Chapter 4
"Bella!" I whipped my head back around as my name echoed down the street, scowling at the culprit I sprinted back to the restaurant pushing back inside while shutting the door behind us.
"Ok I'm pretty sure we have already had the conversation of you being quiet, no?"
"Yes but..."
"Ssshhh..." Covering her mouth not so gently I dragged her down with me so were crouching underneath one of the windows. No more than two seconds later did the moaning I didn't want to hear sounded from outside. I could hear the crunching of bones and the slapping of flesh hitting flesh.
I felt Alice shift slightly next to me like she was preparing to stand.
"Don't you dare!" I hissed so quietly I barely heard it but from the look on her face she heard me perfectly . Still listening to the noises outside I breathed a sigh of relief when they started to fade away. It was going away from the restaurant it didn't know we were there.
Deeming it safe enough to speak freely I slid down the wall, turning slightly so I could take in the pixie's profile.
"What may I ask did you call me back for?" I asked overly sweet, inwardly smirking at the glare she shot my way.
"You forgot your beef jerkey," The laughter blew through my system, bubbling out of my lips, "It's not funny I thought you'd want it. You have to keep your strength up... Bella stop laughing!"
"I'm sorry." I chuckled placing my hand over hers, my laughter stopped immediately. "Jesus Alice your freezing!" I wrapped both mine around her hands gently rubbing them to warm them up.
"I'm ok, really," She replied trying to take her hands back.
"No your not!" Quickly standing I shrugged off my jacket placing it around her shoulders. "Come on we have to get you home."
"Bella honestly, I'm fine,"
"No arguing, come on up," I swung my bag over my shoulder and grabbed my bat, then with my free arm I wrapped it around her waist pulling her to lean against me.
"Bella..."
"No," Scanning outside I saw there was only one walker staggering around, we could easily get around him. " Let's go," Pulling her with me out of the doors we took off for the tree line. We had barely made it two steps before I felt myself knocked heavily to the ground. I threw myself into a roll avoiding my head smashing into the pavement.
Jumping back to my feet I felt my blood run cold at the sight in front of me.
Alice stood infront of a huge ass wolf, it's jaws snapping towards her. Instantly I could see it was infected on one side of it's body you could see all of the jagged marks where it had obviously been eaten by god knows what.
"Alice move!" I screamed at her, running forwards with my bat raised above my head. "Alice get out of the way!" Sidestepping the frozen girl I swung my bat with as much force as my body could muster aiming for the beats head. The thing recoiled with a snarl of anger, I barely managed to jump back as it's huge paw clawed for my stomach.
"Fuck!" Diving out of the way of another swipe, I ran as fast as I could to Alice.
"We didn't realise they could be infected," I heard her mutter as I reached her, now was so not the time to question her though so instead I grabbed her hand trying to drag her back to the treeline. We would have more cover and possibly be able to out manoeuvre the beast but as hard as I pulled she never budged an inch.
"Alice please!" I begged, the snarling behind us making my heart jump into my throat. She must of realised I was mere seconds from crying because she turned towards me wrapping arms around my shoulders in a hug.
"Go Bella, run!" Her tiny body shoved me towards the tree's.
"Wha...Alice no!" I ran straight back to her again trying to pull her with me although my eyes stayed trained on the beast. For some reason though it's eyes were glancing warily at us like it didn't know whether to attack us or run.
"You need to right now," She whispered to me softly. "Here," A watery chuckle escaped as I glanced down at my open hand, the beef jerkey I had forgotten earlier resting there. "No go!" Again she shoved me away, sending me a small smile before she spun to face down the over grown disease ridden mutt.
I can't just leave her
My brain in overdrive I couldn't leave her but then I didn't want to die being torn to shreds by that thing.
Suddenly the answer hit me, I dropped all of my stuff to the ground and took of running for the police station. Glad to see the bodies of the walkers from earlier still there I ran for the closest checking it's hip and once again luck was on my side. Still in it's holster rested my answer, grabbing it I checked the magazine jumping for joy when I saw it was still full. Part of me was sad for the guy who had this, he didn't even have the chance to reach for it before he was killed but now wasn't the time to dwell on that.
Sprinting back around the corner, shock froze my entire body as I watched that thing swat Alice aside like a rag doll straight through the window of the restaurant.
Anger quickly replaced the shock as I lifted my arm, aiming straight for it's head I unloaded the entire clip watching in satisfaction as it crumpled to the ground never to move again.
"Alice!" I shouted not caring how many walkers I attracted. After seeing that beast the zombies seemed like nothing.
I crashed through the door rushing to the debris caused from the pixie.
"Please don't be dead, please don't be dead," I whispered over and over throwing pieces of broken wood and glass left and right.
"Bella?" I practically dived to the source of the whisper, ripping the wood away until she finally became visible.
"Oh my god, are you ok? Don't move!" I collapsed by the side of her my eyes scanning her body for any injuries, "Does your head hurt? Are you bleeding anywhere?"
"I think I'm ok," She muttered sitting up slowly, I placed my arm behind her shoulders helping her.
"Good," I whispered back my face forming into a glare. "Now I can hurt you, what were you thinking? That thing could of killed you!"
"I'm ok," She repeated with a small smile, "But should..."
"What?" Her face completely dropped and I swear her eyes darkened to a deep dark honey but I couldn't be sure with the sun setting.
"Your bleeding," She stated lifting my hand up I hadn't realised the gun had kicked back slicing my hand between my thumb and finger.
"I'm ok," I mimicked her earlier words, that seemed to break her out of the trance she was in. Her eyes snapped back upto mine the smile once again gracing her features.
"May I?" She indicated to my wound to which I nodded curiously. "Let's get out of this mess first yeah?"
We both stood up, me on shaky legs but her, she just stood up like nothing had happened like she hadn't just been launched through a window.
"Come over here," She pointed to the counter, gathering a handful of napkins she gently wiped over my injury cleaning away the blood. Again I swear her eyes darkened even more. "It doesn't need stitches but you are going to have to keep it clean, do you have any bandages or anything in your bag?"
"Oh shit my bag!" I huffed out in frustration, "I left it outside with my bat."
"I'll go get it,"
"The hell you will," I shook my head at her, "You were just thrown through a window so sit your ass on that seat," Not waiting for a reply I ran out of the restaurant. The sun had almost set casting heavy shadows everywhere. The darkness was settling in too much, it was too late to be walking around, to many places would be covered and we would be unable to see clearly.
Guess we are staying here tonight
Quickly looking around I was glad to see the coast was clear so I gathered up my things and re-entered what was going to our home for the night. I dropped my stuff next to the still seated Alice before moving back to the door dragging one of the bench seats infront of it.
"Hey Alice, can you give me a hand?"
"Sure," She hopped off her stool, striding over to me she helped lift another to block the door completely.
"We are going to have to stay here tonight; it's too late to be wondering around. We can bed down in the storage room the door can be locked from the inside so we should be safe for the night,"
"Ok if you think that's best, I mean you are the one with the experience in this,"
"Well alright then, it's probably a good idea to head in now just in case anything comes trotting past," She nodded and followed me.
Shutting and locking the door I pulled out the two blankets passing her one I settled down with the blanket around my shoulders, smiling softly as she did the same next to me.
"So Alice..."
"So Bella..."
"Considering we are here for the night and after everything we've been through today I say we have earned a well deserved get to know each other am I right?"
"Yeah I guess you are, what did you have in mind?"
"Hello," I laughed holding my hand out for her to shake, to which she did also laughing softly. "I'm Bella Swan, I'm 19 from Arizona."
"Well hello Bella, I'm Alice Cullen I'm also 19 and I'm from all over but the main place I have lived is Denali in Alaska,"
"Wow Alaska? No wonder you didn't seem to notice how cold you were earlier, speaking of are you ok now? Warmer?" Not waiting for her reply once again, I checked for myself softly grasping her hand. "Answer is no..."
"Bella I'm alright, honestly I'm warm enough,"
"Oh ssshh and come here," Lifting my arm I tugged her until she was curled up against my side with my blanket wrapped around her aswell. We fell into a comfortable silence, it was nice to just relax with no danger lurking and having someone who I might add is not lacking in beauty curled up with me makes it just that much better.
"Bella?"
"Yeah?"
"I'm glad I met you," I smiled gently brushing some of her hair out of her eyes as she looked up at me.
"Same here also it's good to know you think I have a nice ass," I winked at her as she registered what I had just said.
"Oh my god! You heard her?"
"It's not like she was trying to be quiet," The giggles leaving me making me feel lighter than I had in months.
"Fine laugh all you want," She huffed, "Who cares if I like your ass because at the moment your ego seems to be covering it,"
"Oh come on, it's not every day a cute girl checks me you know,"
"Yeah yeah whatever you say and don't think I didn't notice the cute girl slip missy!"
"Ok ok I'm done no more teasing I promise, " I replied, trying to calm the wound up girl in my arms I tugged her just that little bit closer as I leaned my head against the wall. "We should get some sleep, it's been one hell of a day,"
"Ok night Bella,"
"Goodnight Alice," Figuring I didn't really have anything to lose I planted a soft kiss on her forehead before closing my eyes letting the exhaustion wash over me.
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