Chapter 11-My Night at the Swamp
5/26/16-slowly, but surely cleaning this story
Keeping watch was always boring to me. I always sang to myself, but it got old after a while and I just couldn't handle taking watch, but I had to help out my team. "Hey, Hayden." Ellis said.
"Ellis, you are awake!" I shouted happily as I turned around.
"So, did I black out? I don't remember being on this table a few minutes ago." He asked me.
I nodded my head at him, "That is correct; you have been out for about 30 minutes. Can I join you on the table?" I asked him. He sat up slowly since his torso was still tender and scooted over a bit for me to sit with him. I sat on the table with him.
"So, you were in a band? Were you guys in any good, like getting a record deal good?" He asked him.
I shrugged my shoulders when he said that to me, "I thought we were pretty good, but we made the band up for fun, not for being famous. I mean once we save the world we will be famous because we risked our damn lives to recede the whole zombie population." I told him.
"Yeah, you're right, but Hayden, you risked your life more than anyone. I have never seen someone who's done that." He said.
"No one ever said that about me, thank you." I replied. "I just have to weak spot and I care for everyone and no one really cares for me back, like I do for them."
"I care for you." He added. "You're like my best friend. I mean there is a 6 years age difference, but you are my best friend." I smiled.
"Thanks, I need some sleep; do you mind and watch the door?" I asked him.
"Yeah, I can sure do that." He said. I smiled. I made a make shift bed and fell asleep.
"Are we going to get going?" Ellis asked I started to wake up.
"Yeah, since Hayden is awake now." Nick said. We all grabbed more ammo and I grabbed a couple more health packs in case someone gets hurt. Coach opened the door and we all went out except Nick.
"Are you coming or not?" I asked him.
"No, I'm not getting this suit dirty." He growled at me.
"It's already dirty I don't understand why you still care for that suit." I hissed at him. He glared at me and came outside.
"I hope there is some hand sanitizer around I'm going to need a lot of that." Nick said. I laughed at him. We killed all the zombies that were around. "We can go on land if we go by the boat over there." We looked over and saw what Nick was talking about and we nodded our heads. We walked through the swamp water and over to the boat.
"Are you happy Nick?" Ellis asked him as Nick glared at him. Ellis and I laughed.
"Ellis, Hayden, stop it, it's not fair that you guys are treating him like an asshole." Rochelle suggested.
"Fine, I'll stop." Ellis hissed at her. We walked down in the grass.
"I hope this is my last time I am in a swamp." Nick muttered to himself.
"Yeah you and me both." Rochelle added. We heard the witch cry.
"Damn, she always shows up at the greatest part, right?" I said sarcastically.
"Oh, yeah." Coach replied slightly with a smirk. He took out his hunting rifle and scooped around for her. We had our flashlights off and walked over to the torn apart house. "Does anyone of you guys see her?"
"No." Nick said. Her crying got louder.
"Oh, I see her, she's right in the damn bushes." Ellis told us.
"What are we going to do? We have to go over there." Rochelle whined.
"Okay, maybe one of us should go over there and blown the brains out of her head." I suggested taking out my shot gun. "If none of you guys want to do it, I will for sure love to do so." No one answered. "All right, I guess, I'll do it."
"Hayden, what are you doing, you are pissing her off." Ellis said trying to bring back me back.
"No, no, no. I got this." I walked closer to her. She was starting to get pissed off. "Coach, hand me some more shells."
"Okay." He took out some extra shells and tossed them over to me. I placed them into my gun and went near her.
"Tonight, you are going to die." It was a good thing I had an automatic shot gun and I just shot the life out of her. She died instantly and the team and I continued to walk down.
"Good plan, Hayden." Rochelle said.
"Thanks, Ro." We walked over and we saw a crashed plane.
"We need to get over this plane." Nick said. We nodded knowing we had to that. "One of us needs to open the hatch and it will make a lot of noise, but we can handle it. All right, break!" Nick growled at us. Coach opened up the hatch and we all walked out on the plane's right wing.
"Get ready, to die." I muttered to myself. All the zombies came from directions too many for us to handle. I grasped my pipe bomb knowing I was going to miss it. "Fire in the hole!" I shouted as I threw the pipe bomb. All the zombies went after it. We had time to reload our guns.
"Thanks, Hayden." Nick murmured to himself. I looked over at him and smirked a bit, I heard what he said. He was getting beating by the zombies badly; I could see the blood coming from his suit.
"All of the zombies are dead, let's get going." Coach hissed at us. We jumped off the plane and continued to walk down and shoot at the zombies.
"I hope we are near a safe room." Nick muttered. He was bleeding rapidly and he fell to his knees. Ellis and I ran over to him.
"Aww, shit dude, are you okay?" I asked him.
"Why do you care, I'm shocked you aren't celebrating that I'm dying." Nick said.
"I do care for you, but it's a small feeling. We aren't going to leave you behind, you are my teammate." Ellis and I helped him and helped him walked.
"You guys are going to miss me when I'm gone." Nick chuckled a bit. We got to the safe room.
"This is a nice little place, you know." Rochelle said.
"Yeah." I quickly ripped off Nick's old gauze and clean up his new wounds and put more gauze on him. "You are all good to go."
"Thanks." He said underneath is breath. I walked out of the room and he slowly made his way out and sat on the floor and fell asleep. Rochelle and Coach did make a shift bed and fell asleep after they reloaded their guns.
"You take the bed, I'll be fine." Ellis suggested.
"No, it's okay, I can make a make shift bed it's not too bad." I replied.
"Hayden, come on you need some rest, you take care us too much, and you need to worry about yourself." He added. I sighed and walked into the room.
"There's a second bed in here, you wanna join in with me?" I asked him. He nodded and came into the room. "You tired, yet?"
"No, not really I'm going to take watch, if you need me just call my name." He told me.
"Okay, I will." I went over to the bed. "So, Ellis, is this the rest of our lives?" I asked. "I mean killing zombies will be all right, but what happens after that?" He walked over to me.
"Hayden, darling, I do not know, but I understand what you mean. Trust me, it's going to be all good."
"Thanks."
"Sleep good." I nodded and went on to bed.
"Should I do it? Should I not do it? I need to make up my mind I don't know if she likes for a friend or more than an average friend. God damn I hate mixed signals. Hayden, I need to let you know I have a crush on you." Ellis thought to himself. He sighed and watched the door.