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Chapter 5

"Everyone has to group up and no one goes off on their own." Kris said.

"What are we going to do?" Eddie asked.

"I'll go back to the store and see if anyone is there." Aiden said.

"I think there was a phone there to. I'll go with you." Kris said standing up. The sun was beginning to rise. "Either Jay or Eddie, head the opposite direction and try to find a road or something to get us out of here."

"I'll go with Jay." Stephanie said.

"What are the rest of us going to do?" Dylan asked.

"Just wait till we get back with news."

"Wait while you 4 are off finding somewhere safe, we are supposed to just sit here and wait?" Billy asked.

"Billy it's not the time to protest." Eddie said.

"Are you shiting me?! There is something out there trying to kill us and we are just going to sit here and let it happen!"

"It's smarter to do this. Joyce is in no shape to move right now." Kris pointed out.

"You ready?" Aiden asked her. Kris picked up her gun and nodded.

"Be careful," Kris said to Stephanie.

"Yeah you to." The two groups left the main group in opposite directions.

"Can I tell you something?" Kris asked Aiden. An hour had passed since they left the campsite.

"Sure."

"Last time we were at the store I found something."

"What did you find?"

"I found a purse with jewelry in it."

"I don't think that there's anything wrong with that." He said smiling.

"Well there's more to the story. When I took my hand out of the bag it was covered in blood." Aiden stopped walking. Kris stopped and looked at him.

"Why didn't you say anything to anyone?"

"I...I tried to say something but I didn't want to freak anyone out." She brought her hands to her face. "All of this is my fault. They lost their lives because of me." She started to shake. Aiden move towards her and wrapped his arms around her shoulders.

"Nothing is your fault. Even if you said something we could never had known that this was going to happen. Do you really think that Jay would have turned around for a little of blood?" Kris slowly shook her head. "Alright it's nobody's fault. Brian should have listened to us. His death is his own fault."

"What about Mike and Amanda?" Aiden looked at her.

"You couldn't help what happened to Amanda. You did what you were supposed to do. If anything you kept her alive for a few more minutes so she could have a last word. Mike is in a happier place where ever that may be. Now come on love, we gotta find a way out of here." He kissed the top of her head. Kris smiled and continued to walk.

Within a couple of hours they made it back to the gas station. They walked into the store and attacked the water bottles.

"I have never been so thirsty in my life." Aiden said before chugging another bottle.

"Welcome to the desert." They walked back outside. Kris looked around to see an outhouse. "Fuck I really have to go to the bathroom."

"I'll wait outside for you." They walked to the bathroom. Sitting outside was a half drunken bottle of Jack Daniels. Kris picked it up and sniffed it. She made a disgusting face.

"Oh that's such a waste." Aiden laughed at her. She put the bottle back down on the ground. She noticed something that looked like bones. "What is that?" Aiden looked down and noticed the bones. He opened the bathroom door to see a horrific sight. Laying there was a rotten corpse. Parts of the rib cage were showing and you could see the skin tearing to show muscle. In several places there were maggots eating away at flesh and blood. The intestines hung over something that looked like a belt. The head looked like it was blown by a very powerful gun. The smell coming from the body smelled like rotten raw meat that sat out in the sun for days.

"Focking Christ!" Aiden yelled out slamming the door shut.

"What the fuck was that?" Kris said holding her hand to her face to get rid of the smell.

"It's somebody." Aiden bent down and started coughing like he was about to gag. Kris stood there looking at the stall. She then turned and faced the store.

"Aiden what if that guy was the store owner?" Aiden looked at her.

"But that person has been dead for years." They both looked at each other before they started running towards the store. "I'll check the back for a phone." They busted through the door. Kris ran to the main pain phone while Aiden ran into the back. Kris put the receiver to her ear and hit the hook switch a couple of times.

"FUCK!!" She slammed the phone down a couple of times. She leaned up against the wall and slide down it.

"Kris you've got to see this." Aiden called out. She took a large breath and headed into the back.

"The phone is fuck…" She started to say before looking at the walls. All over the walls were reports about the bomb testing in 1945 and the families moving into the hills. There were other news clippings about families that had gone missing. The last place where they were seen was by the same place where they were. "What the fuck is this?" She got closer to the wall. Aiden looked around and found a map. He ripped it open and found out where they were.

"When we pulled onto that road was there a name?" Aiden asked. Kris looked away from the wall at Aiden.

"No there was nothing." She went back to the wall.

"What do you think is going to happen to us?" Stephanie said walking behind Jay.

"We are getting out of here believe me." Jay said. "Fuck dude we have been out for hours."

"Yeah and we aren't getting out of here anytime soon."

"What are you talking about?" Stephanie pointed forward. Jay followed her finger and noticed open desert.

"What the fuck!?" As far as the eye could see there was nothing but craters. "Where the hell is the road!?"

"This is fucking ridiculous!" Billy yelled out.

"Would you shut the fuck up dude? We can't do anything until everyone gets back." Eddie said.

"No I'm not going to deal with it. Those assholes probably found some place to hide themselves and they are leaving us to die." Billy started to escalate his voice.

"Why the hell would they leave us?" Dylan asked.

"Especially Dylan, Eddie, and myself? They love us." Carlos said with a cocky smile.

"Fuck you!" Billy jumped from Joyce's side to attack Carlos. Carlos went to go after him but Eddie and Dylan jumped in between. After a few minutes of trying to hit each other, they separated.

"Knock it off! No one needs this right now. Plus I really don't think that Kris would have given us a gun if she wasn't coming back." Eddie said. Billy ran his fingers through his hair with frustration.

"Well I'm not fucking sitting here waiting!" He walked off into the hills.

"Billy! Get back her you fat fuck!" Eddie said starting to follow him.

"Let him go dude. Maybe they'll take him as a sacrifice and leave us alone." Carlos said sitting down. Eddie stared off into the hills, but then decided to stay with the group.

"Stupid dipshits. I hope they all die." Billy said climbing to the top of a hill. He couldn't see anything other than rocks and sand. "There has to be a way out of here." Billy continued to walk to nowhere.

""We should go and find him." Eddie said.

"Do you really think that he would be saying the same shit if you were out there?" Carlos said before drinking some water.

"We aren't him and Kris wanted us to stay together!"

"Mother fucker it's hot as hell out here and I'm in no mood." Carlos got up into Eddie's face.

"What the fuck is going on?" Stephanie said running towards them.

"Nothing sis, the heat is getting to all of us." Carlos walked away. "Did you find a road?"

"No, it's nothing but desert. There are some craters with junk in them though."

"Anything of use?"

"Nah it was just stupid shit." Jay said sitting down. "Kris and Aiden haven't gotten back yet?"

"Not yet and Billy ran off." Dylan entered into the conversation.

"That dumb fuck." Joyce rolled her eyes at Jay. They heard some movement in the hills. Jay and Eddie went to put their guns up until Aiden and Kris jumped out. They bent over out of breath.

"What the hell happened to you?"

"The…tires…didn't… pop on…accident." Kris said standing up catching her breath.

"What do you mean?" Stephanie said walking up to her.

"The people attacking us have been attacking people for years. They are related to families that ran into the hills during the bomb testing in 45'. They refused to leave there homes and now they suffer the consequences."

"We are on uncharted territory." Aiden said.

"How the hell did they know we were here?" Dylan asked.

"The moment we made that first left." Everyone sat in silence for a little bit.

"Where's Billy?" Kris asked.

Billy kept on walking

"There's nothing out here. Everyone is just playing a joke." He began to hear some movement around him. "Why do I jinx myself?" He started to pick up his speed a little bit. He stopped watching where he was walking. He kept stumbling over everything. "This is some bullshit." He kept going between boulders and finding new paths to walk on. The movement around him began to get louder.

"I'm coming for ya boy!"

"Fuck you!" He yelled at the top of his lungs. He started to run as fast as he could. He began to hear his name being called.

"Billy!" He heard in the distance.

"HELP!"

"Oh Billy Boy!" Billy turned his head because it sounded so close. He kept on running. He didn't see anyone behind him. He turned his head to look in front of him, but instead an axe flew into him. He flew into the air like someone picked him up by the neck. He fell to the ground with a thud. His fingers twitched as blood spewed from the axe's entrance into his face.

"Why the hell are we looking for him?" Jay said as the group went off into the hills.

"We gotta stick together or we are all going to end up dead." Kris said climbing a boulder.

"But no one really cares about him, so…why are we looking for him?"

"Just look for him you ass." The group split up into two's, but were in shouting distance of each other. Aiden and Kris were ahead of everyone else. Stephanie and Jay weren't too far behind them, but they were off to the side of them. Eddie and Carlos were heading off to the other side of Aiden and Kris. Joyce was walking with Dylan. She was a few feet ahead of him. She had started to climb down a hill.

"Where the hell are you going?" Dylan said following her. Joyce kept walking and ignoring him. She had climbed over a boulder when she screamed.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Everyone turned to where they heard the noise.

"Oh shyte." Aiden said as him and Kris began to run. The group had to jump over rocks just to make sure they didn't fall anywhere. Stephanie was running the fastest until she tripped over a rock. She went flying down the side of a cliff. She kept tumbling and rolling down the side. After a few minutes she came to a stop.

"Oh fuck!" She yelled out in pain.

"Steph, are you alright?" Kris called out from the top of the cliff.

"Uh…sure…I'm just down here cuz I feel like it!"

"We are coming down! Stay there!" Eddie yelled out.

"Yeah cuz I was gonna take a walk you know!! Asshole!" Stephanie lifted herself off the ground a little bit and turned to her left.

"OH MY FUCKING GOD!!" She yelled out. She jumped up and ran back towards the group.

"What the hell is your problem?" Jay asked as Stephanie ran into him.

"I think I found Billy." She pointed back behind her. The group moved towards the body. There was nothing but a big gash across his face where the axe entered. You could see some bone sticking out but mostly ripped flesh.

Kris walked away from the group. She didn't go far; she could still see Stephanie leaning up against the rock.

"What are we going to do with him?" Aiden asked looking at Billy's lifeless body.

"Just leave him here." Carlos said as he started to climb a rock. Kris looked at him.

"I wasn't a big fan of him either, but we can't just leave him here." Kris moved up to stand face to face with Carlos.

"I would like to get out of here alive thank you. There is no way in hell I'm taking that thing with me!" Carlos said pointing to the body.

"Can we at least move him to a secluded place?"

"Kris I don't think it matters where he is. Those things or whatever are gonna get to him." Stephanie said. Kris leaned up against a rock while she thought. Everyone sat in silence while they waiting for her instructions.

"Fine let's go." The group started to head back up the hills. Aiden walked over to Kris. She stared at Billy's body. Aiden wrapped his arm around her.

"Come on love." She grabbed onto him as they walked away.

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