule.”

“Thank you for taking me away from the fun house attraction.”

“I will introduce you to the others children.”

As I sense that the day is afternoon, two males’ kids and a female kid climb down from the boxes to stand next to their guardian. McCall introduce me to my new friends. First he introduces me to Chow, an Asian boy who is six years old, a yellow skin color, short, messy, black hair, and a small body. He is kind of shy with golden black eyes. We also are the same height. Chow is wearing a red wool hat, grey baggy sweat pants, a white and blue high school jacket, white sneakers, and a blue long sleeves shirt. “Hey, Chow.” He looks up at me with a red face without saying hey back.

“Hey Chow.” I say again as I reach out my hand to give him a low five. He pulls his hand out of his jacket’s pocket to give me a low five back.

“Hey.”

Then McCall introduce me to Saundra, a slender, lean, seven-years-old chocolate skin color African-American girl with long, dark black hair, hazel eyes, her upper lip is bigger than her bottom lip. Saundra wears black shell toes sneakers, a velvet purple top, and black jeans. She has confident but act like she does not like me. “Hello, Saundra.”

“What’s up? Who are you again?” ask Saundra as she rolls her eyes at me.

My name is Carlos.” I rejoinder as she continues to roll I gape at McCall for a second.

Lastly, McCall introduce me to another boy name Penne, who is nine years old. He is a full-blooded German who can speak very good English. He has curly blonde hair and green eyes, kind of muscular, easygoing, but he can be a real jerk at times. He wears a blue sleeveless sweater vest, a long sleeve blue plaid, dark beige khaki pants, and shoes. “Hello, Carlos.” Penne say as he gives me a high five.

“Hello, Penne?” I rejoinder as I give him a high five back.

“Children it’s time for dinner.”

“You have dinner?” I ask.

“Go to the lunchroom and sit at the dining table.”

Penne, Chow, Saundra, McCall, and I quickly walk out of the larger area of the structure encircle five corners to walk into a huge, green and black tile single floor with four stretch out walls lunchroom. I realize that the abandoned structure is a storage warehouse. We continue to walk into the lunchroom, I behold twenty rectangular benches and tables’ combination all arrange in a longer line. Seven tall, wide, dirty, light green and hazel stained glass windows. Five vending machines with their front windows broken into, three are snack machines, and the other two are soda machines. I also behold an entrance door to the kitchen right behind a sign that read pick the food that you want here. “Come on Carlos. Sit next to me.” say Penne. I run over to the center of the lunchroom where everyone else is sitting at to sit down next to Penne.

“Where are you from, Carlos?” ask Penne.

“My homeland is originally from Puerto Rico, then my mama moved my Soror and me to East Orange to get away from the zombies that first scratch-chomp my homeland.”

“I’m sorry on the other hand what does Soror mean?” rejoinder Chow.

“Soror means sister.”

“What happened to your kin did your kin all get chewed by zombies?” ask Penne.

“You don’t have to react to the inquest. He can be very insensitive at times, I’m sorry.” rejoinder Chow.

“It is okay. Yes; they did get scratch-chomp by zombies. My father was first to get scratch-chomp on in my homeland. Then my soror got scratch-chomp on while we were escaping from the house. Lastly, I had to beheld my mama be stiff-snuff out once she turned into one of the zombies while my mama and I were hiding in her classroom. A swat soldier told me that they were only trying to protect me from her.” I rejoinder as I start to sob but I hold my saddening pain inside.

“Oh. I didn’t know it was that bad. Although hey, it could have been worse, like Saundra’s kin.” rejoinder Penne. Quickly Saundra get up from the table full of tears running almost out of the lunchroom, Chow run from the table to grab her hand before she can leave the lunchroom. She does not turn to face him. Sitting at the table, I sense that my new friends have not been living together for a long time. I think he may have lie to me but McCall seem good in his actions and heart. “That was very hurtful of what he said. Penne needs to say he is sorry to you.” say Chow as they start to walk back to the table. Saundra let Chow’s hand go to run far out of the lunchroom. He walks back to the table sitting next to me.

“I was just joking. She’ll be okay.” say Penne with a stupid smile on his face.

“I am going to find Saundra apologize to her since you are not going to do it.” But by the time I get up, she is walking back to the table. Saundra sit back down at the far end of the table away from us, I tell her.

“I apologize about Penne putting your business out there. I do not sense that he was going to tell me all those things. I also apologize about what happened to your family. I bet they are great people.”

“Thank you, Carlos I needed that, and sorry about your family too.” rejoinder Saundra.

“Thanks.” “Hey, Carlos, do you want to see something real cool tomorrow morning?” ask Penne.

“Yeah, I would.” “Just meet me in front of the lunchroom at 7:00 a.m.”

“What do you want show me?”

“Just meet me tomorrow morning at 7:00am. You coming too Chow?”

“I’ll be there.” rejoinder Chow.

“What is taking McCall so long with the food?”

“He is only one man who can do only this much at one time.” rejoinder Saundra.

“Damn I’m super hungry need to munch on some food.”

After thirty minutes, McCall walk out of the kitchen with an old rusty wheel silver double shelves rolling tray of food. He parks the tray right by the table for easy access to serve all of us. “What did you make for us today?” ask Chow with his eyes widen with merriment.

“I made some three-cheese hamburgers, some baked fries, a big salad, and for dessert. I made sweet banana pudding.” McCall serves us with big silver spoons and tongs. When he finish serving us, McCall goes right into saying a few words over the food. After the few words everyone say amen together.

“Fore we burst out to eat, I would like to welcome Carlos to his new clan.” say McCall. “Welcome, Carlos.” say Saundra, Penne, and Chow together.

“Thanks.”

“There is one more thing I need to show you, Carlos.” say McCall.

I get up from the table with unfair hungry face McCall lead me into the back of the kitchen, where he shows me a door that is block with large and small broken-down kitchen equipment. “This door is barricade to keep out a hulking, zombified creature that I was being chased by, notwithstanding I led him down there. I escaped in time to barricade the door. Never go down there.”

“I will never go down there ever.”

Before McCall and I leaves the kitchen I stop his movement to wrap my arms above his waist sobbing of the realization that I have lost my entire family with a noiseless hugging me back ensuring that I am not alone anymore. I release him from his gentle cling he goes ahead of me out the kitchen as I follow behind him wiping the wetness off my face with my bare right arm. We walk back to the table to munch until we cannot munch anymore. After dinner, Penne and Chow help McCall wash the dishes, while Saundra and I clean off the table for breakfast tomorrow. When Saundra and I finish cleaning off the table, she leads me to a room where all of us are supposed to sleep, since we are both tire. I see that the large room has black concrete walls, two small windows on the far side of the room, thick red carpet on the floor, three sleeping bags scatter encircle the room. There is also a huge pile of sleeping bags at the far corner. As I stretch my arms, Saundra hand me a sleeping bag with a large pillow inside of it. I walk encircle the room for a few moments to find the perfect spot. Once I find the perfect spot, I place my sleeping bag on the floor right next to the window. I behold at the window feeling homesick that I can never go back to my homeland or to my home. I sense that Saundra has cry enough to swallow that there no more of her family left to help her get through whatever this world is supposed to be.

“Why did you choose the window?”

“I chose the window because that where I had my bed before my family escape from Puerto Rico.”

“I wished I could live in Puerto Rico I heard that the island was beautiful.”

“My homeland is great I miss being back home.” Saundra gape at me while I continue to look at the window. She unrolls her sleeping bag to lie in her sleeping bag.

“Oh, okay. Good night, Carlos.” “Great night, Saundra.”

As Saundra is lying down in her sleeping bag, she rolls over to his left side with her sneakers still on her feet. I unroll my sleeping bag, remove my sneakers to lay down inside the bag. My eyes are slowly closing I am fast asleep.