Okay guys, I have to say, I might have bluffed a bit on the last chapter. Okay. So here's your Chapter 4.

[Scarlett's POV]

Red was only listening to Nea. Not me. I wanted to be heard. I wanted to be heard - for once. Just maybe this time, since ideas were so crucial, but Nea was getting all the attention. None of them was coming to me, except Red's occasional glance in my direction.

This was getting annoying. They could just have told me what was wrong with my idea, but they just ignored it. And Nea - she was getting on my nerves. Showing that she was smarter than me and that she knew more about what was happening.

It was her idea to go sneaking around at night. She had caused Red and I to be stuck in this mess. And if I didn't do anything soon, Marius and Pitcher would come, and we'll all be dead - figuratively or literally.

There were footsteps in the doorway.

Think of something, quick! I forced my brain to work, but it just couldn't. We were losing seconds.

"Guys," I said, "Run."

That worked. They didn't hesitate to knock out the guard near the door. They stood behind the door, waiting for the click sound of the lock.

Click.

Red, being the one nearest to Pitcher punched him in the face and ran out into the long corridor, followed by Nea. But I couldn't just follow them. I grabbed Marius' wrist and chased them.

"This place isn't safe! We need to get out," I heard Nea shout five metres in front of me. Without saying anything, I pressed on, scrambling to avoid random boxes in the corners. Marius was running by himself now. He twisted his hand out of my palms.

I followed Red and Nea without thinking, as they grabbed a pack each near the doors of the safe house. I watched as Nea pulled down a lever and turned it, using the hydraulic motors to open the metal doors.

I grabbed packs and followed them out into the open.

The cold air was really cold. There was snow on the far side, and I was hoping that they would just follow the path that had no snow. But they instead rushed up to the higher part, where the snow was knee-deep. My shoes turned wet.

Why didn't I just stay in the safe house? It could be safe after all. But seeing as I had told them to run, I just couldn't turn back. Not now. Not when they were still after us. Not when we were so close to escaping.

We came close to a old mall near the safe house. I knew that we were leaving footprints that would lead the guards to the mall, but there was no time to think. We were still pretty close to the safe house, and anyone could have easily followed us here.

We paused for a minute or two to check what was in our packs. Each of us had a flask full of water, a torch, and a ton of rope. I didn't know what the rope was for, but no sweaters or food. We were so dead.

There's always a solution to everything, my mind reminded me. I took my pack and walked to the nearest shop, and found a handgun on the floor. It looked strangely familiar, then I realised it was a handgun from the safe house.

I had seen the police using it in the safe house to threaten the people like us. I took it and shoved it into my pack. I wouldn't know when I would need it. I moved on to the next shop - an electronics shop.

I tried to find any signal, but there was none. I guessed that the rest of the area was as deserted as the mall. Who would operate the signals?

I realised I was wandering further from where we came from, but I still wanted to find out where we were. This mall was the answer to so many of our questions. I simply couldn't let the chance slip.

A scrape was heard right behind me.

Gasping, I turned, holding out my hands in defence, but there was no need for it. It was only Nea.

"Sorry," she mumbled.

She handed me a sweater. It looked really old and dusty, but it was still a sweater. I was freezing, so I put it on without complaint.

"Just watch out. I heard that there are things that are alive here," she warned.

"Yeah okay," I said as a movement caught the corner of my eye. I whispered, "Did you see that?"

"Yeah," she nodded and took out a sharp knife. I was going to question her on where she got that, but another one caught my eye.

We froze.

I saw Nea's eyes darting from pillar to pillar. I saw her trying to calm her breathing. I grabbed a couple of scissors from the table near me.

This was going to be scary. I braced myself.

A growl. A zombie leapt at us. I swung the scissors. It crumpled lifelessly on the floor.

"They know where we are! Quick, get back!" Nea said urgently.

We took off in the direction of where we thought Marius and Red were, but we couldn't find them.

"Oh shit…" Nea said.

Without thinking, I shouted, "MARIUS-"

"OI! Will you stop giving away our position?" Nea elbowed me.

I winced. "Now's not the time to think so much."

"That's when you only care about getting back to Marius, right?" Nea shoved her knife in a zombie's throat.

Seeing that if I didn't stop, I might get impaled like the zombie, I decided to let the topic drop and concentrate on surviving.

We worked pretty well with each other until her hand decided to get in the way of my scissors. The cut wasn't very deep, but it covered quite a large area and there was blood.

We ran into the nearest first-aid shop and took some bandages. But we were getting further from the only exit we knew. For all we know we might just be going deeper into a dead-end.

We caught sight of a familiar figure. Two, in fact. I realised it was Marius and Red. They were holding off the zombies quite well, but I could see they were becoming tired.

I left Nea and rushed forward, clearing some zombies on the way. I was so relieved, but it doesn't end just yet.

There were still zombies to deal with.

Character credits: AwesomeGirl909

Really, I'm not lying now. The next update won't be tomorrow. Don't keep your hopes up because I haven't even thought out what I want them to do in the next chapter.