AN: AHHHHHH I WANNA GO TO ! AHHH BUT ITS MAKING MY COMPUTER SLOW! AHHHH

Thank you to Kite fox, Tank-Slayer, Marionettexoxo, and my anonymous reviewer x3 they give me the energy to keep on typing x3.

Sorry if it short…lately I have been forced to meet the control freaks that are from my dads side of the family.


….StAy ALiVe…

Chapter Four- The outsider


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"Disconnect and self destruct one bullet at a time,

What's your rush now?

Everyone will have his day to die"

-The outsider by A Perfect Circle.

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My heart was pounding fiercely against my ribcage, in a few moments the curtains would open.

"It's all you now" I heard my music teacher say from the right side of the stage and he disappeared into the darkness of the backstage.

I tried to compose myself, hoping that there wouldn't be too many people watching me tonight.

My black hair was left down, and I could feel the soft curls my sister made me bounce softly against my skin.

I looked down at what I was wearing, a long white dress.

As the curtains slowly slid open I stepped forward to the mike.

I felt my heart quicken in rapid pace when I saw all the people, almost a sea of eyes watching me.

Once the piano started playing to the far left of me I began to sing.

The beating of my heart going on a normal pace, this is where I wanted to be right now…nowhere else.

What would've been only 4 minutes of singing felt like an eternity

Everyone was watching me, and for the first time, I knew what I wanted to do with my life.

I just wanna sing.

As soon as I was finished I heard a wave of clapping and I bowed.

"She goes to my school!" I heard someone in the audience cry.

Some laughter and whistles followed after.

After the show I met up with my sister and mother.

"Good job squirt, at first I thought you were gonna faint on stage, but then again I remembered you're not lady enough to do that" My sister said, snickering at me when she mentioned about me almost fainting.

My mom and little brother embraced me and I couldn't breathe. My mom aims to hug you till you turn blue all over, and a hug from my little brother (which he's like a huge teddy bear) will probably pop your head out from his bone crushing hugs.

"Hey, where's dad?" I asked regaining bits of air at a time.

My mom stared at me and pursed her lips.

"He said he had something important to do" She told me.

"Oh" I kind of felt crest fallen but then my sister put a hand on my shoulder.

"Let's buy you some pizza, it's on me" she grinned at me, ever since she went to college all she thinks about is taking care of us…

As soon as we got some I went crazy on the pizza, you'd think you'd get bored with eating the same food over and over again would tire you out, but not me, if I could, I would strictly eat pepperoni pizza my whole life.

"Woah you were really hungry weren't you?" My mom asked me.

"Yeah, I haven't eaten all day" I said solemnly.

I heard a door open.

"Oh dads home" my sister said.

As soon as Dad got to the table, he frowned at me.

"What the hell is that?" my dad asked pointing at me.

I nibbled my pizza, I didn't wanna say anything because he would still go off on me.

"Its make up" my sister told him.

"You're too young to be using that shit" my dad said shaking his head and grabbing a random slice and eating it.

"I'm 17 dad…" I said quietly finishing my pizza slice and grabbing a fourth one.

"We just got back from the concert, is there anything you would like to say to your daughter?" my mom asked him.

My dad paused as he finished his slice and stared at me.

"Yeah" my dad said.

"Should you really be eating so much?" my dad asked.

What?

"You're starting to get a tummy there" my dad said patting my stomach.

My chest began to feel heavy and I suddenly felt bad about eating so much.

"Don't be such an ass" my sister said smacking my dad on the shoulder.

My dad just started laughing.

"Look at her, you think anyone is going to take her seriously as a singer with a gut like that?" my dad asked patting my stomach again.

I finished swallowing the bits of pizza in my mouth and I dropped my slice.

"Sweetie don't listen to him" my mom said.

She tried to hold me back by standing in my way when I got up from my seat.

I bit my lip in refusal, no I'm not crying in the same room with that asshole of a dad.

I brushed past her and went into my room and locked the door behind me.

I could hear my family arguing back and forth about me.

"You know how sensitive she is about her weight dad!" I heard my brother yell.

"I'm just saying the truth" my dad said aloud.

"She weighs what…about 110? You know she doesn't eat!" my mom yelled at him.

"She'll thank me later, watch" I heard him say.

The growling from my stomach didn't help much either.

"Go away, go away" I chanted, socking myself in the gut.

"Go away, go away" I whimpered, I could already feel my head go light from the crying I didn't notice I was doing.

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Fast forward

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The flames began to crawl themselves to create a circle around us.

I guess you could say it was pretty cool, but then again they don't stay up for long.

I watched as the cries of the horde got closer, I kind of hoped they wouldn't be as stupid to actually run into the open flames, but I stand corrected, I even wanted to face palm myself.

They charged right into it and tried to claw at me, I narrowly avoided them as they collapsed at the others feet.

"I ever tell you about the time Keith and I made some fireworks? Now, I didn't know shit about chemistry but Keith figured gasoline burns doesn't it? Heh. Third degree burns on 95% of his body, man, people in the next city were comin over to complain about the smell of burning skin." Ellis said.

I wanted to laugh my ass off but I felt something coil around my left arm and I felt myself being dragged into the part that was slowly closing the wall o' fire.

"I HATE SMOKERS!" I screamed, as I tried to pull back but the smoker had stupid strength.

I was literally dragged out of the closing circle of fire.

I watched in horror as most of the infected turned their attentions on me and I was suddenly released.

"Got it!" I heard Rochelle yell from the circle of fire.

I took the chance to start giving random infected a face full of my shotgun.

"Thanks Ro!" I yelled.

"No problem!" I heard Rochelle yell back.

The previous tremor that was shaking the earth beneath me came to a sudden stop and I watched the Tank just before it was about to enter the flames.

The huge bulky infected turned and stared at me, and began to charge at me.

Oh fuck…why do these damn things stalk me!

There was no way in fucking hell I would be able to take that thing down by myself.

"TANK!" I yelled.

I began to dart off trying to look for a random area to hide, but only found brick walls with various Ceda quarantine posters.

My eye caught a small wooden opening under a huge metallic box, I could fit in it, I know for sure.

I hurled my shotgun under the opening before I dove into the opening.

I tried dragging myself into it even more but felt the Tank grab my left leg.

I could've sworn he easily could rip it off.

Don't take my left leggy! Screw the right one!

I heard various gun shots go off and my leg being released so I continued dragging myself quickly once more.

As soon as I was fully in I turned around to see what was going on, completely ignoring the various splinters I probably got.

To stop my teeth from clattering I bit the nails on my fingers like crazy, I felt them slowly become numb as the Tank thrashed on the huge metallic box above me.

If he ever manages to get that metallic box off, he could easily squash me like a pancake!

I heard the Tank give one final howl followed by a devastating tremor signaling his death.

I tried to climb back out but his face was left blocking my exit.

"Don't you worry Lexi, we'll get this thing off" I heard Ellis say from outside.

I watched as the Tank was slowly pulled out of the exit.

I crawled out and dusted myself off.

"Those Tanks really like you" Rochelle told me.

"Yeah, He wouldn't stop attacking you, even after we shot him in the back" Nick said laughing.

"You dove into that thing so fast like a gofer" Nick continued laughing.

I gave Nick a full dosage of my Death glare but he just kept laughing.

Thus, gaining a simple alternative, I kicked him in the nuts.

"You fucking midget" Nick gasped, keeling over in pain.

I suddenly felt so much better.

We continued on our way and entered a building that had 'Exodus' on it in black spray paint.

I kind of find it fascinating how people still find the time to put graffiti on random walls, in the middle of an apocalypse.

We followed Coach up a few boarded up boards that created some kind of bridge and we got to a room with more ammunition.

There were a couple of bile vials and some pipe bombs.

Apparently while I was busy running away from the Tank, the others used up whatever bile vials and pipe bombs we had against the charging horde.

"Here" Rochelle said handing me a pipe bomb.

I took it in my hands and put it in a random pocket of my cargo pants that used to be the sour patch kids pocket.

We climbed down a wooden planked bridge and into some murky water, it looked like it was a construction sight for a street making.

There was a scarce amount of common infected which made me a bit confused but I knew why when I heard the sobbing of a woman close by.

"Witch" mumbled Nick.

"She's by the flare" Ellis pointed to one of the flares, with the same drawing of a safehouse.

Sure enough, the crying girl was in our path, she curled herself into a ball and got closer to the doorway.

Someone had to go after her…

Before Rochelle offered to go, I brushed past them and quickly tried to jump to the sidewalk, narrowly falling into the grimy thick water.

"I get her Twinkies" I heard Nick say far behind me.

"You ain't getting shit Nick, cuz I'm not gonna die" I whispered loudly back.

I carefully approached the sobbing woman and aimed my shotgun a perfect angle aiming at her neck.

Unfortunately she sensed me and began to growl and I watched her slowly stand up and about to scream at me but I shot her head off with a single shot.

"Nice" I heard Coach say from far off.

We got through the building quickly and walked down a slanted street till we got to what looked like a storage area.

I grabbed a random Molotov I found on the ground.

I watched Ellis press on something and a loud alarm began to blare.

I don't think I could ever get used to the sound of a horde coming in, but at the rate we're going, we might as well be.

I shot at random infected, and even managed to shoot at a far away woman boomer.

But shooting her made a car alarm go off too and I threw a Molotov at the car.

The Flames went scaling the car and the countless infected were soon on fire.

I sprinted towards the right and shot a barrel. It soared high in the sky as it induced more fire.

The metal gate slowly pulled open revealing a familiar red door with 'Dead End' on it.

"Lets go!" I heard Rochelle call.

They all went in the safe room and as I darted off to get into it, I heard a hunter not too far away.

It was literally right behind me and I got to close it just in time when it tried to tackle me.

Its cries went silent after Coach shot it in the face with his shotgun.

I sat on the floor panting and trying to catch my breath.

It was safe…for now anyways.


An: I'm so sleepy -3- *pokes at dark circles under eyes*