10 plan-2 (2/2)
”Sophia” she was terrified of Sam
”Good, now we need a plan, so any ideas” again they said nothing ” okay then, may some higher being give me strength” the latter part of that was said under his breath.
”One of the major problems we might face is supplies such as food, water won't be a problem unless they shut off the plumbing, there is enough food in the fridge to last one person a month but-,” Sam was cut off by Sophia
”Hold up why is there a month's worth of food in there and how” her confusion was kind of reasonable.
'I dislike shopping in general so I find ways to avoid it and I use shrinking and expansion rune to make more room I would have made even more but my parents forbid that something about me being on the path to becoming a recluse, but moving the food in the fridge may last us the entire emergency if we are careful.
[do you really think that the emergency will last so long that we will have to worry about food]
”Yes causes they don't know what is causing people to become lost much less how to help them, so unless they find out all this before the sun rises tomorrow we will have to worry about food.”
”Well I can help with the food problem by bringing the number of people down to two”
”And how do you plan to do that Sophia,” Sam asked he drawing on his mana in case she tried something.
”My ride will be here soon to take me home,” she said looking at a screen in front of her.
”That won't work,” he told her plainly
”What,” her head snapped towards him ”why wouldn't it”
”When the island enters emergency mode they closed down all rode so the police and military vehicles can move quickly and freely so unless your ride is one of those it isn't coming.”
she slightly deflated before asking” so what do you suggest we do about the food?”
”We ration as much as we can and makeuse of my mother's garden to grow there are seed somewhere in her gardening supplies,” he paused to let them digest this ” another problem is the sleeping arrangements, I can not let you sleep in my parents room or on the coach Tyrone has the only guest room and I don't think you would like sleeping in my room” Sam told them and at once they asked.
[can't she just share a room with one of us]
”What's wrong with your room?”
This is one of the times Sam can see just what effects being a recluse has had on Tyrone as he had no clue about the interactions between the male and female gender or with people in their teens and up for that matter.
”Were to old to share a room Tyrone it would be inappropriate,” he said staring the younger boy in the eyes her hen turn to the female in the room ”and my room is haunted” Sam ignored the surprised looks on the other two faces ”now I think we may have air mattress somewh-” at that moment cut off again
”Your house is haunted!?” Sophia screamed her hands on the table lick she was ready to bolt out the house.
”No, just my room now would you like to see if we can find the ai-”
”Hold boy we need to talk about the ghost, they could kill us in our sleep” She demanded fear lacing her voice.
”There is nothing to fear the ghost won't hurt anyone there my friends and they fear me too much to try anyway” all of what he said was true but he hated the second part but it was necessary to tell them as it would put them at ease for now at least.
”So we have nothing to worry about,” Sophia asked with understandable suspicion.
” Yes, no harm will come to you from the ghost in my room” he wholeheartedly meant that.
”Okay so about the air mattress-” they talked more about there plans like about what they should do if someone broke into the house or if one of them became a lost way to go about their eventual food problem, Sophia' clothing. After that Sam started a conversation about a lighter topic to deal with the tense atmosphere that had settled over them while they ate the food he had made.
As soon as they were done eating Tyrone retreated back to his room the small smile on his face told Sam that he was in a pretty good mood and knew exactly why just because he was now more cautious did not mean he stopped his favorite activity.
While washing the dishes by hand Sophia returned to the couch and pulled up her phone to talk to someone and it didn't seem like it was a happy one.
By the time Sam was done the call was getting a little intense as Sophia was getting quite upset with the person on the other side after he dried Sam walked over into the living room. When she saw him coming Sophia ended her call.
”Should we get started looking for the air mattress” Sam asked her as cheerful as he could (it wasn't much, he wasn't a cheerful person he has seen to much) she nodded her head and they got to work looking for it and ten or so minutes later they found it, but not the cord that went to it.
Sam knew that it was probably in the box of loose cords that was deep in the attic when he told this to Sophia she had this to say, ” know what” throw her hands up ” I'll just share your room it is much less trouble and I am ready to fall asleep on my feet so please point me to bathroom so I can have a relaxing soak and then sleep for a month” her tone made it clear that if he didn't he would feel pain, so he told her where she could find a towel, a sponge, and his bath salts if she wanted some.
After she entered the bathroom, Sam went downstairs and set the house alarm and put up the leftovers, with those things done, he walked into his room he walked to the middle of the room and knelt down placing his left hand on the ground in front of him.
Closing his eyes his hair turned pure ash white like it did in gym class and began to slightly float as an aura the same color as his hair began to emerge from him.
”Hello I know i don't usually talk to you while the sun is up but I need to ask that none of you come out tonight, I have guest I promise to introduce you later but today one of them had a very horrible day and she is staying in my room tonight and she didn't react positively when I told her about you”
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No, I didn't tell her anything specific just that there were ghosts in my room nothing and they were harmless”
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”I know you all are the farthest thing from harmless but I was trying to make her feel better, not worse and I meant you wouldn't attack or anything”
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” don't sass me,”
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” you wanna go, cause I will fight you”
”@-$&/”
” then it is on”
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”Alright fine but we will finish this later, Toby”
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Getting off the ground Sam grabbed his towel and washcloth along with under a t-shirt and a pair of old shorts to sleep in to take a shower in his parent bathroom. When he was done he saw Sophia standing in front of his room.
'Let's get this over with shall we?” she asked to witch Sam just nodded his head and opened his room door.
When Sophia enter the room the sight of it made her regret her choice not enough to change her mind but regret it nonetheless.
Sam's room had a certain theme to it scary, his bed sheets had a blood splatter design to them, his walls were covered in posters for horror movies and monster celebrities some terrifying well done drawing of monsters, on the center of the dresser was a few skulls of different animals and two human all of them had faint lights in their eyes there was a small collection knives on the wall behind the skull on the left were books they were a mix of survival guide, horror stories, cookbook, books .. on how to start your own business. To the right of the skull were a few potted plants no of them look friends heel Sophia got the feeling that they were looking at her, past the plants were trinket like gift shop trinket from many places across the world. His desk was a bit more normal as it was covered with common school supplies but the supplies were in certain like black, red, and grey. The walls and ceiling weren't so bad when you first looked at them just pure black, but a closer look showed that slightly different shades of black were used to create very detailed predators all looking at the bed. When she took all this in Sophia could not help but feel a chill go down her spine.
”You can have the bed,” Sam said bringing her out of her thoughts on his room.
'What huh? no thanks, I wouldn't want to impose more than I already have” that was half true she didn't think she could sleep in that bed without nightmares.
”No it's fine you need it more than I do, I have slept on worse and sometimes I don't even sleep in the bed so it's fine,” he told her as he rummaged through his closet and pulled out another comforter this one had police tape and skeletons on it.
He wasted no time walking over to the center of the room before cocooning himself in the comforter and then dropping on the ground. ”Goodnight”
Sophia had nothing to say, she just shook her head and climbed into the bed but her eyes didn't close she stares at the ceiling until she found the predator directly above the bed and then she turned on her side closed her eyes and tried to get some sleep.
In his cocoon Sam was wide awake which his hearing raised to the point he could hear Sophia heartbeat, he stayed awake until he heard her heartbeats slow to its sleeping rate.
Sam let out a sigh of relief seeing that she was able to fall asleep, he then raised his hearing to see what Sam what Tyrone was doing and he could hear the clicking of keys so that meant he was on his computer that he set up soon then Sam thought he could.
”I guess he faster at it then I thought” he whispered before he drawled on his mana to draw a rune, the sleeping rune ύπνος, just like he did on nights like this. Nights he knew he needed all the sleep he could get but wasn't likely to get it.
When the rune was finished it turned to beautiful golden sand that Sam let fall on his face, when the first grain hit his face he felt he eyelids gain a mountain with of weight and by the time the last grain hit him he was already on his way to the kingdom of dreams.
{he is doing better than I thought he would I guess I will have to speed things up a bit} a voice rung out from everywhere at once.