Hey guys! I'm back with this chapter! For some odd reason I was excited to write this chapter, I don't know why! :)
Sorry for the delay, my laptop is a dumbass and it deleted everything I wrote for this chapter, so I had to rewrite it! :((((((
Anyways hope you guys enjoy this one! :)
CHAPTER 9
"Alright Becs, what's got you so excited?" Chloe asked as Beca stepped in the bus.
"You have no idea-" Beca started but got cut off when Buddy barked, everyone around her gasped.
"Is that a-" Aubrey started but Stacie cut her off.
"PUPPY!" Stacie squealed in excitement.
"It's so cute!" Stacie squealed again.
"His name is Buddy,I just found him at the fuel station where I met Adam, Jess, I know that you hate him for what he's done to Ashley, but he said something that could give us hope..." Beca started, a chorus of "Tell us!" went around the bus.
"You see, he told me that he will give us food and other survival based items, he said that he doesn't want anything back in return, only for us to stay safe." Beca finished, everyone's faces, even Jessica's seemed to lighten up.
"When are you meeting this Adam guy?" Stacie asked, sitting down next to Aubrey.
"Around 9:45 in the morning, guys I reloaded the fuel tank, we could turn on the heating at the least and try to get comfortable..." Beca suggested, everyone nodded in agreement.
"I agree, some sleep might do us some good." Chloe agreed as she turned on the heating, everyone sighed in relief and shuddered at the same time from feeling the warmth against their cold skin.
"Alright, who wants to come with me tomorrow?" Beca asked as she sat down next to Chloe.
"I will, everyone else should stay at the bus." Aubrey spoke up, surprising everyone with her tone of determination.
"Oh okay then, umm yeah guys, goodnight I guess...?" Beca said questioningly, everyone laughed at the tone of voice she used.
A soft chorus of 'Goodnight's' went around the bus before everyone fell asleep after a really long day...
Beca was surprisingly awake by 8am, she felt cold and she realized why, the bus door was open, she yawned and looked beside her seeing Chloe in deep slumber, she smiled slightly at how adorable the redhead was. Beca looked around and saw everyone apart from Aubrey, she looked around and saw Aubrey standing outside the bus.
Beca shuffled carefully, taking care in her movements to make sure she didn't wake anyone up, she walked over to the door and walked outside.
"Morning Aubrey." Beca greeted making Aubrey jump.
"Oh my god Beca, you made me jump!" Aubrey laughed slightly.
"Sorry about that, how did you sleep?" Beca asked, walking over to Aubrey.
"Better than expected, what about you?" Aubrey asked, turning her head to look towards Beca.
"I slept alright I guess, should we leave in a few minutes?" Beca asked, Aubrey thought for a moment before nodding.
"Yeah, hey I realized that I put a few snacks into my coats pocket, do you want one?" Aubrey asked reaching into her pockets.
"Yeah sure, thank you." Beca replied, clearly grateful, Aubrey picked out an energy bar from her pocket and gave it to Beca, who immediately opened it and started chewing it.
"So I have noticed that you have been giving Chloe 'the looks'." Aubrey spoke up smiling, Beca's eyes widened and she almost choked.
"What? What looks?" Beca asked confused, Aubrey laughed before continuing.
"The looks, the way you look at her, sorry, I mean the way you stare at her." Aubrey finished teasing Beca who was now redder than Chloe's hair.
"I don't stare at her..." Beca said lamely, Aubrey laughed at Beca's uneasiness.
"You do, and trust me, I am not the only one who's noticed." Aubrey stated, Beca sighed and rolled her eyes.
"Oh yeah? Let's talk about you and Stacie while we're at it!" Beca said this time she was the one laughing at Aubrey blushing.
"I don't know what you are talking about..." Aubrey defended lamely.
"How about yesterday? You two went up to the bathroom and didn't come out for about ten minutes!" Beca pointed out, Aubrey was now blushing even more, if that was possible.
"I was cleaning her wound Mitchell, now let's get back to you and Chloe." Aubrey suggested looking a bit uncomfortable.
"Me and Chloe are friends who cuddle and hold hands." Beca said in a confident tone of voice.
"But you like her, right?" Aubrey asked softly.
"Everyone likes Chloe, it is impossible to not like Chloe." Beca whispered.
"Not in that way, I mean you have a huge toner for her." Aubrey sighed.
"Toner? I-I don't! Why would you think that?" Beca asked, Aubrey rolled her eyes.
"Let me see; You stare at her, technically follow her everywhere 24/7, you open up to her and to my knowledge you never open up to anyone, Mitchell, just admit it and I'll leave you alone, for now." Aubrey said, whispering the last two words.
"Admit what?" Beca asked clueless, Aubrey's eyes widened in annoyance.
"Gods sake Mitchell! Let's just go, we have to meet that Adam guy in about twenty minutes." Aubrey said rolling her eyes and sighing.
"Okayy, how will we let them know we went?" Beca asked.
"They will know, we told them." Aubrey said as the two of them started walking.
The way to the fuel station was spent in silence, both girls keeping a brisk pace, eventually after what seemed like hours they finally saw the fuel station and they also noticed three people standing there, the only one that Beca recognized was Adam. There were two other men standing by Adam however, both of them were armed. One of them had a submachine gun while the other had two revolvers, Adam had a revolver as well but only one.
"There you are! We were wondering if you forgot!" Adam said as Beca and Aubrey walked up to the three of them.
"No we could never forget." Beca said as she noticed the four crates by Adam.
"What's in the crates?" Aubrey asked curiously.
"That's for us to know and for you to find out." Adam simply replied.
"What do you want in return?" Beca asked.
"Nothing, just stay safe, we just want to help out survivors, much like yourselves." Adam shrugged.
"Okay, could you help us get these crates back to our bus?" Beca asked.
"Yeah, me and Carter will help you carry them." Adam said gesturing to himself and Carter who stood a little to his left.
"Are you sure?" Beca asked receiving a nod in return.
"Anymore questions?" Adam asked patiently.
"Yes actually, what purpose do your weapons serve when you knew we weren't trouble?" Aubrey asked suspiciously.
"You see, the reason why there aren't too many zombies around here is because we send some of our group out and attract them to this little base we have, and then we trap them inside, once we have the cure we are thinking about injecting them to turn them back to human, so in case if there are zombies or anyone else who could cause trouble we will kill them with our weapons, so to answer your question, the purpose of having weapons is to make sure that we are safe." Adam explained.
"I see..." Aubrey said trailing off, Adam nodded.
"Are we ready to go?" Adam asked after a few seconds.
"Yeah, thank you again, like seriously, thank you!" Aubrey said grateful.
"No problem, like I said, we just want to help out survivors." Adam said before picking up one of the crates, Carter, Beca and Aubrey mimicked his actions.
The walk to the bus was silent, Adam led the way, Carter was at the back and Beca and Aubrey were in the middle.
Eventually the four of them got to the bus, Chloe and Stacie were outside playing with Buddy while Jessica and Lilly were most likely still sleeping.
"Beca!" Chloe whispered excitedly, Stacie looked up hearing Chloe's voice and saw four figures heading their way.
"Oh thank god!" Stacie exclaimed, she ran over to Aubrey and took the box from Aubrey.
"Thanks Stace!" Aubrey giggled, Stacie smiled at her and winked in a way that made Aubrey blush.
Chloe made her way over to Beca as well and took the boxes from her, Beca who was clearly grateful smiled at Chloe who was too busy looking at the box which was now in her hands.
"Alright this is it, just put them down over there, we will be able to pack them in." Beca said gesturing to the side of the bus, Adam and Carter nodded and briskly walked over to the side of the bus, putting the crates down with a heavy sigh.
"There you go, we should get back to our group it isn't very safe here, I do hope that our paths will cross again, but if not remember this; 'Without success there will be nothing to accomplish.' You have to work hard, otherwise you will achieve nothing, never give up hope, one day, we will all get back to our families and get back to our normal lives. watch out for Aaron though, his men wear blue and black commando shirts, if you see them, you have to run, if they see you, there will be no escape..." Adam warned.
"Thank you so much, you have given us weeks of hope, we will never forget you!" Chloe said before going up and hugging Adam. Adam slightly froze before awkwardly patting Chloe's back.
"Just remember; Don't trust anyone, some people might turn their backs on you and stab you in the back, quite literally." Adam said, his voice laced in regret.
"Thank you, I hope we cross paths again one day." Beca said, even Buddy seemed to bark which made everyone chuckle slightly.
"No. Thank you, for being strong, it will be better soon... We better go... Carter! You go ahead and make sure the route is secure. I hope what you will find in the crates will help you." Adam said before giving one last smile and walking off, catching up to Carter eventually.
"Alright Bellas, we better go, let's just put the boxes into the back of the bus and open them when we start the ride." Beca suggested, everyone around her seemed to nod in agreement.
"Alright! Let's get this show on the road!" Stacie said clapping her hands, before picking up one of the crates, Beca, Chloe and Aubrey mimicked her actions and picked up a box as well.
Once everyone was in the bus Jessica woke up, as for Lilly, she might have been awake or still asleep, Buddy sat down by Lilly's feet, how the little puppy wasn't afraid of Lilly, no one knows.
"Who's driving?" Beca asked, Aubrey immediately put her hand up, letting everyone else know that she is the one who will be driving.
"Alright, EVERYONE WAKE UP!" Beca shouted from the top of her lungs, Lilly suddenly flinched, at least she was alive.
"It was only Lilly who was asleep..." Stacie pointed out, much to Beca's annoyance.
"Does it look like I care?" Beca asked in a tone that made Chloe smile, it was a sort of annoyed but sarcastic tone, something that pretty much everyone has gotten used to.
"Well yeah!" Stacie shot back smirking.
"Then Miss Conrad, I'm afraid that you are wrong." Beca commented, Stacie gasped and faked being upset.
"But I'm NEVER wrong..." Stacie said, faking a pout.
"Are we ready to go?" Aubrey asked, rubbing her temples, clearly annoyed.
"Yeah!" Beca and Stacie said in unison.
"Alright, Beca, Chloe, Stacie and Jessica, see what's in the boxes, ad for you Lilly, I think it would be beneficial if you just stayed sat down." Aubrey stated, everyone nodded.
The bus started up, and Aubrey put her feet on the pedal and accelerated, not a minute later she heard gasps, from everyone around the bus.
"Aubrey, these boxes..." The four girls started, but couldn't quite finish.
"What? What's in the boxes?!" Aubrey asked frantically, starting to be panicked.
What is in the boxes?!
SORRY! That was short! Thing is I wanted a cliffhanger for this as the items in the crates are a surprise!
WHATS IN THE BOXES? BOMBS? FOOD? WEAPONS? CLOTHES? IS IT EMPTY?! Only time will tell...
Now; I have an updating schedule, next week (it's Sunday, 22:50 as I'm posting this) I will be working on my Secret Agent AU story! The week after I will work on this story! That sounds good considering that I am getting kind of stressed about my updating schedule.
Hope this wasn't bad! Anyways hope you guys have a good day/night! :)