Chapter Twenty-Five: Noelles Pov

"Really?" Katie said over the phone. Her eyes lit up. "Guys!" She started shouting around the cabins, banging on the different cabins' walls and waking the different families up, but of course she got curses and hate stares from the different families.

"What?" Paul said, rubbing his eyes.

At the top of Katie's lungs she shouted; "THEY FOUND A CURE FOR THE ZOMBIES!"

"Wait what?" I asked, astonished by this new information.

And it got the attention she was seeking from the families. People began wooping and hollering.

"Are you lieing to us?" a mom said, making everyone go quiet.

"No." She snapped, taking her phone from behind her back. "My sisters on the phone. She can tell you."

She was lucky it was face time, otherwise no one would believe her.

"Is this some cruel joke?" a Dad asked.

Emily shook her head, showing the cases of syringes.

"But those'll just make us sick," a women said.

So Emily began explaining how it wasn't exactly a cure, but it was a disguise from the zombies.

"But we won't cures!" an older boy said.

"Look," Emily looked she was about ready to starting hitting people. "Fine, we just won't give anything to your family because a disguise isn't good enough. We'll let your family get turned into zombies because, disguise isn't good enough, I need a cure all for myself!" She paused. "News flash fucktard. We can't find one. So you're just gonna have to fucking deal with it. It's either a disguise or you get eaten by the man eating creatures." She turned away from the camera picking something up. "This ... good sir, is what you'll turn into if you don't DEAL WITH IT!" It was a zombie it had glassy eyes and green moldy looking skin, it's hair was matted in different directions and his teeth had turned even yellow-er than before.

But, it worked. It shut up the complaing and bitch-y family.

"Noelle. Katie." Emily said. "Go tell the General and bring me with you. Kay?"

"But what about zombies," I whispered.

"Don't worry, we're flying to America, we'll tell the general where when we get there. Now hurry before we actually high jack this helicopter," Emily smiled.

So Katie and I exchanged glances but we casually jogged down to the deck, running now, trying to find General Lee.

"Yes girls?" he asked once we found him.

"Dylan, Hope, Kade, Jace, Emily, and Xavier all found a disguise so that way we could hide from the zombies," I said, panting, gasping for air.

"See," Katie said, raising the phone to the generals eyes.

He grinned at the sight of the group of people, but he was more-or-less staring at the girls.

"Well, then," the general started. "We shall through a huge party for the return of the wonderful and brave group. Guys will ask the girls and what should the theme be?" He gripped Katie and I by the shoulders bringing us closer together.

She and I exchanged glances. "Something that involves dresses." Katie laughed.

"But nothing to formal. Like no ball room dances just kind of like ..." I struggled hard trying to find the word. "Like ... a prom. Nothing to fancy."

"Excellent, a week from tomorrow we will throw a party for the return of our extraordinarry team!"

I grinned and turned back to the phone. She was gone. She must've had to go. "Way to go Hopie and Ems," I smiled.

Emilys Pov

Of course Xavier and Jace flew, they demanded it and we didn't seem to put up a fight, we were too tired to argue.

Except I couldn't fall asleep. I was staring out of window, watching as Pacific Ocean flew by below us. I watched as dolphins leaped out of the water and gracefully landed back in, rarely making any splashes.

I was texting Katie. It took a while for it to send and for me to get one but that didn't matter as long as I had contact with her. She was telling me how the general was expecting to throw a party next week. Awesome. Great. Wow. Bleh. Guys ask girls was what she just texted me.

I glanced at Kade, hoping he wasn't reading over my shoulder, nope, his head was just on my shoulder and he was fast asleep.

Who do you want to ask you?

It took the long time to send it too her and I know would have some free time before she replied.

I tapped Jace on the shoulder, he jumped at the sudden contact but he said into his headset; "What Emily?"

"How much farther?" I said into the headset.

Jace paused, checking the many gages on the front board on the helicopter. "About ... fifteen more miles or so until we reached California."

California. Now that is a state I hadn't heard about in a LONG time. The people around us, my family, Hopes, Noelles, Maddys, and Melinas family all had to be relocated to DC. I didn't want to move and I put up a fight but ... of course we moved.

I decided I would just stick to texting Katie and playing games, with myself.

That was until Kade woke up. "Where-where are we?" He asked yawning.

"Fifteen miles from California," Jace answered him for me. "Oh and please no 'making-out' with the head phone set on. Please?" Jace now whined and I could hear Xavier chuckle into the microphone.

Kade grinned cockily at me. "Dude, there are no promises for that."

I laughed, taking his headset off as he took mine off. Our lips collided for a moment before he looked at me and said; "Will you go to the dance with me?"

I looked at him both anger and shock filling my eyes. "You were looking over my shoulder."

He grinned at me but he nodded his head. "So will you?"

Butterflies crept into my stomach and I hestitated to answer him. He took my hand and kissed it gently.

"Let me rephrase that then," he cleared his throat for a dramatic effect. "Emily, my darling, will you please, make me the happiest guy in the world and go to the dance with me?"

I turned away from. No guy has ever asked me to anything before in my life, so this was new. It was always Katie or Noelle or Melina or even Maddy, never me or Hope. But I turned back to him and met his eyes. I finally decided and said in my most regal voice that I make; "I would be delighted to attend with you."

He grinned and slowly brought his lips to mine, smiling the whole time.

"Ew, really next to me, great way to wake up," Hope groaned.

Kade jumped over the back of the seat and dragged me along with him. He definitetly had something on his mind. What was it? I can only guess.

He leaned back, making my head rest against the farthest back corner of the helicopter.

"Kade," I mumbled, while he was still kissing me, forcing his body onto mine. "We-we can't do it hear, to many witnesses."

He pulled away, realization in his eyes, but he grinned when he realized something; "But they can't hear the noise we make."

Heat ran up my cheeks as I knew what he meant. But I resisted his temptations towards me. "Please. Not here."

I moved away from and climbed back over my seat and restrapped myself in, but this time, I was sitting in the middle, next to Hope who was on my right and Kade, who had crawled back over the seat and now was sitting on my left. And Dylan to my farthest right.

I hadn't realized that Katie and texted back and Hope was using my phone.

Hope turned to me. "A dance huh? I doubt Jace'll ask me."