Sarah signals at me questioning where to grab the woman, I raise my shoulders to show that I have little idea how she is positioned. Then I remember her grabbing the gun out from under my feet.
I point at my hand, making sure Sarah understands, and then I point to where it withdrew the gun to. I hold up three fingers, counting down silently, when I hit zero, we both plunge our hands under the seat in an attempt to grab the mystery woman.
My hand closes around warm skin and I know I've grabbed her around her arm, I begin to pull, she shrieks from under the chair and I hear a commotion as the three in front of the truck scramble back around to find out what's going on.
Sarah had gotten a good grip on the woman too, and we both pulled her out, keeping her hands from grabbing a weapon to defend herself. When we dragged her out from under the chair, she was shaking around trying to break our grip; we had luckily grabbed both her arms so she wasn't able to get out of it.
When she was fully out from under the chair, Sarah had moved to the right and I was pressed up against the door. We sat the woman down, holding both her arms while we did so. I take the time to look at her more closely. She is actually a very pretty young woman, although she looks like she's about in her mid-twenties. She has a slightly pale complexion and eyes that would probably melt any man's heart, if they weren't filled with hate for me right now.
By the time she stops flailing and realises that she is powerless, she sits in between Sarah and I, looking straight ahead as Coach climbs into the driver seat and stares her in the eyes.
"Who are you missy?" Coach asks her.
She stares straight ahead, her only movements are her breathing and her blinking eyes.
"You will tell us… and then you'll tell us what you were doing in our truck!" Coach yells gruffly in her face.
"I'm taking it," The girl says, with a tone of power.
"That's a name alright," I let myself say; kicking myself for it as I realised it would just make her angrier at me. Instead she let out one loud laugh; she can obviously tell how nervous I am.
"So you… are planning on taking my truck!?" Coach says with a chuckle.
"Not planning on it, doing it," the girl responds.
Nick lets out a shout that makes Coach quickly jump out of the truck. From what I can see, Ellis is holding Nick around the neck, aiming a small pistol and where Coach had just arrived.
The girl takes the opportunity to shove her arm into my stomach, winding me. She jumps towards me after rending me helpless, sliding her left arm into her skinny jeans and drawing out another small pistol, similar to Ellis'. She aims it at Sarah and I feel myself freezing up, just like I always do when someone I care about is in danger.
Sarah's jaw drops and she just stares at me. The woman is sitting on my leg aiming a gun away from me and I can't do anything about it, everyone in the car knows it too which only makes it worse.
"So I'm taking this truck now," She says.
"What's your name woman!?" Sarah screams at her, letting go of her arm when the gun is aimed in her face.
"Why does it matter?" The woman responds with another question.
"So I know who I'm going to kill if she points another gun in my face!" Sarah yells, diving at the woman.
I hear the explosion of the gun firing, but it's too late to cover my ears and my eyes close and I wince in pain as my ears ring. I have to open my eyes as I feel more weight pushing down on my legs. The woman is being held down by Sarah, her arm only got grazed by the bullet. Thank god! The gun is nowhere to be found, so I assume it's on the floor. Once again Sarah never failed to amaze me.
"Now I want to know your name," Sarah says through bared teeth, "Before I end you!"
"It's Zoey, jeez… why do you care!" The woman yells in Sarah's face.
Coach appears with Ellis by his side, Nick follows them, stroking his throat.
"Who got shot!?" Coach asks frantically.
"Nobody," Sarah says, ignoring her arm.
"Zoey, stand down, we're not taking the truck," Ellis says calmly.
"What!?" Zoey yells, turning her head to look through a gap between the chair and the wall.
"We only need a ride, we don't need to forcefully take it, cool it down a bit." Ellis keeps a calm tone in his voice.
"That would have been nicer to know," Zoey starts, shoving Sarah off her, "before I pulled a gun out!"
Sarah grabs her arm and sits back down, Zoey gets up, sliding into the seat beside Sarah and I, I tremble a bit as she slides past me. In all honesty she scares me with how dangerous she is.
She slumps into the chair beside me, sighing as she hits the leather back of the chair, I move over a bit to make room for her, but even then we're still shoulder to shoulder. She brings her right arm over, offering it in a hand-shaking gesture.
"Thanks for screwing me over kid, you might already know that I'm Zoey," Zoey says with an incredibly forced smile, but even then it still makes my heart skip a beat.
"I'm… Aaron," I say with a legitimate smile, I shake her hand, "Sorry, for… screwing you over."
I can tell she knows it, as well as Sarah, who is still really angry and sitting right beside her. But Zoey has full control over me after that handshake, me apologizing for saving everyone's lives just proved that.
The door behind Sarah opens and Ellis jumps in, I feel a grip of fear take hold when I realise there's two potentially dangerous people sitting to either side of Sarah, and probably the most unpredictable one sitting shoulder to shoulder with me.
Coach and Nick jump in the front at almost the same time. Coach turns the keys in the ignition and the engine starts with a few clunks.
"Success!" Coach yells, Thrusting his hands up, narrowly missing the roof.
Nick turns around and smiles at us.
"You might want to buckle your seatbelts… and hold on to something." He says with a laugh, turning around and buckling his own.
"Seatbelts are for the weak!" Coach jeers, before promptly stalling the truck with a jolt.
We all fall forward slightly before being thrust back into the chair.
"Sorry, my bad!" Coach says, restarting the engine.
I hadn't noticed until it restarted, but when the car stalled, Zoey had grabbed my leg. I keep rational about it and guess she doesn't really trust Coach's driving.
"Want to get the seatbelt Aaron?" She asks me, "or are you too cool"
Her talking snaps me out of my thought that she might already fancy me.
I reach back over my shoulder to grab the seatbelt, blushing a bit so I hide my face. As I bring it down, she takes it from me, brushing her hand over mine as she goes. She's really pulling out all the stops to get me under her control. She keeps dragging it, buckling herself into the same seat as me, which really surprises me.
I look into her eyes while she struggles with the belt, she doesn't notice but I notice something else. Behind Zoey, I notice Sarah, she's looking at me with a confused face, but her eyes widen as she realises what is running through my mind. She shakes her head and I just shake mine back. When I shake my head, I do it to mean 'don't say anything', however she takes it as 'alright, I won't do anything, trust me'. Luckily it gets her to stop looking at me, but I still feel the guilt of lying to her, even when I didn't really.
We pull around a corner really sharply, knocking everyone to the left, Zoey collapses on my shoulder. I know she could have held herself upright, but she purposely tried to play for me even more by putting her head on my shoulder as we turned. Sarah held Pete as he couldn't do anything and began to slide, letting out a shriek of pleasure. I remember that he is only a kid and smile.
Zoey smiles at me and I realise she must think I'm smiling about her putting her head on my shoulder. I give her a soft dig in the ribs, she quickly uprights and pretends she didn't even notice. But we both noticed, I just hope Sarah didn't, for her sake, I doubt she'd understand exactly what was going on.
"So," Coach begins, turning around but quickly turning back when he realises that he's the driver, "Where are we dropping you two off?"
"We were headed to a farmers market, fruit seemed like a good idea to stock up on," Ellis says honestly. Zoey looks at him when he starts giving away their plans.
"We were planning on heading to the country with a bunch of supplies in the back of a huge truck, fortifying some land, hoping to ride this plague out, you know?" He asks.
I think about his idea, it sounds like a great one really, almost perfect… but there's something nagging at me and I have to ask it.
"Are you two…?" I ask, Zoey giggles and Ellis answers for her.
"Nah not a chance, she's way to old," Ellis says, reaching across Sarah and punching Zoey softly on the shoulder.
"Only 2 years older, and nope, we're just working together because he owned a farm before this all broke out," Zoey says.
"And she knows what she's doing around a city," Ellis finishes off.
"You two sure know a lot about each other," Nick says, turning around.
"Well you have to learn to trust the people you have… with your life," Zoey says, "or else, you'll… lose it." She looks down from Nick. Making me think she has lost someone dear to her.
"Well I trust this big guy," Nick says, patting Coach's back.
"And I trust my sister, and definitely Pete," I say, patting Pete on the head.
Pete coughs when I pat him, so I cover his mouth with the back of my hand. Zoey grabs my hand as I pull it back towards me.
"What's this?" she questions, pointing to the back of my hand.
"That would be a hand," Nick joked.
"No, seriously, what's wrong with Pete?" Zoey asks.
I look at my hand and what I see makes my eyes widen. I look at Pete and take a while to actually notice what he looks like. He is pale and shivering, and there's a small drop of dark, thick blood running down his chin. The same blood that is on the back of my hand.
Thanks for reading the third chapter! I might take a break off this for a few days/a week to work on my hunger games/LoL crossover (which you should all take a look at if you like lemons ;D)
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