Getting to Renaize

Chapter 3

                                                                       TALIA  POV

I woke up feeling a little bit better but not great still, then it all came crashing back. Then I noticed Sydney was missing from her bed. She had found the alcohol stash. She had started sculling the whisky from the bottle and already seemed a little bit tipsy and on any normal day, I would have stopped her straight away.

But I felt as empty and broken as she did so I surrendered myself to a bottle of scotch and soon we were laughing, crying and sobbing together it was the best and worst I had felt in my whole life all at once. My head was spinning but I wasn't giving in that easily.

I had a bit more to drink before black dots started at the edge of my vision. Just as I was about to pass out I heard a knock at the door and somebody coming in. I threw up next to my and forced myself to remain conscious. There was not much I could do but I felt so much fear and there was so much alcohol in my system I was not thinking straight.

I heard a male voice yelling out "Hey guys come here, look it's Talia and Sydney." How did they know our names was all I could think. "Holy shit, what happened to them." I heard another voice say. "C'mon let's go and help them out." I heard another voice say before I blacked out in front of everyone.

I woke up again in the master bedroom next to Sydney with a pounding headache and three boys at the end of the bed staring at as. I screamed waking Sydney up as soon as my aching heading processed my situation. I then threw up over the edge of my bed and took a closer look at the three boys.

Slowly I realised that I knew them. They were Jasper, James, and Jordan from school. Sydney seemed to notice this too at the same time and she began asking them questions. "Why are you here?" Well I mean we were looking for a place to stay since our families turned into FUCKING ZOMBIES." James said looking a little pissed off.

Sydney looked as if she was about to cry but she kept it in for the sake of her dignity, I figured mine was gone now I mean they saw me drunk and throw up already. I just left the room got two glasses of water and some painkillers for myself and Sydney. Sydney was just sitting up glaring at the three of them when I came back in.

It was really awkward as we drank our water so I decided to break the ice. "So what's your story?" They all began to talk animatedly and soon we were able to decipher that pretty much the whole town had been taken over by zombies and that us five were the only survivors.

We all unanimously agreed it would be safer to stay in the small cabin for a while and decided that they would have the two bunk beds between the three of them and Syd and I would get the larger bed.

We all had a look around the cabin and found another bottle of whiskey along with three handguns. In the end, we decided that Syd, and I would have one each and Jasper would get one too. I still honestly don't trust the Boys enough and I feel uneasy working with them but if it means Syd is safer then I think I can deal with it for a while.

I began to zone out while I was packing my bag and as I was reaching into my bedside table to get some of the antibiotics, I had swiped earlier I cut my hand on something sharp. I saw something silver glinting in the sunlight. It was a knife and a thigh holster for it. I quickly put it on before anyone noticed and put the Medicine in my backpack that I had decided I would keep with me from now on.

I looked in the closet and grabbed out a dark green jacket and slipped that on over my grey school one that I was still wearing. I then put on the clothes that I had put in the bottom of my school bag. I began to slowly zone out again thinking about how we were going to survive and what our plan from here on out was going to be.

I was suddenly jerked out of my thoughts with a loud bang and a scream. I ran out gun raised ready to shoot anyone who dared to defy me or Syd. I realised how stupid I was to let the boys stay in the same room as Sydney without me. They are probably going to kill us now and use our loot for their survival.

I ran into the kitchen and saw Sydney laughing with them, Laughing? No that couldn't be right, but here she was right in front of me laughing with these boys. I checked Jasper to see where his gun was and it was on the kitchen bench. They must have been looking through the cupboard and something fell.

Everyone turned to look at me and saw my gun raised straight at James. A flash of horror went through his eyes but he calmed himself quickly quite obviously, in my opinion, trying not to show any emotion but he was not doing a very good job of it.

"Hey lay off him, mate." I heard Jordan say. I glared at him and slowly lowered the gun. I felt everyone's eyes on me so I decided to speak. "We need to come up with a plan if we are going to survive this."

So we all sat down on the bunk beds and began to talk.

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Quick FYI for everyone reading this is my first story and I am trying my best but also if I mess up please point it out in the comments also I have not edited these properly yet. I have done a basic check but I will be filling in plotholes as I go.

Thanks for reading also I might make a playlist for the book when It is done.