So surviving the zombie apocalypse w/ your love is NOT as romantic as it seems

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Hawks

"End of time? that's a little excessive, no?"

"Well, we've been in here for who knows how long and we still haven't found a way out."

"Yeah, well the window-"

"No."

"No window then."

I stood up and walked over to where the window was, looking outside. So far there were no signs of anything particularly harmful out there but neither was that waitress so, who knows what could happen.

"Any ideas?"

"Do I look like I have ideas?"

"Hm, sometimes."

I felt around the busted window. There's gotta be some kind of exit or a way to get to the exit better. Come on Hawks, think... there's gotta be something that could work. The only things we had right now were the metal pole, the emergency kit and curtain decoration things hanging above us as trim or whatever- WAIT.

"Do you think if I give you a boost you can reach that?"

"The decoration?"

"Yeah."

"Um, probably?"

"Better than nothing, hop on."

I crouched and helped Lex onto my shoulders hoisting him up as far as I could. He grabbed the material and pulled it down. Great, it was pretty long, that's what we needed.

"Got it."

"Alright, as much as I like your thighs on my shoulders, i'm gonna put you down."

"You just have to stay saying shit like that, huh?"

"Well, yeah of course."

He handed me the material and I shook my head, held one end and pulled as hard as you could, I'll do it too. We walked opposite ways and then pulled, using all our strength to tug at the fabric.

"Why are we doing this?"

"To get out, duh."

"By pulling on decorations??"

"I can't have you going down without knowing if it's safe, now can I?"

I grabbed the metal pole and tied the fabric to it as tight as I could. After testing that the knot wouldn't come undone I threw the fabric out the window, holding the metal pole end in my hand. It reached just above the ground, maybe a good twelve inches above the floor.

"Please don't tell me what I think you're gonna tell me."

"This is our way out, we're climbing down this thing."

"You're insane, there isn't any other explanation to it."

"Well I mean, I'm also trying to survive but... go off I guess-"