Chapter 7: Stars
A.N. I'm back with another chapter! I need to push myself to update more, so I can eventually post more stories on here. In the meantime, if you like my writing, check out my other stuff on Wattpad. User: Wavescoven.
Also, sorry about the shortness of this chapter but it had to be. It's filler ngl but still essential to the plot. I would never waste your time like that.
TUD
I can give it all on the first date
I don't have to exist outside this place
And dear know that I can change
Rachel let out a sigh of relief. It had been a risky decision to let Quinn and Santana go off by themselves on their little errand. Luca convinced her that their attention was needed elsewhere and the the duo could handle themselves.
By the looks of it, he had been correct, but she couldn't help but check them over with her eyes to detect any superficial injuries. She couldn't help but worry. It's one of the million things running through her head constantly. One of the things that keeps her going and stops her in her tracks everytime she looks at them.
The look on Quinn's face told her something had happened, but she didn't seem too keen on telling and Rachel really didn't want to know. She figured what she didn't know wouldn't terrify her into never letting the two out of her sight again. She has a feeling they wouldn't take too well to that. Quinn and Satana were nothing if not independent.
Blaine and Luca had gone to get the medical supplies twenty minutes ahead of Quinn and Santana's departure. Mike and Puck had even left before them and had made it back safely with the needed supplies. But Blaine and Luca still weren't back to their rendezvous point.
She sits and thinks for a moment, wondering where the hell those two could be, until she sees a truck coming over the horizon. They were careening down the street straight in their direction. In a "I'm running for my got damn life right now, and you should too" kind of way.
Well, it looks like she found her brother.
Earlier that day
Luca makes a despondent face as the autumn wind picks up and nips at the back of his neck. He briefly thinks back to the haircut he had gotten before they arrived in this godforsaken town. He regrets the decision. Cutting his hair and agreeing to the move both seemed to not be working out in his favor.
Rubbing the back of his neck, he glanced over his lettermen jacket clad shoulder to the barren street behind him. He squinted while turning his gaze down the street toward the direction they had came. He sighed as he heard Blaine drop his blue and pink house key for the third time.
Luca gently grips Blaine's shoulder and takes the key from him with a wry chuckle.
"You've gotta calm down, B. I promise I won't let anything happen to you. In fact, it's been two days and you're still alive. That's gotta count for something, right?" Luca easily unlocked the oak door and slid it open.
Blaine nodded silently, his eyes still darting around to any and every dark corner they passed as they pushed through the house.
Luca, being the ever curious and observant one he was, stopped breifly to look around the heavily decorated home. He paused as he came across a nice photo of Blaine's family. His dad, his mom, his older brother. Luca winced. He quietly layed the frame picture face down then guided Blaine to continue along.
Blaine pretended not to notice.
The raven haired boy quickly opened the hallway closet to reveal his mother's large load of medical supplies.
He barely knew what half of it was but he swipes as much as he can into his Vera Bradley backpack because maybe it will all come in handy in the future.
If they even make it til then.
"Hey, don't think like that." Luca says with obvious concern in his voice.
Blaine jumps at the sudden appearance of the slightly taller man. He flushed a deep red and furrowed his brows, "Th-think like what? I'm not thinking like anything." Blaine moves to wrestle the bag onto his back.
"Yes, you are. I can see it in the shake of your hands." Luca helped him place the bag neatly back onto his clothed shoulders.
Blaine scoffed, "And you just expect me to believe you're not scared. Do you have some awesome zombie immunity that the rest of us don't know about?!"
Luca's eyebrow raised in a curious manner, "I never said I wasn't scared. I'm saying you don't have to be." He smiled triumphantly. His lips curled up to reveal the slightest bit of pearly white between his pink lips.
"Are you not? Are you not scared?" Blaine crossed his arms, regarding the athlete skeptically.
"Not for the reasons you think. A wise man once said 'The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself'. So, yeah. I guess you can say I'm scared. I'm scared of being scared. Nothing good ever comes of it. But scared for my life? Nah. I've got faith." Luca smiled lightly and patted his own chest then headed for the front door.
Blaine just stared at the back of the retreating form. That boy Rachel called a twin brother was an enigma. and Blaine simply wouldn't be Blaine if he didn't try to figure him out.
Present
Rachel frantically waved her companions into the nearest cars. She's lucky someone had half the mine to call Blaine to see what was going on because she certainly hadn't thought of it.
Her mind ran two miles a minute compared to its normal one. She prided herself on being a quick thinker in tough situations but right now she was at a lost.
She suspected it had to do with her being caught off guard. Sure she had been caught off guard when the first walker showed up at school, but that was different, her parents had taught her, had prepared her for that.
Now, she was truly on her own.
But if stars, shouldn't shine
By the very first time
Then dear it's fine, so fine by me
