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P.S I changed Lindy's name to Lyndie its the same name but spelt differentlently

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Jefferson drove up into the mountains away from the town and the city he figured it would be our safest option. I had only been with this group a day or so I realized that there was a pecking order. At the top of the list was Jeffereson he was the guy calling the shots, making the hard decisions for us all he also made sure we would survive. Declan was an easy second in command and the go to guy if anything invovled breaking into a shopping mall or a hospital full of the geeks, that's what they called them, the geeks. Evie was after Declan for a fourteen year old she had a good shot and often was stuck at the rear of the group in difficult situations, then it was Lyndie a skilled women in the medicine but a not a nurse she told me that she was history teacher and she specialized in medicine she also mentioned that she was a keen botanist on the side so she knew what herbs had medicinal properties and worked best for things such as headaches and colds. After Lyndie it was Lucas the baby of the group the one everyone fought to protect and finally it was me at the bottom of the list a girl who can't even remember her own goddamn name or what the hell happened to her.

"We stay in two's. Declan with me. Evie with Cat and Lyndie with Lucas" Jefferson started telling us before we even got out "We'll set up here tonight. Dec and I will do the perimeter, Lyndie start setting up the tents and Evie and Cat will you gather firewood and see if you can hunt anything and if not we still have a couple of cans in half an hour we meet back here and if you get into trouble use the flares you all understand?" Jefferson asked in a serious tone way to serious for man of his age.

"What's the perimeter?" I asked Evie as we jumped on to the stepping stones through the river.

"Oh, it's a trick we picked up from another group they used old cans and cutterly and tied it to string. The string then surrounded base camp so if any geeks came by we would know and could prepare ourselves, it's bit of a pain the neck when your trying to sleep and it's windy outside" Evie explained as she stepped back on to dry land she offered me a hand and I took it lying in a bed for got knows how long has it's side effects.

"Why did you leave that old group?" I asked as I knealt doen to pick up a log.

"Something happened and we lost friends, we lost family and Jeff just decided that we should leave they said they were headed for the CDC, clearly some shit went down as whatever this is isn't cured up yet" Evie explained placing another log in my arms.

"How did everything start?" I asked her I'd been out for long before the apocalypse occured

"People just started coming back to life and everything crumbled the government, the army and the emergency services. Cat were alone now and there is no way that stability is going to return in our lifetime or Lucas's, hell even in the next generations lifetime were pretty muched screwed, the world is screwed up even more then it was before" Evie continued to explain. We headed back to the base camp and saw that the tents were set up there were two of them and they didn't seem too big. Evie got the fire going and had dinner cooking on the spit we managed to hunt two rabbits it wasn't a lot but Evie assured me that it would feed the six of us for the night, except it didn't we ended up breaking into the tinned tomatoes and sweetcorn.

It got to that point in the night that Jefferson had to kill the fire as we didn't want to attract unwanted attention. Lyndie, Himself and Lucas headed into one of the tents and Evie headed into the other. Declan and I was on first watch. Once we had heard the soft snores of his family and the loud chorus of crickets I decided to speak

"What happened to you guys before you found me?" I asked in whisper in fear of not only waking his family but bringing the geeks attention to us

"What do you mean?" He asked he spoke louder than I did and I felt rather stupid for whispering.

"Your limp, and your scar and your bruises and your ribs" I stated

"Oh that, well we were at a camp and one of the guys there liked to knock around his wife and his daughter, so when I tried standing up to them he beat me into a bloody pulp. Shane later gave him a taste of his own medicine." Declan explained as he used a finger nail to get some food that was trapped in his teeth. The name Shane seemed familar to me and I had no idea why.

"Wow sucks to be you I guess" I muttered as I drew a smiley face into the ash with an end of a stick.

"It's my turn to ask a question. How come you can remember how to walk and talk and the name Cat but you can't remember your family or what the hell happened to you or how old you are?" He asked

"I never said I didn't know how old I was, I'm sixteen I think...that's the number that screams at me when I try to remember my age and I don't know, it's weird it's like my mind doesn't want to remember like it's blocking something out" I expalined, Declan gave me a weary look

"That's an interesting philosophy, I once wrote I physcology paper on mental blocks. The fundamental idea behind was that the mind blocks out hurtful, tramatic or depressing memories of a person, of a life you know. Maybe that's what you're experiencing." Declan suggested I turned to face him and stopped doodling in the ash and dirt.

"So what your saying is that my life pre-apocalypse and pre-whatever happened to me was so bad that I don't want to remember because it'll be too painful for me, to traumatic?" I asked not wanting to believe what he was saying, physcology never made sense to me, and it wan't like I had forgotten everything I remembered world issues,I remembered school subjects and even possible feilds of work but when it came to my name, my family, my personal school subjects actually just about anything about me I drew a blank it's like I never even existed.

"That's not what I'm saying that's what I'm suggesting there's a difference" He expalined and looked up into the sky it was a clear night but that also meant that it was a cooler.

"Okay my turn again, why didn't you like the fact that Evie and I were helping you?" I asked going back to my smiling face I was adding hair now and eyebrows,

"I hate relying on other people and getting help, we didn't have the most stable family life growing up. Dad was never home and my mom was sick so she constantly relied on the three of us to look after her and one and other, I just looked at her one afternoon and my thoughts kinda went along the lines of I don't want to end up like her so since then I refuse help from everyone" He told me we were silent after that no more discussions went on.

I hadn't decided wheather or not I liked Declan yet or if he likes me. I knew I liked Jefferson and Lyndie they took me when they could have left me for dead. I had a possible friendship going with Evie and Lucas was so innocent and simple that it broke my heart that he had to grow up this way moving from camp to camp, looting, killing and maybe even murdering but when it came to Declan I was undecided. I figured he was the type of person to be nice if it was just you and him but the second somebody else was around he became really jerky, I had also come to the conclusion that he was a bit of a ladies man, just the way he grabbed my waist in the hospital room made me shiver and not just because his hands were cold. It helped that it wasn't bad looking, I mean he wasn't exactly the hottest guy in the world but he could defintely be attractive if he cleaned the grime of his face and got haircut, he had the whole sexy bad boy ruggedness going for him he had the look of a Mehanic if that makes any sense and he had a good body.

To my surprise I felt myself being scopped up into somebodies hands, the hands were cold and I knew then that it was Declan, I must've dozed off, I dozed off during a watch how bad was I?

"When did she fall asleep?" Jefferson's voice said I was still half asleep and I couldn't bring myself to open my eyes,

"Not long maybe half an hour if that, she's been through a lot Jeff there's no point geting pissed at her" Decaln spoke up in my defence did that mean he did like me and could tolerate me?

"I wasn't going too, Evie and I will take the second half, put her in your tent" Jefferson commanded as I bounced up and down in Declans arms, he was strong too. I felt him nudge my shoulder

"Cat wake up, I can't get into the tent with you in my arms" He whispered into my ear I woke up almost instantly as he placed my feet softly on the ground. I heard the tent's zip which woke me up even more. Declan went inside first and put on a flashlight I gasped at the light

"Won't that atrract the geeks?" I asked sleepily

"It won't be on for long, just enough time for us to get into the sleeping bags and then it'll be going off again don't worry" He spoke louder but still quietly. Declan pulled his t-shirt off and chucked it into a back pack, he then took off his shoes and he slowly unbuttoned his trousers, he later took off his socks and looked at me in his boxer shorts

"Are you sleeping out there or in here?" He asked I was still shocked at his undressingness right infront of me without a slither of warning,

"In here" I replied as I walked into the tent and took off my hoodie. I tugged at my shoes to take them off and pulled off my socks quickly, I unbuttoned the jeans and took them off, and I was left in my oversized t-shirt. I didn't want to take off my t-shirt for two reasons 1) I knew it would hurt to stretch and 2) I hardly knew Declan and I didn't want to strip in front of him. I tried to take off the t-shirt and struggled as I did, the next thing I know, Declan's breathing in my face and helping me take off the t-shirt, I stood in front of him feeling self-concious in my bra and my knickers. Feeling like the unattractive teenager that I was. As Declan threw the shirt to the side our eyes locked for must have only been thrity seconds but it felt like a lifetime. Feeling awkward I turned away from him and climbed into the sleeping bag at my feet

"We should get some rest" I told him making myself more comfortable.

"Yeah you're right, goodnight Cat" Declan said sounding just about as awkwards as I felt as he clicked the flashlight off, what the hell just happened?