25: Alexa
Something about this man-Chandler, reminded me of Jarrett. The way he grinned, the way he stood, but even more so, the way that I could tell what he was thinking. Snapping back to reality, I heard Maddy say, "Sure. Lead the way." We started walking. "Um, Chandler, what school did you go to? I think I've seen you before." "Oh, nowhere special, just a regular school." That was when I knew who he was. I walked closer, and whispered in his ear, "I know where you came from. I was trained in sword fighting. What about you?" He whispered back, "I was trained in medical abilities." As if he wanted to drop the subject, he called out to the group. "Here's the first room. It's nice, but I don't stay here." He then gestured to the next room. "Here's the room where I stay. It's my office" Before anyone could even look inside, he opened a door in front of him. It opened up into a large room. There was a window that covered the front wall. I walked over, and realized that I could see so far in that direction. On the right of the 'window room' there was a small door. Chandler opened the door. There was nothing in the room, but the window that had been on the wall had continued into this room. "We could move a bed into here if any of your group needs a room." Chandler said.
Chandler closed the door and led us back out. We were back next to his office, and he turned the opposite way. "This is the room where I keep the food." He opened the door, and revealed a room with shelves covering two of the walls. A pitiful amount of food remained. Chandler only had six cans of soup, and ten bottles of water. "You're lucky we came when we had," Maddy joked. "You would've run out of food." I could feel Chandler shudder at the thought of him dying up in this room. Chandler walked to the other side of the room. "This room has a ladder that leads onto the roof. There were geeks up there, so I blocked it off."
I stepped forward, and pulled out my katana. "Open the door. I'll handle it." He started to object, but when he remembered that I had been trained in sword fighting, he opened the door. Maddy cautiously stepped forward too, and she pulled out her sword. Six walkers stumbled out. One fell from where the ladder was, and a few more followed. I swung my katana at the first walker, and the top half of its head flew off. It immediately collapsed. Maddy took out the one that was next to me, and I killed the one in front of me. We continued to fight, while the rest of the group stood back and watched. Blood was splattered all over the previously clean floors, and we walked inside the room. The ladder was on the left wall, and there were shelves on the wall in front of us. On the shelves, there was medical supplies. Not like the stuff we had, this was real medicine. Anesthetic, bandages, painkillers, blood bags, anything that could help us.
Ignoring my friends going through the medicine, I decided to check out the roof. I climbed up the ladder, and glanced around. There were no bodies on the roof, and all around the perimeter there was a three foot wall to keep people from falling. I climbed back down. Maddy was standing there, waiting for me. "Hey Alexa, I'm about to clean out the basement. Wanna come along?"