"Hmm, delish ~"
Lili mumbled as she gulped in a lobster. Beside her, Alban also ravenously gobbled up a large grilled fish and shrimps, his cold face warming up as his eyes glisten as he looked at the other dishes on the table, seemingly unable to wait to eat them too.
Aldrich and Felicia wisely stacked their plates with grilled seafoods first as they have prior experience of being robbed of their food by their unfilial children. These children could sure eat a lot! .
In a flash, only piles of shells and bones and some leftover sauces are left scattered on the plates and tables. The four of them massage their full to bursting bellies and without image, bend backwards on their chairs .
"Ugh, my stomach! "Cried Lili in discomfort.
Alban leaned over to help massage her belly while admonishing. "You know you should stop eating when you're full. Now look at you, you can barely sit up straight. "
Lili rolled her eyes at her big brother.
"Please, as if you had any credibility to scold me Big brother. You are in the same situation as I am. "She said in schadenfreude, but groaned again as she felt too full.
Alban did not change his face. He just continued to rub Lili's belly and his own. Aldrich, who have somewhat recovered, got up to boil tea for digestion.
"It will only be a month before the apocalypse, right? used Felicia to herself absentmindedly as she sipped on her tea, her brows wrinkling as her red lips pouted as she blows on the hot tea.
Aldrich put down his tea cup. His left arm reaching out to gather his wife on his arms, putting his chin on her fluffy hair. He took on a deep breath to take in her scent, somewhat calming his irritable mood. These days he have been feeling irritable and anxious. It had been growing day by day and as a result, he had become very harsh on his family's training.
"I wonder what will happen to us? To our family? "Continued Felicia as she snuggled on his arms. Just like Aldrich, she had been feeling uneasy these days.
"I wish that the apocalypse is just Big brother's dream. "Whispered Lili as she wrapped her hands on Alban's right arm, leaning close to him.
Alban also leaned close to her, bumping his head to Lili's. Unlike their parents who only feel unstable emotions, Lili and him could not deceive themselves that the apocalypse will not come. Alban himself wish that all he had experience in the last life was nothing but a dream. But early as a month ago, Lili and him always have the same dream.
Dream of devastation, dream of rushing bloodthirsty corpse with rotting flesh and blood all over their body, their bloody black fangs flashing. Dream of big beasts tearing apart hapless humans, and crumbling cities overrun with fresh eating plants.
They dream continuously that even Lili have become used to the scenes of blood and carnage that she no longer vomited like the first time she did when she first have the prophetic dream. Coupled with her father's training and bringing them to dangerous places to hunt humongous evolved animals such as predators like tigers and bears, she had manged to build her courage.
Somehow, the two had the tacit understanding that all of these prophetic dreams are the cause of their Yin Yang pendants.
She is ready to face the apocalypse, but if there is a choice, naturally, she wished that the apocalypse will never come.
"We all wish and pray that it will never happen. But from my intuition, it will come. My intuition never fails me. "Aldrich gravely declared.
"We don't know what will happen to us, if we became a mindless corpse, an evolutionary, or supernaturalists when the evolution began. Or if we can survive until the end of the last days. All we can do is prepare and do the best we can to survive. No matter what happens, we all have to be strong, got it? "Aldrich said as he looked at his wife and children.
"And if something happened to me, or anyone of you, the rest must go on and live. " He suddenly said.
"Dear! " Felicia cried fearfully, raising her teary eyes to her husband. Aldrich kissed her forehead to comfort her.
"All things are impermanent. We all have to be ready in every event. Alban,if I die, you had to protect your mom and little sister. "
Felicia gasped, and in an outrage, she pushed her husband away from her and huffed. "You dare! If you really go ahead and die, you wait, I will marry and have a string of handsome men as lovers for you to see! I will bring them to your grave and kissed them infront of you to appreciate! "She harshly declared as she glared at her husband.
Aldrich got angry at first, but meeting his wife's anxious and aggrived and tearful eyes, he sighed and reach out to pull her again into his embrace.
"Yes, yes, I promise, I will not dare die. What will my lively wife do without me? I can't let her be wronged. "He coaxed while patting his wife's back and swaying to and fro gently.
Lili and Alban became silent as they resignedly look at their parent's PDA.
Lili turn to her brother.
"Big brother, what will you do if I die? "
"That will never happen, I will protect you. "Alban swiftly answered.
"But what if? "Lili persisted.
"I will do my best not to let any what ifs to happen. "Alban simply answered.
And in his own heart he said, 'If you really die, then I must have died before you, as they will have to go through me first. '
After some joking and funny anecdote from Lili that managed to break the heavy atmosphere in tha dining table, the family regained their cheerful mood.
"I remember! Dang, if the apocalypse really arrived, we can no longer eat our favorite fast foods and all those signature dishes from our favorite restaurants! "Lili said while slapping her forehead.
Alban paused his actions of clearing the table, obviously affected by Lili's words.
Felicia and Aldrich also stopped their flirting, their amused eyes glowing as they took in the wilted appearance of their foodie children.
Eventhough they have Lili's living space and Alban's supplies stored in his space and they can cook whatever they want, it is still different as they can't recreate the dishes that experienced chiefs created as it is just not the same.
The two siblings enveloped themselves in despair. Alban's face remained expressionless as always, but his drooping shoulders and slow movements conveyed that he is unhappy.
The parents look at each other, then at their unenergetic children. Felicia helplessly held her forehead.
"Did the two of you forgot? Alban, what about your space? "Felicia kindly remind them.
The two stared at her with clueless eyes. Aldrich chuckled and told his children.
"You can order as much as you want in this remaining month, and store it while it's fresh to Alban's space. "
His words awakened the two gluttons. Two bright eyes looked at Felicia and Aldrich with wide worshipping eyes as if looking at gods, and before the two have time to blink, the two children disappeared from their sight, obviously going outside the space to order the food they like.
Felicia giggled while Aldrich shook his head.
"Come, we also have cooking to do. We have to make boxed lunches, meat buns and anything ready to go. We may not have time to cook when we are running for our lives. "
Aldrich said while packing up and ready to embark the hover car. Felicia nodded while helping her husband. They have lots to do in the remaining time.