chapter 8

N/A: I know that many will say that it's a little hasty the jump of time of 3 years, so I will tell you that the previous chapters were only the introduction of the characters and Richard doesn't have an important role, or anything for that reason along the chapters I made them give indications with the little contribution of him, so that they don't complain if their character appears from time to time.

*? sound ?

(Time Jump)

It has been 3 years since I attended Sara's birthday party, it really was a wonderful day.

But everything good always has an end, mine was Sara's departure, I really believed that we would never be separated, that the three of us would be together, her, me and Richard.

But I was only naive with the departure of Sara, Richard and I because we were not as close as we were when Sara was here.

We are still best friends, but the amount of time we spend is less and less as we grow.

*? sigh ?

I still remember when Sara left, it was a sad day for me. It was when she left that I just discovered my feelings towards her.

You don't really know what you have until you lose it and I very much agree with that saying, I didn't really know what Sara was to me until she left.

Day after day, my life became black and white after Sara's departure, but Elsie and her little daughter Abie were the little ray of light which warmed my aching heart.

The little ball of tenderness, which was Abie, was what mostly brought me comfort and now after 3 years, I find myself at my birthday party.

-Blow out the candles," Alan said.

Today was Ethan's 15th birthday and over the course of the three years Ethan finally grew up, really pulled himself up from a height of 1.58 to 1.87.

Now he was taller than his father, the weak body he had became an explosive and compact body, which was similar to his father's and his face, as Elsie always told him that he had the face of an angel, even after his year of growth.

Elsie over the course of the 3 years was like a mother to Ethan. Really, Ethan was very grateful to her.

-Happy birthday Ethan and more.

-Yes, brother Ethan, happy birthday.

I congratulate Ethan on the mother-daughter duo.

Thank you Aunt Elsie and little Abie, Ethan spoke before blowing out the candles on the cake. In the little room right now there were only 4 people, Richard was helping his father and with respect to the other young people in the village.

Well, Ethan was not very sociable and that is why since always or at least 2 years ago the only people who came to his party were Richard and Sara, and it was because Ethan preferred to be in a good company rather than a bad company with the other young people who would only attend out of obligation and not because they wanted to be his friends.

Some of them are even just friends with the future village chief, who is a real leech.

The good thing, and Ethan's greatest achievement, was that he finally discovered what those coordinates were on the paper and why he thought they were coordinates because he discovered them when he was playing with Alan's globe.

At first, nothing made sense, but once he saw some maps of the areas that came out on the globe, he knew just where he was.

The location was on the outskirts of the racoon city, in the wasteland, where only the poor were.

As Ethan knew, he asked his father, who had been to the city before.

Making Ethan think about leaving town without thinking about it today, which prompted him to do so, was nothing more than what his father told him.

He was a very curious person who would leave the village when he could, so there should be no problem if he left the village for a few days.

"I don't think anything will go wrong."

It was now very dark, Alan was sleeping in his room and elsie and her daughter abie[CM1] had already gone home and Richard.

Well, he didn't want to because his only friend in the village was in trouble, so the thought didn't cross his mind.

Well...all set, backpack with some clothes and food.

All set, Ethan told himself before running out of the house, leaving only a paper note telling his father not to worry.

I only hoped that his father, not bothered by what he did, really hated leaving his father alone, but wanted to go to the city and the coordinates and the place he found macado once he deciphered it.

They were just an excuse to go, their main objective was to see how the city really was and see what new books there might be in that so-called library.

He was well-known, as his friends called him a bookworm or in his case a book mouse.

Everyone was saying the same thing to Ethan, but he didn't really care about that, books provide intelligence and experiences of writers.

The trip to the racoon city would take 2 days. It would be faster if he left in his father's car, but that would really cause problems for Alan, so Ethan decided to be considerate since it was already very selfish to leave the village, leaving his father, just for his selfish idea of seeing the city.

I would spend those two days traveling until I reached the city of the raccoon city,

The first few hours of walking, Ethan had a wonderful time, he didn't really get tired, but after a while, he was sweating all over the place.

The one who lived all his life on a mountain did not walk much and his leg muscles were not used to it, so he had little resistance to long walks.

"Well, let's rest," Ethan said to himself before sitting down on the dusty floor to drink water and eat what he had brought.

*? grunt ?

As if Ethan's stomach understood, once he sat down, it began to ring for food, he had spent the whole night walking and the sun's rays were already rising over the horizon.

A beautiful view, which Ethan loved to see every morning.

Once recovered and eaten, Ethan continued his journey on the road on foot, cars passed by the road, but Ethan did not ask for a ride, his father told him not to trust strangers, so he did not.

The heat was more extreme than before. For someone who lived all his life on a mountain where his main problem was cold, it was very hot for Ethan, so he decided to take off his shirt to continue walking.

There were several girls who wanted to take him, but Ethan resigned himself to continue walking, after a hard and tortuous couple of days walking, Ethan finally arrived at the raccoon city, it was very different than he imagined.

He didn't know anything about what was there, there was backward technology in his village, compared to tiny, thin boards with which they seemed to talk.

They seemed to be similar to cell phones, but they didn't really have buttons and Ethan was confused about that part.

"How to call or dial numbers if they don't have buttons"

"How strange"

"Well, I'm here now"