Chapter 2: Can't run from your Past

Iris's pov

Tommy got better with the stick shift. I got the feeling that something bad is about to happen soon. When I get this feeling it comes to pass. This girl Cassandra looks like she is trying to hid something. But every one has stuff to hid, I know I sure do. Warren was driving a huge army truck and she was hitting every Z that was on the road. I was still in my car with Tommy. Then Warren pulled over so did Doc and us. We got out and walked over to the others. "We are out of gas." Warren said as we looked at the black truck. "I think the tier is flat." Warren said as she got the jake.

I watch as they took off the tier and there was a Z caught up in it. "That explan the pull to the left." Doc said and I had to turn my head so they wouldn't see me giggling. Then I heard bikes coming and I pulled out a arrow. The others looked down the road like me. I saw Cassandra trying to hid.

Two things come to mind when I saw that. First one is that she knows them and they are very bad people. The second one is that she don't trust anyone and don't want to be seen. I know how that one is. But my gut was screaming for the first one. They road passed us and I growled a little. "What's wrong Iris?" Garnett asked me. I turned to him with a small smile. "Nothing but I got a bad feeling." I said as I kept my arrow out. I watched as they went out of sight.

"What is your bad feeling?" Garnett said to me. "My gut is telling me they are bad news." I said as I put my arrow up. "I hope they don't come back." Addy said as she smiled at me. I blushed a little but I turned around. "Iris do you have anymore gas?" Warren asked me. "I got two more cherry cans." I said to her. "We need to find more gas Charles." Warren said to him. I went to pull out one of the gas can, then I walked back to Addy. She took the can and started to fill the truck with the gas.

We didn't bother to fill up the army truck cause it would take a lot of gas. So we pilled into the two cars. Addy and Mack jumped into my car. We drove on and it was a hour after driving we found some cars, so we pulled over to see if they had gas. While the guys checked to see if the cars have gas. I went threw the car's to see what they had. Then I found some CD's. I was going threw them and I let out a small happy scream. Every one looked at me as I jumped out of the car. "What's wrong?" Warren asked me.

I blushed with a smile on my face. "Sorry I been looking for a few CD's and I found two of them." I said a I showed them the CD's. "Which CD's did you found?" Addy asked me. "I found a few Falling in Reverse and Ghost Town. My other copys are so bad that they don't play anymore." I said as I pulled out my CD case and out them in there.

"Good bands. What other CD's do you have?" Addy asked me as I was about to put my CD's up. "Besides them I have Breathe Electric, Hollywood Undead, Escape the Fate and The Hollow." I said and some of their eyes got wide. "Hollywood Undead?" Tommy asked me. "They are a very good band." I said and he looked at me. "The CD we wear listening to yesterday is Hollywood Undead." I said and he nodded his head. "You like that dark music?" Mack asked me. I laughed at him softly. "Dark music really?" I said and he gave me that look. "Yes I like that kind of music Mack." I said as I put my case up.

We got a little gass and then we where going to leave when someone came threw a car. I pulled out a arrow and took aim, while the others pointed their guns at the man. He was one of the guys from earlier. I didn't put down my arrow when he started to talk. He wanted to join up with us to help get gas. I didn't like that at all. My gut was screaming at me to kill him. I had to hold back my will to kill him.

Garnett looked at us before he turned back to look at the guy. "I don't know." Garnett said to him. "I know where there is gas at." he said to us. If we didn't need the gas I would tell him to go fuck him self. "Ok help us get the gas and we see if you can trust you." Garnett said to him and the guy smiled.

Then we got back to are cars. "Can I ride with your guys?" Cassandra asked us. "Yea." I said and 10K smiled at her. I looked away from them cause the look in 10k's eyes hurt me. He has the same kind of eyes I have when I look at him. 10k has a thing for Cassandra and it hurt me. If he is happy I have to be happy that he is happy. . .I don't like this at all.

We drove on and I didn't talk at all. Soon we got to the place and I wasn't really listening. I walked off to look for some gas on my own. I didn't know what the others are doing. I found some gas cans but they where empty, so I kept on looking. I could hear the noise stop and a musical one start up. I listened for a while before I kept on looking. I don't know how long I was looking for.

Cause the next thing I knew there was a huge boom. I found a few gas can's that was full. So I grabed them and headed back to the others. 10k got there first with two cans and I cam up behind him with four. "Six cans thats good. Now lets get going." Warren said to us and we got back into our cars and left like a bat out of hell. I noticed that the other guy wasn't with us and I want's going to ask where he was.

We drove in on and I didn't bother with the music this time. I rolled down the window as I drove behind Warren. "What's wrong Iris?" 10k said to me. I didn't look at him but kept my eyes on the road. "Nothing." I said. "You sure you don't seem like your self." he said and I looked at him. "Just tired." I said and he smiled a little. "Why don't I drive while you rest?" he said and I looked back at the road. "Its getting late lets ask Warren and the others what we are going to do." I said before I pulled out my walky-talky. "Hey Warren are we going to pull over for the night or keep driving?" I asked.

"Yeah we are looking for a good place to pull over at." Warren said to me. "Ok." I said back. "Tomorrow I let you drive." I said to 10k. No matter what he does I can't hate the guy that I loved for years. I really wanted to hit or kill something. We saw a farm house so we turned down the road for it.

I couldn't feel anything coming from the house so its clean. We parked in the back so no one can see them. Then we got out of the car and made our way to the house. We checked each room and no Z's. "I'm going to go and sleep." I grunted to them before I went up stairs to find a room. I found a room and went in side. Lucky me the door has a lock on it so I locked it. Then I got out of my clothes and crawled into the cold bed.

Laying there in the dark thinking about what we are going to do tomorrow. I'm use to moving around yes but every now and then I would just say in a place for a while. I know they are going Cal for something. I never asked and I really don't want to know, but I will do everything I can to help them out.

We are getting close to that town and I don't want to bother them about going around it. That place has a lot of bad memories and few good ones but mostly bad. How much I just want to leave right now and just meet up with them on the other side. "I guess I can't run from my past much more." I said softly to my self before I closed my eyes and hope sleep will take me soon.