Chapter 7: Settling Down Dead
He couldn't tell what was real anymore, their was too much blood for that. He bended his arm back a bit, his muscles tense, as he released the pressure and threw it forward. The metallic 4" grated knife skidded past all the nearby obstacles and into the eye of one of them. It's head flew back as blood sprayed like a hose from the wound. He kept his cool, his eyes alert. But inside he was craving, begging for more of them to make their way through the park. To be drawn to him as he killed them off like ants, the blood, sort of excited him in a way he was unfamiliar with. But he kept his cool and as another round of shots went off a stray bullet whizzed by his head and into the brain of an infected woman with a big chunk of her tendons missing.
"Watch where your aimin' sweetheart." Jason said towards Natalie, her attention, not on him but on them. Her face hardened, as another one shuffled over its dead mate. Reaching out with its gray clammy hands, as she sucked in her breath before taking another shot. Her mind focused on protecting Ayumi. "If you want I could take it for you." Natalie turned around, her mind in a sense of confusion as she looked at Jace, face inches from hers, as her heart unwillingly seemed to thump faster than it would've been. His hand stretched out towards her silenced Pardini PC/GT45-5 as she linked it all together.
She didn't want too but logically thinking, he was more experienced than her, being in the military. Plus, he did save her life, and she felt like his intentions were clear when it came to other people's lives. Before she knew it, there fingers brushed as she handed him the small metal object. His blue eyes smiled at her as he swiftly turned away, his red hair swayed a bit as he lunged into action. Natalie backed up against a heavy, molded maple tree, with a thick and old bark. Her hands rested above Ayumi's head as she watched everyone fighting. The little girl who was hiding behind Misaki, was hidden by a sort of circle made by the fighters. There was Misaki and Natalie now, who were more on the sidelines than the real fight, both weaponless and not very good at combat as suppose to the others.
Misaki, who was now aching to get out of her black-heeled boots, gripped at Ayumi's hand. The group was doing a fair job fending them off but more and more kept coming as only 15 minutes seemed like 3 hours. Then there came the hands, slippery, blood-crusted hands grabbed at Misaki's hair as she flailed her arms, detaching herself from Ayumi as she let out a horrid scream for her. The thing came from behind the bushes, a straggler, that must've heard the carnage going on and limped to the scene, it wore camping gear, so the body would've been out for days as the flesh drooped, sourly around the eyes. It stunk so badly it made Misaki's light blue eyes sting. Her life seemed to flash before her eyes as she could feel a tug of war going on between the thing and Natalie. Her brain scrambled as her head bumped back and forth. I wonder what I'm having for lunch today? Why do I feel so ditzy? The thoughts rambled in her head on and on as she continuously fought for her life and, dying brain cells.
Then a small shadow overlooked them, multiple shots were heard, as blood seeped through the dead man's clothing, some of it leaked into Misaki's hair as she let out a faint squeak. She wanted to run and dip herself in any shampoo she could find. The grip on her hair loosened and she fell to the ground, her skirt flismed up causing a flash of her yellow polka-dot panties.
"Instead of a panty flash a nice thank you I would've appreciated mutie." Ami said amused, her two slightly tanned hands clutched onto a broken broom handle, stuck in one of their bodies. Misaki wanted to snort, These people are so rude! I haven't even spent five hours at the most with them and they've already given me a traumatizing nickname. The broom handle; impaled in one of the kidney's stuck out at about 3ft in length. The other 6ft was in Ami's control as she kicked the thing in the stomach, pushing it against a tree as she pulled the handle out in the process. "Wolf!" She yelled, a signal to him as bullets made their way into the brains of undead, some of its leftovers sprayed on Ami's jacket, and covering up a badge that read FREE SPEECH on it. "Ew! Ew! Ewww!" She screamed, shaking her arms to get some of the blood, and brain tissue off of the only clothing she owned at that point.
Freddy, who just wanted to take his arm and wrap it around the purple fanatic's waist, resisted and just laughed, obviously entertained, turning his focus on Misaki as he held the M4 Carbine in his hands. "First of all, I was the one who saved your pretty little face from becoming 's chew toy." He said leaning down and taking out his hand, with a smirk on his face.
"My name's Freddy. I'm just telling you this so you know what to scream later on when you find yourself in my OW!" He said as Ami, bright blue eyes, sparked with an agitated flame let down another blow with the broom handle. "You're a stinky little pervert Wolf!" She yelled, as she went for another blow, only to dodge him by a smudge. "Why are you always raining on my parade Ami?" He whined, indignant as he positioned himself beside Jin who was in an engaging battle taking on three of them. "Who cares?" She said with a brisk shrug. "I'm glad you're not afraid of them, but let's get one thing straight here, you found me, and pinky promised to protect me so if there is one thing to be afraid of..." She leaned in closer, her smirk now looked more deadly as their nose was almost close enough to touch. "ME!" She yelled as she swung around, the broom handle in her hand, as she pushed at the blind, limping lump that was gnawing for a bite of her arm. Her normal smile now returning as turned back to Freddy, taking his gun, before shooting the thing in its head and looking at him with a sweet smile. "Just remember that."
Freddy just nodded, slightly amused, and slightly annoyed, as she stuffed the gun back into his hands, before occupying herself with another one of them. Trying to come up with an excuse of why he chose to save her out of everyone else that morning.
"Somebody's got themselves a handful." Jin said loud enough for only Freddy to hear, as he took his bare hand and punched another one of them in the throat. The thing that used to be a woman, had to be in her early 70's because there were patches of gray hair matted with blood, crusted in the front of her face. Her teeth missing, as she clamped her jaws together to get a delicious bite of Jin's philliponed- tanned skin. It was such a pathetic sight to see Jin almost felt sorry for it...almost. As he punched the dead old woman in the throat, he grabbed at it, before spinning her around, and smashing her head into a tree.
Splattering what remains were left of a face all over the tree. The imprint smeared as he grabbed for another, kicking it in the back of the knee as it fell. Before taking his baton and swinging it down. Blood rained in the grass as he took out a handkerchief and wiped it clean. "Ya I know," Freddy responded, "Feels like I'm in a cheap horror movie, just thinking about it makes me want to throw up that awful theatre popcorn." He joked. Getting a weirder out laugh in response, only it wasn't directed at him. But only loud enough for everyone to hear.
The malicious laugh was coming from Kei as she took her metal baseball bat and smashed it against the brain's of another infected. Her smile half-hearted subtle and mildly insane, as she let out a cry of terror, "This is for making me a whole 6 hour marathon of ouran highschool host club Hiyou asscheeks! So take this Mother Chuckers!" Kei let out a warrior's cry as she slammed the bat down, getting a direct hit across the face, completely disconnecting the lining of it's jaw while smashing in the nose as she repeatedly continued. The thing's arms and legs kept twitching involuntarily, the white pitiless eyes it harbored, came spilling out of its sockets as blood soaked in her striped stockings but she didn't seem to mind at all. Even as she attracted more of the stragglers than intended to, she didn't care anymore. Just the thoughts of demolishing this zoms brain was all that mattered.
Nice to know the insane now have a place on Earth. Geoffrey thought, as he looked at Kei with cat tail swinging wherever he bottom went and the black ears placed on her crown of red hair. He silently came in-between Kei and the mass of them. There had to be at least eight, but that was no sweat. They limped toward the sound of Kei's raging voice and some of the nearby screams making their way over. Salvia, stained red from there previous meals. Geoffrey took out his bowie-knife as if he was getting ready for a formal fight, waiting for their move. As silent as light, Geoffrey ran towards the shuffling beings and went for his first attacker. Its mouth wide for a bite of the neck, as Geoffrey brung his left arm down and attached his hand on its clothing. Blood marked his tanned skin, as he closed his palm on the bite wound. Knowing they didn't feel pain Geoffrey took his knife and stabbing it so far deep in the eye, he severed the optic nerves. Bringing his foot down on the ground for momentum and brining the rotten corpse down with him. His kill was clean and efficient.
Then the few gunshots that ranged in the circle, seemed closer than before, as silently 2 of them fell silently to the ground, bullet wounds oozed with smoke and enriched blood. Geoffrey looked behind his back eyes, diverted to the young woman's curves, before going to her face. Juliet stood there with pistol glowing in the sun. Her eyes softened as she looked at Geoffrey giving him a small smile. As he looked back feeling slightly awkward," Nothing beats having a loaded gun by your side eh?" He said with a cheesy grin as Juliet let out a laugh, "You got that right."
At least 10ft away, Red and Sara stood back-to-back fighting with a little unkeen balance. Sara aimed her golf club hard at an oncoming horde of them. Denting the back of the head as she went in for the final kill.
"We can't keeping doing this. Were going to get outnumbered soon." Red said, both his hands occupied, his broken broom handle not split in two. He punched at one of them in the face while kicking it on the ground only to have Sara split its skull open with the rough edge of her club.
"Well then maybe we should chill somewhere like Mattress Warehouse." Keeton said backing away from a group of them. "I'm sleepy as fuck." He added yawning taking another step back and then taking his crowbar and crushing the heads one by one. Blood seemed to squirt onto one of lenses of his sunglasses. He cursed, before taking his glasses off and wiping some of the blood on his navy blue shirt.
"I just want to be anywhere but here." Sara responded the three of them not forming a triangle as they started to take down some of them with their blunt objects only to have two taking their place. It was getting dense, they couldn't really tell what was living or dead.
As if on que Sadie yelled out, "Ya know now would be a good time to run!" Her voice in the direction of the way the group came earlier. Her and Jace were also back to back, Sadie coming up a little short. She took her bronze towel rod and swung it like a baseball bat, the head dislocating from the neck muscles, as it tumbled into the grass causing a surprised gasp from Juliet. Jace who was quiet taller, pulled the trigger, shooting one of them. With the last bullet he had to offer. Bringing it down only to have its body slowly trampled by more.
"We need to get out of here...We need to leave now!" He yelled getting a couple yells in response, back.
"Where are we suppose to run!?"
"My neck hurts! I want to finish them off!"
"There are too many of us to fit in the old man's Humvee?"
"Where is the old man anyways?"
"Who cares where are we suppose to go I'm dying of thirst?"
"Shut your dumbasses up! Were just attracting more by yelling."
"No shit Sherlock!"
No one could really think up to that point. But it was obvious they had to leave now, wherever the old man was it didn't matter. If they kept fighting like this they're wouldn't be a world to look up too. Then there was a scream, and a murmur of cries. Over in the corner, Misaki was grabbed by one of them. It was at least 5'8, a long brown beard caked with blood cascaded to his musty well fattened gray belly. There were several tatters in his clothes, his pants leg was strewn to bits and a big hole was placed where his liver should've been. The luminous pearls that they now had for eyes showed a speck of green.
Misaki even if with all her strength couldn't scream or whistle, or holler for her life. Those big meaty hands were now clamped around her neck, crushing the very life out of her as she kicked with her black boots as hard as she could. Her breath shortening, her paled hands trying to get away. She wanted to cry, to scream and run and shout out every indignant word she could think of. Fat Ass! Virgin! Ugly Shit Head! Cow-Fucker! Natalie and Ayumi were desperately trying to get to Misaki only to be stopped by a pair of them. Looking at Misaki it seemed to give her a crooked smile, as she spat, with no reaction as it came down for the kill.
"Hoorah!" A glorious warrior cry bellowed, the sound of a thousand 104v horse powered engines clambered through the small park. John in the driver's seat, banging on the horn as he began mauling the brains of the undead. Crushing the skulls under his wheels as he stuck his shoulders out of the window. One hand on the steering wheel and the other, holding a MEU pistol with a SureFire weapon light shooting, at the zoms as he rammed others with his Humvee. Blood splashed the window shield as he yelled to the kids coming in his view.
"Get your Asses down or become a pile of shit! Either way works for me!" He yelled across the bushy trees. Geoffrey, Jin, Nero, Juliet, and Kei all ran to the right side pushing at each other as John stormed in, his pistol aiming at Misaki as he squinted his eyes marking his target.
"Nam didn't break me and this won't either!" Then he pulled the trigger, the hot steaming bullet hit the fat mutt with a deadly silence. The moans that echoed through the air seemed to cease as the big thing fell. Misaki grabbed for her neck as she gasped for air. Sadie coming by her side as she grabbed at her shoulders, "Can you breathe mutie!?" She asked with a hint of concern masked with a funny hardness. Misaki just coughed regenerating the oxygen back into her lungs as she started to laugh. Giving Sadie a thumbs up, before grabbing her by the shirt and squeezing her in a hug. "God your cutting of my circulation!" She yelled as Misaki just giggled, breaking free of there hug as some of them retained a blush from the previous image. No one seemed to notice Jace as John fist pumped in the air in victory, in a quick second losing control of the wheel, the Humvee's head now aiming for the 21-year-old.
Fent, looked at the trail of the military vehicle and without warning began to yell, "WATCH OUT for the- !"
Everything seemed to slow down. The vehicle came out of nowhere it seemed, and then slammed into him, the breath immediately knocked out of him. Feeling the immense pain in his right torso as the impact sent his body flying. His vision darkened in unfamiliar circles, the yells of total anguish seemed to clot out his ears, and when his body fell to the ground. He could feel the piercing pain of dying as he landed. He could see the fading of the morning sun, prepared to call it a day in a few hours, the heat made him feel sick. And as he laid on, he could feel the cool, grisly flesh of the slain that were all piled a mass grave site. The smell was awful, he could hear a moan followed by the feeling of cold hands and then... Jace's world grew black.
"Is the food done yet I'm starving!" Keeton yelled across the Maplewood countertop his forearm resting against it. "Your going to have to wait a little longer Keeton." Jin said, reaching for the loaf bread as Keeton grumbled. Jin just smiled, his hat stuffed in his back pocket as he took out two loaves of wheat bread, and placed them on the counter next to Misaki who winked at him in return. Jin raised an eyebrow, scratching his head awkwardly as he grabbed the remaining package and went to put it away.
"Anything else you need Misaki?" Geoffrey asked, eyeing Jin as he brushed past, his stare neutral as Jin glared at him, putting the bread inside the top cabinet, "What are you looking at?" He asked indiscreetly.
Geoffrey just kept his thoughts to himself, not because he was afraid but he thought it was the best option. There was enough fighting for today, and enough blood. He was still running on the little spasms of adrenalin he had left. But every façade everyone planned on building, every mask they had planned to wear on the face of the world was now torn to pieces. There was no point in faking it, or thinking it was all a dream. The sky had darkened into a sea of blue, with the moon as its center pearl.
They discovered the abandoned house on the way running from a horde of them. Jace grasped in the hands of Fent and Jason, his body hung limp, but he was still breathing...barely. They ran into the 3 story house slamming the doors and pushing the couch against it. The pounding seemed to dim down in the last three hours, but they were still out there, and it still continued. All they could do was hope for the best, no one was willing to take a shower to conserve the minimal resources they had. Water was very important and the fact that it was still running was a lucky milestone, as so was electricity.
Misaki, whose shirt was loosely button turned to Geoffrey, her mini skirt hemmed high up on her flat bottom, leaning forward a bit to reveal the top of her chest. Geoffrey began to look down, blush crept on his face as he caught the image of her black laced bra. Quickly covering his mouth as he jumped back looking around desperately for another distraction as she giggled brightly. Dropping the wooden soup back into the steaming pot and taking her whiteboard, beginning to scribble.
Well if you want we could go upstairs and spice up our own ramen ;)! If you pass up my offer than No! Everything is good to go ^_^!
Geoffrey looked at the whiteboard and began to cough deliberately trying to hide the sounds of his throbbing heart. Misaki squeezed her elbow to keep herself from laughing, the expression on his face priceless. His skin was as red and bright as a police siren, he was cute, as most of the boys were and she couldn't help but push his buttons.
"I-I think I need to go uhh check on the others." He said, shying away as he started to walk towards the living room, shaking his head in shame, stopping midway in the hall and letting out a frustrated sigh. What the hell just happened? Was all he could ask himself wiping his face down with his hands, briefly pausing at the dog tags that hung on his neck as he stuffed his hands in his pocket. Taking another breather, regaining his composure before walking into the living room.
Keeton and Jin both laughed at Geoffrey's ungraceful exit making loud bawking chicken noises for the others to hear in the other room only getting a shut up in return. Misaki smiled with them as she began to stir the broth.
"I think I'm going to go kill myself." Kei said cynical, pulling at the skin under her eyes, as she stared bone-idle at the small tv placed in the middle of the room, everyone sat on the blood-stained floor. The only channel being showed was pbs, their network showing repeated episodes of Arthur as Kei groaned from both physical and mental pain. Wanting to gouge her eyes out if she had to watch another second, sprawling her long, slim legs onto the floor, facing the ceiling.
"If it would help it could be a lot worst." Juliet said shyly, as she cleaned her pistol. "O ya what's worst?" She replied challenging. "Well for one thing, you could be in Jace's situation." Jason replied his back resting against the green-lime walls.
Kei grimaced because he was right, she hated people who proved her wrong for a bit, turning her attention back to Juliet giving her a silly grin. "Maybe you and me Blondie could create a t.v show of our own." She said as Juliet gave her a confused look as Kei's smile got sillier, her arms widened the space in front of her as she grabbed at her fake cat tail "We can call it The Apocalypse Triple XXX cuz it would be very, very hot." She said emphasizing on the word hot as Juliet started to laugh gleefully, one hand on her hips as she stared at the kitty-cat teenage girl charmingly, "I don't think you could hand this little cutie." She said giving a charming smile as Kei facepalmed a little upset actually, "Oh fufufufu Join the dark side we have cookies!" She begged as she got some laughs out only to have Red shake his head.
"Dude, who would want to watch a x-rated show of crazy cat bipolar girl, and a curvaceous ditz." Red whispered over his shoulder as Wolf who was sitting began to laugh, "I bet you would be the first one to watch, maybe even film it if your lucky." As Red frowned glancing at Sara slowly enclosing his hand in hers as she unintentionally moved it away.
Her eyes, diverted to something in her pocket, a picture that her brother drew her. The two of them held gracious smiles, the detailed setting made it look like a real life photograph. The drawing showed Sara, with her blonde-silver hair cascading down her back as she held onto red monkey bars. Inserting himself in the picture reaching out to make sure to catch her if she fell. It was a couple of years ago, but the memories seemed to flood as she felt the total weight of emotional pain there was to feel. She hastily stuffed the picture in her pocket as Red leaned in to see, his brown eyes showed mixed emotions at her lack of comfort towards him as she smiled.
"Suprising at how so much can happen in one day right?" She asked him nicely as he shrugged giving a half-smile, "Ya, I still think this is a dream though." He muttered, "I bet when I wake up I'll be back in Madison Springs, where my dad will be downstairs watching ESPN, and my mother would be fixing his coffee, with the warm smell of her cooking. Filling the house with a-"
"Red stop it." Sara said, her hand now over his, "This isn't a dream." She said quietly, "Dead Corpses are attacking people left and right but this is no movie or video game." Her blue eyes looked cheerful but her hands felt cold. "And if they bite you, you turn into one of 'them'...that's the type of world we live in now and it's not a dream."
Red looked down at his own hands, specks of blood still remained on them. At least we have each other, he thought, with a undoubting clue she thought the same thing.
"Hey Blue when can we get my dog?" Kei asked, as Red scowled,"Sure we can get him tomorrow." Sara interrupted as she gave Kei a nice smile as Kei looked at her weirdly before her turning her attention back to Wolf and Juliet. "Weirdos..."
Everyone's conversation was briefly interrupted by a thump upstairs and then silence.
Before anyone could say anything Ami brushed herself off as she flicked a finger through her hair. "I'll go see what those fools are doin?" She said playfully as she started to walk away towards the stairs, her hands stretched out on the banister. There was a short pile of stairs as she peeked into the hallway, a broken centerpiece and wooden table were stringed on the brown carpet. There was Fent and Nero on the floor talking, as she continued to get closer, the two of them seemed to quiet down their conversation till no more words were spoken.
"What's wrong?" She said with a playful smile, curiously as the two boys looked at her as she stuck out her tongue, "You both look like no fun anyways." She said, as Fent just gave her a wave of his hand, "And you look like you have too much fun." He said, his eyes shining on her purple hair as she shrugged, "Who cares?" She said smiling. "The name is Ami." She said taking out her hand as Fent shooked it.
"Fent." Ami smiled, he was decent looking to her at least, not really noticing his scars, he seemed much calmer than Wolf as it was. Maybe he was even smarter, thinking about Wolf made her head frustrated, he was so complicated to her. He was so serious and heroic when he saved her from a bunch of them in her parent's small house. Busting through there like her superman not to mention his good looks. But then he opened his mouth and the superman turned out to be her kryptonite. But no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't really unfried him, after all she owed him a small favor for saving her but in the end could she really be that cold? She didn't want to think about him anymore than she wanted to think about cafeteria lunch.
She glanced at Nero, "Hey Emo." She said as he looked at her wearily, "Nice headphones." She winked as Nero started to laugh. "Nice purple." He said as the mahogany wooden door rattled on its hinges causing Ami to naturally flinch.
"Fucking God that hurts like fucking hell!" Someone yelled, you could hear the clatter of tools and hands, as Ayumi tried to calm him down meekly.
"You'll feel better soon!" She cried out, trying to keep him from opening his wounds as he thrashed around trying to get away from the makeshift needle Natalie held in her hands. Sadie who was resting in a chair by her brother's side was perked up trying to keep Natalie from puncturing him with the sharp object. "You can find crackhead needles and penicillin but no morphine!" She yelled in defense as Natalie impatiently tried to calm them both down.
"Look it's only going to be a pinch!" She objected as Sadie scoffed her body thrown in front of her brother.
"They say that about papercuts yet they are so tiny and deadly!" Jace yelled turning over as Ayumi squealed, her small body could barely even wrap around Jace's tone waist as he still began to move wildly on the bed. The large gash still fresh stretched from his hips to his ribcage.
The needle placed in Natalie's hand was found by Nero on accident, the three of them all suddenly engaged in the health of Jace as they ran upstairs and placed him on the bed in a rush. They ran in the bathroom shaken, finding a first aid kit. Filled with the contents of band-aids, a needle, alcohol wipes, and prescriptions. Having Fent open it only to show three packets of coke. Most of the day seemed like a blur. When Jace was hit by the Humvee everyone's eyes seemed to have frozen in time. His body thrown like a brick rag doll as he flew a few feet above before landing stiff on his side. He toppled over, blood trickled from his lips as his chest seemed to heave in short spasms, blood soaked his shirt and this time it was his own. Sadie was the first to scream, shielding her brother's body from the rest as she grabbed his head in her hands threatening him not to die. Then there was the Humvee and the arguments and the running as they encountered more of the undead. His body being flung between the two teenage boys as they ran for cover. From the house's view you could see the highway from there, the pile of cars still honked to get through to the next city.
"Jace if you take the needle I will give you a piece of candy." Natalie begged trying to lighten up the mood, as Jace began to cringe in pain while the staples they used to stitch him up strained to keep the skin-tight. He was in astonishing pain, his knuckles white and sticky from holding onto the sheets. He wanted to ball out and weep, but he didn't want to show the obvious pain, or the weakness he felt. Biting his lip, he couldn't take it any longer, his lip now bleeding from the pressure as he looked at Ayumi with strained blue eyes. "Go ahead," He breathed, "Just stab me with it before I lose my mind. Natalie shakily held the needle in her hand, they tried to sterilize it as much as possible running it under hot water, but what if it wasn't enough and Jace got infected? With who knows what? Jace snapped her out of quick doubts as he yelled, clearly trying not to lose his mind, half of the wound already open. "Just do it please!" He begged, Natalie closed her eyes, as she stuck the needle into Jace. He winced, and then his short yells became, deep breaths, and then finally he seemed calm.
"I'm so sorry Jace." Natalie said cupping her hands over her mouth. wanting to cry feeling so horrible. Jace just tried to crack a smile and then he began to laugh as the other two laughed with him a little surprised he was still able to smile after all the shit that has happened. "Nothing I couldn't handle babes." He said as she continued to giggle, putting a hand through her blonde layers. Ignoring the dry blood on her fingers. "Well I never doubted you for a second soldier...or should I call you babe from now on." She said lightly joking as they continued to laugh before it ceased, as he just calmly breathed. Ayumi smiled, Jace was a lot like Kozan, very brave, she could never think of a time when she was in an extreme amount of pain or ever been hit by a car. She wanted to giggle at the sight of it as she crawled closer on the bed next to Jace and Natalie feeling a little warmth in her soul from her cold loss.
Sadie who watched the whole thing, felt utterly useless, her bubble popped when she saw her brother half-dying. Her impulsive demeanor seemed to vanish and now she was mad. She wanted to punch walls, assault the police, crash cars, shoot at people, vandalize the streets, kick rocks, and do the unspeakable. And as she watched, through clear blue eyes, she didn't like what she was seeing. Natalie and Ayumi getting so close to Jace like that. Only knowing the girls for no longer than a day and she was already drooling over her brother. He was only her brother and not there's. She should be there trying to crack a joke but right now she was just cranky. She grimaced, walking towards the door, and closing it before Jace could even notice or stop her.
The hallway was dark, and before heading down the stairs Sadie let out a small scream almost alarming as Ami popped out of the shadows, her bright purple skirt stood out as she looked at Sadie teasingly, "How's your brother?" She asked, expecting a rather sarcastic joke from the impulsive teen, Sadie snorted, "Go look for your fucking self." With that, she turned on her dirty heel and walked the other way, hoping to maybe find one of them in the house. They only checked half of the house anyways.
Ami retorted back her mind fuming, "Well Fuck You Too Happy Pants!" She yelled after her, In an odd way I can see Miki in her. She thought quickly a flashback of her former best friend, she could see her and Miki, dragging her along in a dark alley as they hid behind a dumpster. Hiding as the local cops ran past, there purple paint marked all over themselves, the words FREE SPEECH shined bright on the other end of the building. She frowned slightly at the sadness. "What do you think is her problem?" "Why do you care Emo?" Ami asked raising her eyebrow, whenever there was a supply of boys and girls there would always be gossip. Something she loved. He quickly looked at her and to the floor, and then back again, his hardened hazel eyes looked dazzled for a moment. "I don't." He said as Ami snorted, "Ya right sure." Fent just smiled with her, as she opened the door and went inside, "Ya know there is nothing wrong with just asking people how they're doing. Doesn't mean your attracted to her, it just means you're a caring person." Nero looked at him with that one visible eye still a little confused at what the two of them were implying but said nothing and walked into the direction the redhead was going.
"I heard little baby Jace crying and I though-" Ami cut herself off she didn't expect the sight she saw. Jace was in bed looking a hell of a mess, but she didn't care. It was his body that her little teen hormones saw, the estrogen just blazing. He was sitting upright on a bunch of pillows, his head laid in an awkward position. From his shoulders to his abdomen he was covered in sweat, he was very well-built was all Ami was gaining a small six-pack nothing much, but with a tan he was surely good-looking. Noticing her jaw slightly opened Jace started to snicker as Natalie pretended to be looking for something shamefully.
"Umm can I help you Ami?" He asked slightly grinning as she closed her jaw tightly before shaking her head widely no and then turning and exiting out the door. Blush crested up her face, not even bothering to saw goodbye to see that Fent had gone downstairs as she hurried down, stumbling on two or more steps. Not even wondering where Emo boy was either.
"Dude just shove the fuck off." Sadie said, a small smile on her face as she urged Nero to leave her alone. He had been at it for about 5 minutes, very awkwardly trying to make conversation but secretly succeeding. "I can't." "Why not?" She retorted, "It's easy just turn around and walk away." Nero bit his lip, "I mean if you don't want to talk to me it's cool but, I'm always here to listen." Sadie looked at the weird boy and then laughed, "What the fuck does that even mean?"
Then they both broke into a laugh, the dead moving slowly towards the house only to be blocked by the extended but worn down fence. "It means, I could be your piggy-bank, anything can go in, but never go out, like...secrets or something you wanna tell me." Sadie beckoned, she was upset, but she didn't want to say why because she thought it was stupid. Maybe, maybe not? But could she trust him?"..." She sighed, ready to pour out what was on her mine when the engine sounded.
It was John's Humvee, speeding down the street, almost hitting a 97' Ford Chevy, parked slightly crooked by the fence, taking out his pistol as he pushed through. Blood soaked his clothes and he came in immediately breaking his body free from the dead. As he pushed through right past the fence, the hands stopped reaching and he began to go. He came with a warning, he left to scout out the surroundings, hoping to settle a game plan with the kids. But he had to warn them. Warn them. The dead were very dangerous enemies, but they werent;t the only ones. Watching from the balcony Sadie's conversation was interrupted as John practically kicked in the door. There were many yells heard from downstairs, then the sound of a crashes, followed by a horrific scream.
AN: Hey guys :3 Another chapter I wrote in one day I know its alot T^T but i had to make this long to make the other one short and faster I rushed it ik D xD! Yay ^o^ I'm speeding things up in the next chapter Chapter 8: Night of the DEAD there will be many 3rd person pov's coming out this time. I can;t wait to write it because i have something special developing. The group will bond but split, I mean I'm splitting them up into there own sort of cliques but there still together...I guess that makes sense XD...Well The next chap will start off with why John came in so weirdly? who is this new enemy(ies)? Who is screaming? Why are they screaming GAAH! And oh about reviews, I'll start responding to them seperatley. But I could'nt help but notice a review made by VengefulBiscuit :o Thanks! xD glad you liked the previous chapter and i totally agree with you but I'm not really concerned when people say good chapter and all I mean it's cool :3 It's just the number of reviews a bit. I mean there are alot of OC's in this story and to know if I'm using your OC right so far would be nice to say xD but hey -shrugs- I'm just practicing my writing XD but moving ON! DUNDUNDUN cliffhangers! There a bitch right? D: But thanks for reading 3 R&R!