Chapter 34: What should I do?
Jason dropped his bag on the floor.
Gazing at the animated ceiling and windows, Jason's lips were in a straight line, gritting his teeth as if he is restraining himself from being angry. The picture of the swaying tree, and fallen leaves in the wind, on the wall, did nothing to calm his mind.
Why? why had it all come to this kind of conclusion? How come nothing can be done to stop the destruction?
Walking to the minibar in his suite while dragging his feet lazily, Jason felt his body drained.
He is tired of pretending.
Exhaling loudly, he picked up a glass of cold Champagne on the counter.
"Yeah, right. With money, you can buy everything? Let me see if that money can do anything to stop the earth from self-destructing." Taking a sip from his drink, Jason's lips curled into a smirk.
"What is the use of all that money, if all you can do, is stuck here, deep underground with an artificial sky? HAHAHAHA... Pathetic."
Jason's laughter filled the entire suite unit. He laughed for a long time until he cannot hold it anymore, he sobbed.
When Mike was feeling sad, thinking bout their bleak future, Jason has been showing to everyone, that he did not care at all. Like all of these have nothing to do with him.
Jason has been holding in his real feelings in front of his friend, Mike. It's not that he did not care, in fact, he treasured his normal lifestyle, outside of the glamorous military life too. He did care, whether he will be able to see the sunshine on a clear blue sky again or not...
Leaving the lavish lifestyle he had outside, and to take come here, taking cover, living in this underground bunker, where the sun did not shine, where there is no fresh air-- It's pathetic.
It is not a life that he wanted, but he has to live in this way after this because-because, its the only way for him to survive.
"But because I am a coward, I hide in here. Away from the incoming disaster... Hahahaha, Jason oh Jason. What have you become eh? Commander? Commander my ass!"
Jason has been drinking alone and criticizing himself for a while now. He cried, he screamed, he banged his head on the table, he did everything to released his sorrow.
Glass after glass, from champagne to wine, and lastly to whiskeys, Jason was drunk. His snots runs freely down his nose and his cheeks were smeared with tears. Jason continued his drinking, without a care.
He looks like a mess. Mumbling coherently. Jason ended his first night in the bunker, by being drunk indulging in his liquor.
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It was the second day they have been living inside the bunker when all of the displays started showing a broadcast on the San Andreas Fault collapsing.
Seth and Jane who has just woken up was startled when the mirror in front of their bed suddenly changed into an almost transparent colored TV.
"As of 5 am today, the area of the San Andreas Fault collapsing has covered the entire California, with some damage are also reported around Idaho and Wyoming. The Fault finally released its Big One at 3 am this morning. The number of casualties was still under investigation."
The news was just a brief 2 minutes coverage, with some aerial view from Idaho, and also some satellite pictures showing the state of California was in danger of an incoming tsunami.
"Seth, the San Andreas Fault. It has collapsed? Oh, God...So, so, the people here, they are all aware of it, and they fled here for survival?" Jane put her hands on her mouth in disbelief.
She suddenly remembered about their purpose following Jason to this bunker, was to flee from California, away from the possibility of being killed by the San Andreas Fault collapsing.
"There must be at least a million casualties from the collapse. I-I, oh, God." Jane words were cut short, as she seems to run out of words to say.
"Maybe, we don't know the truth yet. The people were already informed to evacuate, so it should have not that many casualties. Luckily, dad did not ignore the warning and had gone back to Toronto." Seth said reassuringly.
"Wait, did Dad went back to Toronto yet? Or is he still in Cali?" At the thought of his Dad, Seth quickly jumped down from the bed and grabbed his phone.
Flustered, by the thought of his Dad might still be in California, Seth tottered along the space between his bed and the sofa.
"Come on, come on... Pick up Dad."
"Try, and call Ben, see if he knew where Dad is now," Jane suggested as she saw the panicking face on Seth.
"Yeah, yeah, Ben, he should know. I am going now."
Stepping out of his bedroom with only his sleepwear on, Seth banged his fist on his brother's door who is also his next-door neighbor, rushingly.
"Ben, Ben wake up!"
"What's the matter?" Hearing the rushing sound from Seth's voice, Ben is expecting to hear some news from his brother.
"Dad. Did you know, if Dad is in Cali or Toronto now?"
"He said last week that he is going back to Toronto this week. I'm not sure if he already in Toronto or not." Ben spoke calmly like it was nothing.
Felt like he is missing something important, Ben looked at his brother panic-stricken face.
Bulging his eyes, Ben grabbed his brother's hand, in disbelief.
Oh my god! How could he forget that his father lives in California? The news he saw just now...
"Dad... do you think he is safe?" Ben asked nervously to Seth.
Seth ignores his brother question, as he busied himself calling his father again. Seth was not sure if the line inside the bunker is bad, or the call really could not be connected at all.
"The line was not even connecting. It went silent for a while, then it got engaged." Seth frowned his forehead, and he looked at Ben with a very worried expression.
It could only mean two things from the sound he heard on the phone.
The first assumption is, his father was somewhere out of coverage, or his father have blocked his number. The man in question is his father, he could have not blocked his number, so it only left him to the first assumption; His father is somewhere out there, that is not within the coverage.
It could mean that he is on the plane, or it could also mean that his father's phone is already disconnected due to the poor coverage.
God, please. Please, let my father be safe. You already taken my daughter. Please, not my father too...
Seth's hand shooked as he kept trying to make the almost-impossible call to go through.
Biting on the nails of his finger, Ben paced around his suite nervously.
"No, no. Dad might be on the plane already. I am sure. No worries." Ben kept on biting his nails, even though he had said those words to Seth.
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