"Midnight Riders are the best Jan!" Ellis explained as she stared disgustingly at the poster in front of her, "Of course they are Ellis." Janice agreed sarcastically as she looked up to the ceiling in wonder. Nick poked Janice in the back "What's wrong?" Nick asked realizing how negative she was being, "I'm still a bit worked up about the Hunter, that's all." Janice admitted when Ellis was out of earshot.
But he had heard very clearly, he looked down and kicked a rock as guilt swam through his head. He looked back at the beautiful, smart, positive and considerate 20-year-old and sighed. Why would she ever love him? She deserves a more serious yet funny type of a man, one she can trust and snuggle next to at night with no worries at all.
Nick would be the best man for her, he glanced back to see her being hugged by Nick. He kicked a plastic bin and continued forward Rochelle followed him, "What's going on sweetie?" Ro asked the mechanic as he wiped away tears trying to stream down his face. "Do you think I deserve Janice?" Ellis asked as he stared at her with cold eyes, ones no one was used to.
"Yes, I believe you do." Rochelle smiled as she placed a hand on his shoulder, "Hey Ellis! How are you?" Janice asked as she held his hand. A soft smile on her face, "I'm great now with yew here." Ellis explained making her blush "Kill the clowns! The squeakin' noise is drivin' me and the zombies crazy." Coach yelled shooting at the ten zombies following the clown as its shoes squeaked loudly attracting more.
"Jan! Look out!" Ellis warned as a Smoker wrapped its long slimy tongue around her leg and abdomen, a hiss escaped from Nicks mouth as they stared in awe. The tongue started to untie and hang loosely, Janice sprinted back sweat running down her face. "First El, now you!" Janice exclaimed completely blown away by their new talents.
"It must have sumthin' to do with the bites y'all got from the infected." Coach suggested looking up at the sky in thought, "I remember the news crew talking about someone called a Halfie, people who can keep their mind and turn and talk to the infected freely. But maybe you guys can't change but are able to talk to them… Has anything weird happened?" Rochelle told the others which sounded very convincing.
"Well, back at the mall, we ran like at the speed of light man. And I feel so much stronger and I can hear things like when Nick asked Janice what was wrong and she -." He cut himself off as he glanced at a humiliated Janice, "Well it's official, you two are Halfie's." Ro announced sounding confident about her accusation.
"No s#$% Sherlock." Nick mocked sarcastically as he continued forward, but he 'accidentally' bumped into Janice and started talking to her. "How are you Janice?" he asked her in almost a whisper, as he planted his lips on her neck making her heart beat faster and adrenaline pump.
"Hey guys look at this!" Janice pointed at a game and ran up to it, her eyes flashed as she held up her Sniper and aimed at the things that floated past. Her high score lessened then grew and repeated this until the final sound of a bell stopped the game, lights flashed around a red cabinet and a gnome chompski was awarded for her hard efforts. "Look you guys! It's a survivor!" she joked as she held up the gnome as she smiled; Nick swiped it off her and held it high in the air. Tears erupted from her eyes as she jumped up and tried to reach it, "Get your own gnome!" she yelled as her bottom lip curled.
Nick glanced at Ellis and jumped out of the way just in time to be rammed, "Ellis! He's just playing with me…You OK?" Janice grew worried as Ellis panted and stared at the ground in shock. Before he could stand up and apologize to Nick he was punched in the gut, blood forced out of his mouth.
Ellis growled and his eyes darted around, looking for the source. He heard something swipe through the air as he ducked, he knocked the wind out of the target by kick them in the chest. "STOP!" Rochelle yelled making the two boys snap out of it and look back to the others.
Coach was attending to a wound on his arm, Rochelle was keeping her eyes on them making them feel small. Janice was talking to Coach but kept on shooting small looks at them, the first one showed 'worry' the second was 'anger' and the last one was 'fear'.
Ellis helped Nick up and tried to find the words, "I'm sorry Nick." He muttered not really meaning it. "Sorry." Nick said back as he tried to talk to Janice, she walked off seeming scared but was getting very angry. Then she heard the familiar sound of a Tank, "Screw zombies Tanks are horrible." Janice stated having that 'how could it get worse?' face.
1 Tank, 2 Chargers, 1 Spitter and 1 Jockey Later…"Gosh! Why don't we just fight a Horde while you're at it." Nick asked aloud as he shook his head in disgust, Ellis bit his lip while he thought of the many ways to say that he was sorry to the others. He looked at Janice and wanted to then and there wrap is arms around her and say sorry, "Uh Ellis?" Janice sounded a bit put off. "Hm?" Ellis murmured, "You're kind of hugging me." She explained and Ellis instantly jumped off.
"Sorry Jan, I jus' well. I miss yew talkin' to me and well ah just wanted to say…Sorry." He smiled at her and laughed lightly; Janice returned the smile and grasped his hand. Pulling him in the direction she was going, "Hey Ellis!" Janice sang to him and pointed up to a pink sign with the word: 'Kiddie Land'.
Ellis' eyes grew wide and his mouth open that wide, a fly could go in and he wouldn't realize. "Holy shit guys! Kiddie Land!" and skipped [literally] into what he would call heaven, Janice laughed at him and joined Nick.
"I wouldn't be amazed if he went here with his buddy Keith." Nick betted making her giggle, "Let him have fun, I mean. It's amazing of how much spirit he can have in such a thing like this. I'm just holding on to a limb." She explained sounding fascinated by his strong will.
Ellis stopped mid way and let his shoulders slump, he looked back at the beautiful 20-year-old as he waited for her to catch up. "You heard me didn't you Ellis?" she asked as she read him, "Maybe." He mumbled as he scratched the back of his head.
"Down here y'all!" Coach waved as he trudged down a path, "If I find a Burger Tank in this place? I'm-a be a one man cheeseburger apocalypse." Coach stated as he looked for any signs. "Send me a postcard when you find one." Janice said sarcastically seeming to rub off a bit from Nick.
Janice pointed at a ladder which led to a rooftop, the others followed cautiously. "Hey look, slides! I love these!" Janice smiled happily as her cheerful glow came back; she went down one of them and continued the same thing but stopped when the others were down.
"Up the stairs!" Janice continued up and leapt down onto the pavement below, "Looks like y'all have ta turn on the merry-go-round." Coach suggested as he shook the gates.
Authors Note: I'm soo sorry you guys, I had to go to my dads and he didn't have the document thing so I had to wait and aww. Anyway, the Halfie belongs to D-ZombieDragon. OK so now you can't sue, hah! I'm gonna make Sims out of Nick, Ellis, Coach, Rochelle and Janice wish me luck! Disclaim: Nick, Ellis, Coach, Rochelle, Charger, Tank, Jockey, Spitter, Infected Horde, Clown infected, Keith, Valve Corp.
Janice, AnntheHedgehog.