My dad was the first of my family to take the easy way out.
I guess death was sort of easier than becoming one of 'them' having no mind of your own, taking the lives of innocent people and then making them one of you. It wasn't fair. But then again; since when was life fair?
After my father my older brother joined him – approximately two days after. It was just me and my little sister Amelia – Lia for short. She was all that I cared for after my brother and father decided to end it. My mum had died of a car crash a week before the apocalypse, she was spared from all this.
At some point I actually considered taking my life but then I remembered that I had Lia and I didn't want to leave her to fend for herself, so I stayed and since that day I haven't regretted it.
"Andy?" A small voice calls from next to me. I turn to my sister Amelia and quickly put my finger in a shh motion. Slowly I crawl from our hiding place under a car and grab my machete. The walker seemed to no hear me, thank god, which gave me enough time to slam the machete into the things head, take it out and signal for Lia to join me.
"There's a farm near here." I whispered as we walked in the woods with our senses on high alert. Lia gave me a weird look but knew not to question my ability. I was always right.
"Just up ahe-" growls interrupted my sentence.
Holy shit
There, just behind us, was a whole herd of walkers; and they were coming straight at us.
"Run!" I grabbed Lia's hand and sprinted for my life. I could tell that Lia was too shocked to run fast so I had to think quick.
"Lia if you don't pick up your damn feet they're gonna get us!" That seemed to snap her out of it. I could literally feel the walker's fingers trying to grab at my leather jacket, attempting to pull me back and eat me.
Not today asshole!
I picked up my speed even more and waved my free hand to the farm in front of me in hope that someone would see.
"Help us!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. Then the worst happened. I was grabbed by the walker that was trying to eat me before. The air left my lungs and I froze in shock. It's mouth was so close to my neck I could feel it's rotten teeth on the exposed flesh. And then it was gone; just like that.
I quickly picked up my machete and swung at the first walker that even got close to my sister who was already fighting two as it was.
Gunshots resounded around us and I assumed that we had finally claimed the attention of whoever was in the house.
What felt like hours but was most likely just minutes all the walkers were gone and we could breathe easy for a second.
"You okay 'lil sis?" Lia nodded after a second of checking for bites. I pulled her into a hug and sighed, "That fuckin' scared me eh?" She let out a small laugh.
"You two bit?" A male voiced asked with a gun pointed to us. He was sort of cute, with blackish brown hair that pushed up, tan skin and nice brown eyes. Before this I would of made comments about how hot he was but at that moment all I could really think about was sleeping.
Lia and I shook our heads and to emphasise my point I unzipped my leather jacket until my collarbone to prove my point.
I really need to actually start wearing clothes.
The guy nodded and his posture slackened a little bit but it was obvious he was still on edge with us.
"I'm Andy and this is my sister Lia." I pointed my thumb to the blonde teen beside me who gave the guy a small wave.
"Shane." The guy simply answered before motioning for us to follow him.
"You in a group?" Shane asked on the way to the large white house.
"No, just us, has been since the apocalypse started." I could tell that he was a little surprised with that fact.
"And you two are sisters?" We both nodded, "But you look barely anything alike." It was true. Other than our stormy grey eyes Lia and I looked nothing alike; she had blonde hair whilst I had purple hair with blue tips, she was tan and I made vampires jealous with how pale I was, Lia was just barely 5 foot whilst I was 5"8. Lia and I weren't just different in the looks department either, while she was going out with friends and thinking about boys I was with dad hunting and fixing my Harley. We were so different that people thought we were lying about us being sisters until we proved it to them in which then they would walk off dazed. Yeah, we're that different. But no matter how different we were we still looked out for each other, I trusted her with my life and vice versa.
"We get that a lot." Lia answered since I seemed so deep in thought.
"Your accent, where's it from?" I rolled my eyes. Now that was something we got a lot.
"Australia. We moved here around a year ago." This time I answered. Shane looked like he was going to ask another question but was interrupted by someone calling out to him.
"Put them in one of the tents and get one of the women to check for bites." Shane nodded and pushed us to a pretty blonde woman. Her blue eyes showed a lot of suffering and internal struggle but the way she held herself you could tell that she was strong, a fighter.
"Andrea I need you to check these two for bites in one of the tents." Andrea gave Shane a quick nod and pulled us into a tent.
"Okay so my name is Andrea as you heard, what's your names?" She looked a little uncomfortable but she held herself nonetheless.
"I'm Lia and this is my sister Andy." Andrea nodded, taking in the small piece of information.
"Okay so I'm gonna need you two to undress so I can look for any bites, it's just a precaution." We both nodded in understanding and undressed as quick as we could to get it over with. "And you're good, no bites or scratches, I'll say you two are pretty damn lucky you survived that herd." I nodded to Andrea in thanks and pulled Lia out of the tent only to bump into a hard chest.
"Watch where yer goin'!" A gruff voice snapped. My hands balled into a fist of anger and my head snapped up so I could meet the idiot's eyes.
"Wanna repeat that?" I could tell that my grey eyes had turned nearly black which usually scared anyone who crossed me but this guy seemed tougher.
"I said," he began, his face closer than before, "Watch where yer goin'." This time I knew my eyes were black. I opened my mouth to shoot a comeback but instead I felt Lia tugging on my jacket sleeve.
"He's not worth it Andy, just let it go." I growled at her but backed down anyway.
"Count your lucky stars she's here. Next time you won't be given as much grace." With that I swiftly turned to the side and walked off with Lia in tow, "Who owns this place?" I asked the woman who was putting the washing on the clothes line.
"That would be Herschel, he's inside, you'll find him most likely in the study." I nodded in thanks and walked towards the house.
"I'm going to take a guess and say that you're Andy?" I turned to the sound of a voice only to find an old man. Immediately I could tell this was the Herschel that the short-haired woman had talked about.
"Yes sir, I'm Andy and you're Herschel?" The man nodded with a small smile.
"And what brings you here Andy?"
"Me and my sister were being chased by a herd of walkers and we found your farm." Herschel nodded in understanding and placed a light hand on my shoulder.
"I can tell you're not the type of person who would do bad things for the hell of it so I'm gonna let you stay until this group leaves, I'll make sure to ask Rick if it's okay for you two to join his group of survivors."
"Thank you sir."
"No need to thank me, just have some rest, you look exhausted. There's a shower upstairs, you can take one of the rooms tonight." I nodded my thanks and Herschel showed us to the spare room, "The bathroom is right there, feel free to use it, have a good night."
It took me a second to process what Herschel said.
"Wait, it's night time?" Lia laughed and looked at me as if it was the most obvious thing in the world which it kinda was.
"Wow, time flies when you're getting attacked by zombies."
"Yep, oh and by the way..." Lia trailed off and I already knew what she was gonna say before she said it, "I call first shower!" I rolled my eyes.
"You're sixteen and yet you act like a 5 year old." Lia grinned.
"Perks of being the younger one."
"Just have your damn shower before I decide to take it from you."
"Jealous?"
"Psh! No!" She gave me a look, "Just go have your damn shower!" She giggled and walked off with her bag of clothes.
"Teens these days." I muttered
"I heard that!"
"You weren't meant to!"
A/N: Just a quick note, yes this is another story within what? One day? What can I say, I like The Walking Dead. Anyway, the second chapter for Waking Up should be on tomorrow and second chap for this should be the next day, so that's it, have an awesome time reading!
lol I can just imagine someone being like
"Don't tell me what to do!"