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0:00Have you ever wondered what would happen
0:01if you got stuck in a bunker with your
0:03crush? Not for an hour, for 3 months
0:07with no signal, one bucket, and nowhere
0:09to go when it gets awkward.
0:11It's Wednesday, 11:20, physics. Mr.
0:15Okafor is explaining something about
0:17pressure and nobody is listening. Then
0:19every phone in the room goes off at
0:21once. 30 phones, the same noise, even
0:25the ones on silent. You look at yours.
0:28Emergency alert. A volcano has erupted
0:31200 miles west. A cloud of ash and gas
0:34will reach your town in 35 minutes. Get
0:36underground. Stay underground.
0:39>> [music]
0:39>> Somebody laughs. Somebody says it's a
0:41test. Then a girl by the window stops
0:44talking and points. The sky in the west
0:47has gone black, like someone has pulled
0:49a curtain across half the world,
0:51>> [music]
0:51>> and the curtain is moving.
0:53Mr. Okafor tells everybody to stay calm.
0:56Then he picks up his car keys and runs.
0:58He's the first one out of the door.
1:01The corridors are chaos. 800 kids, one
1:04staircase. Someone's crying. Someone's
1:07filming. Someone is still somehow eating
1:10a meal deal.
1:11The car park [music] is gridlocked.
1:13Parents are leaving their cars in the
1:14middle of the road with the doors open.
1:17The school buses [music] pull away full.
1:19Kids standing in the aisles, faces
1:21pressed against the glass. Your mom
1:23texts from the hospital. She's a nurse.
1:26Go to [music] the sports center shelter
1:27now. Love you.
1:29The sports center is 3 miles away and
1:32the road there isn't moving.
1:3430 minutes.
1:35But you know somewhere [music] closer.
1:37600 m away, under the old park, there's
1:40a door nobody else knows about.
1:42>> [music]
1:42>> You found it when you were 12 looking
1:44for a football. You never found the
1:46football. You found a bunker.
1:49You've never told anyone. Not your best
1:51friend, not [music] anyone.
1:53You cut behind the science block, and
1:55that's when you see her, Ivy Marsh,
1:57[music]
1:57sitting on the steps with her bag on her
1:59knees staring at a dead phone. You've
2:02had a crush on Ivy since year eight.
2:04>> [music]
2:04>> You've spoken to her four times. One of
2:07those times was "Sorry" when you walked
2:09into her in the lunch queue. Another one
2:11was also "Sorry" about [music] the same
2:13incident a bit later.
2:15Her bus is gone. Her mom isn't
2:17answering.
2:18>> [music]
2:18>> She's on her own.
2:19Ivy. She looks up. Do you trust me? No.
2:23>> [music]
2:23>> Do you want to live? She looks at the
2:25sky. Yes. Then run.
2:28>> [music]
2:29>> You run across the playing field, over
2:30the fence, into the park. Behind you,
2:33sirens. Above you, the first flakes
2:35start to fall. They look like snow, but
2:38they're gray and they're warm. At the
2:40back of the park, there's an old shed
2:42covered in brambles. Inside the shed,
2:45under a rotten pallet, there's a metal
2:47hatch. Ivy stares at it. What is this?
2:51Get in. Is this where you murder me?
2:54Ivy, get in.
2:56She gets in. You pull the hatch shut
2:58above you and slide the bolt. And for
3:00the first time in half an hour, it's
3:03quiet.
3:04You switch on the torch. The bunker was
3:07built in 1983 in case of a nuclear war
3:10that never came. 12 metal bunks, a radio
3:13you wind up by hand, a water pump over
3:16an old well,
3:17>> [music]
3:17>> a big fan with a handle that pulls air
3:19down a pipe from the surface, and four
3:22crates of emergency biscuits that
3:23expired in 1989.
3:26Then there's your bit, a sofa you
3:28dragged down here when you were 13. It
3:30took the whole summer. Three posters, a
3:33bean bag, a mini fridge which you're
3:35very proud of even though there's no
3:37electricity, so it's a cupboard. Four
3:39packets of crisps and one jar of
3:42Nutella.
3:43And on the inside of the door, in red
3:45paint in the handwriting of a
3:4712-year-old, "Keep out. No girls. This
3:50means you, Mom."
3:52Ivy reads it out loud, slowly, all of
3:55it. "I was 12." You wrote, "This means
3:59you, Mom." She kept coming down into
4:02your secret bunker. It turns out it's
4:05not that secret from her.
4:07You wind up the radio. Through the
4:09static, a man reads the same message on
4:11a loop. The ash will keep falling for
4:14weeks. The air outside won't be safe to
4:16breathe for at least 3 months. Stay
4:19where you are.
4:203 months.
4:22You count the biscuits. Ivy counts the
4:24crisps. [music] You both count again in
4:27case you got it wrong the first time.
4:29You didn't get it wrong. It isn't
4:30enough.
4:32There's one more problem and it's in the
4:34corner. The toilet is a bucket behind a
4:37curtain made out of an old shower
4:39curtain with ducks on it. It was built
4:41for 12 people. Now, it's for two and one
4:45of them is Ivy Marsh.
4:47So, you make a rule. When one person is
4:49behind the duck curtain, the other
4:51[music] one sings loudly. No exceptions.
4:55Ivy picks the song. It's the theme tune
4:57from Captain Crumble, a cartoon about a
5:00biscuit who's a pirate. Every kid in
5:02your town watched it when they were
5:04seven. You both still know every word.
5:07The first time you have to sing it
5:08twice.
5:10Ivy takes a very long time.
5:13At 10:00, you switch off the torch to
5:15save the battery and it gets dark. Not
5:17bedroom dark, underground dark.
5:20You hold your hand in front of your face
5:22and there's nothing there.
5:24Then, from three bunks away, a very
5:27small voice.
5:28Can you just talk about anything until
5:32[music] I fall asleep?
5:34At school, Ivy Marsh isn't scared of
5:36anything. Down here, she's scared of the
5:39dark.
5:40So, you tell her about the football,
5:42about lifting the pallet when you were
5:4412, about the first time you climbed
5:46down here with your mom's torch and got
5:48so scared you ran home and didn't come
5:50back for a week.
5:52Halfway through the story, her breathing
5:54goes slow. She's asleep.
5:56You don't sleep at all.
5:58You're in a hole under a dying town and
6:01Ivy Marsh just asked you to talk to her.
6:04It's been a very weird day.
6:07On day two, you learn how to stay alive.
6:10The air comes first. 15 minutes of
6:12turning the handle every hour pulls
6:14fresh air down the pipe. Stop for too
6:17long and the air goes stale.
6:19First, you get a headache. Then, you get
6:21sleepy.
6:22Then, you don't wake up.
6:24If you put your ear against the pipe,
6:26you can hear the surface. Rain, wind,
6:30the last few birds.
6:32After the first week, there aren't any
6:34birds.
6:35So, you take turns, day and night. 15
6:38minutes on, 45 minutes off. You set
6:40alarms on your phones while the
6:42batteries last.
6:43By day four, your right arm is
6:45noticeably bigger than your left.
6:48Then, the water.
6:50The pump brings it up from the well, but
6:51it's brown and it smells like a coin.
6:54So, you build a filter. A bucket with a
6:56hole in the bottom, then gravel, then
6:59sand, then one of your t-shirts. The
7:01water comes out clear.
7:03You boil it on the camping stove anyway.
7:05Ivy names the [music] filter Dennis.
7:07Nobody knows why. Dennis works very
7:10hard.
7:11Then, one night, your 4:00 alarm doesn't
7:14wake you up. You wake up at 6:00,
7:16panicking, and the air is fine.
7:19Ivy is sitting on the floor next to the
7:20fan, her arm shaking. She did your turn
7:24and the one after that.
7:26"You look tired," she says.
7:28That's all she says.
7:30On day nine, the crisps run out. The
7:33biscuits from 1989 taste like cardboard
7:36that's given up. You need real food.
7:39There's a supermarket 400 m from the
7:41park, so you get ready. Builders masks
7:43from a box in the bunker, swimming
7:46goggles, two of your hoodies with the
7:48hoods tied tight. Ivy looks like a
7:50beekeeper. You look like a beekeeper who
7:53just got fired. You open the hatch.
7:56Everything up there is gray. Gray trees,
7:59gray road, gray cars with gray snow on
8:02their roofs.
8:04There's no wind, no No
8:06no voices.
8:07The only sound is your own breathing
8:09inside the mask. The supermarket doors
8:12are open and nobody's there. The lights
8:14are off, the freezers are dead, and
8:17somebody has taken every single toilet
8:19roll, which honestly tells you
8:21everything you need to know about
8:22people. You've each got two big bags,
8:25tins, pasta, rice, batteries. Ivy comes
8:30back with tins, pasta, rice, batteries,
8:33and shampoo. Ivy, I've had the same hair
8:36for 9 days. We've got two bags. Then
8:39carry the shampoo in your other hand.
8:42And in her bag, under the shampoo, there
8:44are three packets of salt and vinegar
8:46crisps, your favorite. You've never told
8:49her that. How did you know? You eat them
8:51every single lunchtime, in the same
8:53corner, for 3 years. She zips up the
8:56bag. I notice things. Before you leave,
9:00she writes a note on the back of a
9:01receipt and leaves it on the till. Both
9:03your names, everything you took, and
9:06we'll pay you back. Sorry about the
9:08shampoo.
9:09By week three, there's a routine. Turn
9:12the fan, feed Dennis, a supermarket run
9:15every few days, cards. Ivy beat you at
9:18cards 40 times in a row. On the 41st
9:21game, she lets you win, and she's so bad
9:24at pretending that it's worse than
9:25losing.
9:26At night, you play a game in the dark.
9:29One question each. You have to answer,
9:31and you have to tell the truth. You
9:33learn things.
9:35Ivy has never seen the sea. She wants to
9:38be a vet, but she faints when she sees
9:40blood, which she says is a problem for
9:42later. She hates her middle name so much
9:45that she won't even tell you the first
9:47letter.
9:47She learns things, too.
9:49That it's just [music] you and your mom.
9:52That your dad sends a card every
9:53birthday with £10 in it.
9:56And the wrong age. And that you've never
9:58brought anyone down here. Not your best
10:01friend, not anyone.
10:03The dark goes quiet for a long time.
10:06So, I'm the first one. You're the first
10:09one. Even though there's a sign.
10:11Especially because there's a sign.
10:14One morning she's sitting on her bunk
10:16smiling at you the way people smile when
10:18they know something you don't. You talk
10:20in your sleep. No, I don't. You said my
10:23name. You want to die. And then you said
10:27not the goose. You have no memory of any
10:30goose. [music]
10:31You have never had a problem with geese.
10:33You will now be thinking about this
10:35goose for the rest of your life.
10:38The Ivy from school, the one who never
10:40looked at you, is gone.
10:42This one gets furious at card games. She
10:45puts the tins in order by color.
10:47Sometimes she cries very quietly when
10:50she thinks you're asleep and you pass
10:52your blanket up to her bunk without
10:53saying a word.
10:55She's not the girl you had in your head.
10:57She's better.
10:59On day 22, the radio finds a new voice.
11:02Sports Center shelter, is anybody
11:04receiving? It's your mom.
11:07You both scream into the microphone at
11:09the same time. Your mom is fine. She's
11:11with 400 people in the sports center
11:13running the medical corner. And two camp
11:16beds away from her, there's a woman
11:17called Helen Marsh, Ivy's mom.
11:20Ivy sits down on the floor and cries
11:22properly and she doesn't care that you
11:25can see.
11:26After that, every evening at 7:00, it's
11:28radio time, which is lovely and also a
11:32disaster.
11:33Is he eating his vegetables? Mom, he's a
11:36nightmare with vegetables. Ivy, Mom,
11:39people can hear this. And he still
11:41sleeps with the landing light on. Ivy
11:43leans into the microphone very
11:45seriously. Not anymore. We've got no
11:48electricity.
11:50By [music] week four, the two moms are
11:51best friends. They play cards over the
11:54radio. They laugh at things you can't
11:56hear.
11:57Ivy goes pale. Are they talking about
11:59us? They are definitely talking about
12:02you.
12:03Day 30 is Ivy's birthday, 16 in a
12:07bunker.
12:08You make her a cake. It's 11 biscuits
12:10from 1989 stuck together with the last
12:13of the Nutella and one emergency candle
12:15that's bigger than the cake. You sing
12:17her the Captain Crumble theme because
12:19it's the only song you both know all the
12:21words to. She laughs so hard she has to
12:23sit down. Then she turns to face the
12:26wall for a minute and you pretend not
12:28[music] to notice.
12:29On day 33, she cuts your hair with the
12:31scissors from the first aid kit. "I've
12:33done this loads of times." she says. She
12:36has never done this before. It's not
12:38good. It's not terrible either. And her
12:41hands are in your hair for 20 minutes,
12:44so you'd honestly let her do the other
12:46side.
12:47On day 36, her phone still has one song
12:50on it that works. One earbud each.
12:53You start dancing as a joke [music] in
12:55socks in a bunker.
12:57At some point, it stops being a joke.
13:00She's very close. Close enough to see
13:03the tiny scar in her eyebrow.
13:05She doesn't move away. You don't move
13:08away. And the radio crackles. "Is
13:10everyone decent down there?" It's your
13:12mom. Ivy [clears throat] laughs into
13:14your shoulder. You have never hated a
13:17radio this much in your life.
13:20Day 41, 6 weeks underground. Something
13:24is going wrong and this time it's not
13:26the air. It's the space. Six steps from
13:29one wall to the other. You can hear
13:31every breath, every bite, [music]
13:34every time she turns over.
13:36She hums when she reads. You crack your
13:38knuckles. By week six, both of these are
13:41crimes.
13:43The fight is about crisps, the last
13:45packet. You both say you weren't going
13:47to eat it. You were both going to eat
13:50it. And then Ivy says it. "I know you
13:53like me."
13:54Silence. Everyone knows. Your best
13:57friend told the whole of year nine. You
13:59wrote I am on your shoe. You did write I
14:02am on your shoe. You told people it
14:04stood for I'm magnificent.
14:06>> [music]
14:07>> Nobody believed you.
14:08So you storm off into the other room.
14:10It's three steps away. And then you just
14:13have to stand there in the dark, with
14:15your face on fire, while she can
14:18definitely hear you breathing.
14:20There is nowhere to storm off to in a
14:21bunker.
14:22Two days of silence. You still sing
14:25behind the duct curtain, because rules
14:27are rules. You sing Captain Crumble
14:30angrily. It is very hard to sing about a
14:32biscuit pirate angrily. You manage it.
14:36On the second night, at 3:00 in the
14:38morning, her voice comes down from the
14:40top bunk. Can I ask you something real?
14:43Yeah. Do you actually like me, or am I
14:46just the only person down here? You
14:48think about it properly, because she
14:50deserves a proper answer. I wrote,
14:52[music]
14:53"Hit on my shoe in year nine. There were
14:56800 people up there back then."
14:59Quiet.
15:00Then, "Can I tell you something real?"
15:03She takes a long breath.
15:05"I'm scared of when the door opens. Up
15:07there, there's everybody.
15:10And you'll be the guy who knew about the
15:12bunker.
15:13And I'll be the girl who just happened
15:15to be there."
15:16>> [music]
15:16>> You don't know what to say to that.
15:18So, you reach up in the dark, and you
15:20find her hand hanging over the edge of
15:22the bunk.
15:23And she holds on.
15:26Day 61.
15:28It rains.
15:29For 2 months, the ash has been lying on
15:31the town, dry and soft. Now, it's wet.
15:35And wet ash turns into something a lot
15:37like cement.
15:39By the afternoon, the fan is harder to
15:41turn. Then, much harder.
15:43Then, it won't turn at all.
15:45The air pipe on the surface is buried.
15:48Down here, the air is already getting
15:50thick.
15:51Ivy has a headache. You have a headache.
15:55The candle flame goes small and blue.
15:58Maybe 2 hours of air. Maybe less.
16:01Someone has to go up and dig the pipe
16:03out. There's one shovel, one mask with a
16:06filter that still works, and about 10
16:08minutes of clean breathing left in that
16:10filter.
16:12I'll go. We'll both go. One filter, Ivy.
16:16You tie a rope around your waist, and
16:17the other end to a bunk. She holds the
16:20rope with both hands. 10 minutes. 10
16:23minutes.
16:24You climb up into the dark. It's 3:00 in
16:26the afternoon and it looks like
16:28midnight. Rain and ash are coming down
16:31sideways.
16:32Your torch shows you 1 m of gray and
16:35then nothing.
16:36The pipe is 10 steps from the hatch next
16:39to the old oak. You count them.
16:4110.
16:42You dig. The ash is heavy and wet like
16:46concrete. 9 minutes. You hit metal. You
16:49dig around it. 7 minutes. You clear the
16:53top of the pipe with your hands and
16:55through the ground very faintly you hear
16:58the fan start to turn. 6 minutes. You
17:01turn around and you can't see anything.
17:04The rain has moved. Every direction
17:07looks the same.
17:08You pull the rope and it doesn't pull
17:10back. It's caught on something. A bench,
17:13a branch, what's left of the shed. You
17:16don't know which way it goes. 5 minutes.
17:19The filter is getting harder to breathe
17:21through.
17:224. And then from the pipe you hear
17:25something.
17:26Singing.
17:28It's Ivy singing the Captain Crumble
17:30theme at the top of her voice down a
17:33pipe into a storm completely out of
17:36tune.
17:37It's the best sound you've ever heard.
17:40The pipe is 10 steps from the hatch.
17:42Find the song and you find the way home.
17:45You get down on your hands and knees and
17:47follow it. Louder. Louder. Your hand
17:51hits the pipe. You turn back the way you
17:53came and you count. 3 minutes. 10 steps.
17:572 minutes. 9.
17:598. You fall onto the hatch. It opens
18:02before you can even reach for it and two
18:04hands grab your hood and pull you down.
18:07The bunker smells of candle wax and wet
18:09socks. It's the best air you've ever
18:12breathed.
18:13Ivy's crying and shouting at the same
18:15time. You don't get to do that. You
18:18don't get to just Then she stops
18:20shouting and she hugs you and she
18:22doesn't let go for a very long time.
18:26Day 89. The radio says the air outside
18:29is nearly safe.
18:30>> [music]
18:31>> Tomorrow everyone can come up. It's your
18:33last night in the bunker.
18:35You lie in the dark and you can't sleep.
18:38[music] You can tell she can't either.
18:40Then from the top bunk, very quietly, in
18:43a fake sleepy voice,
18:45"Not the goose." You sit straight up.
18:48"You're awake." "I'm asleep." "You're
18:50awake." "I'm sleep talking. It's very
18:53serious. I could say anything." A pause.
18:57"I could say I like you." The top bunk
19:00creaks. She climbs down and lies next to
19:03you on the bottom one, which was built
19:05for one person in 1983 and is not big
19:08enough and is perfect.
19:12Day 90. You open the hatch and it's
19:15daylight, real daylight. The sky is
19:18[music] pale and the whole town is gray,
19:20like an old photo, but it's all still
19:22there. The houses, the trees, the
19:25school.
19:26And people are coming out, out of
19:28cellars, out of car parks, out of the
19:30sports center. Hundreds of them,
19:32blinking, covering their eyes.
19:35At the gate of the park, two women are
19:37running.
19:37>> [music]
19:37>> Your mom and next to her, Ivy's mom. Of
19:41course they came together. They've
19:42played cards every night for 2 months.
19:45Ivy stops walking. You can see her
19:47thinking,
19:48"Up here, there's everybody."
19:52So you take her hand in front of
19:54everyone, before your mom has even
19:56reached the bench. Ivy looks at your
19:58hand, then at you,
20:00and she kisses you in the ash, in the
20:03middle of the park.
20:05Your mom stops running. Ivy's mom stops
20:08running. They look at each other and
20:10they both very obviously pretend [music]
20:12they didn't see
20:14anything.
20:15Before you leave, you go back down one
20:17last time with a marker. Under "Keep
20:20out. No girls. This means you, Mom. You
20:23write one more line. Except Ivy.
20:28On Monday, school opens again. At lunch,
20:31you sit in your usual corner with your
20:32salt and vinegar crisps, and Ivy Marsh
20:35walks across the whole hall, past 800
20:38people, sits down next to you, and gives
20:41you one earbud. She's downloaded the
20:43Captain Crumble theme.
20:46So, here's my question. If you got stuck
20:48in a bunker with your crush for 3
20:50months, would you tell them how you feel
20:51on day one and live with it for 90 days,
20:54or would you wait until the door opens?
20:57Tell me in the comments.
20:58And subscribe. The sign is still down
21:00there. It's got a new line now.

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