Prepper Central: A Prepper Fiction Novel (Prepping - Together we will Survive Book 1) by Chad Evercroft Read Free Book Online

direction as we walked past. Though I wasn’t usually late, I don’t think I’ve ever- until today- been early enough to witness the gathering around that was done prior to the beginning of our meetings. I instructed dad to make his way to the front, where our seats were and I stepped back to speak to Tommy who was busy jotting something down in his journal.
    ‘How’s it going, bud,’ I grabbed his attention.
    ‘Oh boy, there’s so much to go over today,’ he tapped his pen on the pad of paper, ‘I just don’t know where to get started.’
    ‘Yeah. Well I’m sure you’ll figure it all out. Say, I’m planning on skipping out to town in the middle of the week to boost up the stockpile. I would appreciate it if you could get everyone to shoot me an email with supply suggestions.’
    ‘To be honest, Jimmy, I’m thinking you’ll need to do your trip as early as tomorrow. In fact, almost everyone will be hopping out to the stores before shit really gets crazy. Stewart should be in any minute to get us briefed on the state of the nation. And then we’ll have to talk about something a little bit closer to home.’
    ‘Closer to home?’ I asked, unable to determine what he was referring to.
    ‘Yep. There’s just so much going on right now and an incident occurred last night which we still haven’t been able to get to the bottom of.’
    ‘Oh wow. Well, looks like it’ll be a pretty long meeting.’
    ‘It definitely will. So, how’s the wife doing? You know, with the pregnancy and all?’
    ‘Marge is doing really well. It’s been able to keep her mind off the excitement or rather, the scariness of our economy. So, I’d say that even in the grimness of things, there’s a little light there, waiting to be released.’
    ‘I’m very happy for you both as is everyone here and you know what, you won’t have a thing to worry about, Cindy’s going to take good care of that lady of yours.’ He patted me on the shoulder and forced a smile.
    I knew that Tommy was happy for Cindy and me and thus, the difficulty in which he mustered up that smile was a bit puzzling. Perhaps there really was something going on that needed to be worried about.
    ‘Thanks, Tommy. I’m gonna head back to the group now.’
    His eyes widened at the mention of the word ‘group’. ‘Oh shoot, I definitely forgot that your parents were here.’
    ‘Yes indeed,’ I replied, mimicking his smile- half there, half somewhere else.
    ‘So how is it?’
    ‘Eh. Let’s just say my dad’s fuller than a handful.’
    Tommy laughed sincerely, ‘I think all children say that about their parents and vice versa.’
    ‘Yeah, but this guy really takes the cake. Anyways, I’m gonna see what they’re getting up to.’
    ‘Alright Jimmy, I’ll catch you later.’
    I headed back to mom, dad and Marge, saying my ‘hellos’ to the familiar faces I passed on the way to the front of the auditorium.
    ‘What’s that I’m hearing about Anna,’ Marge’s face went pale.
    Anna was one of the oldest members of our group. Her husband had passed a few years ago and ever since then, she’d been living on her own.
    ‘What do you mean?’ I tried to decipher the look on Marge’s face but failed.
    ‘Prepper Central,’ Tommy’s voice boomed through the microphone.
    My eyes were still focused on Marge. ‘He’ll probably key us in. Shh,’ she said before I could get another word out.

Chapter 5
     
    ‘If everyone could get seated, that would be great.’ He paused for few seconds while the members scattered around, finding somewhere to seat themselves. ‘Okay. Awesome. So I know that we usually start with introductions and all, but after what happened last night, we’re gonna switch things up a bit and get right to the updates. Today, we’ve got one member who’s not with us.’
    His words hung over my head. What did he mean that there was one member who wasn’t with us? He must have been talking about Anna. Was she dead?
    ‘As some of you