Urg so I can't tell you how much trouble I've been having writing this chapter and trying to finish my other story. I've gotten so many writers blocks its terrible lol But it's finally up and the other story is almost done too. lol so hope you enjoy and leave some comments.
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It's not exactly what I was expecting with finding my sister but at least she's safe and maybe tomorrow I can figure this out and get her to come home to mom. Julie and I cuddle up on the one bed and Nora takes the other, David takes the couch but I feel like he is starting to regret joining us on our mission.
"R?"
"Yeah?"
"Are you alright? I mean like we found her but she seems kind of… harsh?"
Nora jumps up across the room. "I know she's not exactly what I was expecting, I was thinking you know quiet and a sweetheart kind of like you. You're like a kitten and she's a bulldog. A bit of a contrast you know."
"Yeah… I think we'll figure it out soon. I hope that she'll actually listen to me."
Julie kisses me and I put my arm around her as she cuddles into my chest. We quickly fall asleep and I can hear a small snore from Nora.
"Jerry help me! For fuck sakes help!"
I hear her screaming, I'm walking towards her and can feel myself stumble. I'm dead.
I can somehow sense it, my body feels broken and frail. I move closer to my victim and hear her scream. I don't think I can even talk, not a single word.
"Help! Cover me!" She is blonde with blue eyes; I'm closing in on her and can smell her. She's surrounded and knows she can't get out. She stops and looks directly at me. I can see the tears in her eyes; I figure it's only fear but it might be something different. She knows me, she looks sad as she sees my face. I try to think, try to think of who she is. Is she important? I don't seem to recognize her.
"Hang on shortstack!" I turn slowly as a bullet pierces me in the back. I fall to the ground by the surprise, my fellow dead fall as well but most of them have been hit in the head and don't seem to get back up. As I lay on the ground I see her jump into the truck and they drive off. She keeps eye contact with me the entire time.
I wake up again panting. I thrust myself up to a sitting position; again throwing Julie off of my chest. As I try to control my breathing it feels like my first memory all over again. I feel the sweat drip down my chin and I regain my breath.
"R? R are you okay?" She rubs my back "Another memory? Bad?" She knows me so well.
"Yeah another one, very bad"
"Tell me." She sits up and looks me in the eyes with a look of anticipation. I give her a quick kiss.
"I was dead again, but I don't remember it. I think I tried to kill Anna."
"Hmm, well that would explain what she was saying before about her being so sure that you were dead."
I nod, "Let's go back to bed though I think it's going to be a long day tomorrow.
My eyes flung open at the sound of a knock. I put on a pair of jeans and stumbled my way out of the room and over to the door, I must have still been half asleep because the last few days seemed too unbelievable for what I saw when I opened the door. My own eyes stared back at me but with such a fiery hate in them I couldn't recognize them at first. She signals me to come outside; we quietly make our way for the door and into the rainy morning; I was wide awake as she subtly lifted her gun in the direction of my chest.
"Come on Anna, let's get past that." I nodded down towards the gun, and she refused to move it even an inch.
"I'm still having a bit of trouble believing that this miraculous power of love or whatever, cured the world. So excuse me for being cautious."
"Speaking of… speaking of…um-that. I remembered something last night."
She shook her head agitated.
"I attacked you. You went to find me and found me like…that. I attacked you." She pauses and is taken back by this. "Didn't I?"
Her gun lifts only slightly but with less certainty than before.
"Anna that wasn't me. It was but it wasn't. It took me a long time to figure all of this out, I came back to life, my memories are still taking a whi-"
"Robbie… shut the hell up! Do you honestly think I won't kill you right now? You may be my brother but I have to keep everyone else safe here too."
I look down to the ground. I hurt my family so much, my mother lost me and her heart broke completely; I promised my sister I'd come and get her and failed; attempted to eat her and then showed up completely alive and attempting to be a brother again. I should have stayed away; they would have been able to get over this without me.
In the next moment I'm astounded, I am in shock; Anna wraps her arm around me in what I fear is to strangle me but instead to hug me.
"You should have stayed dead. I stayed away so mom would be able to get over me. You should have done the same.
She's clearly crying, I can hear the sobs and feel the tears on my sleeve. She's practically tearing my sleeve right off and punches me a few times.
"You should have stayed dead…You're an idiot."
She continues to struggle to word her hatred through the sobs. But I get the idea; I wrap my arms around her and join in the hug. She stands there for a few moments tears falling all the while and eventually recalls the past and pushes me away.
"Don't think I forgive you. Don't think I believe you. You're still not my brother." She wiped away her tears and avoids eye contact with me. Her eyes trail the ground as raindrops begin to fall. I look down as well and look at the drops touch the dirt at her feet, unable to differentiate between them being her tears and the raindrops.
We stay silent for a few moments, she's careful not to make a sound as she silently sheds tears.
"Why didn't you go back to mom?"
Her head springs up at stares at me. She is at a loss for words, clearly conflicted with what I have just said.
"Why?" I repeat. "It-its complicated…you know. I tried. I got there even, I've been there about four times already…."
Silence again.
"She-she gave up on us. We died to her, when I saw you as…a-a corpse. I just couldn't hurt her like that. I knew if she saw me she'd ask about you. She would never let me go. So I let her forget."
It's at that moment I realize just how much I've broken this family. I should have stayed away.
