Beca walked in and turned to everyone. They were all standing by the window, but now turned around and looked at Beca in shock. Beca stared back at them.
Finally after a few minutes, Beca spoke, "Get everything we will need. We are leaving". She ran upstairs into her room.
"I didn't think she would be able to do that." Emily said with tears running down her face. She wasn't the only one. Chloe, Aubrey, Stacie, Benji, and Beca of course.
Fat Amy wanted to be the one to stay strong for this upsetting moment. Jesse wasn't crying. He did care, but for some reason he just didn't feel anything. "I'm going to check on her." He said being the boyfriend he should be.
Chloe didn't really want to say anything if she didn't have too. However, that didn't stop everyone else. She went to her room and grabbed a bag and put some necessary things in it. She even had a taser. Which won't really do anything but she put it in her bag anymore.
"Hey, where's Chlo?" Benji asked confused. Everyone looked around the room. They all wondered why it was so quiet, even though they were all talking.
Aubrey's eyes widened in fear. She could only think the worst. It was her best friend. Obviously she could think the worst with this whole catastrophe. She was about to run to the window to see if the redhead went outside into a big mob of those people things, when she heard something fall to the ground next to her. "Chloe." She said in relief.
Chloe looked up at everyone in the room. "You are supposed to be gathering stuff up. Go get some bags. No plastic ones." That was all Chloe said before leaving the room.
Chloe walked back up to her room and shut the door behind her. She looked around her room and decided to go lay down on her bed.
The redhead felt her eyes getting heavy. She tried to stay awake, but this only made it harder. Eventually, she was asleep.
"I don't think this is a good idea." Beca said. Everyone looked at Chloe. "Why you all looking at me? I don't know what to do." She stated.
"Well you are the smartest one." Aubrey said.
Chloe scoffed. "You are, but you are stupid if you don't remember that. Plus, this wasn't my idea. Did you see what that was out there. I mean, do you really want to go into that giant mob of people or whatever. If you want to, go ahead. But Beca is right we can't do that. Let's just wait it out for a day or two and if they aren't gone then we will figure it out."
Chloe left the room to get some water.
After a few seconds Beca walked in. "Hey." Beca smiled. Chloe noticed a change in her voice. "Hi." Chloe said back.
Beca sat down nervously. She didn't say anything, and she didn't look at Chloe. Maybe a few times but not much.
This started to make Chloe nervous. "Beca... What's wrong?" Beca still wouldn't look at her. "Beca, seriously. You are scaring me." Chloe took a drink of water. Her throat began to dry again. Beca mumbled something, but Chloe couldn't hear her.
"What?" Chloe said confused. Beca looked up. She stared for a minute before looking back down.
While Chloe was drinking water again she hear Beca say, "I love you." Once she realized what she said Chloe turned around quickly and spit the water out.
The redhead turned around and put the cup down and took a napkin to wipe the remaining water off her face. Then she looked at Beca. "What?" She nervously laughed. Beca was left with confusion. "Sorry, I shouldn't have told you." She said as she started to stand up. Chloe stopped her.
"I didn't know you felt the same way." Chloe said. Beca didn't turn around, she stood in place. Chloe wasn't smiling, she didn't even know why.
Beca turned around. Chloe noticed blood flowing from Beca's arms and stomach. Chloe ran to Beca before she could hit the floor.
"No. No, no no no no no." She kept saying. "Chloe, Chloe, Come on. Chloe."
"Chloe, Chlo, wake up. We need to go, come on wake up." Chloe felt someone shaking her. She jumped up against the wall.
"Whoah Red. Calm down. You're okay." Beca said trying to calm her down. Chloe couldn't look Beca. She just couldn't. So, she looked away from the tiny brunette. She noticed everyone in the room.
She had sweat dripping from her face. Chloe stood up and ran downstairs and grabbed her bag. She didn't care if anyone tried to stop her from going out. She opened the door and looked out. There were still a big horde in the middle of the street. She turned around and saw everyone running to her trying to stop her.
Before Chloe could walk out, she realized she didn't have anything to defend herself with, so she ran into the kitchen grabbed a knife. Two knives. She tried to go back to the front door, but everyone was blocking her. She looked behind her and saw the door behind her.
Chloe ran out the door hearing everyone running after her. She was walking, until they all ran faster. She ran as fast as she could. She got to the end of the yard where all the people would be able to see her. She stopped. Everyone caught up to her and stood behind her.
"Chlo, what are you doing?" Aubrey said out of breath. "You can't go out there. You need to stay with us. We will leave in a bit." Jesse said calmly. Aubrey grabbed Chloe's arms. Chloe looked at her. "I can't be here." She said before pushing Aubrey away from her, and running out the street.
There was probably five of those things in the street. Chloe stopped and took a breath. She turned around. She looked at everyone. After she turned back around, she ran up to one of the things who were tearing apart Jessica. She took it's arm and pulled him next to her, she took the knife she had and stabbed him in the head like Beca had down to the blonde below her.
She finally got the attention of the other four, knowing she wouldn't have a chance with all them in one spot, she slowly backed down the street, not back to the house but the complete opposite. They all started running after her. At that, she turned turned around and lead them away.
"Oh my god. Oh my god." Aubrey said over and over, she turned over away from everyone else and threw up. Beca on the other hand, fell to the ground. "What did she do? What did she do? Oh my god. What did she do?!" She yelled. She started hyperventilating.
After a about seven minutes, Beca started to calm down and stood up. She started to run back into the house grabbing her stuff. Then she walked out the front door and ran where she saw Chloe run too. Everyone did the same after Beca was half way down the street none of them could keep up.
Finally, after ten minutes of running, Beca saw exactly four people on the ground completely dead. She looked around but didn't see the redhead.
"Chloe? Chlo? Where are you? Chloe?" She said trying not to draw much attention. After a few more calls, Chloe came into sight.
Beca saw her carrying another bag. Chloe walked up to her and dropped the bag to the side. She still couldn't look at Beca. Especially not after what she just did.
Beca looked at Chloe watching her stand there emotionless. "Chloe." Beca said softly. Beca couldn't help but pull Chloe to her and hugged her tightly. "Don't do that again." Chloe wanted to hug back but for some reason she just couldn't. For some reason she just felt guilt. She's not sure if the dream scared her, or the fact that she just killed four half-dead people. Maybe both.
"Chloe! Oh my God! Don't do that again." Aubrey said running at the redhead at full speed. "Don't do that again. Me and Beca almost died ourselves, because of what you did." The petite blonde hugged her tightly. Chloe wouldn't say anything but she did look at her.
Aubrey wouldn't let go of her. After a few more seconds, Chloe didn't want to be touched. She pushed Aubrey gently off her, and turned to walk to the house.
Everyone turned and watched her with concern, she wouldn't look back once. She was about halfway to the house, nobody else moved. Chloe dropped the knife right before she got to the yard.
"Did we do something?" Fat Amy asked. Emily looked at Beca. She could see the hurt in her eyes. "No. We didn't. She just needs some time." She said as she walked up to Beca and put a hand on her shoulder. Beca looked up with a weak smile.
"She's right. Just give her time. We uh, we need to find, the girls. Sydney and the others. Let's get inside. We will stay here for a day, we will leave tomorrow morning. I don't know what this is, but it's bad." Beca explained as she lead them all back to the house.
Morning:
"Chloe. It's time to go." Stacie said standing by the doorway. Chloe grabbed her bag and walked downstairs. Stacie followed. Everyone was already downstairs waiting by the door.
Chloe stopped in front of everyone, and looked at each one of them, she looked Beca's way but didn't completely look at her. After about two minutes, she opened the door and walked out. They all followed.
"Did she say anything yet?" Benji asked. "No, I don't know why she won't speak. It's like mute, or something." Stacie explained. "She hasn't spoken since yesterday. If she doesn't speak tomorrow too, she's mute." Jesse said. Everyone looked at him. "How do you know this?" Aubrey asked in awe. Jesse shrugged.
"My cousin. She is mute. Don't know why, but she's been like that for two years." He explained. "Oh sorry." Aubrey said. Jesse shrugged once again.
Chloe stopped in her tracks. Beca ran into her. "What's wrong red? She asked. Chloe still wouldn't speak. In that case, Beca stepped in front of her and looked herself. "What the hell?" She said. Everyone joined her for the view. "Oh my god." The tasmanian said.
Chloe looked at the big giant crowd of the deadly people. Then she started walking. "Chloe, what are you doing?" Benji asked fearfully. Chloe, once again didn't say anything, she just kept walking.
This time she didn't have a knife in her hand. She was still walking. She was close enough to see what was going on. Some were tearing people apart, while others tried to catch a person running away from the person being torn apart. Chloe moved closer. She saw a long stick. She picked it up and ran up to a building. She looked at everyone. They all stared back.
"Here she goes again." Stacie said. Right after that they all saw Chloe drop the stick in her hand. "What's she doing?" Beca said, her eyes wide. They watched Chloe walk along the side of the building.
Chloe looked at the horde and stood in front of the building and turned to face it. She put her hands on the front and started banging on it as hard as possible. She turned and saw all those things walking toward her.
Once some of them reached her, everyone heard a loud screech. They all fell to the ground including Chloe. She was the one closest to the dead people. They all were holding their ears but they all watched the redhead. Their eyes widened.
Chloe looked up and saw a whole group right on top of her. Her eyes widened. More and more every second. She knew she wouldn't be able to get out without doing something right there and now. She looked around her, she couldn't find anyway out. The fear in her eyes were so dreadful. All she could think was, I'm dead, I'm dead. They better get out of here. They have too.
Chloe was still on the ground. She was on all fours by now. Hands trying to get her.
The group:
"They are going to kill her. She can't get out of there. We have to go get her. Let go of me!" Beca yelled. Jesse tried holding her back.
"She did that for a reason. We have to go. Let Beca go. JESSE!" Benji yelled. "Chloe! Wouldn't want this. She doesn't want any of you to get hurt." Jesse explained.
Chloe:
Chloe saw a way out. She knew it was risky, but it's either that, or death. It was a tiny little space. Nothing blocking it, yet. She needed a of luck to get there before a dead person blocks the area. Chloe crawled past as best she could.
The group:
"She's dead. We let her die. She's dead." Emily said as she started freaking out. Beca fell into Jesse's arms. Aubrey passed out after throwing up so many times. Stacie, standing in shock. Fat Amy hugging Stacie like a teddy bear. Benji holding Emily against him to keep her from hurting herself.
Chloe:
Chloe got up. The attention was instantly drawn to her again. She turned around and looked at the building that was next to her. Lock N' Load. She smiled deviously. That smile quickly faded. She turned around and saw a zombie not even two steps away from her. She ran inside and shut the door.
There were at least twenty guns in the store, that she could grab easily. She grabbed them all and looked for any ammo. She looked behind the glass table display to find a lot of different assortments. She was so glad she still had her bag. She put them all in her bag. Then she looked in the glass display.
Pistols. Knives. She took one of the guns she just grabbed and used the end of it to break the glass. She grabbed seven pistols and put it in her bags with the ammo. She didn't have much room left but she would do her best.
She saw a knife and pistol holster behind her. Multiple ones. Probably eight or nine. She grabbed one and put it on her waist and put four knives in the knife holders. Before she put the pistol in it's holster she knew she had to find ammo.
She looked by the register. She saw a small drawer that was locked. It wasn't for money either. Once again she used the back of her gun and broke the lock on it.
The drawer had a pistol with multiple rounds. She put the pistol she had in her hand and put it down and grabbed the one that was loaded. Right there and then, she heard a loud shatter. She looked to the door and saw the dead rush into the store. She grabbed the rounds and put them in her pocket, and picked up the guns she had put on the floor.
She found a bag under the register too. She put all the guns in there, except one. She looked at the door once more and ran to the back door to get out.
Chloe ran to the tree line and ran back to the way she was at. She ran and ran and ran.
Chloe saw her friends crying and panicking. Everyone but Jesse seemed to be frightened. She only saw Beca and she needed to get them all out of there before the dead catches up.
Chloe fell right in front of Beca and Jesse. Beca looked at her with surprise along with everyone else. Chloe got back up on her knees and opened the back full of guns. No one would move so, Chloe took a gun and threw one to each of her friends. She also brought the bullets out.
The same ear-piercing sound came back. Closer. Chloe felt the most pain twice. They all held their ears once again. On the ground, waiting for it to end.
A minute later it stopped. Chloe knew they had to go. Beca still wasn't sure what was going on. All they knew was, they needed to leave. Now.
They all saw the movement behind them. "Zombies." Benji said. Everyone looked at him. The fear inside of everyone grew much more. All because of one word. Zombies.
"Run." Jesse said. Everyone got up to run. Aubrey still wasn't conscious so, Jesse and Emily had to carry her. Beca though, she was still on the ground in shock of finding that Chloe was safe, sorta.
Chloe was running but stopped in her tracks realizing that a tiny brunette wasn't in front of her. Sure enough, no one was behind her either. Chloe looked around and saw Beca in the same spot she has been in for the last twenty minutes. Chloe looked at the group in front of her who were still running.
Chloe ran back to Beca and picked the girl up. Beca didn't seem to move. Chloe sat in front of Beca. Chloe didn't want to do this but, she knew that it was really now or never. Chloe looked at Beca with sorrow.
Chloe slapped Beca across the face. This snapped Beca back to reality. "What?" She asked. Chloe didn't have to say anything due to a moan next to them. "Shit." Beca said as she jumped up. Chloe grabbed Beca's arm and lead her to where everyone else in the group went.
Everyone stopped running after a while. Aubrey was finally awake. Everyone out of breath from running for so long. Chloe still not saying anything.
Beca looked at Chloe, who was leaning against a tree. She walked up to the redhead. "How did you get out of there?" The redhead was silent. "You won't even talk to me." Beca said in sadness. Chloe looked down at the bag. Beca followed her eyes.
Beca opened the bag. Her eyes wide. She looked back up at Chloe. "Chlo, you got these?" She nodded. "Nice job Red." Beca said with a smile.
Chloe walked away to the side. Far out away from everyone, but close enough for the group to see her.
About ten minutes later she feels something dripping from her face. She put her hand up to her mouth then brought it back down so she could see what it was. Blood. Her nose was bleeding. She had a confused expression on her face. Maybe just a typical nose bleed. Nothing to worry about.
She sat down and pinched the soft part of her nose.
It stopped bleeding quite quickly. She was surprised but relieved that it stopped. She decided to start walking back to the group.
"Chlo, can you come help me?" Emily asked while she was trying to pick something up. Chloe walked over, until she started getting dizzy. She tried walking straight. Everyone noticed. They all looked at her with a lot of confusion. She was confused herself.
She finally caught herself in one spot. She knew everyone was staring at her. Once again she felt something hit her hand. She looked at her hand. More blood. She turned around to the direction she came from because no one was there. She started to feel her face burning. She started coughing. She knew she had to do something. She didn't know what though. So, she just ran back to the spot she was.
Chloe made it to her spot and looked back to make sure no one was following. But there were. Aubrey and Beca. She ran once again but to the left. She kept running until she could find a tree to climb so they couldn't find her. Or at least reach her, because she will be high up.
"Chloe! Stop!" Aubrey yelled. Beca and Aubrey knew she wouldn't stop but they wanted to try. They both stopped. "Where'd she go?" Beca asked. Beca looked one way while Aubrey looked the other. Let's just stay here for a little bit maybe she will come back.
"I'm worried about her. She's never acted like this before." Aubrey complained. Beca looked at her then laughed lightly. Aubrey glared at her. "Well we are in some kind of apocalypse, do you seriously expect her to-" Aubrey stopped her. "Wait. She did act like this before. Just not this bad though." "She did?" Beca asked with surprise. The blonde nodded her head.
Sophomore year in Barden. I don't know what exactly happened. I only know is that she wouldn't speak to me for three days, anyone really, she stayed in her room. Didn't go to classes. What's even more weird is, she didn't even want to go to rehearsal. I literally had to carry her there. Our captain got upset. Somehow she let Chloe off the hook. She sat out for those two days. After those two days, she finally spoke and all that, but she never told me why that happened." Aubrey explained.
Beca listened. She thought of what caused her to feel whatever she's feeling or whatever is bothering her. Beca didn't want to push Aubrey that far into the memory. "That's, I don't know what to say. What do you think it is now?" "Beats me. It's been awhile, maybe it's because of Jessica and the others. But, why did she risk her life so much, when she really didn't have too?" Aubrey said. That last part made her smile. "What?" Beca shook. "Nothing just, she's so confident. Especially all that. You know what I'm talking about if she told you."
"No, she didn't tell me anything. I don't even know why you tried out suddenly." The blonde confessed. Beca laughed. She didn't tell her best friend. Interesting." "Well why did you try out?"
Beca didn't say. All she said was, "It's not my choice to tell. Ask Chloe, maybe if you ask when she comes back, maybe she'll speak." The blonde stared at her for a second. "Maybe."
Chloe was actually not even far away from them. She was actually twelve feet away. Approximately. She stopped right before the other two did. Her nose kept bleeding for ten minutes. Stopped now. The coughing stopped too. Still a few here and there. The dizziness no longer there at all.
Chloe has been standing behind a tree for quite a while now. She felt her stomach turning. She bent down holding her stomach, only to throw up.
"What was that?" Beca asked. "It came from over there. Let's go." Aubrey said as she started to lead the way. They turned around a tree and saw Chloe vomiting. "Chloe." Beca said walking up to her and pulling her hair back.
After a few more seconds the puking finally stopped. She thought all that stuff was over, until she felt her legs go numb. She started to fall to the side, but Aubrey caught her. "Whoah. You okay?" Chloe looked at Aubrey and nodded her head.
"Let's all head back and find a house or something and rest there." Beca said. Chloe nodded in agreement, but still not looking at Beca. "Okay. I'll carry on my back." Beca said. Chloe finally looked at Beca. She wasn't sure if she wanted to be carried.
"Come on Chloe. Go ahead. She won't bite. I think." Aubrey said. Beca scoffed. Chloe looked between them and finally jumped on Beca's back. "Okay let's go." Beca said.
"Everyone pack everything up, we are leaving." Aubrey demanded. "What? Why? Why is Beca carrying Chloe on her back?" Fat Amy blurted out questions.
"That's why we're leaving. Hurry up. Let's go." Beca demanded. Chloe hit Beca's shoulder as a sign. Beca did what Chloe wanted. Chloe grabbed her bag and waited.
"Okay. Let's get the show on the road." Aubrey said.
They were all walking down the street being careful. They didn't want to draw much attention to themselves. Beca watched Chloe. Is she mad at me? That was all Beca could think of.
"Hey, you okay?" Jesse asked as he took Beca's hand into his. Beca nodded. "Yeah. Just confused." "About?" Jesse waited for an answer. Beca jerked her head towards Chloe. Jesse felt bad. "She's okay. She'll be alright." Beca shook her head. "We need to find them soon." She sighed. "We will." Jesse assured.
Beca saw something out the corner of her eyes. "Wait." Everyone stopped. "What?" Fat Amy asked. "I saw something." Beca replied back. "It might've been a- What are we calling these things?" Emily asked.
"We are not copying the Walking Dead. Something simple. Let's go with Rotters." Stacie said. "No, it wasn't a Rotter." Beca said. Beca started to walk towards the house. Until Chloe stopped her. "What?" Beca asked. Still no answer. Chloe walked to where Beca was going, she put her hand up to signal the tiny brunette to stay there.
They all watched the redhead check what it was Beca saw. "Why the hell does she keep doing this? It's like she's trying to avoid something." Beca said with sadness and anger. "Beca, calm down. Benji said quietly. Beca took a deep breath. "Calm." She said to herself.
They saw Chloe stop. "What's wrong?" Beca asked, even know she knew Chloe wouldn't be able to hear her.
Chloe walked up to where Beca was going to walk to. She turned the corner to look in the backyard of a house. What she saw shocked her. She walked closer. She knew no one could see her now, except what she saw in front of her.
"What happened? Where is she?" Aubrey started to freak out. Beca was about to walk, run, to Chloe, but Fat Amy stopped her. "She said stay here. She will be fine. She did get those guns." "She's right. She was in a full on horde, and she got guns. Guns in which can kill them. She's got those knives and pistol around her waist." Emily said backing Amy up. Beca nodded.
Chloe walked closer. "I'm not going to hurt you. My name is Chloe. Come here. Where are your parents?" A boy just stared at her. "Are they... are they gone?" She asked. "If you mean dead... yes." The boy sad sadly.
He was probably five or six. "I'm sorry. Are you with anyone here? Is that your dog?" "No. I'm not. This is my dog." He replied. "What's your name? What's your dog's name?" Chloe asked. "Everest. His name is Jackson. I also have another dog inside. Her name is Sophie. She's a big dog. She was really small when she was born." He smiled. "They are all I've got." His smile turned into a frown.
Chloe stared at him. "You want to come with me? I have seven friends with me. We gave guns and knives to protect you." He looked at her for a minute. He nodded. "Okay, let's get you to my friends, then we will get Sophie." "Okay." His voice was soft. "Okay." She reached for his hand. "Let's go." He smiled. "Thank you. Wait, Sophie and Cadence." He stopped her. "Cadence?"
"Cadence is my sister she's one year older than me. She's six. I'm five." "Okay go get them, I will wait right here. Hurry up. I'll stay with Jackson. Hurry up. My friends will start to worry. If something happens yell." "Okay." He said as he started to run inside.
"We should go see if she's okay." Beca said. "No, if she was in trouble she would scream, or there would've been a gunshot." Aubrey said. Beca turned around. "Really. She's your best friend. Technically your sister." "Beca, I trust her." Beca stared at her. Then she nodded her head.
"Okay, let's go. This is Chloe. Chloe this is Cadence." Everest said cheerfully. Me and my friends will protect you. I will protect you. I promise you both. You can trust me. Are you both ready to go?" The two siblings nodded.
They all started to walk around the corner.
"See there she is. She is f-" Jesse stopped. They all looked at Chloe who held a boy's hand and a girl walking next to her along with two dogs. One is a golden retriever, and the other is a German Shepard.
They all stood there watching the three people and the two dogs. They were all surprised.
"I think you will like my friends. They are very nice. I just haven't talked to them for three days." "Why?" Cadence asked. Chloe stopped them. Chloe saw Jackson and Minnie still walking. "Jackson. Sophie. Come here." Everest yelled.
"You guys trust me yet?" Chloe asked. Both siblings looked at each other then at Chloe, both responded 'yeah' at the same time. "Good. If you trust me, then I will tell you. Just not now. Let's go." She said standing back up and taking Everest's hand again. "Oh come on." He said. Chloe giggled. "If you introduce yourselves, and show you are not afraid of any of us, I'll tell you then." Chloe smiled. The siblings smiled.
They walked up to the group. Chloe smiled at everyone at sat down on one knee to be able to speak to the two kids at their heights. "We made a deal right. Now, you keep your end, I'll keep mine." They both looked at her with a little bit of fear. "You can trust them." She whispered to them.
Hi. I'm Everest." "I'm Cadence. These are our dogs." "The German Shepard is Jackson. The Golden Retriever is Sophie." Everest said pointing at each dog as he said their names. "Okay. I'll tell you both later. You will hear their names. I'm not speaking to any of them right now." Chloe admitted. Everyone heard this.
"Are you mad at them?" Cadence asked. "No, it's not that. That, I will explain to you both later." She said. "Let's go. Do you want to grab anything before we leave?" They both thought for a second. They both turn and ran back into the house. Chloe giggled. "Thanks for telling me!" She yelled as she started running after them. "Jackson, Sophie, come on." She called before opening the door.
"What just happened?" Emily asked. "At least we know she isn't mad at us." Benji said. "She isn't talking to us." Beca said with hurt. "Not even me." Aubrey said with disappointment.
"Chloe, come here." Everest said with a lot of happiness. Chloe walked into a room. "This is my room. Can we take all of this?" He asked pointing at a stuffed animal, small car, pencil and sketchbook, and a small blanket.
"You both can get your own bag and put a pillow and blanket in it along with anything you want to put in it. Nothing heavy though." She said with a smile.
"Yay!" Everest shouted with happiness. "Put some necessary things in there too. Like, water, clothes, anything like that." Chloe added. "I'll be downstairs waiting. Remember, if anything happens, yell." She said before walking downstairs.
Chloe sat on the couch. She saw her friends walk into the room, she knew once they sat down they would start asking question. She stood up. Everyone stared at her. She smiled.
"Chloe? Why won't you talk to us?" Fat Amy asked. Chloe smile faded, she still wouldn't look at Beca. "You won't even look at Beca." Benji pointed out. Chloe gulped. She was about to cry. But she held her tears back.
The redhead felt something go through her body. Like a lighting strike that hit the ground dangerously. She bent her head to the ground and she gasped for air. "Chloe? You okay?" She heard Beca say. Chloe turned around and looked up and ran back outside.
Chloe fell to her knees. Her nose bleeding again. Faster. Not to fast, but faster than the other two. She was gasping for air. It felt like something was forcing her to stop breathing. Her head burning. "No! Not again!" She screamed.
"No! Not again!" The group and the two kids heard a painful scream from outside. "Chloe!" Jesse yelled. Everyone ran out the door.
Chloe heard the door slam open. Chloe jumped up and looked around. She could only see the backyard. She ran around the house before anyone could see what was going on.
She ran back to the front of the house. She saw everyone standing right out the door. She looked around her once again. Mulch and rocks. She picked up a rock, trying not to get blood on it. She looked at the street then threw it. "What was that?" Stacie asked. They all walked up to the street, along with the two siblings and dogs.
Chloe ran to the front door. "Thanks! Be right out!" She yelled as she opened the door. Everyone turned around. "Chloe! What the fuck you doing?" Beca yelled running back to the house. Chloe ignored the question. "Chloe!" Cadence yelled.
Chloe's eyes widened. "Everest, Cadence. Stay be Beca and the others. I will be out in a few minutes. I promise. Can you stay with them for a few minutes? Do you still trust me? 'Cuz I need you too." She got an instant reply. "We trust you. Are you okay?" She could hear Cadence's voice. Chloe hesitated. "Chloe?" "Yeah, I'm okay. I promise. I'll be right out." Chloe replied.
Chloe ran upstairs and into the bathroom. She looked in the mirror. The blood running from her nose like a faucet. "What's wrong with me?" She asked herself. She grabbed a washcloth and brought it to her nose.
Five minutes later, the bleeding stopped. "Thank God." She muttered. She grabbed six more washcloths. She stuffed them in her back. She walked back downstairs. She stopped at the door. "Excuse, what's my excuse? I'm not even talking to them. What do I tell the kids? I'll tell them later." With that she walked out the door.
"Hey what happened?" Aubrey asked her best friend. Chloe didn't turn to look at them. Cadence and Everest walked up to the redhead and took each hand.
They both knew she would tell them if she wanted to.
They barely know her but they trust her. She did take them with her after all. "We won't make you say anything you want to say. You don't even have to tell us what you said you would tell us." Everest said softly.
Chloe stopped everyone once again. "Thank you." She said as the two kids came in for a hug they knew she needed. "But, I made a deal, and I always keep them. Especially my promise." Chloe smiled as she squeezed them tightly. "We should go." Chloe finished. She stood back up and took their hands. The dogs were walking next to each kid.
They all reached the end of the street when they heard a few groans. Rotters. "Let's go a different way." Benji said. They all turned around to walk, but stopped once there were more behind them. "Chloe." Everest said squeezing her hand tightly. "Stay by me." Right there and then, a Rotter threw itself at Stacie. This caused all, what looks like eleven, Rotters to turn and walk to the group.
"We have to fight." Jesse said. Chloe was already ahead of him. "Duck." She said sternly to Jesse. He looked at her with confusion. Since he didn't listen he was tackled to the ground. Chloe didn't hesitate. She threw the knife and hit the zombie smack dab in the head. They all looked at her.
She walked up to Jesse. She pulled the collar of his shirt and picked him up off the ground. "Next time you don't listen to me, it might be to late. I might not be able to help. I will try anyway, because Beca needs someone to protect her. I would do that, but I can't." He stared at her with more confusion.
"If I couldn't protect her, would you do it?" He asked. "Yeah, but as long as you are alive, it's not my job. I can't even look at her. I have my reasons. I won't talk to anyone about it until I'm ready. Is that good enough for you?" He nodded his head. She looked behind him. "Good." She said as she stabbed another Rotter in the head.
Chloe turned around. "Well, am I the only one who wants to survive?" She asked sarcastically. They all turned around, the Rotters weren't quite near them yet, but they still needed to grab their guns. Chloe took her knife out of the zombie behind her. Then took the knife she had in her hand and wiped the blood off it.
"Stay behind me." The redhead said to the kids. They both nodded.
Everyone was ready to fight. The kids behind Chloe. They all stayed by each other until the Rotters finally reached them. They heard a screech again. They all stayed standing up pressing their hands against their heads. It stopped a second later. Literally. It lasted three seconds.
Everyone was killing zombies. The dogs were actually helping. They would growl at the zombies who would be near the kids and Chloe. The kids would point out the closest zombie to anybody in the group.
After a few minutes, the kids have walked away from Chloe, no one realized it until they heard a scream. There were only five zombies left. One were on each child.
Chloe looked up. Her eyes widened. She almost fell to the ground feeling weak again. No, not this time. I made a promise. I'm going to keep it. She thought to herself.
Chloe had to move quick. She could see Cadence having a harder time, and the zombie was going to win. Everest seemed to be a little stronger. But he was struggling himself. Chloe had an idea of what to do.
Chloe took the knife in her hand and threw it at the zombie on top of Cadence. Then she tried to grab for another knife but there were no more left. "Shit." She muttered to herself.
She looked around. "Chloe!" She looked up and heard Everest. His voice low and had a lot of fear behind it.
She ran and dove for the zombie who had it's face ready to bite Everest's neck.
The zombie flew back with Chloe on top of him. That was until there was another zombie above her. She let out a gasp. She saw the rock she threw not even an hour ago. I was a big rock. She was surprised that she was able to throw it.
She took the rock and turned around to the one she had pinned down, and bashed its head in with the rock. Right after she turned around after killing the one on the ground she was pushed back onto her back next to the complete dead one. This time she was the one on her back. The Rotter on top of her.
The Rotter pushed itself closer and closer. She pushed it back as hard as she could. It worked, but not as long as she needed it to be. Then, black tar-like liquid started to fall from it's mouth.
She felt blood again. It wasn't her nose though. Just her arm. She must've scraped it, after tackling the other zombie to the ground.
The liquid fell onto her shoulder. She was disgusted but she followed the Rotter's gaze. It's face turning to her arm. It was going for her arm. "Not today." She muttered and pushed the dead of her with all her might. Literally, she felt a little weak.
Chloe took the rock from the zombie's head and jumped on the zombie who tried to take a bite out of her arm, and started hitting it in the face until she could see the inside's all over the road.
Chloe stopped up and dropped the rock next to her. She was out of breath. Chloe's friends turned around not realizing what happened.
"Chloe!" Cadence and Everest yelled at once. They both ran to her. She sat down on the street a few feet away from the two dead people she had just killed.
The two siblings were crying. "You almost died." Everest yelled. "I would rather die than let you guys die." The redhead said. She was being truthful. "You saved me. You almost died because of me." Cadence said getting more sensitive. "Thank you." Everest spoke for him and Cadence. "I keep my promises. Now you know you can trust me more than anyone else." Chloe said with her own tears running down her face.
The group watched the three on the ground. "Did she just... she almo-" Aubrey couldn't find the words. "Wait. Chloe, your arm." Benji said with worry.
"It's a scrape." Cadence spoke for Chloe knowing the redhead still doesn't want to talk to them.
"How do you know?" Stacie asked.
"She tackled the one that was on top of me." Everest said.
"We can't risk it. We have to let her go." Jesse said. Beca turned to him. "What?" "That is probably a bite." "Jesse! What if that was you? Would you want us to leave you? You really need to think. We are not leaving her." Beca explained trying not to bring out her bad side at the moment.
"If you leave her, we are staying. I trust her. We trust her. We believe her because we saw the whole thing." Cadence exclaimed.
"Jesse's right." Chloe said. Everyone looked at her. "What?" Everest asked. "He's right?" Aubrey asked with confusion. Chloe stared at them.
"It is just a scrape, but I almost killed myself how many times. There's different reasons for risking my life like that. I don't know why my no-" Chloe stopped speaking once she realized that she was about to tell them what she didn't want them to know.
"What were you about to say?" Fat Amy asked. Chloe stood up and started grabbing the knives of the ground.
"Go. Keep an eye on these two and the dogs. I want you all to be safe. I can't keep doing this anymore." Chloe said. "Doing what?" Emily asked.
"It doesn't matter. Go." Chloe demanded. "We are not leaving you." Everest said. "You will be fine. Stay with them. You will be safe. I will be okay too. I will. I promise." She assured. "Okay. Will we see you again?" Cadence asked. "I'll be honest. I don't know." The redhead confessed.
"Please go. They are coming. I will get away from here. I want you to keep them safe." Chloe said. "Chlo, we can' leave you." Beca said stepping up to Chloe.
Chloe looked at Beca for a few seconds. "I am afraid to look at you. If you... are gone, then it... please just go. I'm begging you. I can't do this anymore. And if you don't leave, I will walk right into that horde and I will be gone for sure. Please, watch the kids." Chloe whispered into her ear. She obviously wasn't serious about walking into that horde, but she needed them to leave.
Beca was crying but she nodded her head. "Okay. Okay." her voice breaking.
A/N: I know it's a long chapter. I just didn't have an idea of where to stop. I know that this chapter mostly focus on Chloe, but some will be like that for Chloe and Beca. While others will be a normal chapter with the focus everyone. Thank you. Please review. Til next time peeps. ;)