Oblivion {n.h.}

Chapter 14.

Every person who was sitting on the couch was on their feet and running towards the kitchen where the scream was heard, just in the matter of a few seconds, where Gemma was in the kitchen straining to grab a knife on the other side of the counter.

"HELP MY PANTS ARE STUCK ON THE DRAWER." She yelled frantically, and with no lie, the belt loop on her hip was attached to the counter somehow, leaving her like bait on a fishing line.

A walker is moving across the kitchen hungrily towards Gemma. Everyone begins to pull their weapons out of their pockets before Jackson is at the walker in seconds.

He slices off both arms and stabs it in the chest with his machete, shoving the walker up against the wall and swiftly pulls out his hand knife and stabs the dead man in the temple.

By this time the rest of the group besides Lottie, Jesy, Alex, and Greg are now in the kitchen to see what the Ruckus was also. Louis in the back holding Felicite close to his chest and protecting her from the danger before us.

The walker falls back onto the floor and Jackson picks it up, throwing it out of the house through the back patio door. Everyone stands in shock, staring at Jackson with their mouths agape. I was surprised at my brother's sudden jump of fearlessness and becoming a total badass.

"My names Jackson. Took Karate for twelve years, was a varsity wrestler for four, and the best goddamn football player you'll ever see." He wipes the sweat off his face with the sleeve of his brown jacket as Harry shoves through the crowd to unhook his sister from the counter and bring her into his chest in a hug.

"Sorry I was in the shower! Gem are you okay?" Gemma nods frantically, looking at Harry dead in the eyes before he pulls her in for another embrace.

"How'd it get in?" I ask Gemma curiously, and she answers halfway over Harry's shoulder.

"I don't know I opened the back door for some fresh air and it wandered in."

"How the fuck did it get in the yard?" Niall asks, walking closer to the door to look outside.

"I have no idea." She replies, pressing her hand to her head with her palm. Niall points his pocket knife at the whole group. One by one who points at who he's talking to.

"Everyone stay inside, make sure all of the windows are secure and doors closed. Josh, Jackson, Steven, Harry, and I will go check the perimeter." He motions with his hand for his selected people to follow him down to their job.

No one questions Niall and his sudden rise of leadership, only to follow his orders and retreat away from the back door.

Niall's POV••••••••

"There's fucking walls how did it get in?" I say out loud but more to myself than anyone else.

The five of us that I selected are walking at a quick pace down towards the wall at the back of the house, a long walk for a walker.

"We're gonna find out." Harry, replies back to my comment, and I nod dramatically at his statement.

We reach the bottom of the hill and my first intention was to think of a plan to investigate.

"I say we break up into two groups." The American guy Josh tells us. I nod in agreement before I start to asses who's gonna be with who.

"Jackson I want you with me, the other three go around the perimeter that way."

I take the black haired and blue eyed boy with me the left way as we start to walk around the inner walls. The whole place must be a few hundred acres so it'll take a while to meet back with the others.

The walk was silent for a while after we didn't find anything around the perimeter. I tried to make small talk which failed and ended up making me feel stupid in the end.

"I see the way you look at my sister." Jackson finally breaks the silence. I feel his blue eyes pouring into me, but I keep my eyes steady on the ground as we pace our walk.

My heart beats fast and I try to decrease the heat rising to my now red face. Okay I didn't just look at his sister, I looked at her super long brown hair and her cute freckles on her lifted cheeks, the way her eyes light up and get the little creases by them when she smiles. Her body is perfect and everything I could ever want in a girl and-

"Look I didn't mean to offend you if I-" I tried to speak out in self defense, I didn't want this guy to think I just wanted to screw his sister and move the fuck on. I mean not after what I saw this guy do just now to that walker in the kitchen.

"You're a good guy Niall, I haven't known you long but I can see that. But getting hurt isn't something she needs in this world. Something she would need is someone to love her and hold her, not that she needs protection but- Okay okay look man, go for it. My sister's pretty desperate as it is but you've got everything she needs." He laughs at the last part, his words swaying me, not physically but mentally.

My heart flutters back and forth at the mention of Danielle like I was getting ready to ask her to a school dance.

"I don't know if I wanna try anything yet it's just kind of–" I try to speak out before Jackson's blue eyes grow huge in fear.

Whipping my head quickly to where Jackson stares in fear, a walker, straight ahead, is crawling under the wall and onto my family's property.

Further toward the horizon, Joshua, Steven, and Harry see the same situation from the other side and break into a sprint toward Jackson and I.