Hey guys and welcome back to The hellish world we live in! Sorry this wasn't put up sooner, life happens. We were going to go to the fort bbbuuuutttttttt…. There was a last second request to go to the northern community. So, it's a tie. Again. So, I had to pick a random choice like usual when there was a tie. Northern community, here we go!
Drew's POV
Immediately, everyone put up their hands. I counted up the hands to go to either the fort or the community. I took a deep breath and announced where we were going.
"We will be going to…" Everyone held their breath.
"The northern community." There was 'yeses!' and 'dam…'s among the group but eventually, everyone filed out of the makeshift gate we had made in front of the rest stop. I took lead while everyone followed me, it had taken a while to get used to be leader but really, nobody was going to step up to the task. Chad of all people walked up to me. Chad and I hadn't become really close but we weren't strangers either. Chad decided to speak up.
"Uh… how's it going?" I stared ahead.
"Nothing much, you?"
"Um… I've been fine, thanks."
"Why do you keep saying 'um' and 'uh'?"
"What? Oh yeah, that? I'm kind of… upset." I turned to him now and saw something other than Chad. I knew Chad as I strong, vigilant person who never gave in, not caring what others thought of him. What I saw before me was a sorry heap of a person. He had dark circle under his eyes and his eyelids drooped, like he wasn't getting any sleep. He now had his black sweatshirt hanging loosely on his form.
"Me and Cristina…" Chad went on.
"We loved each other." I instantly felt bad for the guy.
"It's going to be ok Chad." Chad sighed.
"I knew you would say that." After that, we walked along in silence. After walking for about an hour, Kenny called to stop, that he saw a light behind us. It was still early morning and was a little dark out so we could easily identify a light. I walked back to where Kenny was standing to see a light indeed coming towards us. I brought up my sniper rifle to the light and steadied it. As it got closer, we could make out a badly damaged Ford car trudging its way towards us. There was a man behind the wheel. He had dark brown hair that looked pretty naturally curled, light brown skin, soft dark brown eyes, a roman looking nose, tall and skinny but with muscles easily seen even from here, black and white Nikes, dark blue jeans, and a white t-shirt with what looked like walker blood as well as a grey jacket. He slowed down when he got near us, keeping a straight face.
"Hi there." The man said, leaning out the shattered window. I nodded.
"What do you want?" The man put up his hands when he noticed that he was at gunpoint.
"Hey man, I'm not looking for trouble here ok? Just passing through these parts." I nodded again.
"Where you heading?" I asked. The man started to get nervous.
"I was uh, heading up to that place over there where you know, had all those greats walls and stuff…?" I pointed my gun to the ground.
"I'm not going to shoot you ok? Not unless you threaten me or my group." The man visibly relaxed. I spoke this time.
"Sounds like were going to the same place, mind if we catch a ride with you?" He in turn bit his lip and thought for a moment before answering.
"Yeah sure, name's James." James said, holding out his hand. I in turn shook it.
"Give me a second to talk to my group about ok James?" James nodded understandingly. I walked back to my group.
"Ok guys, we have a ride there, his name's James and I want you all to be nice to him ok?" A few mumbles was followed by this as we walked back to James's truck. I rode shotgun, next to James as everyone else piled up in the back seats. I noticed a small black school backpack next to him. James saw me staring at the backpack and turned his attention back to the road.
"What's in the pack?" I asked. James shrugged.
"Just some basics, two kitchen knives, some food and a canteen with water and my dead iPhone." I perked up when I heard he had a phone.
"It won't be dead for long then." I said as I pulled out a mobile phone charger. I had found it on the road while we had walked, I almost missed it. James stared at it.
"Where'd you find that?" I shrugged.
"I found it on the road." James, handling the wheel with one hand, opened the backpack with his other. He pulled out an iPhone 5 and handed it to me. I plugged the charger into the phone and crossed my fingers that it would work. After a while, the low battery sign appeared on the device, sowing a lightning bolt next to it, showing that it was indeed being charged. James was stupidly smiling now.
"My god, thanks man!"
"It'll take a while for it to be able to work but it's charging none the less." Will spoke up from behind us, eaves dropping in on our conversation.
"Why would you care about the phone?" I rolled my eyes.
"Because, that way, we can find out if there is a working government still left out there, maybe contact people by using the social network!" Will was quiet. I turned my eyes back to the road to see a lone walker in front of us.
"LOOK OUT!" I screamed but it was too late. The walker collided with the car and we spun around the road. And then everything went black.