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Chapter 8

Jeremy was awake. It was 4am. This time it wasn't because he couldn't sleep. He had purposely woken up at this time. He wanted to see what time did the zombies become peaceful. He laid on his stomach and peered down from the shelf. Only one zombie came during the night. It was a tall skinny one, it's skin as pale as paper. It tried jumping to where they were, but they were too high. Jeremy watched it for a while, before deciding to explore the metal shelf. 

He walked along the shelf, walking past ladders and pallets. He stopped, blocked by a random bathtub. 

"What the?"

Suddenly an idea came to him. He started tugging the heaving bathtub, which caused it to scrape against the metal shelf and make a loud noise.

"OI, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?" Mochi whined.

"Come help me pull this thing!" Jeremy shouted in reply.

"What for?" Ori asked groggily.

"We're gonna see if we can kill the zombie by throwing the tub down that them!" Jeremy explained. Jake jumped up and started tugging the tub.

"I'm t-too, AUH" Mochi yawned before going back to sleep.

"Give me...five....minut-" and Ori followed suit.

"It's just us boys then." Jake said grinning. They pulled the tub until they were directly on top of the zombie.

"Ok, on the count of three we push this bad boy onto the zombie. One, two, THREE!"

The tub fell, surprisingly making no sound when it landed. The zombie seemed confused at first, before continuing to move. Suddenly, the zombie defied physics.

It flew.

"OH MY FUCKING GOSH-"

"ARE YOU SEEING WHAT I'M SEEING?"

"YES NO SHIT??"

They stared in awe at the empty black sky.

"We gotta tell them what just happened." Jake said excitedly. "Maybe we could fly like that outta here!"

"No way am I dumping a heavy bathtub on myself just to fly into an abyss. And as for telling the girls, maybe not now? They need their beauty sleep."

Just as Jeremy said that, the zombie flew back down and landed in front of them.

"FUD-!" 

Jeremy punched the zombie off the shelf before Jake could finish his sentence. 

"Chill dude." Jeremy calmly said as he wiped his fist against his shirt.

"CHILL? A ZOMBIE NEARLY JUST KILLED US!" Jake exclaimed.

"And did it?" Jeremy asked as laid on his stomach and peered down at the zombie.

"Well no, but it could have!"

"Yes it would have if one of us hadn't kept our cool."

"Yeah okay whatever." They sat down waiting for the zombie to turn peaceful. It did at exactly 5am.

"I guess we better start waking up at 5am then." Jeremy concluded when the zombie started walking away. 

"And who is going to wake us up? Our phones are all almost dead!" Jake retorted.

"I can. I usually wake up automatically at 4am anyways. Also, since we are on the subject of our dying phones, ask Mochi if she has her powerbank. She usually has it on her. It slipped from my mind to ask her for it." Jeremy said as he put down a ladder. "Anyways, lets wake up the girl."

After they had woken Mochi and Ori up, they packed up their provisions and started making their way along the wall. Jake told the girls what had happened and their new schedule.

"5am!?" Ori exclaimed

"I thought after secondary school we wouldn't have to wake up that early!" Mochi groaned.

"Oh too bad. You were the one who said we would be out of here by 15 days. I'm helping you reach that target." Jeremy replied. "So quit whining."

"Oh wow thank you soOooOo much Jer Jer." Mochi replied sarcastically, rolling her eyes. "I'm soOOOo grateful to wake up like I'm a fricking primary school kid!"

They stopped to rest and eat after walking for a while.

"Okay guys, we have enough food to last for 2 more days if we ration correctly. Do we continue or gather more food?" Ori asked.

"I like to be on the safer side, so I suggest gathering more food." Jeremy said.

"But we gotta reach there in 15 days! How about we collect food tomorrow? Since we can last for two more days." Mochi argued.

"How about two people gather food and two people walk on?" Jake suggested. "Even if we stray far we have the whistles."

Everyone agreed with Jake. So Jake and Jeremy went off to find food whilst Mochi and Ori continued walking.

"I don't know about you but I feel sooo dirty. We haven't showered in how long!" Mochi complained.

"I know right? Well, the boys aren't here right now...We could do a little wash up? You know you know?" Ori said mischievously. 

"YEAH FUCK BOYS! With their advantage of taking off their shirts and shit."

So the girls unloaded their bags and washed up quickly. Just as they were done they heard a whistle. Ori took out her whistle and whistled back in response. 

"AHHH, I FEEL SO CLEAN NOWW." Mochi shouted with joy.

The girls packed up their stuff and continued their way. Jake and Jeremy joined them soon afterwards.

"What's with that face? You look really happy..." Jake asked.

"So? Cannot be happy issit?" Mochi said.

"Well it's hard to be happy in a place filled of hostile mobs." Jeremy replied.

"We were just doing girl stuff, stuff that you boys wouldn't understand." Ori said.

....

They walked on, set camp at a nearby metal shelf and ended the day.