Make It There

With a sigh of relief, I fell onto the sofa and closed my eyes.
Bebe and I found a nice apartment to stay in, since our house is gone. It's much smaller, but it's a great place to live in.
"It's good to be home," I muttered, "even though this home is new."
I heard Bebe giggled. "I'm happy that we are back together."
"Yea..."
"Well, we gotta go shopping for clothes...and a car."
"Oh shoot, I forgot about that." I groaned. "Can we do that later?"
"I'll go shopping then because it is pretty important."
"Oh...then, I'll co--"
The ringing of my phone interrupted my sentence. I didn't have my phone, but Pekka gave it to me when we were about to depart after we landed on the shore.
I reached for it clumsily and pressed the green button to answer. "Hello?"
"I'll leave, you can stay." Bebe left quickly.
"Okay," I called after her, removing the phone from my ear. I pressed the phone back to my ear. "Pekka?"
"Hey, are up for another small adventure?" Pekka asked me.
"Oh no, what?"
"We gotta get Henrik."
"I was about to get him, but then you had to pull me away because Kari was coming. Now you decide to get him?"
"Yea, now that we are out of the HQs and that Kari doesn't know where we're at."
"Ugh, fine, I'll come. Meet you at the harbor?"
"Yea."
"Okay."
I begrudgingly got up and walked to the harbor, which was a good twenty to thirty minute walk. Pekka had to take the train since he doesn't have his truck and he can't fly; I was in no rush.
I waited at the harbor's gate for about ten minutes when Pekka came around.
"Sorry that you had to wait," Pekka apologized.
"That's fine. I had a good walk," I told him.
"Okay then, let's go."
We hopped onto a speed boat and sped over to the island.
"Where the heck is the island?" Pekka asked, looking around his surroundings with narrowed eyes.
"It's over there." I pointed to what seemed like a piece of flat land.
"Wait, that's it?" Pekka looked bewildered. "Where're the buildings? The harbors? The people?"
"I dunno. Let's check it out."
I parked the boat on the ashy shore and got off. "Whoa...what the hell happened here?" I asked with my eyes wide.
In front of us was no longer a huge, white building, but ashes, flames, and rubble, spread out before us.
"I think the island exploded," Pekka told me.
"If the island exploded, we wouldn't be standing on it," I corrected.
"I meant that the buildings exploded."
"Is anyone here, though?" I began to walk carefully, avoiding stepping on glass and sharp items. "Hello?"
No one answered.
"HELLO! ANYONE HERE?!"
"I think it's lifeless. No one's here..."
"No even Henrik?" I turned to look at Pekka.
"Well, I mean, Henrik could've not had survived this destruction and no one's calling back--"
"So you're saying that Henrik's dead?!"
"Well--"
"HENRIK!!!" I screamed out into the void. "HENRIK LUNQVIST ANSWER ME, GOSH DARN IT!!!"
Nobody answered.
"See?" Pekka told me.
I shook my head. "But this can't happned" I felt pressure rising in me. Then an idea came into my mind. "Wait, if Henrik couldn't survive in this, then...Kari's dead. Right?"
Pekka looked at me with his big bright blue eyes.
But he didn't say a word.

To be continued in Through the Dark (TTD)

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