ok here it is. i love the rewievs. You guys awesome! Anyway i will continue this story in Mason's POV. Oh and another thing, i think ill be a little slow on updates since my family will be visiting this week but i'll try. ◕‿◕

Mason's POV

I don't think I'll ever get used to this life. Almost two months have passed since I have left home and came to this old and dusty motel. Every day is the same thing: I wake up, do laundry, help with dinner, babysit the children, come to my room, take care of my brother's and dad, take a short and cold shower, eat and then sleep. I haven't been out into the city so I don't really know how bad it is but we have lost a lot of people. It's not like me and the people that died were close but it still hurt…

Daniel has gotten pretty good with combat fighting. I ask him to teach me but he says that I don't need to learn that stuff since he'll be there to protect me. I think it's sweet but I want to do something else than chores.

Dad also has gotten better at surviving. I mean he has always been a hardass but he's tougher and I guess a little bit distant. Maybe It's just the stress…

But hey, no need to worry since Aiden has gotten closer to me. We've become each other's therapists. I talk to him about my feelings and he talks to me. HA! Just kidding. Aiden's never opened up to anyone but I try to talk to him. I have no one else to talk to. Well except Kate, my best friend. Turns out that she was looking for me, found the note at my house, and got the walkie talkie I left for her. I gave her directions and she found us here; I honestly couldn't be more happier she's here. She's right by my side as we: wake up, do laundry, help with dinner, babysit the children, and do chores all day without any free time. Well I do have free time but not like the others. The guys work hard but it just seems that they have too much free time. Most of the time I'm watching dad, Daniel and his buddies laugh around the campfire drinking expired beer they find on their runs. I really wish I had that much free time…

"Ok, enough is enough" I say as I lift myself off my bed. I have been awake for half an hour pondering in my bed. It's barely morning but I agreed to meet Kate up on the roof. It's become a thing. We both wake up really early and go up to the roof to watch the sunset, eat breakfast and chat for a while before doing chores. I guess you could say that this is our free time. Reaching for my flip flops I go to the kitchen and grab enough food to consider it breakfast. I look around and silently tiptoe towards to door to not wake any of my brothers and dad. Suddenly dad stretches his arm while he yawns and I'm out of the door before he could wake up.

As I walk toward Kate at the roof I see her eating her breakfast. "Couldn't wait for me could'ya?" I chuckle as she turns around with a cracker in her mouth.

"What can I say. You took too long" She smiled then scrunched up her nose. "Didn't you wake up when I tapped your window?"

"Yeah I did but I had ones of those 'I can't live like this anymore' moments." I said as I open my bag of pretzels. Kate reached for one of my pretzels and I looked at her while she just shrugged and ate one. "You owe me one" I simply told her.

"I had one of those moments like… two days ago while cleaning one of the little kid's ass. She sighed. "I kinda wished we had more people to talk to"

"We do but since we are always inside we never see them." I shoved her shoulder. "Daniel is always talking about his friends but never have I once seen them"

"Well, we gotta meet them" she wriggled her eyebrows. I shoved her again and laughed. "it's been too long. Momma needs meat."

"Ugh, Kate" I hissed. I swung my legs to sit crosslegged. "You're right though… but still its UGH when you say it."

"Yeah well, whatever…" the sun was shining and women from the laundry crew were getting ready to work. Kate got up after finishing her crackers and went towards the stairs. "We have got work to do."

"yeah I guess we do" I sigh finishing all the pretzels and washing it all down with water.

"what's up bitches!" I look down at Kate walking over and sitting down with the women. She's crazy but I don't know what I'd do without her. I walk down the stairs and begin my non-eventful day.

After doing much laundry with the girls and helping with dinner I decided that I wanted to skip babysitting and went for a walk. Nothing exciting just walking around the motel watching the men come back from the farmacy run since we needed more toilet paper and medical supplies. Aiden went on that run since it was an easy, in and out, job. He has been training since he just turned sixteen and is expected to be strong like the others.

"Hey Aiden." I walk up to him and help with the bags. "how'd it go?" He silently sidestepped me and put his bags on the lobby.

"s'just multi grain bars in the bag" was all he said to the women in charge of supplies. He turned around and kept working.

I walk up to Daniel and ask him about Aiden. Even though I know Aiden is always like that… he just seemed different. He always answer's me even though if it's just a grunt. Daniel after a while of looking at me shook his head and silently went and put his bags in the lobby. I scoffed and looked around the car. That's when I noticed the bloody seats. I immediately thought of dad and ran off towards Daniel who had just shut the door to our room.

"Hey!" I banged on the door. "Hey, open up!" my voice started to quaver and my hands shook with fear. It seemed that every time something happened I just crumble up like a coward. Finally, after a minute of arguing from the other end Dad opened the door, grabbed my wrist and pulled me inside.

After a minute of shock and emotions I hugged my dad. " where have you been… I didn't see you get out of the car… I saw all that blood and assumed the worst and then I couldn't find you and…" I cut myself off when I saw them all packing. "We going somewhere?" I chuckled nervously.

"We're leaving…Now." Bill said with wide unblinking eyes as he threw his gun on the bed.

"Wha….Why?" I look between all of them while they kept on packing. "What happened? Who's blood is that…" a scream cut me off and all four of us were running outside. I followed the noise and reached the lobby where Jillian, the chef, was on the floor crying while holding on to one of the guy's hand.

"Mason" my dad said softly grabbing my arms and pulling me back while Jillian kept sobbing. "we have to pack" he whispered in my ear. I shook his arm off of mine and went over to our 'leader' George.

"What happened?" I basically growled at him. I was mad and scared and nobody wanted to tell me anything. I had the last bit of patience cut off me when George ignored me and went towards Jillian. I stood up tall and was ready to tackle George when Kate put her arm on my shoulder and told me to listen.

"Jillian I am truly sorry for your loss but we have to tell everyone what happened." George visibly inhaled and exhaled before continuing. "Some guys came and were holding an un-conscious handless man up while we were getting stuff from a hardware store… We thought that maybe that group of people were harming the man and we tried to save him but he later explained that he was helping him. That they found him there bleeding to death. After that, I thought that they were good and we stuck by them for a while when the leader, his buddies called him the Governor, found an old building filled with a group helping elders survive. He… he and his group murdered them in cold blood."
"Oh my god" I breathed while everyone gasped and began whispering among themselves.

He quieted everyone down and continued telling them what happened. "We pulled our guns on them but they were a larger group, stronger. He unfortunately killed one off our own but we got away." He stopped when Jillian cried louder. The guy holding her took her into her room. "This place isn't safe anymore, we have to leave now before they find us… and they will since they know where we are."

"How?" Kate asked.

"One of them saw one of our bags with the logo of the motel." He chuckled quietly. "Whoever wants to stay can stay but… me and my family are leaving and you can all join us." I ran a hand on my face and went to my room to start packing.

"We aren't going with him." Dad said behind me. I already guessed that since dad doesn't trust him anymore since he got someone killed three weeks ago. I can't really blame him but where are we going to go.

"Kate is coming with us." I turned around and faced him. There was no way that I was leaving her behind.

"Of course we aren't. She's family." Daniel said while Dad nodded. "Go get her… I'll finish packing" I smiled and went to her room. I knocked softly and she opened the door quickly with a bag on her hand and crackers in her mouth. Again.

"You're coming with us. We aren't going with George and the others." She snorted while I talked. Really? She's laughing now? Is this girl for real?

"If I know your father, which I think I do, he's not sticking around with our thumbs up our asses with a big group. Less chance of survival and all that stuff…and you guys are not leaving without me." I smiled and we walked towards Dad's car.

Putting everything inside I jumped into the car and noticed that Aiden was in already holding a gun and cleaning it. It made me realize that my little baby brother was cleaning a DAMN GUN. I saw his face and he had no emotions. Nothing. I knew that he was heading a dark path but I have no idea how to change it. I haven't been outside the motel so I don't know what he's seen but to put him like he is now… it must've been bad.

i have an idea about where this story is headed but any ideas are very much appreciated. ;)