12 survivors now, all split up, 6 resting and 6 on patrol. I was
their leader, and I had no idea how long we could survive. I was scared
and grossed out. Ally and ant were good friends. It still felt unreal
to me. “you feel that unreal feeling too?” Nicole chimed into my
thoughts as we walked the empty and eerily quite back parts of the
store.
“you read my mind?” I asked her. She smiled
and nodded. We kept walking then we turned around and walked the other
way, and then we repeated. I didn’t look at her as we walked; I was not
even paying attention to really where I was. I could not get ants image
out of my head. His dead body after I had shot him. i did not even
notice when she moved in front of me or when she put her arms around
me. I just stopped and responded unconsciously by hugging her back,
still not there in my head. Then she got out of the long hug, that I
myself could not say how long it was, I was still not there. She looked
me in the eyes, and after what felt like forever I forced myself to
look back. It was then I realized how pretty her eyes were, I scanned
her face, her long black hair. She right then and there took my mind
off of it all. I forgot about everything and we just moved together.
The kiss was the first real kiss I had, and it felt weird but good at
the same time. I don’t know how long it lasted. I can’t even go back to
explain how it felt. It was indescribably good. During this my mind
raced and I came to a conclusion alarmingly fast. I did in fact love
Nicole, but just as I thought about that my mind went back to Julia.
Afterward we continued to hug each other. My mind was now even more
jumbled then before. I didn’t care about the fact that we were trapped
in the middle of a zombie apocalypse with no escape because by now the
store is probably completely surrounded, or how eventually we would run
out of food. My teenage brain was now focused on girls. This was more
then the normal teenage lust though, there were two girls that I knew I
was in love with, and another that I was still unsure about but
something was definitely there
just then a moan
came from behind me and I quickly broke the hug and stopped thinking
about the girls to face the new threat. There in the hall that we were
supposed to watch was a zombie. I raised my gun without much thought
and shot a round off, a hit, a kill, 7 rounds left. “Shit, we let our
guard down” I looked over at Nicole who was armed with a golf club.
She looked to be confused
“how. where the hell did he come form?”
“that is the direction of the stairs to the roof accesses, no one
checked the roof.” We both looked at each other and then ran towards
the stairs. “text Chris tell him we may need backup” I turned the
corner to see 5 more zombies all very close and approaching fast I
raised my gun and fired away, BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM, right away four
zombies dropped but I did not stop shooting BLAM. At that point my aim
was off from the kick back and I missed BLAM I missed again. I stopped
myself from missing again. I took aim again and shot, the last round
struck the last zombie in the neck, the pistol locked back. I was out
and the zombie continued walking towards me. I stepped back behind
Nicole who swung and knocked the zombie back. I moved out of the way as
she proceeded to beat the zombie to death. In the down time I got a
clip and loaded the gun. 15 shots in the gun now, and 2 more clips
left.
“come on” Nicole said as she was done beating
the zombie “we need to clear that roof before it gets worse” she ran
ahead, and I was quick to follow. I wanted to tell her to wait, I had
the gun, let me go first. I was scared that she might think I was being
too protective though. She got to the bottom of the steps and two more
zombies were on the stairs. She charged them with no fear and beat them
down smashing their heads in with her club. I secretly admired the
fact that she kicked ass, but I was still worried about her well being.
She ran up the steps and I yelled after her to wait but she kept going,
until she disappeared into the bright sunny opening that lead to the
roof.
