Okay, so with this chappie we're back to the usual formatting of things. Last chapter was really just a filler because I couldn't think of anything. Basically all it was saying was that no one from Regional's is looking for them.
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FINN
For a while we all sort of just stood there. None of us knew what we should do. There we were, twelve kids—one unconscious—two dead adults and one dying adult. We were in the middle of nowhere and it would be getting dark soon. Well, soonish. Like, three or four hours from now. To be honest, I didn't really know how long. None of us did. Rachel had estimated that it was about five hours since we left school, but we couldn't really be sure. For all we knew it had been ten.
Anyways, I was standing sitting there, holding an unconscious Rachel and I had an apathy, or whatever it is. That thing where you realize something important. I realized that I was the leader. Rachel and I were the captains of glee, Rachel was down, and so it was up to me to take charge. I mean, being quarterback I have experience leading, so I needed to put it to use.
"Okay, guys. Here's what we're going to do," I announced. Everyone looked at me all shocked. I guess it weirded them out that one second I was freaking out and the next I was like Brett Favre. "Raise your hand if you have a working phone." Brittney, Tina and Kurt all raised their hands. "Okay, you three keep trying to get a signal. Keep just walking around to different spots and make sure you take a partner."
They nodded at me and then Brittney, Santana, Tina, Mike, Kurt and Mercedes split away from our little cluster-thing.
"Matt and Artie, stay near the bus. You don't have to be able to see Mr. Schue, but try to be there so you can hear him if anything happens."
"We're on it." Matt said. The two of them headed out. Me, Rachel, Quinn, and Puck were left.
"What should we do, chief?" Puck asked, putting his hand on my shoulder.
I pointed to Rachel's ridiculously huge bag. "Rachel brought some water and granola bars with her. Do you think you can find some way to split them up between us all?"
"Of course we can," Quinn said. She grabbed Puck's hand and led him away.
And I was left alone with Rachel in the middle of the road. I feel bad saying that it was kind of awkward, but it was. It's just… what's the protocol for this kind of thing? What was I supposed to do? Sit by her, hold her, hold her hand, talk to her? I didn't know. So I just sort of sat there. Awkwardly.
After a while the rain started again. No, I feel like 'rain' isn't a strong enough word. How about stormed, poured, intense down pour? (My vocab clearly isn't that strong…) This rain was crazy. It came down hard and fast, and lasted for a long time. Brittney, Tina and Kurt all shoved their cells into their pockets to keep them kind of dry (it would really suck if we lost those), and the girls began running to the bus.
"Wait!" I called from my place on the street. I would've run to stop them, but I was shielding Rachel from the rain with my own body. "Where are you going?"
"The bus!" Tina answered. "If you haven't noticed, it's raining. The bus is the only shelter we have."
Mike beat me to it. "No!" He yelled and ran behind Tina. He grabbed her hand. "Don't. You don't want to go in there." Something about the way he said it was just so intense that no one argued with him.
There was a pretty awesome moment of silence before Tina nodded. "Okay."
"Where do we go, then? Because if we don't find shelter like, now, you will all use your bodies to form a human shelter that I will get under," Santana yelled through the rain.
"The forest," Quinn suggested. "The trees are pretty dense back there. They should give us at least some shelter."
I wasn't exactly happy about the idea of hiding out in the trees, but at that time I was leaning over my unconscious girlfriend, trying to keep the rain off of her. I'd do anything.
"What happens if a car drives by? They won't be able to see us," Mercedes wondered..
"Yeah, but they'll be able to see the massive bus totaled on the side of the road," Kurt pointed out.
"What about Mr. Schue?" Artie asked.
Back to leader Finn. "We'll keep doing shifts of two of the boys watching him at all times. Whoever's turn it is can sit in the back of the bus to stay out of the rain."
"Look. I want to stay with Mr. S just as much as all of you do, but I just don't get why we're doing shifts. None of us would be able to do anything if he woke up, anyways. I mean, has anyone checked lately to see if he's even alive?" Puck said.
There was a moment of silence. We had a lot of those that day. I think everyone was seriously considering what Puck said. I couldn't believe that anyone would actually be okay with us leaving Mr. Schuester.
"No. We're not going to leave him. He's alive; Matt checked a couple of minutes ago. And we stay with him because he would do it for us. He would never let one of us wake up and be alone," I answered, keeping my voice as controlled as I could.
Everyone looked guilty about the thoughts that I'm sure were just running through their heads. Puck looked at me and nodded. "Fair enough."
"I'll take the first shift. I'll carry Rachel into the trees and then come back out and sit with Mr. S." I said, bending down and picking up Rachel bridal-style. It scared me how limp her body was.
"No, man," Puck shook his head.
"What do you—" He cut me off.
"There's no way you're taking a shift. You stay with your girl. She needs you more than Mr. Schue does." I nodded my thanks to him
The rest of the group watched our conversation quietly. The girls seemed a little surprised how easy drama can be resolved between guys.
"Me and Mike will take the first shift," Matt decided.
With that I turned around and headed to the trees.
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Okay, sorry it was short. Again. My muse hasn't exactly come back to me, so this was a little forced. I hope it's okay anyways.
I'm honestly going to try to update as soon as I can, but I can't make any promises. My schedule is freakishly hectic. Thank you so much to everyone has stuck with this story even with my suckish updating habits.
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