Author's Note: Holy crap was this chapter a pain in the ass. Not only was some off the dialog difficult, but also Alexis' personality needed to be right. Yes, this is another chapter from a different perspective, this time Alexis' perspective. Anyways keeping this part brief, Hope you guys enjoy this chapter!
Chapter 6
Classmates Bonding?
Karla has been awfully quite since we left the church, I wonder what happened to her and Vanessa when they were back there. Normally she is very peppy and annoying, but now it's awkward and silent. Not saying that I miss her smiling and playing around, I just think that being quiet doesn't suit her personality. Whatever it was, it couldn't have been good since Vanessa never came back. She hasn't even told me what happened to her. I assume she died, but why the change in personality.
We walked back through the underground tunnel and went back up the ladder on the other end. Karla sighed as she stopped at the door to the village.
"What do you think we will find?" Karla spoke up, her voice drained of any enthusiasm she used to have. Everyone remained quiet, what did she mean by that? "What will we see when we open this door?" she asked again.
"There's only one way to find out" Adam said as he walked towards the door. "Get ready" he slowly creaked open the door. Karla aimed her gun and slowly walked out the door. "Hey! It looks like everyone's okay!" Karla lowered her gun as Adam ran past her to meet everyone.
"Guys, I-I mean GIRLS!" someone called from the tower next to us. It was Mondo, he still sounds as annoying as when we left. Great... "Come up here, we need to talk!"
"Karla?" I poked her on the shoulder to knock her out of her trance, but she still didn't say anything. Thinking I couldn't help her, I started walking towards the tower.
"What do I tell them, Alexis?"she finally snapped out of whatever was bothering her.
"Just tell them what happened, remember my sister is still in that church." Catherine told her as she walked past behind her. Without saying anything Karla went to go climb the ladder before me.
"Don't worry, we will get her back. We have to get back there anyways." I reassured Catherine.
"Not saying I don't care about you guys, but my sister comes first, remember that." she said. She walked away to go sit alone.
"This is gonna be hell." I told myself as I headed up the ladder. "So, how did you guys-" once I reached the top of the ladder I was surprised by what I saw, Karla was hugging Mondo!
"Hey, hey, hey it's not what it looks like!" Mondo yelled out defensively. It didn't look like he was hugging back, but Karla definitely had her face buried into his chest. "I swear!" After a couple seconds, Karla let go of him.
"Sorry... just feels like I needed to let that out..." she sighed. "Anyways, where's Adam?
"Um, uh, he uh..." Mondo had to clear his throat. Seems like the little boy doesn't know to act around girls. "He went with Dennis to go find Luis."
"WHAT!" I yelled "Why would that idiot leave without me? DAMN HIM!" It seems like I made Mondo and Karla jump because they were both staring at me with wide eyes. "I-I mean us, why would he leave without, us..."
"Um, yea I don't know either, all I know is that he wanted to see if Luis could help us get out of here." he responded, still with wide eye and shaking his head side to side. This guy is kind of creepy and Karla hugged him for goodness sake! "Things didn't go so well when you guys left."
"What happened?" I asked.
"The chainsaw guy happened, he ruined everything!" Mondo rubbed his hand through his hair to express his frustration. "First it was Johnny, then Maria, then it was Pedro and Heather, they all died."
"Who?" I scratched my head at who he was talking about. Never hear of Johnny or Maria, Pedro only talked Spanish, and I hated Heather, along with her 'friends'.
"Never mind" Mondo completely dropped the subject and turned around to look at the village. "So what happened with you guys?"
"Oh nothing, we just ran into problems of our own. We forgot that we had to fight a chainsaw lady and we kinda lost Vanessa and Krystal." There wasn't any other way to spill it out.
"Wait, what?" Mondo quickly turned around to face me, although he did get a bit close. A bit to close for my comfort.
"Vanessa died"I clarified as I lightly pushed Mondo a few steps away from me. "And we left behind Krystal because she got trapped behind the gate that blocks the door to Ashley."
"Fuuuck, now it's fourteen people that we have lost!" Mondo starred at the roof for a couple seconds. "This really isn't looking good... How do-"
*Knocking on wood*
Everyone looked at the direction from where the knocking was coming from. It was... Amanda... great! "What's up Amanda?" Mondo asked her.
"Oh nothing!" she said in a flirtations way. "I was just wondering if we were still friends cuz' you know, you kinda seemed to have forgotten about me when you started hanging out with your new friends!" What a selfish bitch. Can't she see we are in the middle of something?
"God, Amanda!" Mondo pinched the bridge of his nose. "Fine sure, whatever, I'll go hang out with you." Mondo followed Amanda down the ladder without saying anything.
"Well... that was... strange." I spoke out, hoping to start a conversation with Karla. She only sighed and had a sad look in her eyes. I noticed that her sigh was too heavy to show that she was just tired. "What's the matter?"
"Oh, it's nothing." she sighed again. Okay, Karla! I'm not stupid I can tell when something is wrong and I want to know.
"You jealous that Amanda took away Mondo, aren't you?" I crossed my arms and looked at her suspiciously.
Karla's reaction was priceless, her eyes shot open and her cheeks had a small hint of red. "N-NO!" she yelled out. Unfortunately, her hesitation only made my theory that much more concrete.
"Karla, you know it's not good to keep secrets from me!" I mocked her. "You know it's true."
"Shut up, what about you and Kevin?" she responded quickly.
I must have looked exactly the same as her because a small smile crept up on her face. "HUH? What the hell would give you that idea?" I yelled defensively.
"Oh, I don't know, maybe the part where you got really mad after Mondo told us that Kevin left without YOU, specifically!"
"That's cuz'... that's cuz..." I couldn't come up with any words to respond back. Why was this getting to me? I don't like that idiot! "You know, we all need to move as a team."
"Mmhmm" Now Karla was crossing her arms and looking at me suspiciously.
"Shut up, you fucking hugged Mondo, what the fuck was that about? HMM?" It felt like the rational part of my brain turned off and now I am completely babbling, trying to defend myself and get the better of Karla.
"I... I don't know! I just needed someone to comfort me..." she looked at the ground and dropped her hands to her side.
"What happened with you and Vanessa that cause this?" I put away the joking because I could tell she was being completely serious right now.
"I was trying to get the key for the church and I asked her to watch my back. I tried to figure out the password, but it only got harder when she told me that the chainsaw lady was headed our way. She must have passed you guys or something." she looked up at me with a very sad look in her eyes.
"I saw her, that is why I sent Adam to help you." I told her.
"Well thank you, he did end up saving me, but not before she got Vanessa."
"I don't see how that affected you, things happened, you know."
"I just took our situation too lightly, I wasn't thinking about the danger I put her in... In a time of panic, I cracked and froze up when I was needed." she used her arms to cover her upper body and her hands to cover her ears. "All I could hear were Vanessa's cries for help and agony as she slowly faded away. It was my fault that she died. She would have been safer with you." she concluded. She looked as if she was on verge of tears. She was kind of being melodramatic, but she seems to be very sensitive to responsibly of other people's lives.
"I see... so that is what has been bugging you." I thought hard about what to tell her because she was badly traumatized from Vanessa's death. "Stuff like that just can't be helped Karla. Sure you made a mistake, but how do you think Kevin and Mondo feel right now? More people died here than with us. We just gotta move on and learn from our mistakes, just don't let them change who you are. I like you being peppy and annoying." I gave Karla a small hug to help cheer her up. I felt her jolt a bit as she tried to hold back her tears.
"D-do you r-really like me when I'm happy a-and annoying?" she asked me.
"Yea I do" I let go of her and put my hands on her shoulders. "But don't get the idea that it won't piss me off if you bug me."
"Thanks for the talk Alexis" her toxic smile brought one upon my face as well, causing me to blush a bit. "So who taught you to act so grown up?"
"What do mean?" Grown up? Me? What could give her that idea?
"Like right now, your so calm and serious, even in the situation we were in." she said
"Oh, it was my dad. He said he wanted me to grow up independent, to not be a daddy's girl and ask him for everything. He didn't want me to rely on any guy to support me or be a slave because they were keeping food on my plate. So basically, I know how to take care of myself." I explained to her.
"What about your mom?" She asked,
"Well..." I gave a heavy sigh. "I don't have one. I grew up without her. My dad said that she died giving birth to me, that is why he raised me the way he did. He said that eventually he would die and he didn't want me to be incapable of taking care of myself if that day ever came."
"Sounds like a caring father." she said cheerfully.
"Yea, but he's not perfect. He does have his problems, like anger and wanting to alienate everyone, but no matter what, I wouldn't trade him for the world." I finished. "What about you?"
"Well, I don't have an interesting story like you do. My parents are normal loving parents. My mom manages the whole house while my dad works as a police officer and provides all the money. My mom had taught me everything, from having manners to being nice to people, regardless of how rude they may be. My dad taught me how to defend myself and shoot some firearms, my mom may not like it, but she agreed that is was important."
"Sounds like you have a pretty peaceful life." I told her. Must be nice, but I still wouldn't trade it for my dad.
"It's good to see that we have gotten to know each other a little better." She said.
"Yea, eve-" I suddenly felt a small pain on the side of my cheek. "What the?" I looked at the ground as I heard a rock drop on it. Karla looked at me, ready to bust out laughing, but she held it in and pointed to where it came from. That was a wise choice, Karla. "Who's the asshole!" I yelled down the tower.
I saw Mondo signaling me to be quite. Of course it is that idiot that sets me off and who does he think he is to have the nerve to shush me? Before I could yell again, he pointed towards the end of the pathway where the gate was. Then he gave another signal to duck down or hide. With the conversation I was having with Karla, I didn't notice that everyone in the village was gone. What was going on? I heard Mondo climbing up the ladder in a hurry.
"Girls, get down, the chief is coming." Mondo whispered.
"What do you mean the chief is coming?" I whispered back.
"Me and Amanda were by the gate, I went to see if Kevin was coming back, but instead, I saw the chief and a small group of Ganados coming this way. I told everyone to hide in a house and then I told you guys." He explained.
"Yea, you hit me in the cheek with a rock you asshole" I lightly punched him in the arm.
"Hey, my bad, alright? I really needed to get your attention." he scooted away from me.
"Next time, hit Karla, I'm REAL sure you'll get her attention. OW" I felt sharp pain surge though my right leg. Karla gave me a dead leg, of all things. "WHAT?" I bit my lip, hoping I didn't say that too loud.
"They have Kevin and... someone else, I don't know who, but they have them unconscious." Karla told us. She was looked over the small ledge we had as cover. Mondo quickly stumbled over me to see what Karla was seeing.
"Watch it!" I was getting annoyed by how close we was by me. NO ONE is allowed to touch me!
"Damn it Kevin, you said you wouldn't get caught." Mondo whispered. "Wait, where is Luis?"
"What do you mean where is he?" I asked him. "Shouldn't he be in that closet that they stuff him in?"
"Yea, but he and Dennis went to find him, so where is he?" he asked again. We watched as the chief and a small group of the Ganados went to the other side of the village and went up the path we were all defending at before my group left. The Ganados that were left behind returned to there normal routine of doing farm work.
"Shit, now what we do?" I groaned out. This is getting really annoying, we can't get a break from these damn things!
"Well we have to help Kevin and Dennis out, we can't have them getting killed." Mondo pointed out. "How many rounds do you have left, Karla?"
"I have about six rounds left" she responded.
"I only have four shells left..." Mondo paused for a moment. "We have enough to take out the ganados, but we may not have anything left afterwards."
"Well, I say we go for it, we don't have many other options." I states "Everyone else is pretty much useless, so we can't count on them."
"Hey, you would be surprised. Dennis actually helped out Kevin when he needed it." Mondo said back.
"Yea and Adam, as much as he isn't on my good side, did save me as well." Karla added.
"Well, Dennis is unconscious and Adam is hiding like everyone else, so EVERYONE is useless right now." I stated again.
Mondo let out a heavy sigh. "Well I guess we gotta get going then." He began heading down the ladder, Karla followed after, and then I followed. "So any ideas on how we are going to take them out?" Mondo asked. "There are about eight or nine in total."
"The moment we get out of this tower, there is no doubt that they will see us. So we are really limited as to how we approach this." I replied.
"Well if you will be a gentleman Mondo, I'll take the first shot." Karla slowly and carefully peeked around the corner of the entrance and looked for a clear shot.
"Um..." Mondo looked at me awkwardly. "How do I respond to that?"
"Just make sure you have her back." I felt like slapping him in the back of his head for asking such a stupid question. "I'll go and see if I can distract some of them.
Karla fired her first shoot, killing an unsuspecting villager that was raking hay. I took off running around the house everyone was hiding in. Pfft, so much for working together and surviving this! What the hell was Kevin thinking! Idiot... but I guess he is trying his best. He has come up with a couple of good ideas I guess. I mean, no one else has thought of anything useful besides him really. He is also the only one that seems to have his composer, as much as I have seen. Mondo definitely cracks under pressure, Karla was broken for a bit because of what happened, Adam tries to show off, and I haven't paid much attention to anyone else in the group. Kevin might actually be the only one that can keep the useful people alive. Another gun shot was heard, knocking me out of my train of thought. It took me a moment to realize that I was standing still... thinking about... Kevin.
"Wait... Why the fuck am I thinking about Kevin?" I yelled out to myself. I lifted my hand in preparation to smack myself.
"Why are you thinking about Kevin?" the sudden question caused me to jump, who asked that? "Yea, you! The one blushing after I asked a question about Kevin." I looked around until I noticed someone peeking though a small window in the house I past by. "Isn't that just sad." They giggled.
That teasing, that stupid giggle, Rosemarie... "What the fuck is it to you?" I threatened her. I fucking hated her and her little group she had. Self-centered, stuck up, and completely useless in this situation or any for that madder.
"Is the little girl thinking about her hero? Is she going to help him and finally get a moment to kiss a guy? What do you think Claire? Think she will get her happy ending?" Each question filled with more teasing and giggling than the first. I picked up a small rock I saw on the ground, ready to throw it. "Oh, did I hit a nerve? Is it not true? You know it is not good to hide your feeling from your true-" the glass shattered, the small rock missed it's primary target, but at least it shut her up. I had to focus back on the task at hand, taking out the villagers. "Fucking bitch!" I heard Rosemarie yell out as I ran off. I didn't have time to deal with her right now.
I hid inside a barn that was right next to the house I just past. Inside laid a pitch fork just begging to be used. A small smile appeared on my face. "I need to blow off some steam." I peeked around the corner to see Karla and Mondo slowly backing away from the Ganados, being very careful not to waste any of there shots. I raised my hand to signal them that I was in their line of fire. It seemed like Karla saw me because she lowered her weapon and pointed Mondo's weapon down as well. I slowly made my way to the villager that was closest to me. He had sickle in his right hand and another hanging off his back. I was not about to let him throw that sickle at Karla, Mondo I didn't really worry about much. Once I saw I had reached a good distance, I attacked. With all the momentum I had, I ran the pitch fork into the villager's back. He screamed in pain as he fell on his knees and landed face first into the dirt. The other villagers turned around to look at me, but that was their mistake. Mondo was able to blast both of them away with a single shot, leaving only three more to go. The remaining villagers seemed to be confused by our little plan, they didn't know who to go for. I walked forward to pick up one of their dead friend's hatchet. This seemed to trigger a reaction from them, now they had their dead eyes set on me. Karla shot the closest one to me in the head, causing them to turn back around and face her. This gave me a chance to throw the hatchet and nail the other one in the back of his head too. That made the last one easy pickings for Karla.
"That's the last of them..." Mondo said in relief. "Kinda felt a little to easy, don't ya think?"
"That is cuz' this time, I thought of the plan instead of you and Kevin!" I insulted him. Mondo didn't have a come back after that.
"So, are we going to go after Kevin?" Karla asked.
"I don't think we should." I replied. "We are not in any good condition to really help him or ourselves out for that matter. We will just have to wait and hope he comes back soon..."
"Woooow, way to give your hero the death sentence, surely you can't mean that." I heard Rosemarie walk up behind me. I quickly turned around, only to receive a rock square in the face. The sound of holding in a laughter was heard coming from Mondo and Karla. I looked back at them, they both had the wide eyed expression from earlier, only with both their lips tucked in and pointing the blame at one another. "That's for breaking the window on me, bitch!" Rosemarie looked cocky and had both her hands behind her back.
"Hmm, never thought of you being the aggressive type, I always thought you would let other idiots do as you say." I told her. "It's nice to see you have guts I can beat out of you!"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, this is not a good time for fighting!" Mondo stepped in between Rosemarie and I, hoping he could stop the argument. "We need to focus on getting resources!"
"Oh, you mean like this?" Rosemarie pulled out a flash grenade from behind her with her right hand. "I have no idea what this is or does, but I know it needs this little thing to keep something from happening." she brought out her other hand from behind to show the pin on her index finger. "I wonder what it does!" she dropped the flash grenade right in front on Mondo's feet.
Mondo's eyes shot open as he realized what happened. "FLASH-"
*BANG*
In an instant we were violently greeted to a blinding bright white flash, a ringing in the ears, and a loss of balance. Before I knew it, my vision returned to me, but the ringing still didn't leave. I found myself lying on the ground struggling to lift my body up. Since I couldn't pick my head up, I simply turned my head left and right. On my right I saw Karla beginning to get up, she was furthest away from the blast so it wasn't as bad for her. However on my left, Mondo and Rosemarie were completely out.
"You alright Alexis?" Karla asked me.
"I'm not feeling too bad, just really dizzy at the moment." I replied.
"Yea same..." she added.
Once Karla was able to stand, she helped me get up. That must be how it feels like to get hit by a flash grenade. That is nothing to how it looks like in the game. It took a little longer to regain our balance and for that annoying buzzing in our ears to go away, but it felt like we were back to normal. We went over to Mondo and Rosemarie, who were still out, although they were both beginning to move a bit.
"You alright Mondo?" Karla asked.
"Wha...Wha happen?" He was still very dazed and confused. His facially expression made it look like he just woke up from a really bad nap. One of his eyes seemed to wonder around, while the other looked into empty space not moving. He struggled to keep his moth shut, so a bit of drool would drip out. He looked quite hilarious if you asked me, too bad we couldn't bring our phones with us, I would have totally taken a picture of this. "Guys... Wha happen to meh?" he asked again.
Karla and I busted out laughing, we couldn't help it, he looked so stupid! "Don't worry Mondo, you'll be back to normal in a bit." Karla reassured him.
Unfortunately, Rosemarie was not in the same boat as Mondo. She slowly got up and went inside the house everyone was exiting without saying anything. Without having the necessary resources to go help Kevin, we really couldn't do anything here, but wait.
After waiting a couple minutes for Mondo to return to his 'regular' old self, we brought everyone together to see what we had collected. It took a while to count, but we had a total of ninety-seven gold coins, five green herbs including the ones we already hard, one red herb, and three more shotgun shells. Since we couldn't hold on to every item ourselves, we had to make note of who had what and how much of it. Once everything was in order, everyone returned to sitting down and not doing anything, while Karla, Mondo, and I went back up the tower to keep watch again.
"So how do we know if Kevin and Dennis will make it back?" Mondo brought up a question.
"If there is anyone that can survive on his own, it is Kevin. Dennis, not so sure about him." I replied to him.
"I don't know, they don't even have weapon." he quickly responded. "I think you are giving him a little more credit than he deserves, don't you think?" I felt a light nudge on my arm from Karla. Mondo noticed the nudge and looked at Karla and me suspiciously. "Ooh okay, I see." He grew a creepy looking smile on his face.
"What do you see?" I crossed my arms to show that I was in no mood for any of his stupid jokes.
"You like Kevin, don't you?" His smile turned horrific, it nearly stretch from ear to ear, I could literally see all of his teeth, and his lips looked as if they would rip at any moment. It was nightmarish!He took a step close to me and nudged my shoulder lightly. For fuck sake he is creepy!
"Don't fukin'... Grrr!" I was on the verge of exploding from what he was doing. A GUY DOES NOT CASUALLY TOUCH A GIRL WITHOUT RECEVING CONSEQUENCES! I pulled my hand back ready to slap the living shit out of him.
"Alexis, Alexis, Alexis!" Karla quickly yelled as she held my arm back with all her strength. "Calm down, he was only joking!"
"Hoooooly shit, I honestly was joking!" Mondo pleaded as he backed away from me. ""I didn't know you would get mad from something like that."
"DON'T YOU DARE..." I forced my arm away from Karla causing her to lose her balance and fall of the floor. "...SAY THAT EVER AGAIN!" My face felt weird, I must have been blushing, which didn't help at all.
"Well..." Mondo felt awkward about the joke he said. "Sorry, just trying to be friendly, b-but not in a sexually way or anything. J-just thought we were cool..."
"Just..." I closed my eyes and sighed heavily. I manged to keep my composer as I rubbed my temples slowly. "Just don't joke about stuff like that OR TOUCH ME ever again!" The rapid increase in my voice made Mondo flinch.
"Alright, now that we are all clam now. Why don't we get to know you better Mondo?" Karla was surprisingly quick to stand up off the ground, but that is to be expected since she is very energetic.
"Um, like what?" he replied clueless.
"Well, why don't we start with your parents." I butted in. I wanted to see what 'unlucky' parents had to raise this idiot.
"Okay, um, well my mom is okay and my dad isn't too bad either." he looked at us blankly. "That's pretty much about it."
I looked at him in disbelieve. Are you fucking kidding? "Well that concludes this conversation." I said blandly. I had to get away from him, not only is he an idiot, but he is an idiot who doesn't even know how to get a hint. I went down the ladder without saying another word to them. There was nothing else to do, Karla and Mondo are a hopeless pair and everyone else in class is useless. I can't believe I am saying this, but I actually miss Kevin. That moron is the only one that can do anything right around here. MAN THIS SUCKS!
It was quiet, everyone was regaining the little energy they wasted from just running around. Not much talking was going on, everyone looked on edge after what happened with Rosemarie. She better not try anything like that again or I will drop her. All this would be easier without her.
...
For a moment it was quite peaceful.
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Wait... I... hear noises. Like popping noises... as if it were coming from a... GUN! The guns shots were faint, so Karla and Mondo would most likely not able to hear them. That had to be Kevin! I knew that moron wouldn't die so easily, now I won't have to deal with everyone else alone.
"GUYS!" I yelled and waved over to them in the tower. "It's Kevin! He is back!" With a small amount of hesitation they both climbed down the ladder as fast as they could to see why I lost my mind.
"What's going on?" Mondo asked.
"It's Kevin, I heard his gunshots. We need to help him!" I told them again. I took off running to the gate and they followed, even everyone sitting down, was getting up to follow us. Don't worry Kevin, we are coming to help! You better not fucking die on me now!
The REALLY Author's Note: Hope you guys like this chapter, again, it was a lot harder considering a lot of things happened recently. Video game, youtube, gundam model kits, work, and sleep have all taken time away from writing. Also I really wanted to make sure I got Alexis' personality right. I don't want her sounding like Karla when it comes to personal thoughts. I would really like your thoughts on some of the characters, the ones you like, don't like, and the ones you would like to see more often. I know some characters don't get much screen time and some haven't gotten any at all, but they all will show up soon. I also want to know if you guys want a visual description of some of the characters or to just leave it up to your imagination. Reviews are always welcomed, I would like to see if you guys like the direction this story is taking place or if somethings need a little bit of tweaking.