"How dare that man abandon me and his daughter. He left us alone and he ran by himself. How dare he, how dare he "I'm very close to Jessica so I listen to all her complaints while Maria walks beside me in silence.
Jessica is hurt by what happened to her husband that is good and the good
I look towards Keisuke who reluctantly listens to his wife's complaints. All the time he's pouting
"Daughter you don't want to come with dad" Keisuke raises his arms hoping to receive a hug
Maria closes her arms awkwardly she is not happy with her father and with her just looking at him I know. He grabbed her hand and squeezed it.
"You seriously don't come with your father"
"No. She wants to be away from you" I tell her
"How dare you"
"I dare" I say
"Hey stop fighting and yelling at each other" Danna "You guys are drawing attention" Danna yelled at us and I stopped fighting but Keisuke didn't
"This bastard interferes with my daughter and me. And also with my family. If you don't shut up I'll shut you up" Keisuke said yelling
Keisuke is nervous and tense about the situation. He should calm down because later it will be much worse. I assure
"Shut up" Danna says and Keisuke faces her but when she gets closer. Just take a step back in fear keisuke took two, three steps back in fear
"Shut up and we'll continue" Danna says and she and Jessica walk through the building we head towards a shopping center where we just have to cut inside and we'll be at the station. We are really close to our destination
"You're just a cuckold" When the old man passes me he says that in my ear
He looked at the floor for a while and smiled. Apparently I shouldn't feel bad about what I'm going to do to this idiot
The wind blows in the street so much wind that I lift the garbage from the floor. And brought it to my feet. Maria closed her eyes as she saw the dead in the street. Although this time there are fewer apparently the further we go there are not fewer bodies. There shouldn't be any bodies around the police station.
I counted the bodies from afar and there are ten bodies few compared to before. She bent me down and looked at Maria. She is only two years younger than me but still. Maria is short of very short stature. Maria reaches my shoulders a little lower. She trembles as she has her eyes closed apparently she is scared
"Open your eyes. Look at me" María trembles and shakes her head
"Please beautiful. Look at me" I tell her and she looks at me with a red face
"We are going to cross this street. I need you to look at me"
"Yes, but" María moves her feet uncomfortably
"I will carry you in my arms"
"Uh" Maria isn't comfortable but she still pulls her body closer to me. Her head settles on my chest and she grabs her waist. It is a small waist but her body is comfortable hug her body. Maria let me hug her body and grabbed her legs and carried her like a princess
"Hey, let go of my daughter" Keisuke yelled
But I didn't let her go, "lie on my chest" I tell Maria. Maria places her head on my chest
"Hey let go of my daughter son of a bitch" Keisuke approaches me angrily
"What a tough face you are, your daughter after leaving us, don't make me laugh"
"But wife-"
"No don't say just shut up. You ran from that moment you can't say anything."
"But he is a stranger"
"I'm not interested" Jessica speaks before following Danna
"Son of a bitch." Keisuke clenches his fists.
"You didn't listen to your wife" Keisuke gets angry but I don't pay attention and walk down the street
The ground asphalt is hard but soft is rare. Maybe I can tell by the soles of the shoes. With everything that has happened the soles are worn out. Maria is not heavy in fact she is very light. Sometimes I don't feel her in my arms but thanks to her breathing I notice her presence
"Forgive keisuke" Maria tells me and I look at her. Maria hides her head on my chest. "He's just mad." I don't say anything and he walks past a car that hit a pole. On the floor I find a bag with money. It is a bag with some money on the man who is lying on the ground.
Wait I look at the man and notice that he has that jacket from Nertudes and they even have a necklace. Looks like an ID badge grabbed that person's neck. Not without first looking at Danna and the group are far away from me. So I don't think they notice. He broke the necklace and took the money. It's a lot more money than I initially thought
"Maria, under no circumstances look to the sides"
He grabbed the bag of money and with a quick movement I put it in my briefcase. The front of the car has blood and another body. He's got blood on his head, maybe a gunshot.
She squeezes my chest a lot and my feet tremble. These last days when I look at a dead man I tremble
I catch up with the group and notice that Jessica is trembling too as she walks
"Hey, are you okay?" Keisuke approaches his wife
"Do not get close to me. Worry about yourself"
"But you're my-"
"Don't talk I don't want to talk to you not now" Jessica is still shaking and when she looked at her eyes. Jessica avoids looking at the blood and bodies on the floor. Although there are less now it's not a pretty scene to see
"Please" Keisuke wants to grab Jessica's hand but she won't let him and dodges his hand
She raises her hand "Don't touch me. I just want to get out of this place."
Jessica walks into the mall and I walk in behind her. I put Maria down and she fixes her clothes
Her father doesn't even try to get close and he just follows Danna
We meet in a part of the mall.
"Kenji, how much food do you have?"
Since it's only been a few hours I have enough food but I can't show my backpack
"I have enough food"
"Okay. Even so, it's time to prepare food, so we'll bring canned food. Or things easy to store in backpacks. But don't overfill her bag. We separate but since we are six. Nana you will go with me, Kenji you will go with Maria and Jessica will go with-"
"I'm not going with Keisuke" Jessica says immediately
"So Maria" Maria denies and hides behind me
"Hah, seriously. I will go with Keisuke. Don't forget Keisuke you will go alone but you will only look at a small part of the mall. Then the three of us will go together. Well now we will establish a plan. A shot" Danna looks at the shots of the mall, well Kenji you and Maria will be on the left while Jessica will also be on the left but Jessica you will be in the cinema area. Everything is zone" Points to the entire zone
"It's fine but by myself and if I find someone"
"You're close to Kenji and your daughter so if you scream they'll hear you. Even if he takes a gun
Jessica shakes her hands "I don't know how to shoot a gun"
"Uh. That is a problem but we cannot mobilize more people or you three will go together"
"Okay," Jessica says and Maria squeezes my arm. she lowers her head
"I don't agree" Keisuke opposes the idea
"I will not go with you, I prefer to be with María than with you"
Keisuke turns red
"Once we have established our plans, we will not separate to look for food and other things, and Jessica your group will still look at the supermarket near the cinema. Just in case we need some food"
we all look at each other
"OK, let's go"
Danna says and we all split up. The big mall has several floors and several stores some of them were looted and there are no dead people so there is just a desolate air in the mall. On the map they gave us there are some areas where we should go. There are only three places with better food, three supermarkets, what you give are other entertainment centers or restaurants. We passed them by and only headed towards the first supermarket closest to us. But at some point Jessica separates from us and heads to a coffee shop. Maria and I were taken aback but I reluctantly followed her
"What are you doing?" asked
Jessica smiled at me and I followed her inside where she went into the kitchen.
"When I was young I used to work in a coffee shop" Jessica started to make a coffee skillfully operated the machine and made a cappuccino
"At the time I was in my country it was…it's not a pretty place. It's still open. That was years ago "She looks down at her" The good thing is that she knows how to handle all these machines to make coffee. What do you want?" She asks me
And I don't know what to say
"I prepare it"
"Then I want a cappuccino"
Jessica smiles