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This Means War

"Oh. I uh- I don't know." I grabbed my can of food and almost dropped it in the process, wiping my hands on my pants from the burn.
"Hot, huh?" Spencer snickered as he popped some granola into his mouth. I rolled my eyes and grabbed the can with the edge of my shirt, getting back on topic.
"I don't think it's like the old days anymore. Can we just leave and go home? They've gotten a little more strict. But I'm willing to sneak home if you guys are. I miss my mom." I admitted.

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I felt bad that we'd left so many people behind. But we couldn't help them all. We had to save out own butts. We couldn't have saved them. It just wasn't possible... I don't think.
"Yeah... Glad we got out when we did." I nudged at my stew with my foot, pushing it closer to the flames. "Welp. When should we head out in the morning?" I asked, changing the subject.

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"So, is everyone good?" I asked. "That was a helluva hike through the woods." I cracked a smile and scooted towards the fresh fire Joe and Em had made.
I placed my stew near the edge of the fire in an attempt to heat it up. No one likes cold food... Even if you are running for you life in the woods.
"Glad we're safe now though. I couldn't bare to stay there any long-" I heard very faint explosions in the distance. Gunshots could also be heard if you were quiet enough. What I was hearing had to be coming from camp. The small invasion of our previous base had begun.

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"We got our hands on some fruit, canned soup, canned stew, canned sardines, found a few bags of jerky, aaaand." Em began to trail off as she pulled food from the bag and sat it down on the ground "That's it. Unless Spencer grabbed more in his bag."
"I grabbed cookies, bread, peanut butter, and crackers." Spencer spoke up. "Choose whatever you like." He smiled.

I sat my bag down and I listened to the foods being listed off. I turned my nose up when I heard the mention of sardines. Those were always gross and they smelled horrible. Everything else sounded decent. "Could you toss me a can of stew? Beef stew if you have it." I took a seat and watched as a can of soup rolled my way, stopping at my feet.

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"Alright. That's fine with me." I nodded. I stopped in my tracks and spun in a slow circle, looking for a decent place to make camp. It all looked the same to me. Nothing significant looked like it could help us. A cave or something would be great cover for the night, but I had no clue if we'd be able to find one or not.
"We've got a little somethin' over here." Nina said after a few minutes of searching. She nodded over towards an area surrounded completely by trees. Most of which had branches that almost touched the ground. It was almost like a weeping willow. "That should cover us for the night." She said with a smile. "Unless someone found somethin' better."

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"Cam we take a break?" Spencer asked. "I'm starving." He groaned, wrapping an arm around his stomach. His sisters rolled their eyes, looking to Joe, then back to Spencer.
"Spence, we've only been walking for two or three hours and we've taken two breaks already. Let the Plan Man call the shots. If we're good, then you gotta keep going." Joe explained.
No one looked too famished, but it would be getting dark soon. I looked up to the sky to see it turning different shades of burnt orange, dark blues, light purple, and a few other colors I couldn't quite see. I always loved watching the sunset, but it wasn't easy to see through the trees.
"We're going to be losing daylight soon." I said to Sam. "Maybe we should take a break and set up camp... But if you think we can go for another hour, lets keep going."

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"I don't see them anywhere." I frowned. "We really needed them for this. They had the rest of the supplies that would help us survive out here." We'd been searching for almost ten minutes. A lot longer than we were supposed to be looking for them. "I guess we should get go-"

"Pssst. Hey!" A girls voiced hissed. I jumped, not knowing if that was a guard or them. I looked over my shoulder to see all four siblings making their way over. "We got the stuff!" Em was waving and smiling enthusiastically through the fence. Spencer was pushing the others through. Their bags were huge and hopefully filled with everything we needed. "You guys ready to go?" She began to climb through the hole once her siblings were in.

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I held my breath as I heard the guards nearby. They were searching for us but they'd never find us. Not unless one of them knew about the hole in the fence, which I doubted. The minutes that went by felt like hours before they left. But once they did, I let out a sigh of relief and reached into my pocket for my inhaler. I took two puffs and put it back.
"Now." I said after I collected all of my thoughts and my breath. "You're right. We can't wait forever." I hated to leave them. "So let's search for a few minutes and hope we see them or hope they come through that fence. If not, we're outta here."

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"I haven't seen them. They might be hiding though. We'll wait for them for a few minutes if we don't see them." I huffed and puffed as I quickly jogged towards the nearby trees. They could conceal us for the time being.
"Shit." I mumbled. "I can hear the guards getting closer." I quickened my pace until I was behind a big oak tree. I pressed my back against it's trunk and tried to control my breaths. I wasn't sure if they'd be able to hear me or not.

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I nodded, ducking down and moving small branches out of my way as I crawled through the bushes and through the hole. We'd still need to hide once we were behind the fence. Luckily, there were plenty of trees we could hide behind.
"Come on! Hurry up!" I hissed between hard breaths as I hopped to my feet. A small part of me was worried he wouldn't make it, but I knew he would. He had to. I held my hand out to him, waiting for his reach so I could pull him in. Time was the only thing that we had and it was quickly running out. The guards would be here soon.