Sorry the lack of updates~
Something happened, a few weeks ago and I lost the interest in doing stuff, then I got a part time job~
So I've been slacking!
But I promise you, I haven't given up on this story, because I really like it.
all my chapters have been updated.
So hopefully all the spelling mistakes have been fixed. :)
So here it is, Chapter 10!
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Surviving with you is the last thing I needed - Chapter Ten
"She's going to be fine, she doesn't feel very hot" Rochelle recalled as she gave Arina a smile.
"Sister?" Coach asked, "Umm yeah, Florentina seems to protect me as if she was my older sister, so I call her
that now" Arina replied, smiling over at Coach. "well ain't that sweet" Arista's voice called out.
"Oh great, look who's awake" Rochelle mumbled.
Looking over at Arista with fear in her eyes, Arina quickly scurried over to Coach, gripping on to the back of his t-shirt.
"Young'un are you ok?" Coach said, surprised at Arina, "Umm just keep her away from me, please" she whimpered as she
rested her head against Coach's back.
A look of concerned washed over Ellis's face as he watched Arina whimper behind Coach as Arista slowly walked closer, with
an icy cold glare. "Hold it right there Arista" Nick suddenly said, shocking everyone. "What?" Arista coldly spoke as she turned around to
look at the suited man. "I..well.." He gulped, losing his voice as he looked deep into her eyes. "Typical" Rochelle sighed as she got up.
"Look, what Nick was trying to say, well I hope he was.. there is no need for YOU to be getting angry" Rochelle said as she slowly moved over to comfort Arina. "Oh really? And what makes you think there is no need to start anything? When that is clearly MY sister and not that whores" Arista angrily spoke, as she slowly turned back around to face the others, her teeth grinding together. "Hey! Don't you be saying bullcrap like that about my friend" Rochelle spat at her, defending Florentina who was still out cold. "But it's true." Arista said as she looked down at Florentina with a smug look. "Oh please, the only whore here is you!" Rochelle growled as she felt the urge to bring out her gun and shoot her. "And you Nick.. Defending this...girl over Florentina, Really? I'm disgusted" was all Rochelle could say to Nick before she went back over to care for Florentina.
Everyone was in shock, since the time they met Rochelle, they never thought she would be the one to have an angry outburst.
Nick looked down at the floor, a sad face swept over him, "Was she right? Was it wrong to defend Arista over my ex, even though we
aren't together anymore? I am so confused" His mind asked, he wasn't the best at knowing what he wanted if it didn't involve money.
Ellis looked over at him, wanting to talk, but he probably would shove Ellis back. "Ellis, Don't worry about him" Coach quietly said as he turned to see if Arina was ok. "He probably needs more time to think now." he added as he patted the small girl in front of him.
"Yeah.. Arina, Are yew ok?" Ellis said offering her a smile, She quickly jerked her head to the side to look at him and smiled back,
"Yeah.. I'm ok now.. thanks guys" she quietly spoke. "Anytime sweety" Rochelle said as she put her hand on Florentina's forehead.
In a huff, Arista turned around and walked over to the saferoom door, "I'm going, I don't care what you guys think" Was all she said as
she opened it and ran out. A few seconds after, Nick ran after her. "I see" Rochelle quietly said, "Coach, you follow Nick and Arista, ok? Me, Ellis and Arina will stay here and wait for Tina to wake.." Rochelle ordered. "Sure little sis" Coach smirked, knowing why she chose him over the other two to follow Nick, Grabbing his guns, he quickly ran off to catch up with Nick.
"Why?" Ellis asked in confusion as he watched Coach run out. "Because if I sent Arina, she wouldn't be in safe hands.. I just don't trust Arista at all and I know you wouldn't want to go after them." Rochelle explained as she put a cloth over Florentina's head. "good point" Ellis replied, knowing that Arista would be all over him if he had followed.
"Ugh..where am I?" The sudden sound of Florentina was heard as she tried to lift herself up. "Woaaaah girl, you need to slow down" Rochelle said
as she stopped her from getting up. "Wait what.." Tina said as she looked at Rochelle, than over to Ellis and then to Arina. "What's up sis?" Arina asked as she could see the confusion in Florentina's eyes. "Uh.. are we missing people..?" She replied shaking her head slightly.
"Yes we are..Nick, Arista and Coach" Ellis said, as he rubbed his cheek. "..Yeah.. Arista decided to run off, Nick followed and I asked Coach to
go make sure they are alright while we took care of you" Rochelle said with a serious tone.
"Oh I see." Florentina said, sounding disappointed, Rochelle knew why and just hugged her. "It will be alright, ok? Now.. we should be going" Rochelle said as she stood up, holding out a hand to Florentina. "Yeah, we should do" Florentina replied with a smile and took her hand.
"I'm just feeling worried for Coach.. Ya know.." Florentina said, letting out a small giggle as she picked up her stuff, "I'm sure he's alright!" Rochelle laughed, "true" Florentina smiled as she headed for the saferoom door, waiting for the others to follow.
Meanwhile in the tunnel of love, Nick, Arista and Coach were moving forward even though Coach was trying extremely hard to make both of them turn around. "Seriously, what if a tank comes and you both get knocked over? Then what? None of us will be there to pick you both up" Coach seriously said, as he stopped following them. Nick slowed down at the thought of a tank rampaging towards them, "Uh.. you're right" Nick said, knowing that a tank could be around any of the corners just waiting for an unexpected survivor to come running passed.
"As if! if there was a tank, we could easily lose it! we are faster than that piece of fat." Arista sneered as she kept going, not paying attention to Coach. "Arista! Stop, you'll get badly hurt or even die!" Nick yelled, accidentally causing a horde to form. "Shit.." Nick face palmed at his mistake.
"Ain't your fault" the voice of Ellis came, as bullets from behind Nick flew passed him. Florentina and Rochelle ran next to Coach, smiling at him and shooting at the incoming zombies that were aiming for Arista, because she was in front of everyone. "You know.. If I wasn't such a nice person, I would let them eat her.." smirked Tina as she directed it towards Nick.
"Oh please, I'd let them eat you if you were standing where I am" Came the voice of Arista as she knelt on one knee and started shooting at the zombies, A loud laugh erupted from both Florentina and Rochelle. "Why are you both laughing?" Nick angrily asked, as he focused his eyes on the hunter in the corner. His response caused Florentina to laugh harder, as well as Rochelle, "I'm sorry! But.. but.." Florentina couldn't finish her sentence because the laughter was just too much. As she lent down on one knee to try and catch her breath, a tongue wrapped around her stomach and started to drag her back. "Oh fuck" she yelled as she tried squirm her way out of the smokers tongue, "Florentina!" Nick yelled, As he turned around to shoot the tongue off of her, the hunter that was in the corner leapt on to Arista and started to rip at her.
Torn by who he should save first, Nick quickly thought and turned around to face Arista. "Sorry Florentina.." he whispered as he began shooting at the hunter. Florentina let out a yelp as the smoker had managed to successfully pull her to him, "TINA!" Rochelle said as she ran back to save her friend, but as she got closer to her a jockey jumped out at her and began pulling Rochelle back to the saferoom. "Oh fucking hell!" Ellis and Coach said in unison as they both ran off to save both of the girls. "Arina, you stay with Nick! I'll be back in two ticks" Ellis spoke as he ran back.
Watching him run off, Arina just stood back, keeping her distance from both Nick and Arista, "Are you alright?" Nick gently said as he helped Arista up. "I guess.." She softly spoke as she stood up, checking out the damage from the hunter. "Let's fix you up." Nick said as he got his medikit out.
"Arina, can I ask you to watch out for zombies, while I patch up Arista?" Nick said as he started to wipe the blood away, "Umm.. sure" was all Arina could say.
Arina was shocked, she heard Arista speak softly for the very first time, who was this girl that was with Nick. "She is so different with him.. maybe I should keep them both together, but then big sister.. what do I do?" she thought, as she was looking at Nick put a bandage around Arista's stomach. "Fucking hell" Florentina said as she was finally freed from the smoker, "Sorry I took long, I thought Nick was going to save you, but I" Before Ellis could say anything else, Florentina put her hand on his shoulder "It's fine, It's not your fault." She gave him a small smile as she limped off back to Arina. "We should get you healed up" He said, walking behind her, "What? I'm fine Ellis, really!" Florentina said, reassuring the boy.
He wasn't convinced of this though, so he decided to keep a further eye on her, "Hey! Wait up" came the voices of Ro and Coach as they came running from where the safe room was.
"That jockey sure was hell to keep up with, Damn thing took Ro all the way back in to the saferoom!" Coach laughed as he caught up to Ellis, "Luckily there wasn't a spitter or hunter just waiting there, or it would have been bad" Rochelle commented as she slid next to Florentina, to see how she was. "True, but good thing we are all good at using guns" Ellis said, as he smiled at them.
"Oh you guys are alright!" Arina rejoiced as the other four joined her, "Yeah! we are all good!" Tina said smiling at the younger girl, glad she was unharmed. "Nothing happened while we left did it?" Ellis asked, concerned slightly "No Ellis, we just killed the incoming horde and that is all" Nick spoke out, as he finished wrapping the bandage around Arista. "Cool" Ellis replied as he stood next to Arina, "I missed yew" He whispered to her
as she was staring at Nick and Arista. What he said made her blush, "Really?" she replied, not knowing what to say, this just made Ellis smile at the smaller girl. "Aww, so cute" Tina quietly said as she watched Ellis and Arina just make small talk, "Yeah it is, Ellis is such a nice guy" Rochelle commented, smiling at the small romance that was blooming between Ellis and Arina.
"This is not the time for that" Coach said, munching on another chocolate bar, "Oh come on Coach, they are young and it's not going to hurt anyone!" Florentina said, nudging him in the side, making him cough on his chocolate. "sorry!" she said, giving him some water to drink.
"It's.. fine!" Coach managed to say as he began drinking the water. "Typical" Came the voice of Arista, causing the rest to look over, "What?" Florentina sneered in her direction, "Trying to kill another member of this team, what is wrong with you" Arista said with no emotion in her voice.
"Oh please, I wasn't even trying to kill Coach or even Nick for that matter, you're the one assuming this shit, you're the one stirring everything up, since you've been here, all you've done is cling on to Nick, tried to flirt with Ellis, get me hated by Nick and than tried to get everyone else to hate me! WHY DON'T YOU JUST FUCK OFF." Florentina raged as she tried to leap on to the girl, but because her feet were still slightly damaged from back at the port and then the smoker attack, she fell flat on the floor.
"Ouch.." She mumbled as she sat up on her knees, "I guess my legs aren't as good as I thought they were" she sighed, trying to get up.
"Teaches you to try and leap on someone!" Arista spoke, ignoring the last thing she had said, "You know what Florentina, don't even bother with her, she isn't worth it!" Rochelle said as she began helping up Florentina.
"You're one to speak, Rochelle" Arista said, flicking her hair and then walking off. "Ignore her Ro, girl don't know what she's saying" Coach said, placing a hand on her shoulder. Nick was standing there, confused at what he should do, looking to Arista and then back to the others, he finally made a decision, "I should go make sure Arista doesn't get killed!" He ran off, after the angry girl. "I knew he would make an excuse for her.." Florentina mumbled. "I think he will soon figure her out, just give it time" Rochelle comforted Tina, giving her a smile, Florentina just smiled back, keeping her eyes on Nick, watching until he was soon out of sight, "We should get going, we have to get out of this damned tunnel of love" Ellis said as the noise of another horde could be heard, everyone nodded and began walking through the tunnel of love.
As they followed the tunnel, they soon came up to a damaged pipe that was hanging from the ceiling. "I wonder what made that hole in the ceiling?" Florentina asked as she was examining the debris on the floor, no one answered as they all wanted to know as well.
Continuing on, they soon found themselves by the swan maintenance room, "Into the swan maintenance room of love!" Nick commanded as he
ran through with Arista, shooting at the small horde that was rushing towards them. The sounds of a witch was nearby "I'm gonna give that Witch something to cry about." Rochelle sneered as she scouted towards the staircase, quickly stopping as the witch was stationed on top of them. "Shit..." Ellis replied as he saw the witch. "No worry! I'm here to crown that bitch!" Florentina piped up as she ran through everyone to get the witch but was nudged to the side as Arista decided to try and crown it.
"Arista NO!" Florentina called out as she watched the girl get knocked down by an angry witch, as she was laying on the floor the witch went running off with her arms on her head, letting out a screech. "Just leave the witch for now" Nick said as he moved up the stairs to lift Arista up, "You hurt?" He asked, examining the girl. "Uh I'm fine" Arista said as she got on to her feet and began to move across the metal bridge. "Strong girl, just wish she wasn't so weird" Coach said as he walked up the stairs.
As they moved across the small bridge they were soon in a storage like room. "Guns here" Rochelle said as she picked up an extra pistol for herself. After look around the room, there wasn't many supplies for them, so they just carried on up a small stair case that was in the room.
It led into a room with four air vents and a hole in the floor, "Guess we go down here" Nick said as he jumped down, everyone else followed,
Arista being the last one to jump down.
Landing on the swan that was below them, they were back in the tunnel of love once again, "This is the longest tunnel of love I've ever seen!" Nick commented as the tunnel seemed to go on forever. "I agree" Florentina said with a smile, "Wait.. what?" Nick confusedly said, realizing that Florentina just agreed on something. "Hey Nick! you coming or do you want to be in this tunnel all day!" she then added, teasingly to the suited man who was just standing there. "Uh yeah." He said as he continued to walk, not realizing that Arista was walking extremely slow behind him.
As the tunnel curved, everyone was getting fed up with the tunnel of love now, when was this going to end. "Oh my god, when will we find an exit?" I would like to not see this tunnel ever again!" Rochelle complained as she was getting bored of being here, shooting the zombies in front of her, she felt like giving up right now. "mmm I smell fresh air!" Florentina giggled as her voice became happier, "Is this a joke?" Ellis said with a bored tone, "No really! Can't you smell it?" Florentina replied, as she began to walk faster. "She's right!" Rochelle exclaimed as she ran to catch up with Tina, everyone else soon followed, all excited to finally find an exit.
"Hm. Shit. First time I ever couldn't wait to get out of the Tunnel of Love." Coach rejoiced as the smell of fresh air was closer and a way out of the tunnel was in front of them. Running out all smiles, they couldn't believe they were finally out of that damn tunnel. "A chopper!" Ellis shouted as a helicopter flew passed them and over the screamin' oak.
Searching in a room nearby, a dozen of pill bottles were found as Florentina was about to pick a bottle up, Nick quickly slapped it out her hand, "No" He sternly spoke as he walked out of the door, "You know he's right, we don't want you to pass out again!" Rochelle said. "You're right, let's keep going" Tina replied, smiling at everyone. "Umm guys" Arista quietly said, as she was lagging behind still, but no one could hear her.
Moving closer to the screamin' oak, Ellis's face lit up, "Aw man, that's the screamin' oak!" he said with a happy tone. "Over this fence!" Nick called out as he hopped over the fallen fence, everyone did the same. "Ellis you can do the honors!" Florentina said, as she stood next to the controls for the coaster, Ellis skipped over to them and pressed the button to start it, "Okay come on, how cool is this?" he said.
Running through the gate, they followed the coaster tracks, killing the incoming horde that had been alerting. "Kill the clowns!" Coach said as a clown was running towards them, luckily it was killed before it could attract any infected to them, not that it would do anything since they already had a horde on their tails, "Make sure to call out if you get pulled." Nick yelled as he was ahead of everyone, Florentina not far behind him. Going through the small tunnel, a charger came charging at them and a spitter was behind them, "Shit, watch out!" Coach yelled as goo came flying at them. "Get this big thing off me!" Florentina yelled as the charger managed to get her. Killing the charger, Florentina got back onto her feet, "Thanks!" she called out as she ran off again. "Guys" Arista tried calling, but still got no answer, her walking speed becoming more slower as she carried on. "We gotta turn off that alarm!" Rochelle shouted, drowning Arista's voice.
"Hunter!" Nick yelled, as the screech of a hunter was heard, it jumped over them, missing everyone. "Just keep going" Florentina yelled as she ran over to the alarm with Nick. "Got it" Rochelle shouted as she was able to kill the hunter as it was pouncing again. "Alarms off!" Nick yelled over to the others. "Thank god, that alarm was beginning to annoy me" Ellis replied, "I guess we go up this ramp" Arina said as she took Ellis's hand, "I guess we do!" he smiled as they both ran off across the bridge. "So cute!" Florentina smiled as she ran after them, "Ah, Wait for me Tina!" Rochelle called out. "Oh shit, smoker!" Ellis yelled as he threw Arina behind him to protect her from the smoker, "Don't worry! I've got it under control!" came Florentina's voice as she jumped passed Ellis and killed the smoker, "Bullseye!" She yelled, "Nice shooting" Ellis said, congratulating the girl.
"There's the safe house" Nick said behind them, as he saw the big red door, The smiles on everyone's face became wider as a rest sounded good right now, specially from all that running.
As they entered the safe house, Nick shut the door, letting out a big sigh of relief that he was finally safe, for now. "Wait, we're missing someone" Coach said, as he was counting everyone present, Nick turned around to see who was missing, it finally clicked, "ARISTA?" Nick quickly threw the door back open and ran out to find the missing team mate, "Nick, what about your weapon!" Ellis called out, "I'll be fine! If I'm not back in 5 mins, send someone out!" He replied as he faded into the background. "She was so quiet since the witch attacked her, hmmmm"Florentina spoke as she began to ponder around the room, thinking. "You don't think she is infected?" Rochelle questioned, watching Florentina walk in circles. "There is a possibility, But I don't know. I just find it weird how she hasn't tried to argue with me, cling to Nick.. you know" Florentina said, still thinking. "You're right.. something must be up" Arina said, looking slightly worried for her sister, "I'm sure she is alright, maybe she is just tired.." Ellis spoke, trying to keep Arina calm, "That could be another possibility" Florentina said as she was still focusing, but getting dizzy in the process.
"I should go out and check it Nick is alright." Coach spoke out as he reached for the safe room door, but suddenly it burst open, making Coach jump back and snapping Florentina out of her thinking. Standing in the doorway was Nick holding a passed out Arista, "She was by the alarm, luckily no infected were attacking her, they must of thought she was dead." Nick said, breathing heavily. "Put her down, I'll have a look at her" Tina spoke out. "What? Since when did you want to help her?" Nick questioned, giving Florentina a weird look, "I have no reason Nick, We just need all the fire power we've got right now to get out of this carnival." Florentina responded as she was waiting for Nick to place Arista's body on the floor, "Besides out of you all, I'm more educated in this field, I may be a scientist, but it doesn't mean I never wanted to be a Doctor as well." She smirked as she got out her medikit.
Examine Arista, Florentina could see many cuts and bruises on her body, but one cut caught her attention, "Hey guys, can you come and look at this for me, I might be daydreaming.. but this cut looks extremely huge and infected." Florentina said with a serious tone, using one of her hands to call everyone over. Looking over the body, they were all gazing down at the huge gash across Arista's stomach, which was still bleeding.
"That must have been from the Witch, why didn't she patch it up?" Rochelle asked, as she couldn't stop staring at the cut, "I'm not sure, but I'm going to have to stitch this up and hope that it stops the infection.." Florentina sighed, grabbing the equipment needed.
Ten minutes later, Florentina was finally done stitching and cleaning Arista's wound, "Well it's done. Now all we can do is prey." she said as she got up to let the girl rest. Walking over to where Rochelle and Coach were, she lent against the wall, looking over at Nick who was just staring at Arista. "It's not my fault this happened is it? Because I feel so guilty for some reason." Tina spoke out, "What? Girl no way. How could this be your fault. You never made her go and try and crown the witch, heck you shouted at her to stop." Rochelle said as she comforted Florentina, "I know you feel bad, we all do.. poor girl must have been calling for us." Coach added as he looked over at the girl on the floor. "I still don't like her, but I just feel so bad that she is in this state" Florentina said, focusing her attention on Nick still. "I feel the same way, but really. It's not your fault at all. to be honest, it was her fault for not listening to you in the first place, which she would never do, since this is Arista." Rochelle replied. "She's right you know" Coach said, as he sat down, scratching his head.
"Yeah true, but I have this deep feeling inside, you know?" Florentina confessed as she began looking at her feet, "I know what you mean, but what else can we do?" Rochelle said, hoping she could comfort the girl. "Bah, you're right! I'm just tired and all that. so my emotions are all messed up." Florentina complained as she placed her head back up to look at Rochelle, "You should sleep young'un" Coach said, "you're right, I should go have some sleep, and you guys should as well" Florentina said, raising her voice so that everyone else heard her. Grabbing her rucksack, Florentina got her blanket out, throwing the rucksack back on the floor, she lent down wrapping the blanket around her as she put her head on the rucksack for a pillow, "Night everyone" She quietly said as she slipped into a sleep.
"Night Florentina" Nick whispered, while he kept his eyes fixed on Arista, who hadn't budged since bringing her inside the saferoom.
Resting against the wall, he couldn't help but think of what happened back in the tunnel of love, "Is Arista just trying to make me and Tina hate each other? Ever since she was found, me and Tina have been arguing more than normal.. but could it just be the whole apocalypse putting strain on us and the fact we have to be near each other after all these years of not seeing on one another? I don't even know anymore, no one is going to tell me the answer.. Why do I even bother. But in all honestly, if I don't find out soon enough.. I'm going to end up hating both of them. I didn't even want Tina to hate me this much in the first place.. but she seemed alright towards me in the tunnel.. Ugh so confusing.. or could this just be how women are?" Nick couldn't stop thinking, his mind was going all over the place with questions that he wanted answers to, but knew he wouldn't get them soon enough...
Finally, this chapter is finished!
I've been working on this for a few weeks now.
doing one bit at a time, playing L4D2 Dark carnival, because I kept forgetting what
the tunnel of love looked like.
I hope this is all ok.
I'll be looking over it this weekend, when I've had some sleep!
I'll get Chapter 11 done soon~
Since Christmas is coming up, I might write some One shot for it?
or something.. I'm not sure, but I would like to upload something christmassy!