Authors Note:
next chapter guys! Woo hoo! Also, a new character will be introduced next chapter :) wooooo! XD
i do not own any of the youtubers in this fanfic. I only own my oc Brianna (Bree) Taylor and her family and the alien species Glitchers.
Enjoy!
Chapter 6: Thunder and Lightning
"Bree..." A voice whispered in my ear.
I felt a hand shake my shoulder and I scrunched my eyes up. I didn't want to wake up yet. No, not yet. Too early! The hand shook again, a little harder this time and I stretched as I opened my eyes.
"Hmm...?" I said and looked around.
The car was empty apart from Jund still sleeping. I looked to my right and I saw Cry sitting there, shaking my shoulder. I looked and saw that I had snuggled into his side while I had been sleeping. Yikes! I sat up quickly.
"Good morning, sleepy head." Cry smirked with that adorable smile plastered on his lips.
"Sorry." I said but sighed and smiled. "Morning."
"Lets wake Jund up." Cry said with a mischievous smile.
Uh oh. Cry quickly got out of the car and went round to the passenger side. He slowly opened the door and moved his face right up to the sleeping Jund. I could see Cry grinning and he nodded. An idea then popped into my head. I leaned forward so I was right behind Junds head.
"Jund...Wake up..." I said in a creepy voice.
I saw Jund squirm around in his sleep I repeated myself again. He then slowly woke up. He yawned before he opened his eyes. He opened them and saw Cry's mask right up in his face.
"Oh shit!" He cried and literally jumped in his seat.
Cry burst out laughing and moved his head out of the car. He was doubled over laughing and everyone looked round at him. Jund scowled and got out of the car and locked him in a head lock. Cry was trying to get Jund off him but he was still laughing hard.
Soon they stopped mucking around and we joined the others for breakfast. Minx had made a little fire and Red was cooking some beans. That seemed to be all we had. I'd have to try and find somewhere to hunt. We would be able to eat something proper then. We could all do with a good meal.
After we ate, we all packed up into the car again and Minx drove. We listened to some more songs, talked, chatted...even played 'I Spy'! We were bored to hell and annoyed with being stuck in this small car. After a couple more hours of driving, we passed a sign that said we had just entered Macon. It had taken us less than 3 hours to get from St Petersburg to Jacksonville. If this was two years ago, with normal traffic, it would have taken a bit longer.
We had also managed to siphon a lot of fuel so we were able to keep going. We had been driving for four hours from Jacksonville to Macon. We trying to head North, find somewhere safe away from the aliens I think. Maybe in some Nature reserve maybe. But if we kept this rate up, we would get pretty far.
Round about late afternoon, we stopped as had found a farm house so we stopped there for the night. The house was completed abandoned so we were happy to stay there. There were four bedrooms and a large living room with a sofa and a big old arm chair. It was also near a forest so I decided to go and try and hunt. Minx came with me.
"I glad I don't have to sleep in the boot tonight." Minx said as we walked along a forest trail.
"If didn't find this house, I would have offered to sleep there." I said smiling at Minx.
"That's okay, I was fine." Minx smiled. "Just a little cramped."
"Shhh!" I said as I heard something.
We crouched down low and I looked around. There! A hare! Quite a large one too. I aimed my rifle and fired. The hare dropped down dead. We quickly ran over and I picked up the carcass. The bullet had gone straight through the hares head; a clean shot. I grinned and stuffed the hare into the empty bag Minx carried. After an hour, we had managed to bag two hares and three squirrels. I felt like bloody Daryl Dixon shorting those squirrels. I was awesome.
We headed back and skinned and cooked the animals. It was delicious, I will admit that. It was good to eat actual meat after weeks of bloody baked beans. We all sat there happily in silence as we ate. It was dark outside now and we only kept a small fire lit. Suddenly, a loud boom echoed throughout the sky outside. I jumped up and ran to the window. I watched in horror as lightning lit up the sky. Oh no...
"Oh no, oh no, oh no! Oh shit!" I whispered backing away slowly.
"What is it?" Russ asked.
"Thunderstorm." Snake said.
"Are you okay there Bree?" Red asked worriedly.
I slowly shook my head, shaking a little. I was trembling and shaking badly. I couldn't help it. I sat down quickly and pulled my knees up to my chest and hugged them. "I have Astrophobia."
"Astrophobia... What's that?" Jund asked.
"Fear of thunderstorms." Minx said. "Thunder, lightning... Scares the shit out of people who have Astrophobia."
"Oh shit." Russ said.
The thunder boomed again, louder and closer this time. I let out a whimper and buried my face into a cushion, trying to the block the sound out. My heart felt like it was beating a mile a minute, I was shaking and trembling and whimpering; and I felt sick.
"Bree, you have to calm down." Red said calmly bending down in front of me. "Do you have any idea how to help yourself calm down?"
I racked my brain for thoughts to help myself. Try to block out the sound... Take in deep breath... I began to breathe in deeply and practise breathing exercises.
"B-blocking out the noise..." I managed to say as I clamped my hands down on my ears as the thunder boomed again.
I let out a whimper and scrunched my eyes closed.
"Bree, look at me." Red said and I opened my eyes to see her breathing in and out. She was helping me.. On the inside I smiled. I began to practise breathing exercising with her. She helped me a little but the sound of the thunder was still frighteningly loud.
"Wait!" Jund said and jumped up and ran to one of the rooms.
He ran back holding his guitar. He began to play it. A soft tune came out and I focused on it. I recognised it. Safe and Sound by Taylor Swift. I focused on it with my hands clamped over my ears. Please let the storm end soon... I scrunched my self up into a tighter ball as thunder boomed and lightning flashed. I felt a pair of arms wrap around me and soft crooning in my ear. Oh Cry... He was so nice to me... To his friends... He was a special human being and I'm glad he has lived this long.
Minx handed me a drink and I quickly drank it. After a while I suddenly felt drowsy. Goddammit! I knew we had medicine supplies but isn't knew that we had sleeping pills. I felt myself getting weaker and weaker untill... Nothing.