Free Project Ami by Emiel Sleegers Page B

where the sun is shining through the leaves and just enjoys the view.
     

Chapter 7
A Journey to the City
    Half an hour has passed and Ryan and Ami decide to move on again. Ryan stands up and stretches himself. He then pulls Ami up, and together they start to walk in the direction of the city.
    Ryan is starting to get dehydrated by now, and he is getting worried that he will not be able to walk for much longer. Nonetheless, they keep walking for another fifteen minutes and then, in the distance, Ryan sees what looks like a building on the side of the road. When they get closer, Ryan sees that it is a restaurant.
    Immediately, Ryan cheers up and starts to walk a bit faster. ‘There must be some water and food there,’ he says, excitement in his voice.
    Ami also gets excited because Ryan is happier. They both start to jog to the restaurant.
    When they arrive, Ryan tries to open the door but finds it is locked. Luckily, the door is made from glass, and so Ryan looks around, picks up a big stone from a few feet away, tells Ami to step back, and then throws the stone straight through the glass.
    The glass shatters and makes a large hole big enough for Ryan to step through. He goes into the restaurant and tells Ami to be careful. He then immediately walks over to the kitchen; it has not been used for a long time because everything is greasy and dusty. But, of course, Ryan does not mind that. He starts to check all the cabinets. There, he finds a whole bunch of cans of food. He grabs all he can carry and puts them in his backpack. He looks around and sees a fridge, where he finds one last six-pack of bottled water. He pulls off the plastic and opens up one of the bottles. It takes Ryan only a few seconds to drink down the entire bottle and, with a relieved expression on his face, he starts to put the rest of the bottles in his backpack. By now, his backpack is starting to get really heavy, and he is having trouble lifting it.
    When he is getting ready to leave, Ami comes running into the kitchen with a frightened look on her face. ‘I heard some people outside!’ she says.
    Ryan’s joy immediately fades away, and he lays his backpack in the corner and pulls out his gun. He tells Ami to stay in the kitchen and then slowly crouches down and overs over to the other room. There, he sees two men coming to the door. Ryan quickly hides behind the bar.
    The men climb through the door and then turn around to look outside.
    When they turn around, Ryan jumps out from behind the bar and tells the men to put their hands up.
    The men quickly turn around and, as a reaction, go to grab their guns.
    ‘I wouldn’t do that if I were you,’ Ryan warns.
    The men slowly move their hands away from the guns and put their hands up. Ryan tells them to drop their weapons and backpacks. When the men are about to drop their backpacks, they stop and start to smile. Ryan thinks it’s strange, and asks them if they think this is funny. But not long after saying that, he sees that there is a man standing right behind Ryan, a gun aimed at his head.
    Ryan drops his gun. ‘What do you want?’ he asks.
    ‘Revenge,’ says one of the guys. Ryan then realises that they are probably from the resistance.
    Behind him, he hears the click of a gun, and sees that the guy is about to shoot him. Ryan sees no way out, and so he closes his eyes and waits for the shot.
    A few seconds later, all he hears is the man making a strange sound, like he is gasping for air.
    ‘What’s wrong?’ asks one of the men, but soon after asking, the guy falls to the ground. A knife is planted firmly in his back. Ami stands behind him, a look of fear on her face.
    The two men standing in front of Ryan grab their guns, and Ryan quickly grabs Ami and they both dive behind the bar. In the process, Ryan manages to grab his gun from the ground, and he prepares himself to shoot.
    The men split up and start shooting in the direction of Ryan. Ryan waits for a few seconds until he hears that