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Last time:

"Now, I don' mean to be rude or nothin' but ya'll gonna have to drop your guns so we can talk to to you without fear of bein' shot for supplies." A soft southern drawl rolls out of the man holding the guns to our heads. I can't help myself as I put him into the attractive scale with his everything but he definitely wasn't my type. I feel my mood worsen and attempt to pull a small blade out of a small holster on my wrist but feel a hand grip my wrist in a steel vice.

"Don't even think about it sweetheart," Murmurs a smooth voice in my ear and my hand reflexively drops my gun lightly on the floor. I notice Marissa has done the same and I feel frustrated tears rise in my eyes.


Chapter 2:

I feel my body tense and hang my head, my long curly hair forming a curtain around my face, trying to control my over whelming urge to try to rip my hand out of this man's grip (he'd have his friend shoot us for sure then). Was this really how everything was going to end? Marissa and I had fought so hard to stay alive since the outbreak happened, and now we might just end up being shot in the head by some other survivors.

'I might be able to cajole them into letting us, or at least Marissa, go...' I think to myself and force my body to relax and look to Marissa, I smile softly and nod trying to convince her that we'd be okay.

I don't bother to look at her for long and turn my head over my shoulder to look at the man who still held my wrist in his rather soft hand. Staring into his rather attractive green eyes I give him the fiercest glare I can manage and say, "Let me go, now."

This seems to take him by surprise for a moment, but a cocky smirk appears on his face slowly. He releases my wrist and takes a step back. He chuckles and says, "Well, since you asked nicely," The stranger tosses his head towards a couch that was pushed into a corner, "Why don't you and your little friend take a seat so we can talk without the need of guns, eh?"

I look to Marissa and catch her and the guy with the drawl, or Ellis, staring at each other like they were sizing each other up. Clearing my throat to grab her attention I flick my eyes from her to Ellis's guns and she nods and limps to the couch. I follow her without glancing towards the two men and perch on the edge of the couch, Marissa sitting so close we were barely touching.

Ellis and the Stranger converse quietly by the door across the room, the former shooting us frutive glances. After a minute or two they walk over and pull two kitchen chairs in front of a couple feet away from us and sit, the Stranger sitting in on the chair backwards and rests his head on his folded arms.

I try to take a steadying breath to try to calm my rather frazzled nerves so I can convince them to let us go but instead end up coughing. I wince as the pain racks through my body and I scoot further into the couch so I don't fall from the edge. Marissa places a steadying hand on my shoulder and looks to the two men who are staring at me like I was dying and says in a very no-nonsense tone, "What do you want from us?"

Her eyes flash dangerously when the Stranger begins to laugh hysterically and Ellis's mouth pulls into a sincere smile. "Er, we don' want any trouble with ya'll. We just wanted to make sure you weren't looters or somethin', Can't be to careful in an Apocalypse right?" Ellis grins and looks to the Stranger. "This here is Nick, he acts like an ass but he really ain't that bad, I promise!" His grin fades slightly when he looks at our unamused faces.

"Nice to meet you Nick and Ellis, but we'll be leaving now before it gets too dark, we need to find a safe place to sleep." Marissa replies in a far more friendlier tone- 'she has the biggest crush on Ellis' I think to myself- and begins to stand but ends up falling back onto the couch with a yelp when her ankle gives out. She blushes a bright red. 'Ooooh she's in way to deep...'

Ellis frowns, "I think ya'll need to stay here if you can't walk, don't you think Darlin'? You won't make it very far."


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My name is Jessk13 and I am honored if any of ya'll are reading this. Just wanted to let you guys know that this story is kinda like a...side story I guess where I just kinda write a quick burst for each chapter. If that makes sense. When I finish my other story 'Truth' chapters will definitely become longer...

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