"Yeah. I'm gonna go check on 'em," I hear Jayden say, coming closer to the first floor. "Luke!" I yell quietly, throwing him my knife. He catches it, then I throw Clementine my gun, and I get my bow and use it for me. I get it ready as I see Jayden on the top floor, and he sees me. "What the f-" I shoot an arrow at him, but he ducks in time. I groan. "Here. Let me see that." I grab my knife back from Luke, then spot one of Jayden's men coming my way. I fling the knife at him, and it slices through his neck. He makes a loud gurgling sound as I spot Jayden getting ready to throw a grenade.
"RUN." I yell to Clementine and Luke. "Wait! Nick! What about the others?" He asks me. "We can't just leave them," Clementine agrees.
I see the grenade land in front of us, all set to blow. "MOVE!" And before I knew it, we were all running. "Clem!" Kenny runs up behind us, Sarah and Nick behind him. "Fuck! Where's Rebecca?" Asks Luke. I squint, spotting her in the distance coming, as the whole place explodes.
I see light. Almost like a bright sun. It wasn't the fire of the explosion. It was as if there was a beautiful sunset on the horizon of hills and mountains. I recognized it. It was when I was with Samuel. It was when he got killed. Got killed by Jayden. I was way in New York. Where it all happened.
"Jac?" A voice behind me, that I haven't heard in a while, startles me. I swing around to see Samuel, his dark brown hair, trimmed beard, and familiar jacket that he wore.
"Sam?" I say, my voice croaking. Was I dead? Was this where you would go when you died?
"Jac...," Samuel comes up to me and puts his hand on my face, and kisses me. I wrap my arms around him. "You don't need me. You got this on your own. You can do this. And make friends. I want you to find love, Jaclyn," He tells me, staring into my eyes. "But you were the love of my life," I croak. I could feel the tears coming.
"Jac, you can't be sad about this. Remember what I told you. Stick it in the back of your mind." And then, he disappeared, just like that. I looked at the familiar surroundings. The large buildings, bloodied streets, busted cars, and then I disappeared too.
"Shit. Is she awake?" I hear a voice say. It was Luke.
"Yeah, looks like it. We don't exactly have a doctor, so we can't fix that cut on her arm," I hear a voice say, that was vaguely familiar from Kenny's group.
"Damn it. What happened?" I sit up to view Luke, Clementine, Kenny and his girlfriend, Nick, Rebecca, and Sarah. "That idiot exploded the place. Motherfucker," Kenny shakes his head and clenches his teeth. "Yeah," I nod my head. Then I remembered my dream. Find love? I looked around at everyone: Kenny, Clementine, Nick, Sarah, Rebecca, Sarita, and Luke. Luke's eyes crossed mine with sympathy, almost like he felt bad for me.
I noticed Rebecca crying in a corner. "Alvin. He's gone!" She sobs. Everyone else was silent. "I think we should all get some sleep. It's been a long day," Luke points out. "Yeah. Tell me about it," I smile at him, probably for the first time since I was here. He smiles back, and my heart almost skips a beat.
I notice that we were in a safe place. A camp that the group set up, but with no fire. It would probably attract walkers and Jayden. We all went into our separate tents, and everyone got a partner to share a tent with. There was four tents. One was for Rebecca and Sarah, Nick and Clementine, which was kind of awkward, Kenny and Sarita, and Luke and...
Oh, shit. Really?
Luke was already in his tent, and everyone else was getting in theirs. I was sweating so much. I didn't know what to do. "Jaclyn, you are going to share a tent with Luke. Go ahead," Sarita points out. I turn and face Luke's tent. I take a deep breath. This was the apocalypse. And I was scared of a boy? Ha. Sure.
I open the tent and crawl in, avoiding to make eye contact with Luke. He sits up and looks at me. "Hey. They told me to share a tent with you, so uh, yeah," I stutter. He just nods. It seemed as if he wasn't nervous at all. Ugh, he hated me didn't he? Yeah, he hated me.
"Thanks for, uh, saving us all back there. I have to tell you, that was pretty damn badass. Even though I probably would throw up my guts after I ate that guys face off," He says, smiling. I smile back. The only thing I could think of, however, were those words in my dream that Samuel told me to keep in the back of my head. To find love. Oh my God, it makes this even harder to deal with, considering I imagined Samuel telling me that.
"Uh, we should probably get some sleep," I stare at Luke's hazel eyes. I can feel it coming. Oh my God, he was going to kiss me!
"Goodnight." He turns off a lamp next to our sleeping bags, and he turns over and closes his eyes.
Well, that was embarrassing.