A Lovely Mess

Day 1

"For fuck sake, you've drained the gas again" Dream whined as the car came to a stop

"How is it MY fault dre" sapnap murmured, emphasising 'my' obviously frustrated with the blame almost instantly being put on him.

"You're too reckless when you drive! You don't even take into consideration that we need to save gas, it's not like i can go to a gas station and get a top up these days" Dreams words were fast, he comically hit his head into the steering wheel multiple times in frustration, careful not to sound the horn

"you're being a child"

"no i'm being mature"

"yeah right" sapnap snickered, he turned in his seat to see george fast asleep draped across the back seats

"seriously? he's asleep again?" dream turned to face the direction of george much like sapnap was

"yeah he could sleep through a damn nuclear war twice over" sapnap teased, causing dream to snicker

"alright, let's just wake him up and get a move on i hate these roads" dream turned, unlocking the car doors and carefully getting out, in his hand an axe, his eyes careful and alert

sapnap gently shook george in an attempt to wake him, yet there was no succession

he shook him a little more rough this time causing him to murmur and eventually stir into a form of awakening

"cmon george we don't have all day get your stuff and move" sapnap said taking his grip off of the british boy

"whatever" george mumbled dragging himself up, a yawn escaped him as he tucked a gun into its holster as he held a large knife in his left hand.

the three began walking, the road was thick with fog, a bitter, foul smell lurked the air.

It'd been a fairly long time since the group had ran into another person, let alone a whole community, but then again the likelihood of communities existing still was incredibly low. After all it was three years into the messily post apocalyptic world.

in 2021, the outbreak began, to be specific may of 2021.

George had just moved to florida, to live with dream and sapnap after months of planning, the week he got there everything went to hell, between people being forced to take the vaccine for covid then it mutating within weeks of injections, starting off as a light fever and eventually turning into complete loss of control of bodily and mental actions.

it was still unknown whether or not those infected can still feel, hear, see and understand what is happening around them. some theorise they can yet they just no longer have the capabilities to prevent the actions the body is performing whilst others simply believe that they're all completely brain dead, all morals and the things that made them human were gone.

What felt like hours of walking, lead them to a small town, abandoned like every other.

collapsed trees in the street, rusting, burnt out cars, weeds and grass cracking through the sidewalks.

most homes by now would've been completely picked dry, yet some still had the occasional jackpot.

sapnap wandered off, george and dream stuck together

"goddddd" george groaned through frustration, dragging it out to really capture his annoyance

"what's up?" dream followed george into the kitchen of a home, a stench of damp present

"everything and everywhere is the fucking same"

"the joys of an apocalypse i suppose" dream snickered, as he looked over photo frames that had fallen, assuming the people in the photos to be the owners of the home before the world went to hell

"i'm just bored dream"

"aren't we all"

"i wanna do something fun, i want a bit of adrenaline, even just some sort of goal! we're walking around all the time doing nothing and for what, to starve for another day?" george continued to complain, his words followed by opening and closing of different cabinets and drawers as he searched for something

"i don't know, what more can we do? sit and wait to get eaten" dream replied as he placed a photo frame upright

george made the mistake of opening the fridge, the smell that arose caused himself and dream, who was at the other side of the room to gag. he quickly slammed it shut

"HAVENT YOU LEARNT- YOU DO THAT IN EVERY HOUSE" dream cried out wafting the air around him hiding his face into his hoodie

"WHAT IF THEY HIDE LIKE GOLD OR SOMETHING IN THERE"

"WHAT VALUE WOULD GOLD HAVE NOWADAYS GEORGE?"

"SHUT UP YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN CAN WE LEAVE IT STINKS IN HERE" George said rushing himself out of the house in a desperate attempt to escape the smell

outside waiting was sapnap

"did george open the fridge again-" sapnap held back laughter

"unfortunately" dream replied taking in a deep inhale of the somewhat fresher outside air

"i get curious"

"we know" sapnap snickered as he twirled a hammer in his hand, letting it swing between his fingers, tossing it to each hand

"this isn't a circus sapnap"

"hey let a man have his fun"

They began walking once again