Daylight Savings

Chapter 4

Here is a picture of Nova, just a bit aged (I started drawing it, realizing that she looked a bit old but I didn't want to change it lol). Let me know if you want to see other characters too.
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-3rd POV, Jay-

"Oh my god! Are you okay? I just saw you fall from inside." Yelled a lady, her voice just over the sound of the sirens, running over to where Jay was crouched over Isa's unconscious body. From what Jay could see of her, she wasn't too much older than him, and was not in too much better shape than him. Her blonde hair was tied up in which he assumes was a tight ponytail, now had wisps that had fallen out, blowing around in the cool nights breeze. She wore a tan janitors uniform that still had creases, showing that there wasn't too much use of it.

"No, oh god, I think she's lost too much blood. She was attacked by that, that, oh god what the hell was that?!" Jay says as his breath picks up in quick harsh intakes.

"Sir please calm down, can I see her condition?"

"Please, I don't know what the hell I'm doing." He said as he stood, looking around the area in case to see something that could let him know where Nova was. The lady then peeled the cloth off of Isa's neck, grimacing at the sight underneath.

       "What treatment have you done so far on her?" The lady asked.

       "Nothing besides wrapping her neck in the cloth." He said, eyes still looking around nervously.

       "Stop doing that, you're making me anxious, experim- that thing is inside so we're safe for now."

       "Sorry it's just my daughter, while Isa fell and I went to grab her, she ran off. I need to go out and find her, she's all alone right now, god I should've been more careful."

         "Sir- sorry what's your name?"

       "Jay"

       "Okay Jay, first things first, if we don't get your wife somewhere soon, there won't be much I can do to help her. Now your daughter, she's not injured right? She should be fine, that thing isn't attacking children for some reason so she's probably escaped it's range. Now we need to get out of here before it finds us, we need to get out of its range, then you can call for your daughter, how old is she?"

"Eleven"

"Shit, does she have a phone."

"A flip one."

"Good enough, when we're out of its range, we'll call your daughter, I don't know how far it's range is yet but if she's still in there it'll be canceled, then we can go back. But don't waste your life when she's perfectly fine, like I said, it's not killing children so she's probably escaped. Now you need to help me carry your wife into that other building there, hopefully in there we can find a medkit otherwise I saw one in the resort behind me but that'll be the last option because that thing is still in there. Now come on, I need to treat her as soon as I can and I would like your help."

       "Thank you so much for your help, I didn't know what I was going to doooooooo" Jay asked letting his last word drag, seeking her name. She hesitated a moment before speaking, seeming to ponder whether or not she should answer.

       "You can just call me Lola."

-Nova's POV-

       "Danny what happened to him?" the little girl asked, shivering with fright.

       "I don't know Camie, I really don't know." I then realized they both had an accent and if I had to guess, I'd say that they both probably spoke Spanish as well. The teen who I assumed was Danny from what the girl said, spoke again. " Camie take our key, I'll carry him back to our room and we can wait until he wakes up." He said picking up the boy in his arms carefully to not hurt him. They both started walking to what I assumed was their room but I only just stood there. I needed to go back to my room and wait for my parents. I then walked toward my room, noticing the door was off its hinges with deep scratches on it. I shivered as I took another step closer standing just outside my room, dark and hollow inside. As I was just about to step inside Danny called out to me, "hey um little girl?" I turned towards him, not noticing that he and the little girl which I assumed was his sister had turned around. "Are you alone?" To that I shook my head no but then realizing my parents aren't here anymore I stopped. I then nodded my head yes and I heard him sigh. "If you want you can come with us, with whatever happened there, it doesn't look to safe anymore. We're just a few doors down, we have some snacks and drinks in our room, and then you won't be alone as well."

I knew I needed to tell him no, realizing a nod won't suffice I opened my mouth to speak. Quietly I started saying "I need to." But stopped realizing my normal voice isn't louder than the alarms outside. I then cleared my throat, starting again, voice cracking as well due to nervousness. "I need to stay here, I got separated from my parents and I need to wait until they come and find me here, I'm sure they'll come for me." I grimaced hearing my voice crack, surely they'll make fun of me for it, others always did.

"You're sure they'll come? Doesn't sound too confident, like I said we're a few doors down, if you hear them coming then you can go to them. Plus do you really want to be alone with that thing running around, with no door to protect you? I don't know if I could live with myself if I couldn't save yet another person." He said sadly, his sister going to hold his hand in support. He smiled down sadly at her, then turning to me once again, "so are you coming with us?"

       I was about to say no, not trusting what some random strangers had said to me, but the memory of my mom almost getting killed by that monster popped into my head once again. 'What am I thinking, I can't go into my room with no protection from that beast.' I then begrudgingly shook my head yes and started to walk towards them. I saw the brother smile softly while his sister let out a big grin.

       "Yay now I don't have to be alone with my annoying brother" she said sticking out her tongue at him. I only looked in surprise, not expecting her attitude to change this much, going to a scared girl who seemed caring for her brother to a sassy little girl. 'How can she act like this, with the monster still running around, has she already forgotten about it and what it's done?' She then ran over to me, reaching to take my hand but I pulled away, stepping a bit away from her, keeping space between us. The little girl was shocked and I saw the boy's smile drop. Feeling sorry for my actions I dropped my head down. The girl however recovered fast, going back to her cheery attitude.

       "Sorry about that, didn't mean to make you uncomfortable, guess I was just too excited. My name's Camila and that's my older brother Daniel." She then turned to me expectingly, wanting to know my name. Not liking people's eyes on me I turned slightly away from their stares but feeling that it was only fair I to tell them mine, I did.

       "My name is N-Nova."