Chapter 6
All had been pretty quiet, which is good and different in our lives. Good for me because I was still kinda hurt. But not being able to fight with my stomach injury taught me that I needed to learn how to use proper weapons. I have a good idea on how to use knives but Carlos has been teaching me to throw them. Which is fun but lately I've felt strange, like there's something else in my head.
I've been hearing things that no one else can but I'm used to that, hearing things from far away but this is different.
I sat on the hood of the hummer, playing with my knives while I waited for Carlos to finish up on his shift of watch so he could give me another throwing knives lesson. I gently rubbed my stomach and winced slightly, then tried to stretch, gritting my teeth at the pain.
"Ow" I sighed as a relaxed back to my normal position.
"Don't stretch if it hurts, moron" said a voice from nowhere.
I turned quickly, listening for someone's footsteps or breathing. I frowned, "Hello?" I waited for a response but none came, I shook my head and went back to playing with my knives.
"I'm still here"
I turned round sharply, "whose there?" I jumped down from the hood of the hummer, "show yourself."
The voice laughed, "come on Nicki, you can't see me, even if you could you still wouldn't".
I frowned in confusion as I walked around the hummer, "explain" the voice continued to laugh "I'm in your head, only you can hear me Nicki" I frowned and gritted my teeth slightly. "One, don't call me Nicki, that's not my name and two, you expecting me to believe that I'm schizo" I laughed mockingly.
"Hey schizophrenia is a very really thing, you shouldn't laugh at that… and besides I'm not saying you have it, I'm saying you hear me."
I rubbed my forehead, annoyed, "alright, then what... you're a ghost or something" the voice laughed, "no I'm just as alive as you are babe, like I said before I'm a voice in your head." I shook my head, "you don't just randomly start hearing voices, medical science stats…"
"BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, medical science stats whatever BLAH! Think whatever you want cupcake you hear me, get used to it, I'm bored just being quiet all the time, remember when you got shot."
I covered my ears, "yes how can I forget that" hearing my own voice muffled by my hands. "Well, I did yell duck before you were hit, but you didn't listen" the voice said, crystal clear in my head.
I dropped my arms and leaned against the hummer, "so what you some part of my sub-conscious or something."
"no babe, I'm…. not too sure, I'm just here" it said, I groaned and moved away from the hummer. I walked round to the front of the hummer, climbed on back on the hood.
"Wonderful, so I'm truly a nutter" I sighed, the voice chuckled "yes a nutter, that a zombie is sneaking up to from your left."
I looked up, confused then felt something dive into me from the side. I fell to the floor, feeling a heavy weight on me sinking of death.
I forced the urge to scream, keeping the thing on me at arm's length. I kept my hands round its throat and kept its teeth far from me. I felt it grab at me I prayed its nails wouldn't break my skin.
"You want me help now?" Said the voice in my head, "yes, fucking help" I muttered through gritted teeth.
"Easy, scream cupcake" it said, "perfect, you little prick" I said sarcastically, I let go with one hand a searched for one of my knives.
"Well that's not very nice, and I wouldn't try that if I was you" it said, I let out a small scream as I felt my grip on its throat loosen.
A bullet rang over my head and I felt the blood splatter over me, I slammed my mouth shut stopping any of the blood going in my mouth. The thing on top of me went limp, I throw it off me and scrambled up.
I felt an arm wrap around my shoulders, I flinched slightly then relaxed as Carlos said in my ear, "hey you're alright kiddo, I'm right here." My body shook slightly as I nodded. I held onto his arm and squeezed tightly. He held onto me firmly and pulled me away from the creature.
I heard footsteps run towards us and Claire yell "Carlos is everything alright?" I heard them all grow closer, "yeah Claire but we might need to move soon, it was only one, but more are bound to come."
Claire ran up to us and quickly pulled me into a hug "sweetie you alright?" I buried my head into her shoulder as continued to shake as I wrapped my arms around her. I breathed deeply as I took my head away from her shoulder "I'm f-fine… j-j-just sh-sh-sh…"
"Just shaken up cupcake" the voice echoed in my head, I gritted my teeth and squeezed my eyes shut. Claire kissed the top of my head and held me tighter.
I slowly stopped shaking as Claire gently lead me away. "Sorry, I-I should have known it w-was there" I stuttered, Claire softly rubbed my shoulder. "Sweetie it's not your fault, sometime things just happen, no one got hurt" she said reassured me , I nodded.
The voice laughed "they could have though" I shut my eyes and breathed gently. I held onto Claire tightly and whispered "did you hear that?" I asked, she said confused "heard what sweetie?"
I shook my head "nothing."
hey guys, thanks for reading again :) i originally plan for the next chapter, that will be up next week, for today's chapter but i thought this up friday and choose to put it in because "the voice" will become a bigger thing in chapters to come :)
also mini contest... i want to give the voice a name and if any one has any suggestions please PM me or put it in a review please :D and you can either have a OC in the story or i'll just give you a shout out or whatever else you'd like :) within reason ;)
