2 1. ''THEY'RE COMING''

I put on my jacket and after that, did one last touch of my ballerina bun hair. While hanging my perforated diaper bag on my arm, I carefully opened the half-broken wooden door so as not to wake my mother and siblings. The sun had not yet shown its face, the surroundings were as quiet as a graveyard

I turned my steps towards the forest, where the vegetation was destroyed, and I started to move rapidly to that way. I was waking up early every day and going to the lake which is a little further from the forest. Sometimes I was hunting birds with a slingshot because I couldn't catch anything from the lake.

I pulled out my fishing rod, which was not very large, from my cloth bag. I hung dead worms I found by digging through the ground a few days ago to my hook.

I spent my time to fishing by the lake until noon, today I should have been on my lucky day because I caught totally five fish. I immediately wrapped my fishing line and put it back in my bag. There were three people in the home to be fed, so I needed to be hurry. I rescued the last trapped fish on my fishing rod and hung it upside down on an iron hook, which is a relic from my father. Fishing was the thing that my father taught me while I was a kid. I was feeling really sorry for those fishes when my father catched them... I was always sorry for these poor animals, they were dying for to make us alive. But this was the law of nature.

Big crushes the little one.

Just as strong countries exploit the weak ones.

"Give the animals time to breed, soon you will run out of their generations, Alya." I was smiling when I turned my head to the velvety voice coming behind me. He was watching me while his shoulder leaning against a tree and his arms crossed over his chest. I glance at him carelessly as his dark brown eyes swirl over me. His wheat skin looked pale, his copper-colored hair was tied together and looked dirty. He was wearing jeans and a black T-shirt. The black leather jacket he wore was worn, but still it looked good on him. "If they don't run out, we'll do." I said. "I don't know about you, but I'm already exhausted." He said, in a smiling face.

Instead of looking at him while laughing, I continued to be busy with the fishes. "How long have you been here?" He asked. "Dawn hadn't come yet." I replied, while taking the fishes I hung upside down in my left hand to right, I started to move towards it. He was always more cheerful, but despite the jokes he made today, he looked sullen to me. "What's the problem?" I asked as I frowned.

I hadn't seen him like this for a long time, I inevitably felt bored.

"Nothing." I started moving towards the end of the forest without waiting for him. "Don't lie to me because you can't doing it well." Then he started walking like I did. He itched his neck and turned his face to me.

"They're coming." He said, as he look directly into my eyes.

I was feeling had a shot on the brain, I stopped walking and started to stand where I was. I knew who was coming, so I moved on to the main question. "How do you know?"

Deeply, I didn't even want to get the answer to the question I asked. "We may have reached the end of the world, but the year is 2042. I still keep my phone, somehow I learned.'' He said. A few people in the town had phones, and one of them was my best friend. I was trusting him but still, while I was shaking my head to both sides, I didn't want to admit that was true.

He crossed over and grabbed both of my arms and said, "Look." As I turned my eyes on him, I suppressed the hundreds of thoughts floating in my mind and started listening to him. "I'll get out of here tonight, take your family and come with me. You know how cruel the occupiers are, Alya, we've seen it before." As I free my arms from him, I was surprised by his selfishness. "We will run away, and what about the people here? All those children, women, babies... They are going to kill all of them and rape our womens and make their own slaves. Even now, will you turn your back, Tan?"

"We can't save everyone!" When he roared, I heard some birds take off from where they were. I was trying to figure out what to do while my eyes filling. "We have to let everyone know, nobody should stay in the village, do you understand? I will not leave anyone behind." I insisted.

On the contrary, I knew we could save everyone. At the very least, they deserved to be given an opportunity to save themselves.

Tan looked at me in disappointment, then turned away and and went out of the forest.

After a while he left, I stopped standing where I was and started to move forward.