Mom I'm Hungry!

hiding and starving

"Mom I'm Hungry!" 😭

Tono said that sentence in a sob, that little pale skinned boy had been holding his hunger since two days ago.

"Wait for daddy to come home dear, mommy is hungry too!"🤗

Tono's mother, Marie tried to calm her young child.

“What if dad doesn't come home tonight, tomorrow or in a month? Are we really going to die?”😔

Tono wishing, his mind was still unstable and filled with dark imagination unlike other young children

"That won't happen dear, we know daddy loves us more than anyone"

Once again Marie calmed her son down.

Mr. Becky has not come home for 2 days. Since the time of the pandemic, food is very difficult to find. Even if he manages to get food, what he gets is very little and will not be enough to meet the nutritional needs of his family. It is one of the responsibilities of a family head, to carry all the members on the shoulders. They live in an old building that has been abandoned since 3 years ago. There is only Mr. Becky as a father, Marie as a mother and Tono as an only child. In addition to food problems, they also have problems with housing ownership. Since they lived in a building illegally without anyone's permission, they had to hide in secret to stay in that building, otherwise someone could kick them out and end up on the streets or under bridge.

They are not poor, Mr. Becky is also not a scavenger. Mr. Becky used to be a great lawyer. He is often seen on television broadcasts helping people who are caught in legal cases wisely. Marie was once a Midwife at a hospital in the city center. They live happily with Tono who is still in the fourth grade of elementary school. But because of the virus outbreak, they also distance themselves from society and civilization because one of the symptoms of the virus makes them different from other people in general. One of the most notable differences is their still pale skin. They thought they would scare people if they saw them, so they decided to isolate their family from their surroundings.

Day before night. Tono's stomach growled and filled the room.

“I thought I was going to die mom! I can't stand this hunger anymore!” 😣

“We've already died once! So don't be spoiled and whiny!

"I don't want to die of starvation, that's a ridiculous way of dying!"

"Just be patient, I know daddy's on the road with a bag full of food for us"

"Hopefully it's not nails or scalp, four days ago I ate those and my stomach is hard to digest those foods!"

"Ouhh honey, dad hasn't been home since last Tuesday, he must be busy gathering high quality food, tonight we must be full!"

As they focused on chatting, a snapping sound was heard from outside. Suddenly Marie turned off all the lights in the room. He was worried that a stranger would try to enter and catch them living there. The situation will definitely get worse.

“Tap… Tap… Tap…”

The sound of footsteps was getting closer. Slowly approaching towards the entrance. Soon, someone knocked.

"Dear! It's me!"

A grown man's voice came from behind the door. A voice that Marie and Tono most recognized.

"Dad!" 😄

Tony is ecstatic. It was his father who came. And he brought something that Marie and Tono had hoped for.

"Food!.....”😍

marie and tono shouted with joy

“Sorry everyone, lately our food is really hard to catch, yesterday I tried to catch the big guy in the small alley near the hospital, but he runs really fast! As a result, I only got a small child of Tono's age. He was playing alone in his yard late last night!”

Mr Becky explained his delay

"It's okay honey, this food is already very delicious and nutritious!"

said Marie with a sparkling look at the big package that Mr. Becky brought

"It's tastier than the nails and scalp I gave you last Saturday!"

Being a zombie family is indeed very difficult, it takes a lot of effort, energy and ingenuity to survive in this day and age.

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