The Runious World

3

Ariana

I was in this military jeep with this guy and his buddies. It was so quiet. I looked out the window.

"Are you in the military or did you steal this car?" I softly spoke.

"I was in the military." The guy said and I was shocked and I looked at him as he drove. He had to be black and white. His hair was short and curly. He had freckles. His skin was tanned but a little lighter. He had pink plume lips and they looked so juicy. He had tattoos all over his body. I looked away from daydreaming about him. "Were you for real when you said you just woke up today?" He asked me.

"Yes, why would I lie about something like that? I don't even know what's happening Except for a zombie apocalypse." I softly spoke and it was quiet. Did I see this abandoned base? The guy drove in and I looked around. It was guarded so zombies don't get in.

"Like I said before we are running out of supplies so it won't be like a whole bunch of food you would regularly eat-

"I understand," I said to him and he nods getting out of the car with his gun and we all got out of the Jeep. I looked at the sky and it looked like it was going to rain.

"Let's go, everybody inside." The guy said and we all went to this staircase went down the base isn't the base? He did a password and this door opened revealing more people with guns. This door behind us closed. I followed the guy inside this...I don't know the base. Why is there a base under a base? I saw other people like me either drawing, reading, children playing with toys- it wasn't a lot of people though. This base looks like some...FBI secret agent type of shit. "So I guess I'll show you around." He said to me and I looked he walked us to this room and he opened the door. "This is where girls sleep along with the children. This is where the men sleep." He said and I nodded. We walked to another section. "This is where we eat and that's the kitchen. The kitchen is guarded so nobody overeats." He said and I nodded. "This is a room you can either read, draw-anything to entertain you." He said. He saw this lady and he smiled at her.

"It's not a lot of things you can do with no service and whatsoever, but I'm sure you can figure something out." The guy said to me and before he left. "The bathrooms are next to the sleeping rooms." He said and he walked off to the girl and they kissed. I guess that's his girlfriend.

One hour later, I was drawing in this sketchbook. I used to draw all the time, I am such a good drawer.

"Your new huh?" Some guy said and I looked and smiled. He had his hair in a man bun and he had a thin mustache and he was hot. He was light skin.

"Yeah, I am." I softly spoke.

"How did they find you?" The guy asked sitting next to me.

"I was getting my gas can from my trunk and when I closed my trunk I turned and had a lot of guns pointed at me," I said and he chuckled.

"I'm surprised they didn't kill you with the bandage on your head...was it from a zombie?" The guy asked me.

"No, I just came out of a coma today. I had a stroke last year on January 1st and I hit my head on something and I've been in the coma ever since today." I said and everybody was shocked who heard.

"So you have no idea what's going on?" Somebody asked.

"The only thing I know is it's a zombie apocalypse." I softly spoke.

"That's impossible, how the hell are you alive from a one-year coma? Wouldn't zombies attack you in your room?" This girl asked with a gun walking in. She was the girl that the other guy was kissing.

"I'm not going to sit up here and lie to anybody's face, why would I lie about being in a coma? If I wasn't in a coma I would be with my son and my fiancé right now." I said to her and the guy from earlier walks in.

"I already checked with her Ammika, relax." The guy said to ammika and she just looks at me.

"I'm keeping my eye on you," Ammika said and I made a face.

"Don't worry about Ammika, she's never friendly to people." The guy said and I looked at him.

"If I feel like she's a threat-

"You think everybody is a threat." The guy said looking at Ammika.

"Quincy," Ammika warned Quincy and he rolls his eyes.

"Alright you two, you two argue all the time." The guy from earlier said. "Let's go Ammika." He said and she scoffed walking off with the guy.

"Are they like the captain or something?" I asked.

"That's Christopher and Ammika, they are dating," Quincy said to me. "Christopher was the captain, but he found Ammika finna get attacked by a zombie and he saved her and brought her back and now she thinks she runs everything." He said shaking his head. "He should have just left her with the zombies." He said and I laughed a little.

"That's rude," I said to him.

"We all was thinking it," Quincy said chuckling and he looks at me. "So what's your name?" He asked me.

"I'm Ariana," I said to him.

"Ariana huh? I'm Quincy even though she called my name." Quincy said and I smiled.

"Are you alive here?" I asked him and he smiled.

"Yeah, it's just me and me," Quincy said and I nodded. "So you have a fiancé and son?" He asked

"Yeah I have a fiancé named Justin and I have a son named Jacob," I said grabbed my backpack, and pulled out a picture of us and I showed him and he smiled.

"Your son is so adorable, he looks just like you," Quincy said and I smiled putting it in my bag.

"Thank you," I said to him. "Do you have kids or a girlfriend?" I asked him.

"No, thank god...I can't imagine being away from loved ones." Quincy said and my face softened and he realized what he said. "But...I'm sure you'll find them." He said rubbing my arm.

Later that night, I couldn't sleep...I feel tired, but I'm worried about Justin and Jacob. The Chris dude said that everybody died at that place. What if my family died?

"Can't sleep?" I heard a voice and I looked it was Chris he walking into the room.

"No," I said softly and I sat up. He sits next to me looking around.

"It's about your family?" Chris asked softly and I nodded.

"You said everybody died at that place-

"There were some survivors," Chris said to me and I looked. "I was the one who helped the survivors go to a different base." He said to me and I was shocked.

"So...did you see my son? Or my fiancé?" I asked him.

"No, it was a lot of people and it was last month," Christopher said to me.

"Well can you take me where you took them?" I asked him.

"Sweetheart, where they are is far away from Nevada. They are at a US base across seas. I'd have to get a boat or a plane to go camping Bondsteel in Kosovo. Mind you there isn't a lot of fuel around here. I also have to take care of these people in this base." Chris said to me and I was upset.

"Well, I'll go by myself just tell me how to get there," I said to him.

"I'm not going to let you go out there by yourself," Chris said to me. "It's a dangerous world, you haven't even seen the worst part yet." He said to me.

"Well, I'll take my chances, if I survived in the coma while there's a zombie apocalypse I think I'll be just fine," I said to him and he sighs.

"I can't let you go," Chris said to me. "I know you want your family, but you can't go." He said to me and he stood up. "You're going to get yourself killed." He said shaking his head and he walks out of the room shutting the door.

I sighed laying back. I'm going to go with or without him.