151 The Result of His Experiment to the Girl (1/2)

Day 5 – 5:40 PM – 4th Grade Building, Queens Row Elementary School, Queens Row Area A, Bacoor City, Cavite

Ignoring the guy outside who did not stop from complaining, everything inside the classroom was fine.

Looking around, Mark was surprised and relieved that his close classmates in college chose to join him. He could not help but raise an eyebrow though seeing how Mei was staring at Joan. Still, he could not just chase Joan out since she was very close with Suzanne. Compared to all of his classmates before aside from two people who were the closest to him, Suzanne and Saime came following those two. As for men, he did not have close male friends in college aside from two people and Mar was one of the two.

Why was that? It was because most males in college were unruly and fond of cursing. Mark was not fond of those traits at all and aside from the two who shared some hobbies with him and did not curse too much, he did not like interacting with the others.

Due to his dislike in cursing and swearing people, he was inclined to spend time with females since most females were not as vulgar as males in many ways.

”I didn't expect that all of you will come.”

Mark said when he approached Suzanne and Mar who were sitting side by side talking before Mark entered. These two along with Suzanne's husband, Loreto knew each other even before Mark knew them so it was not surprising to see them talking comfortably. All of it was because the three played the same online RPG game before in high school.

Hearing Mark said, Mar and Suzanne drew up bitter smiles.

”What's wrong?”

Mark asked seeing the two did not immediately reply and only smiled bitterly.

”We were told that it was better for us to come with you.”

Mar said before looking at the others on the other side of the room.

”Looking at the people with you, it seems that what we were told were all true.”

Mar and Suzanne looked at Odelina and the others with a hint of jealousy. Looking at their ragged state after leaving the refugee building and comparing their state to the members of Mark's group, they felt bitter. They looked dirty and did not even take a bath for several days only relying on a bottle of water and a towel a day to clean their bodies. Mark's group on the other hand looked clean as if they were just in an outing. The atmosphere around Mark's group was also good comparing to them who were despairing at their current state.

”By the way, you were told? By who?”

Mark asked.

”We don't know her name. The one who told that to us is a female soldier.”

Suzanne replied.

”Female soldier, it should be Irene I think.”

Mark murmured in contemplation.

He then turned to Saime who was looking after her sleeping son.

”Sai, where are your sisters and brother? Also, your cousin, mother and aunt?”

Mark asked because he knew all of them. Saime's mother was a kind person who let them intrude and spend time at their house even though they were quite a handful bunch.

Saime who was just listening to Mark's conversation with Mar and Suzanne was surprised when she was suddenly asked by him. Then, her complexion turned sad.

”I don't know where they are now. Sarah, Mari Jo and Lemuel went out to shop at PureGold Mall in Molino before the infected came. That's all I know. Mama, Aunt and Yanyan, they're all gone.”

Tears started to drop from Saime's eyes. Rodel, her husband, who was sitting beside her started to console her.

Looking at Saime, the other classmates of Mark also felt sad. Not only Saime lost the member's of her family. They were the same. It was already lucky that they were able to save their partners and children keeping their own family intact.

Mark talked to his college classmates a bit more before he left them. It was strange but Joan seemed to be silent all the while. Mark then noticed that Mei's eyes were boring holes on her all this time. Pulling Mei away, Mark made his way to the men who were with Arvie and Rollan.

There were two men new here at the moment. They were Jason, Arvie's brother and Kevin who was one of Mark's male friends from high school. When Mark was with this group, he felt a little inferior. The faces of these guys were way better than his and yet, these guys hang out with him back in high school. It was only because they went to different colleges that they separated but they still hanged out from time to time until Mark stopped stepping out of his house.

”You two going to join us?”

Mark asked Jason and Kevin.

”Why not?”

Kevin replied. It looked like that these two were not against the idea at all.

”It's surprising though that you became a leader of your own group. Furthermore, it's a group composed mostly of women.”

Jason said while his eyes panned from Mark to the members of his group.

To that, Mark sighed.

”It just came this way.”

That was true. His group just got like this without his control.

As men close with each other, there was not much to be talked about. Kevin and Jason also did not ask about Mei who was closely following behind Mark though she was hiding behind him when Mark approached his male friends. Furthermore, Arvie who came here first had already gathered a lot of things from Mark's group and he had already relayed it to the two lessening the questions to be asked.

When Mark approached the original members of his group, he immediately turned to Melissa who was taking care of the still unconscious girl.

”How is she?”

Mark asked. The state of this little girl was too crucial for him. If the girl did not wake up at all, it meant that his experiment failed miserably.

”Boss, she's fine. Her fever also went down about an hour ago. She's just sleeping right now.”

Melissa replied.

No one however noticed that every time Mark spoke, the little girl's closed eyes would quiver for some reason.

Odelina then relayed what the military planned to do. It was the reason Captain Dela Rosa and Irene were here before Jason and his gang came. As Mark was not here, the squad captain relayed everything to Odelina. According to what he said, after the preparations were finished, everyone would abandon this settlement tomorrow afternoon. Even though they were gathering vehicles at the moment, there were not enough vehicles to transport all the people which had caused the preparations to get delayed. Another issue was that the other squad that was supposed to join them was running late.

'I still have time to prepare then.'

Mark thought as he heard the details.

While Mark was speaking with Odelina, the unconscious girl's eyes slowly opened.

”Boss, she's awake!”

Melissa immediately called out getting everyone's attention towards the poor girl.

The girl opened her eyes and saw all the people she did not recognize looking at her. That was not the main issue however…

”Are you okay? Does anywhere hurt?”

Melissa gently asked the girl who she helped to sit down as the little girl continued to silently pan her sight to everyone. Her eyes landed on Melissa who asked her the question.

”I'm… Not hurt?”

'Why was that a question?'

Everyone lamented. It seemed that something was wrong with this girl.

”What's going on? I think, there's something wrong with her.”

Carlo asked.

”Everyone here can see that there's something wrong.”

Sundra told her boyfriend.

”Is it because of the trauma she received?”