After that encounter, I slowly backed out of the bathroom, shut the door, and went and sat on the bed. Thoughts began to race in my head, "who is she, how did she survive, what's her name, and the biggest one, why am I thinking about her in general?" but then I just shrugged it off as I heard the door open.
She walked out with water still glistening on her skin; it was a sight to be seen. She was wearing a plaid skirt, and a ripped up shirt that only reached the top of her belly, for some reason I couldn't bring myself to stop staring. When she noticed I was staring she said to me in a semi-serious tone "do you like what you see?" and then she sat down beside me. Unsure of what to say I simply muttered "hello, my name is Jeff, what's yours?"
She at first looked at me with a confused expression, but then a soft smile went across her lips then she said "my name is Aurora; now please explain to me why you tried to sneak up on me taking a shower?" I laughed, letting a boyish grin spread across my face and said "because I wanted to!" she just laughed. Then as fate would have it, my little girl knocked on the door and whispered "daddy, are you alright… can I come in?" I then of course said in a moderate tone "I'm fine angel, come on in."
Angel came in through the door, and I swear I saw Aurora's eyes gleam as she began talking "Well, aren't you a cute little one." Then of course after that Angel began to blush and giggle. "Well, let's all get acquainted, Aurora… Angel, Angel… Aurora" I said in a light hearted tone. They both began to laugh, but then out of the corner of my eye… I saw them the 'Crawlers' were moving past the door, I then quieted everyone… dropped down and held my breath.
Realizing we were helpless if they attacked, I held my hand over Angel's mouth and kept them both down. After what seemed like an eternity they left, I finally took a breath of air, then said out loud not really towards anyone in particular "We need to move, help me gather the supplies and weapons… we need to move now!" but as soon as the end of my sentence got out of my mouth Aurora spoke with authority "You better not be planning on leaving me behind!" while she got up and gathered her stuff I simply chuckled and went back to getting what I needed.
After I got everything I needed and angel needed, I went down to the parking lot and met up with Aurora. As I approached her I let a small grin spread across my lips as I said "Mighty fine weather we're having here." She looked at me with a smirk spreading across her lips, and just chuckled and began to walk south.
For the next week or two it was quiet and simple going place to place, and then all hell broke loose. We were camping at a gas station for a night then I hear the most disturbing sounds waking me up. "What the hell." I muttered groggily as I was woken up by moans and then a roar. What happened next happened too fast to comprehend, the wall shatters and I get thrown the other way. I hear Angel screaming and bullets being fired by who I hoped was Aurora and I quickly got to my feet and picked up my crossbow and began firing into the hordes determined, thinking " I will save you Angel."