A few days passed after the attack and life has returned to normal...or as normal as you can get in a apocalypse. I went into the kitchen to get a snack because being pregnant I am always hungry, I opened up the top cupboard where the pickles were and screamed when a bunch of snakes came out.
As they landed on the floor I realised that they were plastic, I heard a loud laugh from behind me and saw Alpha laughing while clutching her stomach.
"Oh, you find that funny did you?" I asked and threw a few snaked at her and smiled.
"You jumped so much and screamed so loud."
"Haha jokes over now" I said and grabbed the jar of pickles "don't forget to clean up the snakes...where did you get them from?."
"Found them in a box in a shop where we did a supply run" Alpha replied as she picked up the snakes.
I sat down and carried on eating my pickles. A few minutes later I heard Hailey shout "walkers are trying to get in!."
I leapt to my feet and ran outside to see walkers clawing their way through the gaps that were made bo so long ago when we had the stand off with the bandits. Alpha came out with a crossbow and so did everyone else with their own weapon.
We fired at them over and over again but it was no use they kept coming so we quickly went back inside and packed all the food and everything we had with us and went out the back way and into the woods.
We had been going for an hour and it was still silent. Luke's hand found mine and held it tightly. Little one was kicking and moving like crazy but kept every painful kick and movement to myself so that we can get far away from those walkers.
Dante was dragging her feet on the ground finally Sarayhtah snapped and shouted "oh for goodness sakes Dante pick up your feet and move faster!." Dante jumped at her mother's words and picked up her pace and stopped dragging her feet.
It was approaching the late afternoon when we found a large clearing and set up camp, some people went of to find firewood while other prepped the fire pit. I was exhausted after all the walking with a quite large stomach, I sat down on the ground with Sam and Collie by the side of me.
Luke and Andrew cam back with their arms full of firewood and I watched as Carter and Ethan started the fire, we roasted our food and it was mainly silent between us but you could feel the tension in the air.
"So what's the plan now?" Kim asked.
"Carry on going till we find a safe and strong place to stay in" Carter said.
"What's the nearest town to here?" Alpha asked.
"Wellington, we can go there and see if there is any place to stay there" Ethan said.
I shook my head "nothing there, me and Luke went there thinking members of our other group would be there but like every other town you see it was dead and most buildings are in piles of stone on the floor and the ones that are still standing are not safe to protect us all from the dangers out here."
Everyone looked down in misery. "We have to keep looking, we might be able to find somewhere" Luke said trying to give us hope.
After that it was all silent and as I was about to sleep I noticed Alpha was still wide awake. I walked over to her and said "hey, what are you still doing up?."
"Can't sleep. Way to on edge."
"I know how you feel."
"I mean what if a walker comes and attacks us or even kills one or all of us."
"I know but you have to sleep, get your strength ready for tomorrow because we don't know how long we'll be traveling tomorrow."
"Yeah your right. Night Clem" and with that Alpha layed down and went to sleep I stood and went back to Luke and fell into a deep sleep.
The next morning I got up and helped get all the stuff together to carry on our journey to somewhere safe. We had stopped by a river to get something to drink and for the dogs to get some water.
We then carried on, stopping to rest every few hours. We kept this up for a few days going different direction every day till one day me and Luke recognized where we were.
"Hey, don't you remember these part of the woods?" Luke asked me.
I looked around and I felt my eyes go wide "you think we're near the river house?."
"Yeah, that will be safe enough for all of us" Luke said smiling.
"Hey, guys" I shouted and the whole group stopped to look at us "me and Luke know where we are, if we keep going forward we'll end up at a house built on steel stilts over a river...we stayed there before we got split from our old group it's very safe" everyone's face lit up even Sarayhtah's face brightened up a bit.
We walked for another half hour when we finally reached the house. It hadn't changed much since the last time we had been there. We walked in and found the place empty but still intact, we unpacked our things and were able to relax.
When evening rolled in Kim was preparing dinner alongside Carter, there were sighs and huffs and quite a few disagreements about food, how long to cook it for, when to add what ingredient but after two hours our dinner was finally dinner was ready.
We ate dinner and then all sat in the living room thinking of different things, when it felt quite late we all went into our rooms and went to sleep.
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