Chapter five

Julia heads on upstairs as they hear a sudden scream from outside, "it is a lady being dragged by her hair by four armed guys."

Julia runs down, and Robert stops her. They are not alone. He says as they look out of the window, there are three vans following behind them, driving on 20km they heavy-armed.

Julia now looks over to Robert "what is happening?"

"They are killing people due to limited food resources."

But why? There is not enough to go around since the economy is a mess because of the pandemic.

"So? What are we going to do? We cannot hide out here forever. We will need to get food supplies?"

"I know, says Robert, and we will get food supplies. We need to wait till everyone thinks calms down."

They now go upstairs to check on Kathy. She is still asleep. But she got to color in her face looking much better than earlier.

Julia now sits by Kathy's, running her fingers through her hair, looking out the window she could see into the neighbor's house.

She then saw the women folding washing in the opposite room.

The woman could not see her because she had a net over the window.

"Spying on the neighbor said Robert,"

"No, says Julia" she walks over to close the curtain. She then looks down and sees four vans stopping by the neighbor's Robert. She whispers, yes?

The same van dragging the lady down the road is back again.

A guy climbs out who has blue jeans and an army Jacket, short black hair, dark tanned looks like he's in his mid-twenties. He then points to the window as they look up and start unpacking guns as six other guys are all armed.

He walks to the door, "we must warn her, Robert. She has a baby in the house."

Julia takes her firearm. "We do not have enough ammunition."

Wait, the baby is this weekend with Ryan, says Julia, but we should still warn her.

If you do that, they will come for us also. "Julia looks through the curtain as the guys threw MS. Julie Ann on the bed."

Julie Ann is screaming and trying to break loose as the one guy takes a butcher knife and starts hitting her continuously with a blade. Julia's eyes are teary as she witnessed how Ms. Julie Ann is beaten up and cut to such severity that blood has covered her face.

Those people are heartless as Robert grabs Julia from the back, holding her mouth keeps quiet. They are looking towards this house. "Julia is angry and wants to kill them," but she now considers Kathy.

"Keep quiet," says Robert. They will see us; " I wish they would see us so I can give them a taste of their own medicine."

"They are cowards. How could they do that to her."If there were not so many of them, Kathy now walks into the room                                                                               Mommy and Daddy, why are you on the floor Robert crawls over to her we are playing hide and seek.

"Do you want to play with us?" Yes, says Kathy rubbing her eyes; Robert whispers in her ear as Kathy laughs and climbs under the bed.

Julia looks out of the window as she watches the guys climb into their cars, "the one guy keeps looking up. It is as if he can see someone" Kathy climbs out and runs to the window.

He then sees Kathy and winks climbing into the car and not making the other guys aware he knows they are there.

"Do you think they will come back?"Julia shrugs her shoulder.

We must prepare for the worst, she says. "I saw the look in his eyes, and that was not just a look of forgetting we are here; it was a look of evil."

What do you mean, says Robert? Julia looks at him. They are coming back later.

"How do you know that?"

I served in the military, and I was a former agent. Julia now stands up and goes downstairs. Where are you going?

"Prepare for the worst" Kathy follows her Mom and Dad downstairs. She is hungry, Robert, please warm her that food I made is in the fridge.

Julia goes down to the basement as she takes out a sledgehammer and hits the concrete ground. Robert enters the basement.