Chapter 11
I roll over and am shocked to see Joel laying there but then remeber last night. He yawns and opens his eyes. "still mad at me?" "Well i did let you sleep with me..ah..sleep in bed..with me" Im an idiot. "So thats a no" I get out of bed and walk to the closet. "Get out im changing" "bossy" he walks over to the dresser and gets clothes then walks to the door and before leaving he turns around and says "This never happened" "Oh yes because you don't want your girlfriend knowing you slept in bed with me and we did absolutly nothing" He closes the door and i change into my clothes. i brush my hair then leave the room. I see Ellie on the couch putting on her boots. "Going to the barn" I ask. "Yeppers" "Have fun kiddo" "No Stevie so i won't" She gets up and walks out the door. I sit on the couch. I hear a knock on the door. I walk over and open it. "Oh hi Amy" She pushes past me. Way to make it very clear you don't like me. I roll my eyes. "Joel" "Be there in a second" He says from the bathroom. I walk outside not saying anything to Amy. Guess ill go see if Maria wants me to do anything i didn't really pick a job. Thats so weird. Having a job during the apocolypse. Maria was the one who gave me the guitar the other day. Something her son had but wanted to get rid of it because he couldnt learn. i offered to help him but he refused. I walk to their house and knock on the door. It opens in seconds. "Hello Isabella" "Hey Tommy" "So your okay?" "Yep no bites" "come in" I walk past him into the house. Marias cooking eggs. "You want any" "No its okay its your food". My stomach growls loud. Really? you had to growl now stomach. "You need some food" "No its fine" "I insist" I sit down and Tommy sits down too"So what happened last night?" "I jumped the fence you know that" "Im not talking about that" I give him a confused look. "Joel" "Oh just a fight it was nothing" "so nothing makes you upset enough to jump the wall and kill 5 infected on your own" "pretty much" Maria sets a plate down in front of me. "Thanks" I put some egg in my mouth and let it sit there savoring the taste. "So are you in love with my brother". I start choking on the egg i swallow it and look at him shocked "What!?" "Are you love with-" "Ah i heard you don't have to repeat yourself and no what makes you think that?" "Just the way you look at him" "Even if i was doesn't matter hes with Amy" "Don't tell Joel this but i like you better then her shes not the girl she use to be" "Well are we all the person we use to be" "Good point" "Sorry Isabella but i don't have anything for you to do today" "Ugh now i gotta go back to house and listen to Amy and Joel make out all day" "For someone who doesn't have feelings for my brother you sure do sound jealous" "Okay fine i do have feelings for him" Tommy smiles. "Well i gotta go thanks for the eggs cya later". I walk out the door. If Tommy tells him ill murder him in his sleep. I walk home. When i make it there i stand outside the house hesite to go in. I walk inside the house Joel and Amy on the couch watching some movie they look at me as i walk in. "Where did you go?" "Your brothers" "Oh so Maria had nothing for you to do" "Nope". I walk to my bedroom.
"Are you attracted to her?" Amy asks i turn to her. "No" "Don't lie to me" "Okay yeah i am but doesn't matter im with you" "I don't trust her won't be surprised if she comes onto you" I think about last night sleeping in the same bed as her watching her peacefully sleep in the glow of the moon light through the window. Here i am thinking about another girl while im with the one i love. That i think i i should love."Relax that won't happen" I kiss her. Still feel nothing. I guess i have to fall in love with her again the new her not the 19 year old from 14 years ago. What if i won't? "You know i thought finding this place was the mircule but finding you was the real mircule" "Well i ain't the 21 year old boy anymore" "21 35 doesn't matter i still love you" "I really wish i had a cup of coffee right now" "Why am i boring you?" "Extremely" I say laughing. She laughs as well. "Joel" i hear Isabella call from the other room. "be back" I see her roll her eyes out of the corner of my eyes. Shes so jealous of her. She shouldn't be though. Yeah im attracted to Isabella but not like ill act on it. I walk to Isabellas room. "what" "Cheak this out" I walk over to her she stands by the closet "So i moved these boxes and it looks like theres like something cut out in the floor like you could lift it" I get down on my knees and look at it "I think it may be something". I try to lift it up. "Looks like its stuck or something"I grab a knife from my pocket and dig it thru the cracks. I then try to lift it up and it comes up exposing a hole. "Think it leads somewhere" "Maybe" She walks over to her backback and tosses a flashlight at me. I turn it on and shine it down the hole. "Definatly leads somewhere" "Move let me go down it" "Are you crazy"? "Just a little" She pushes me out of the way and looks down the hole She looks back at me. "Im going down it" "I don't think thats the best idea" "Well you sure as hell won't fit" she puts her legs in the hole. I hand her a flash light and my knife."Be careful" She drops down into the hole.
I drop down my feet land on the ground. I look around its is that smell? I turn on the flashlight. Looks like someone stayed down here. I see a latern on the wall i walk over and turn it on it lights up the room. I see a dead sketelonized body in the corner. "aw man" looks like they didn't survive. I see something by the body. A sketchbook! i walk over to it and pick it up. A paper falls out. i pick it up and read it
6/9/21
They all were bite. Every one of them. My sister wife brother son. I wasn't. I managed to get away. Found this town by a hydroplant. Nobody here. The houses are empty. No furniture. Like nobody lived here in years. My family is gone. What is there to keep fighting anymore. Trying to survive. Hope for a cure. My family is coming back. i shot them all in the head. They couldn't become one of those things. Ive been in this hell hole for a week i think. Safer underground. I can't take it anymore. Even if theres a cure found it won't bring back my family. This worlds not worth living in anymore. Tomorrow will be the day. Tomorrow will be the day im with my family again
- Quinn
I sigh and put the note in my pocket. I pick up the sketchbook again. I open it. The first drawing is of some lady. I flip to the next page another lady. I flip to the next page. A man. I flip to the next page. a Boy. His family. I walk over to the hole. "Joel" "Still here" I try to jump up but its just to far. "Shit we got a problem" "Ill put my hand down there you grab it and ill try to pull you up". His arm then appears. "Take this first". I put the sketchbook in his hand. He pulls up his arm then it appears again without the sketchbook in it. "Okay" I grab ahold of his hand with one hand and the other on his arm "Pull". He starts to pull he pulls me out of the hole and on top of him. I look at him in the eyes still on top of him still gripping his hand. "So you found a sketchbook". I let go of his hand and roll off. "Yeah and this" I hand him the note. He takes the note from my hand. He reads it. "Jesus, was there a body down there?" "yes" "suicide seems like the best option for people" "I was gonna do it, I lost my family and best friend" "What stopped you?" "I didn't do it i couldnt i spent years in a quarrantine zone distant not talking to anybody i planned to escape get biten come back and have them shoot me" "But you didn't" "Thats when i met Tony" "Wheres Tony now?" "dead" "Im sorry" "Seems like everyone i care for dies like this world wants me to kill myself" "I won't let you do that" "Now if i die i wanna go down fighting, for all the loved ones that died" "Best way to go"
