Warm heart
Chapter 1

"Did I ever tell ya about that one time: Keith and I pulled down the pants from a teacher on our school?! It was funny as hell! That man yelled at us an fallowed us all aroun the school! Other teachers tried to get us, but hell no they could get us! And then there was this huge, fat guy who wanted-"

"Ellis! Shut the fuck up!" Nick shouted when he couldn't bear to hear another story of that guy named Keith! "For once: shut up!"

Ellis stopped walking and looked a little hurt at the gambler. But the smile did never leave his face. "Aw come on Nick. It' a real funny story! It even reminds me of a other time Keith and I wanted to have a huuuuuuge ice-cream. But a guy stood in the way and-"

"Ellis. Sweety, will you tell it another time?" Rochelle interrupt him nicely. She smiled from the outside, but from the inside she was just as annoyed as Nick was. But whenever she tough of it, it made her feel guilty. This was Ellis way to survive the Apocalypse. Telling stories. But it didn't last long, or she will exploded to.

The same goes for Coach. He really liked the kid. But he was getting more annoying every day! He didn't say it out loud, because he felt the same guilt as Rochelle. He just tried to ignored it. But it was getting hard. "Come on young'un, we need to the next safe room before it gets dark" he looked up to the sky. "And it's pretty late already"

The other three of the team fallowed him when he start to walk again. On their way, there were getting more zombies. More than normally. The four survivors, knew that they couldn't fight any longer. They were tired, hurt and hungry. Even Ellis was, after Nick and Rochelle interrupted his story, silence. They just wanted to go to the safe room get some sleep, maybe eat some food if it was there, and then move on the next morning. But, of course, didn't make the zombies it easy for them.

A crazy laugh was heard and the four stopped to look around for the special infect one. They listen closely, but couldn't hear the Jockey anymore. Coach moved with his hand and everybody started to walk again. But they only took two steps, or the Jockey showed himself. He jumped on Ellis shoulders and start to attack his face.

Ellis yelled out in surprise and tried to push the Jockey of off him. But he only started to walk away from his teammates. "HELP! JOCKEY S RIDEN ME!"

"Shit!" Nick started run to the other, while Rochelle and Coach shoot the zombies who were coming to the screaming of the boy.

Ellis didn't know where he was going. He only knew that the Jockey will be not his only problem. The zombies will be attacking him very soon, and he didn't knew where the others where. "GET HIM OF-" he let out a scream. But it was not because the Jockey or the zombies were hurting him. It was because he was falling from hill and was rolling down. The Jockey was still stuck on him, but ice cold water made the grip of the Jockey loose and Ellis push it off of him.

He swim to the surface and toke a deep breath when his head was above the water. He looked around and saw zombies everywhere. But he could hear the screams and the gunshots of the others. He wanted to jell that he was in the water, but Nick was already coming his way.

Nick saw the boy in the ice cold water and let out a sigh. A sigh of annoying and relieve. "Hurry up, Overalls. Those fucking zombies are coming this way" he kneeled down by the water and hold his hand out for the other.

Ellis swim to him and grabbed to others hand, to be pulled out of the water. "Thanks Nick" he smiled and shivered when he felled the cold wind. "M-man it' cold"

Rochelle and Coach were running to them, they shoot all the zombies. "Ellis, are you okay?" Rochelle asked while she looked worried and see if he got any wounds that were bleeding.

"I-I' okay" he said with a shaky voice. "J-just a little c-cold"

"Nick, give him your jacket" Coach said. He was looking around for more zombies, but turned to the man when he said it.

"What?" Nick said while he pulled up a brow. "No way! This jacket was expensive!"

"Nick! Ellis felt in ice cold water!" Rochelle said while tried to warm the young one, without getting herself wet. "If we don't warm him up, he's getting sick"

"I-It' okay" Ellis said and while he picked up his gun, that he dropped when he was rolling down the cliff. "I-it' not that c-cold" he tried to smile, but he was shaking too much to show his normal smile.

Nick sighs and rolls his eyes. Damn he didn't want to give his jacket to the annoying kid! It was really expensive and, yes it was ruined, but still he didn't want to get it wet. Because than he had to wait to get it dry again. But… He looked at the kid and saw him shaking like mad. Ro was right: if he didn't get warm, he was getting sick. A weird feeling was in stomach when he tough of Ellis getting sick and that the zombies could get him. But he shakes the feeling away and started to pull off his jacket.

Ellis, was already walking to the safe room and didn't saw that the gambler pulled out his jacket, until he felled the warm cloth around his shoulders. He looked back, surprised at Nick. "What ya doing?"

"What does it look like I'm doing, hick?" Nick says while rolling his eyes annoyed. Finally he did something nice and then the kid could only say that! Jesus that stupid idiot.

Ellis looked from Nick to the jacket and back. "Y-ya don' need to do that if ya don' want to"

"Just make sure that it won't get ruined more than it already is" with that said, he walked pasted the kid and started their walk to the safe room again. He didn't know why, but… He felt quit glad that he give his jacket to Ellis. He really didn't want him to be sick. WAIT! Woah woah WOAH! Why was he so worried about that fucking hick?! Sins when does he even STARTED to worry about him?! This whole shit was making him insane!

Rochelle smiled when she saw what Nick did. She walked up to him. "It's nice that you did that" Nick didn't say anything on that and Rochelle just chuckled and walked to Coach to ask how far it will be to the safe room.

Ellis, who was the last of them, smiled when he grabbed the jacked tightly and pulled it around him tight. He still has is cold and a little headache was coming op. but he didn't really worry about it. It must be over soon. What was more important: he notice that his feelings for the gambler was growing. He really liked Nick. Like, really really liked him. And now he had his jacked on. His face heat up. Was he blushing because of Nick? What was he happy that he was behind the others. But if he knew that it was not only because of the older man that he started to feel hot, he had warned his teammates of what was happening. But he was Ellis, there was nothing to worry about. Right?

To be continued…
Chapter 2: coming soon