I'm so sorry, I've had loads of essays to write lately but I'm here now with a big chapter. It kind let's you explore characters we haven't explored yet and the ending...well let's just say the ending is...unexpected. I may be putting a new Comedy MI High Story about how they talk on facebook and I have a few ideas about it, if I don't put it on writing this story then definitely after. It will cheer you up after the ending of this story... anyway nuff said hope you enjoy...~Ella xx
It had been a month and they all knew Dan was gone, apart from Carl. Zoe just couldn't tell him, not yet anyway. It was better when people didn't think about the death of Dan, and they all had their jobs to do at the camp, women washing and cooking, men hunting and keeping watch, it felt normal, only average though, because nothing could replace the extraordinary life they had before it was literally burnt down. They were no longer teenagers, they were adults. No time to grow up, no time to worry about how you looked or felt about things any more, just time to think fast and act faster, to make big decisions and be ready at all times.
"How can you tell which ones aren't poison?" asked Anna, picking two mushrooms she collected out from her bucket.
"Um...only way I know how" said Zoe trailing off, trying to open up the mushroom.
"Ask Chase when he gets back?" suggested Anna.
"Yeah, I'll just go get some more" said Zoe before looking over at Carl.
"Carl, I want you to stay in Rob and Aneisha's sight while I'm gone okay?".
"Yes mum" he replied sighing.
"You too Zoe, don't wonder too far, if you bump into trouble, just hollor, I'll come running" said Rob.
"Yes mum" said Zoe sarcastically.
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Connor turned to Aneisha.
"I don't trust that Chase guy" he said.
"Wow, that's the longest you've gone without saying it" joked Aneisha.
"Seriously there's something about him" said Connor.
"Gut instinct?" asked Aneisha.
"Yep" replied Connor.
"I get that a lot, I'm almost always right" said Aneisha.
"I'm sure you are" laughed Connor, leaning in to kiss her on the cheek.
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"You know, that's the seventh mosquito bite in an hour" said Stella, sighing. Frank wrapped his arm around her.
"Maybe it's that perfume your wearing" said Frank.
"I doubt it, but your right, it has to be a smell of some sort, but I don't think its my perfume" said Stella.
"So it's me then is it?" asked Frank, laughing.
"Hmm, maybe, but we do need some mosquito spray, when are you going into the city?" asked Stella.
"Soon, we can't just keep eating leaves and berries, I'm taking a group out, Tom, Christie, Connor and Rob, we'll get all we need" said Frank, confidently.
"Frank, I know your the leader, and what you say, goes but can't you just stay here, we can trust Tom, he can take a group into the city, after all he's been through, we shouldn't underestimate him" said Stella, feeling emotional, those stupid mosquito bites probably.
"Hmm, maybe"Frank agreed silently.
"Death is inevitable" said Stella, looking up at Frank, seriously.
"Frank I can't lose you...ever" said Stella, tears in her eyes.
Frank pulled her into his chest as she started to cry.
"Don't...don't even think about that,because I'm not losing you and your right, death is inevitable, I won't go, just this once, if that's what it takes for you to stop crying" said Frank, blinded with his own tears.
Stella just nodded.
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"I never thought it would be like this" said Kloe.
"I always thought after all of those years in skull, even those years away from Zoe, I'd be invincible".
"Nobody's invincible, not any more, maybe they could be physically, but mentally?...there's no chance, not even a small one" replied Tom.
"I know, not after what we've seen...what you've seen" said Kloe, looking up at him.
"I'm fine, really I am"insisted Tom, but really, even he knew he wasn't.
"Nobody's fine Tom, not any more" said Kloe, looking away sadly.
"Hey, you know everything's gonna be okay right? I'll make it okay" Tom said, his voice growing softer.
"Be careful on that right please, if you don't come back I'll kill you" Kloe joked, sniffing.
Tom chuckled.
"I miss my gadgets" said Tom.
"Big change in topic Tom" said Kloe, smirking.
"I know, I just..." said Tom trailing off.
"W-what?" asked Kloe.
"I'm not meant to be like this, going on runs, having a girlfriend, doing dangerous things" said Tom.
"Tom.." Kloe started but Tom cut her off.
"That's Dan's job, he's meant to be here, going on a run, having the pretty girl, probably back flipping through the camp" said Tom.
"I could never be that" he added.
"You don't have to be, all you have to be is you and no one is going to judge you for it" said Kloe, looking into his eyes.
"I just wish I could talk to Dan, I wish I could still believe in heaven" said Tom.
"You can...if you want" said Kloe.
"Does it help?" asked Tom.
"Not always...but enough" said Kloe, smiling.
"Who do you talk to then, or pray to?" asked Tom.
Kloe's smile slowly shortened.
"Mine and Zoe's foster mum, before this whole thing went down, we were going to tell everybody, we were fostered by two people, Jim and Annette and they live on a farm, but Annette was bitten and died, I don't know what happened after that, or what's happened to my foster dad and my foster sister, but I don't think their doing well" said Kloe, grim.
"I'm sorry" was all Tom could get out.
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Zoe stumbled across the uneven pebbles that were scatted across the ground into the forest.
She saw some mushrooms and bent down to get them when she heard a rustling from behind her. Zoe looked around and saw nothing but was convinced that something was there and wouldn't stop looking around her.
Suddenly a hand went over her mouth and she tried to scream but was tackled to the ground and turned over.
It was Chase, searching her eyes as she looked at him scared.
He lifted his hand away and started chuckling.
Zoe couldn't stop giggling too.
"How long do we have?" asked Chase, unbuttoning his shirt and taking off Zoe's.
"Ages, Anna the mushroom queen found enough for one day" said Zoe giggling.
Chase kissed Zoe's lips until he noticed her necklace, then she looked down at it too. It was the one Dan gave her, a heart.
Zoe took the necklace off and put it in the grass within arms reach before continuing to kiss Chase.
I know, I'm sorry. Things will happen...~ Ella xx
