We all just sat in silence.
Miss Lui sent a text message to some of her friends and family.
Jane called her father while driving but they couldn't talk for long since he had to hang up. He seemed to be extremely busy as a trauma surgeon in the hospital.
She also called up her mom, but she replied with a text message that she would call her later.
I wasn't worried much about her mother as much as I was worried about her father who was dealing with multiple injured people who potentially might be infected. It was possibly very dangerous.
Frank left a message for his dad too and Rim did the same.
Sadly, until we reached my home I had no way to contact my parents since they were most probably doing their 'job'.
On the way we ran into another school bus right in front of us, it wasn't from our school but some other.
This school bus seemed to be carrying quite a lot of people. But for some reason, they weren't moving from the middle of the street.
We wondered if there was something in front of them, but it didn't seem like it.
We were afraid of making excess noise, so we refrained from honking.
Luckily enough they did seem to notice us.
After a few seconds a light brown-haired guy of my age, a woman in her 50s, and a brunette of my age.
The old woman and that guy seemed to be in charge of the group.
They knocked at our door asking us to talk to them.
We opened the door but I told Frank to keep his guard on.
"What do you want?" I jumped straight on the point without giving them chance to talk dumb shit since we needed to save as much time as possible.
The guy was clearly angered, don't know why but I could judge from his face.
"We need you to bring the people on our bus to their homes," said the guy with not even a hint of stuttering.
"Huh!? what kind of bull shit are you talking about" Chloe burst out, as blunt as possible.
"Our bus ran out of gas so we need you to" the guy repeated with a hint of anger and frustration under his voice.
The women with him didn't stop him but they clearly weren't happy with him.
I sighed "we heard you, but what do we get doing that?"
"What do you mean!!? shouldn't we be helping each other!?" the guy argued.
"Uhh, that isn't really helping 'each other' if we are the ones giving you a lift-" concluded Jane with a smile.
"YOU GUYS! have the means to help those people and you are going to just leave them!!?" his anger was definitely about to burst.
"What the heck- we are currently barely surviving and you want us to help others!? also, where am I supposed to drop those people? It's not like you can be sure that their homes will be alright and they will survive once I leave them."
"So then PROTECT them!" the guy practically yelled.
The two women tried calming him down.
"Listen, I don't have time for shit like protecting and helping randoms who aren't gonna even help me out in any way. I already have a team I can trust. At most, we can siphon a bit of gas to you guys if you trade with us some food or clean water." I said as I was pretty sure clean water might become quite important in a few days.
"We- we don't have any-" the guy said with embarrassment.
They have at the very least, more than 20 people on their bus, and they don't have any food or water!
"Actually we wanted to ask you for that too-" the old woman said as she pointed to the small heap of food and tetra packs on the seats of our bus. it was the loot we managed to get from the cafeteria.
"Did you guys even plan on surviving a few more days? we practically risked our lives for that food!" I said as I was kinda surprised when I heard that. But the more I thought about it the more normal it felt. They probably just thought of surviving this day first and then thinking about the future.
"We- just-" he tried answering but I cut him off
"Get off the bus, while we talk about what we should do so that we don't do dumb stuff like you-"
The trio left the bus and we shut the door behind them. the guy was certainly very angry as his clenched fists were very visible. the other two just seemed to be disappointed.
"So are you really planning to give those bunch of idiots our gas?" Chloe asked with a bit of an irritated look.
I sighed in reply "Just a tad bit, we should probably be fine even after giving them some, but how we do that is the bigger question, because we can't let them handle our bus-"
Frank raised his hand "Actually we put all the gas cans we could find in the bus." he said as he pulled out a gas can full of a gallon of gas.
"How many do we have?"
"4 more if we give this one away."
"Problem solved" I nodded with a bit of satisfaction because technically speaking we were potentially saving quite a lot of people.
Rim who had been quiet for a while now took a different stance, "I think we should help them out, Frank has a lot of guns right? maybe we could give some of them to"
Luckily Jane decided to butt in since I don't really like arguing with Rim "what the hell Rim!?"
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