The Day the World Ended

Chapter 12

Later that evening, I sat in the library reading a book by candlelight. It was very hard, and it hurt my eyes. But I really wanted to get away from all the stress from today. In my story, there was a man, who lived far far away. He fell in love with a girl that was taking a vacation where he lived, and they talked the entire time she was there. But, when the time came for her to go back home, he was devastated. They both were. Her mother didn't like the man, for she thought that he would just use her for her body. He pleaded to the mother, saying that he wouldn't use her for anything. But the mother didn't care. The night before they had to leave, the girl ran off to the man's house and they made love, and killed themselves to be together.

I know, kinda weird. It was kinda like a Romeo and Juliet ripoff. But it was actually very good. I could never imagine that, falling in love with someone that lived far away from me. I felt bad for all the people that had a relationship like that, I respected them though as well. It must be hard.

I yawned as Daryl came in, supposably looking for me. "Ash," he started, "It's almost midnight! We have a busy day tomorrow. Why don't you come and get some sleep."

I smiled and stood, bending the corner of the page in as a bookmark, "Alright, if you say so."

Daryl threw his arm around me and we walked back to our room quietly. When we got there, I put my book on the desk and started undressing to get into my pjs. Daryl was on the other side of the room doing the same. Since we had went scavenging yesterday, one of the kids got all the pjs for us. I was happy that mine fit. Sadly, they only found a top, no bottoms, so I slept without any pants on besides my underwear. It didn't really bother me I mean, Daryl had already seen me naked.

I had completely forgotten about the attack from the girl much earlier. I looked down at my chest to see that there was only a scar. I grinned and put on my shirt, then sat on the couch. I watched as Daryl took off his shirt and put on some pj pants. I could tell he wasn't amused at wearing pants at night, but I guess he thought it wasn't the right time yet to sleep with me like that. Kinda like a girl sleeping over at a boy's house, people think they're going have sex, when really they just want to spend time together.

Daryl put on the pants and walked to the couch, sitting beside me. My heart skipped. He leaned back and pulled me to him. I loved when he did that, he was so warm.

We sat in silence until Daryl yawned, "I'll always keep you safe. Nothing will ever harm you now."

I smiled and stayed silent, this moment was perfect.

We were almost asleep when a loud knocking at our door awoke us. It was Julie. She had a terrified look on her face as she grabbed me by the bad arm and drug me out of the room. I screamed in pain as she stepped back when Daryl stepped in front of me.

"There's a crowd! A crowd coming for us! They found us!" She happily jumped up and down and continued, "We're already packing up! They obviously found a cure if there's that many, there's at least a hundred of them!"

Daryl and I looked at each other cautiously. Hopefully she was right, but this seemed fishy. Wouldn't the power and stuff come back on? Maybe that's where these people were headed.

Julie looked down and saw I didn't have any pants on, "Was I uh, interrupting something?"

I looked down and laughed, "No we were just getting ready to sleep."

Julie smiled and looked up at Daryl, and the look that entered her eyes next made me angry. It was a look of desire. The desire to get her hands on Daryl. I watched as she looked him over and the desire in her eyes only grew.

I coughed and stepped in front of him, "Well we should be getting dressed now, we'll be out shortly."

Julie smiled and hugged me, "Alright! See you later!" She pushed me aside and hugged Daryl tightly, "I'll see you too Daryl."