Ch.4
~Last time~
"We live in a messed up world Travis, you shouldn't put so much burden on his shoulders." I said, moving to climb into bed with Brylee, who immediately latched onto me.
I fell asleep quickly after that, happy to finally know what exactly had happened.
~Now~
We stayed in the house for two days and on our last night there we sat in a circle talking about our lives before the apocalypse.
"So who's going to start?" Brylee asked, looking between the four of us.
"You start Bry. We'll go youngest to oldest." I said, smiling when Brylee adjusted herself and cleared her throat.
"Okay...we'll before the apocalypse started I was seventeen. I was a freshmen in college, graduated as a junior since I earned all my needed credits. My mom and dad worked with my mom's godmother at a wedding shop and my two brothers were in middle school. I would go down to Ai's house every day and we'd just sit around the house doing nothing all day. I didn't have a boyfriend...so I guess that was one less thing to worry about when the apocalypse started...and...that's about it..." she said, clapping her hands and putting them into her lap.
"Okay. I guess it's my turn now. I lived in Los Angeles with my parents before they got divorced. Afterwards I lived with my mother Elizabeth, but everyone just called her Liza, in the outskirts of Los Angeles and would visit him three weekends per month. Before the outbreak, I was a student at St. George's Christian Academy and would take public transportation to and from school...that's it for me." he said, shrugging his shoulders.
"I literally stayed home all day and slept...or wrote..or danced...which ever one I wanted to do at the time. I was eighteen before the apocalypse started...it's funny...the day that it started for us, I was watching a zombie show. My best friend Erin was the one who moved to Cali before the outbreak began...and I have no way of getting a hold of her to know if she is okay." I said, looking at my legs as I thought about how much I missed her.
"Time for me...I was an English teacher for the school Nick and Alicia attended..that's where I met Madison. We were engaged before the outbreak started and haven't seen either of them since we left Baja. Chris is my only biological son with Liza and my only child. Ummm...that's it I think." he said, shrugging his shoulders just like Chris had done.
"Alright...let's get some sleep. We'll leave at dawn." I said, moving to lay next to Brylee.
~Morning~
"WAKE UP!" I screamed, shaking Brylee.
"WHAT?! WHAT HAPPENED?!" she screamed, jumping up from the ground.
"Nothing...you wouldn't wake up." I said, walking away.
"And you call me satan." she mumbled, grabbing her crossbow and a bag before following me.
"I hope this will be the last time I have to drive." I said, throwing everything into the car as Travis and Chris came up the hill.
"Where did you guys come from?" I asked, glancing at the four bags they were holding.
"Went back to the mini-mart. Can never know if the place needs some stuff. Grabbed all the medicine that was left." Travis said, putting the bags in the trunk.
"Alright. Let's get going." I said, getting in the drivers seat, Chris in the passengers and Travis and Brylee in the back.
"I can't believe you're making him sit in the front." Brylee said, crossing her arms and pouting.
"He called shotgun." I said, shrugging at her before turning on the car and driving forward.
Drove for three hours before we saw a heard on the move.
"What do we do? There are so many of them..." Brylee said, freaking out in the back seat.
"Hold on to your asses, that's what." I said, slamming on the gas and ramming through the heard as fast as I could.
Chris was clinging to his seat, Brylee was screaming and Travis looked mildly disturbed.
"That was fun." I said, cleaning the windshield after we were a few miles from them.
"We have different ideas of the word fun." Brylee said, chugging a bottle of water.
"I am aware." I said, laughing at her wide eyes and scratchy throat.
"Wait...where are we?" Travis asked, looking out of the windshield.
There was a bus surrounded by a fence as well as a bunch of infected.
"Do we just wait in the car?" Chris asked, undoing his seat belt.
"Someone is coming out from the bus." Brylee said, pointing at the bus.
A female came out and motioned me to roll down my window.
"I'll distract them, you get inside the bus and wait for me there." she said, causing me to unbuckled my seat belt and get out, the others following along.
As soon as the infected were distracted enough, we took off for the bus. We waited inside for a few minutes before she came in and closed the door.
"Are any of you infected? Bit? Scratched?" she asked, glancing between us.
"No. We are all fine." I said, stepping forward.
"Let's get inside the colonia before we continue talking." the woman said, walking passed us and out into an open area where children were playing.
Brylee looked around with a smile radiating off her face.
"My name is Luciana. Who are you four?" she asked, crossing her arms.
"My name is Alaina, the one with the creepy smile is Brylee, don't mind her she's just happy to see people, and this is Travis and his son, Chris." I said, smacking Brylee's arm.
"How did you find this place? Not many people know of it." Luciana said, putting her arms towards her side.
"Brylee and I came from a safe place in La Paz, we were told if it ever got overrun then Baja and Tijuana were the closest places to go." I answered, pulling Brylee closer to me.
"Why did you not go to Baja? It is closer." she said, confused about us being there.
"Baja was burning to the ground...literally." Brylee said, moving to stand slightly behind me.
"Do not be afraid of me child. I am just trying to get info. I saw a lot of bags in the car. What is in them?" Luciana asked, moving to lean on her other foot.
"Food, medicine, weapons...anything we could bring and anything we found on the way here." Travis said, glancing around.
"Travis? Chris?" a voice said, interrupting the one hundred questions game Luciana was playing.
"Nick? Is that really you?" Travis asked, leaning over to look at a skinny boy standing near Luciana.
"You know them?" she asked, turning towards him.
"The guys yeah...that's my mom's fiancee and his son. I don't know the two girls though." he said, looking between Brylee and I.
Brylee stared at the ground since he was starring us both down.
"He doesn't, but I do. Wassup bitches, I'm still alive and kicking ass." a girl, no taller than Brylee said, popping up next to Nick.
I starred at the girl in shock before falling to my knees, avoiding a hard impact as Chris caught me before I broke anything.
"Erin...no way...Cali was burnt to the ground..." Brylee said, starring at the girl with wide eyes.
"Well it's me. After news of an infection began, I boated out here and haven't left since." Erin said, smiling before coming to stand in front of me.
"My panda is okay..." I said, tears forming in my eyes as I held my arms out towards her.
"I'm glad my kitty is okay and the monkey too." she said, kneeling in front of me before I jumped into her lap and cried, Brylee joining soon after.
"Nick, where are the others? Strand, Ofelia, Licia?" Chris asked, walking around us awkwardly.
"I don't know. I left the group after Baja went up in flames. I think Daniel set the place on fire. The others are okay...or at least the last time I saw them." Nick replied, starring the three girls crying.
"Nick, the two males can stay with you. Erin, your friends can stay with you as well. Also...Nick I need your help...come." Luciana said, pulling Nick away from us.
"What do we do with them?" Chris asked, pointing at the two girls and I.
"Just leave them...I'm scared if we touch them we'll loose a body part." Travis said, moving around us.
"Probably. Erin is sassy and very violent when provoked, but she's generally innocent." Nick said, reappearing with Luciana.
"We will be getting the things out of the car to bring into the infirmary. I want to express my gratitude for bringing medicine along with you. We were running low." Luciana said, smiling at us
"I'll be back to show you two where we are staying. Erin, please show them around for now." Nick said, walking away with Luciana again.
"You're really close to the people here..." I said, looking over at Erin as we stood up again.
"I've been here for a while. It takes Luciana a long time to trust people. She just lost her brother to a hoard." Erin said, watching the two walk away.
"Oh..that's horrible.." I said, looking at the with sad eyes.
"Where are the others?" she asked, looking between Brylee and I.
I shook my head before Erin started crying again. She wasn't close with Brylee's family, but she had loved my mom and sister just as much as they loved her.
"We should walk around before they come back and find us in the same spot." Travis said, moving closer to Chris.
We nodded and started walking around the colonia with Erin pointing certain things out to us and not long after, Luciana and Nick returned.
"It must have been a long day for you four. Let's get you settled in." Luciana said, shoving Nick towards the boys before Erin grabbed mine and Brylee's hands.
"Time to see where you'll be staying." she said, pulling us towards a light purple house with flowers growing outside.
We put the little clothes we had in a drawer before sitting on the bed.
"You two should sleep. I'll wake you up when it's time for dinner." Erin said, smiling at us before getting up.
"I'm really glad you're okay...When Travis and Chris told us Cali got bombed...We feared the worst." I said, grabbing onto her hand.
"I thought the same thing when I heard about Guam getting taken over. I'm glad we are together again." she said, moving to hug Brylee and I.
"Good night panda." Brylee said, smiling at Erin.
"Good night monkey. You too Kitty. Don't stay up for three hours thinking." she said, lightly knocking my head before leaving the house.
Brylee and I laid down before falling asleep.
~A/N: I had asked the person portraying Erin how she wanted to enter the story and that was basically it. She's funny and cool. Please look forward to more of the story :)