Together Chapter 6
Belle's POV.
I woke up with a sharp pain in my neck. I open my eyes and remember that I fell asleep on Danielle's shoulder. Danielle was still asleep and I carefully stand up and grab a can of beans. Not the best breakfast but it is still better than nothing. I walk up the stairs and go to the kitchen. I turn on the stove, grab a pan and put it on the stove. I grab my knife and open the can of beans. I put the beans in the pan and let it cook.
''Hey Belle'' Danielle says and stands next to me.
She grabs two plates and puts them on the table. I get the spoons and stir the beans.
''What are we going to do today?'' I ask and move around to look at Danielle.
Danielle sits down at on a chair.
''I don't know yet, maybe search for some more wooden planks to secure the side windows''.
''I saw that the house across the street has a small shed, I think there is a good chance there is some wood''.
''Good idea Belle, when we're done with breakfast we can'' But Danielle couldn't finish her sentence because we heard gunshots, lots of gunshots.
''Gunshots!'' I say and stand up. ''Should we check it out?''
Danielle thinks about it for a couple seconds.
"Yeah, it sounds like they could use some help''
and she stands up as well. I put on my boots, grab my gun and walk out of the house. Danielle is right behind me. I locate the sound. The gunshots are coming from the woods. We run to the end of the street and walk into the woods. We walk through a small creak and walk up a small hill. When we are up on the hill we have a good view of the woods. We see a house of wood that's surrounded by walkers. I look at Danielle and she looks at me.
''I don't know how we can help them actually'' she says and looks back at the house.
''Maybe we can climb on that little outhouse and distract the walkers.'' I think out loud.
''Yeah that's a good idea but we have to be careful'' Danielle goes first.
As we come closer we can see a man and a women from about 30 years old shoot through the windows. We reach the shed and we climb up on it. I wave to the man and women so they notice us. They women sees us and screams something to the man. He looks our way and screams something back. Danielle gives me a sein and we start screaming. The walkers look around but they don't notice us. Before I know it I jump of the roof of the shed. And walk towards the big house. Danielle screams to me but I ignore her. I pick up a stick and slam against a container. The walkers finally notice me and I run back to the shed. I hear the walkers moaning behind me and I climb up the shed as fast as I can. A walker grabs my leg but I can shake it off. Danielle grabs my arm and helps me up.
''WHY THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT!'' she screams at me and I see she is really angry.
'they wouldn't have noticed us if I didn't do that'' I react and stay calm.
I leave the conversation at that and look back at the house. I see that the man and women come out of the house followed by a women with a baby in her arms. Out of the backdoor two man and a boy from about 17 come running to the people at the front door they gather up and walk our way. Danielle and I jump to another roof and run as fast as we can to the other people. The walkers didn't notice us so we are pretty save. The people run the other way and we run after them. I look beside me and see that Danielle pulls her gun. I do the same and when the people stopped running they turn around and see that we are pointing our guns on them.
''Wow wow, why the guns?'' the woman with the baby asks.
Danielle answers ''We do not know who you are, so we don't trust you''.
''Fair enough, thank you for helping us. You saved all our lives''
''No problem'' I say and look at Danielle. There is an awkward silence. The young boy whispers something in the oldest man his ear.
''Do you girls have a camp?'' The man says looking at us. I can see he wants something from us.
''No.'' Danielle answers leaving no space to doubt her answer.
''Do you at least have a house or something? The baby needs to eat'' The women with the baby asks. She sounds desperate.
''No'' Danielle says again.
''We are on the move'' I add. The man whispers something to the other man.
''We are going to leave now, don't follow us''. Danielle turns around and walks away.
''Bye'' I say and walk right behind her. When we are almost out of sight we start running until we are sure they can't see us anymore.
''I have a bad feeling about them'' I say and look at Danielle.
''Yeah me too, especially that big guy he doesn't seem so nice''. We reach the end of the street and walk back to our house. I open the door and let Danielle in. I put the lock back on the door and walk to the kitchen. Everything is still how we left it so I start to clean everything up. Danielle walks down to the basement. The kitchen is neat again. I don't know anything I can do to make myself useful so I start to sharpen my knife. After a couple minutes I hear something outside. I immediately jump on my feet and walk to the window. I stand next to the window and look carefully through it. I see the man and the younger man from the house we saved. I run to the basement and see Danielle sitting down putting some stuff in her backpack.
''Danielle! Those people they are back!''
''What? The followed us! Those assholes'' She jumped on her feet and walks in front of me up the stairs. I stop in the kitchen and sit on my knees. Danielle walks to the window and listens to the man and the younger man. After about 30 seconds she comes back and pulls me back in the basement.
I fall over the last step but Danielle pulls me up. She whispers to me: ''They are going to burst in here and kill us. They want our food and supplies.''
''What are we going to do?"' I answer in fear.
''Grab as many food as you can and get your weapons ready, okay?''
''Okay'' I run to our food stash and put cans in my backpack. I look around me and see the James Bond DVD's, I don't think twice about taking them with me. I put them in my backpack I search the ground for anything useful but I have everything. I walk back to Danielle. She stands up and we walk up the stairs. When we reach the kitchen I hear a loud noise. They broke the front door open. We run to the backdoor and see they are trying to open that one too.
''The side windows'' I whisper and run to the living room. Nobody is standing behind that window so I open it. We climb through it and run to the other house. We move to the backyard of that house and run away. After a couple backyards we stop and Danielle sits down.
''Those bastards!'' I say angry and kick an trashcan over. Danielle says nothing and looks at the sky. I sit down next to her and we say nothing for a couple minutes. I didn't know what to say. I stand up and walk to the garden house. I climb on the roof and stay down. I lay down on my belly and look at our house. I can see they are still inside. From where I am they can't see me and I turn around on my back. I look at the sky and it is almost cloudless. Fucking assholes, we finally had a chance of having a house for our self. Now we have to move again. I lay there for a couple minutes thinking about nothing in particular.
''Belle''.
I turn on my belly and see that Danielle is standing in the middle of the garden. I climb of the roof and I walk towards her.
''We have to find a save place. We can't stay here forever.'' She says when I reach her.
''Yeah you're right. Are we going to find another house or do you want to go to the highway?''
''I think it is better if we go to the highway for now, we can always come back in a couple days'' I think about that for a second and agree with her. You never know what people are willing to do for food or supplies.
''To the highway we go''.