LEON'S POV:

Me and Matt sat down at a table and began our daily chat about certain things in the group. Morale, food, water, etc., anything we should be concerned about. I looked over at Eli and Samuel in the corner of the kitchen, yapping away at god knows what.

"So how are we on food?" Matt asked.

"Pretty bad, we may need to hunt at some point." I replied. Matt froze in fear. You see, Matt really liked animals and the thought of having to not only kill them, but eat them as well scared him.

"Dude, you know I can't-"

"Matt, we got to, want to starve?" I asked.

"But killing is not right!" Matt said in defense.

"You seemed to have no problem killing that bandit with a goddamn crowbar a while back." I said annoyed.

"That was different." Matt said.

"How?" I asked.

"Well, it was a person."

"You do realize that humans and animals are both mammals." I said.

"He was trying to kill you!"

"Yeah, and luckily you were there to help."

"Yeah I was, but it still doesn't make killing right!" Matt said. I was starting to get confused with Matt since he didn't like killing, but he didn't hesitate in killing that bandit.

"You are confusing the living shit out of me!"

"How am I?!" Matt yelled angrily.

"You say you hate killing, but you didn't hesitate in killing that man!"

"BECAUSE HE WAS GOING TO KILL YOU!"

"AND YOU KILLED HIM ANYWAYS AND NOW YOU SAY YOU CAN'T KILL!"

"BECAUSE I CAN'T!"

"MAN THE FUCK UP YOU SACK OF SHIT!"

Matt stood there with shock on his face. It only took a second to process what I've said. Not only did I tell him to man up, I called him a sack of shit as well! At my best friend no less! Matt angrily stood up and headed towards the door. I stood up and went after him.

"Matt, I'm-"

"I don't care; I'm gonna go check the fence." Matt said, and with that, he went out the door. I went back to the table and sat down. Why the hell did I say that? I mean, he had to grow up but that last part was very unnecessary. I saw Samuel and Eli walk over to me.

"So, Matt huh?" Samuel asked.

"Yeah, I wish he would grow up." I said.

"You got to give it time, if you force it on him, he'll be more hesitant." Eli said.

"Eli, I'm not sure how your logic works, but that sounds really stupid." I said.

"Leon, you gotta trust him, he's the closest we've got to a moral compass." Samuel said.

"Are you sure?" I asked.

"Yeah, trust him." Samuel said.

At this point, I noticed Tyler walking upstairs with a tray of food in his hands. He was probably going to give Drew some food. Speaking of Drew, I noticed a few knives have gone missing. I at first thought they were being used for weapons, but then I thought…

No, I don't think Drew would ever do that.

Unless someone was sneaking the knives to him, I highly doubted he would cut himself.

I sat there thinking for a while about numerous things to ease my mind. I eventually settled on a memory about my first time trying turkey. I at first thought it was disgusting, but I eventually came to like it.

Then the shots were fired.

I sprang to my feet and dashed outside, looking for the source of the shots. I eventually dashed over to the fence where Matt was going. I arrived at the fence and saw no sign of Matt.

Then I noticed the puddle of blood on the ground trailing off through the fence.

Where was Matt?