Safe house

"What's wrong Aura?" She looked at me with so much confusion that I was so perplexed to answer.

"Didn't you see Kaz here?"I asked her, I didn't know what happened, just a while ago, he was hugging me so tight, I was afraid of losing him, I needed him, I needed someone to talk to, Not that I can't say, Rose, I wanted Kaz to comfort me.

"you were sleeping" She shook her head and held my shoulders with both her palm and then it hit me, I was dreaming, I was in my dreamland.

"No, no, no no, this is wrong" I sobbed, I really wished he was here, I felt really bad that it was only a dream, I didn't want it to be only a dream, I believed it was true.

"there, there, Relax" she hugged me and I sobbed on her shoulders, why did everything had to happen to me?

"What happened?"It was Mille and she was rubbing my back, I was really lucky to have people like them, But it felt really incomplete without Kaz after the dream, I needed him!

"Hey, Aura?" It was Vii and I stopped sobbing and looked at him with my tear-stained cheeks

"I'm sorry for my part, I feel bad" he sat down beside me and offered me some comforting words which I didn't want to hear. Who else would I blame on?

"I'm hungry" I ignored his apology and stood up, and Rose followed me, she nodded in response

"There's good food here, follow me," Mille said and she walked towards the entrance we came through and turned sharp left.

We were; looking at a big ready-made food blue coloured vending machine which was so huge, that I almost lost my balance looking at it. the neon colours which were in the shape of a box illuminated the food inside, and there were almost 100 boxes like that and it would take me a year to read the details of the food.

and every box had a small box within it, which contained the information about the nutritious value and from what the food was prepared.

"My father was supposed to eat all this?"I wasn't humourous, I was just curious.

"I told you this was supposed to be a safe house, we need to bring people here, and the trees here are the resources, the energy is obtained by never-ending Air, so this is inexhaustible food resource and they never get spoiled," She told and marched towards the vending machine

I walked towards the Vending machine and I pressed the button which said, "press me to give you the food you want".

it showed me a few options at first, an orange coloured neon bubble appeared on the screen with so many options like, "veg", "non-veg", "mixed".

I pressed Mixed, I didn't want to eat vegetables, even if I am depressed. and I wasn't sure about eating non-veg.

another orange bubble appeared, with another set of options such as, "spicy", "sweet", "salty", "sour", "chilled" etc.

"so, are we playing choose game?" I asked them and Vii smiled for the first time in the day, I'm glad he was okay with talking or even reacting to me after the things that had happened.

"you pressed it Aura, you could've just gone and pressed the food number you want, by reading the charts," Rose said, Impatiently and I realised she was also hungry.

"come here and see the options, so you can decide soon" I offered and she inched near me without any hesitation.

I chose spicy since I was really interested in eating something spicy in this chilly weather.

the next orange bubble appeared with a list of few food names and I choose something random since I wasn't interested in taking time again, Rose was already hungry.

"go to the far end, that is where food appears," Millie told me, and I was really happy that I at least have something to explore and think about, rather than pondering into the past, which hurts me so much...

I walked to the end of the vending machine and I heard electronic beeps and rumblings, I knew food was going to be dry but it would fill my stomach

the food arrived and I never expected It to be so good, even to look

"They have a chef hidden inside, don't they?" I shouted from the far end and Vii looked confused, and I was really curious, and I wondered whether the machines could actually do this, I kept the food in the vending machine table and walked behind, examining the broadest vending machine I've ever seen, it could fit hundreds of people inside, let alone make hundreds of food varieties.

the machine beeped again and I realised Rose had finished her order. I couldn't believe the machine prepared food so fast that it outpaced Rose's thoughts of choosing a dish.

"OH MY GOD" Rose mouthed and looked at the astonishing and the best-garnished momos coming out from the machine, We looked at us, confused about why we were so surprised.

We both walked towards the chair which was placed downstairs, I took the noodles hot into my mouth and it was the best noodles I've ever tasted. The egg and meat were perfectly boiled, and the vegetables could not taste any better!

"do you like it?" I asked Rose who was sitting opposite to me.

"shh, don't talk" she hushed me, and she relished every bite of her food, and I knew even the words can't explain any better

And I knew I was concerned about the immaterial things when everyone else outside of here, was suffering from no food due to the virus outbreak, but the depression is so hard to take, I needed a break and this provided it.

Food makes everything go fine.

and I saw some figure enter the place, I couldn't see because of the far-stretched place which extended for so long

I guessed it must be Millie's partner since nobody else would be possible knowing about this place.

But what if we were exposed?