chapter fifteen ; everything together [ season five – episode ten
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ONCE AGAIN, KLOE got no sleep and looked like she could've passed out at any given moment. It was the next day and was morning, and Kloe Rhee could only drag her feet across the pavement with pure exhaustion.
Earlier that day, some of the others had found a small puddle at the bottom of a creek and managed to fill up a quarter of a few bottles. People had to share, and in this case, Glenn, Kloe, Zayn, Brianna, and Isabelle all shared one.
They could only take a small sip to save it. But the four insisted that Kloe had the entire bottle since she was the one that desperately needed it. But, as they expected, she took a small sip and gave it back and declined.
Kloe stared ahead of her, her eyes feeling like they were about to close from fatigue. Glenn, who was beside her, lifted up the plastic water bottle with a small mouthful of water left at the bottom.
She looked down at it before turning to her husband. "Kloe... just have the rest, okay?" he persisted, but she only shook her head in return. He lowered the water and tilted his head at her. "What's going through your mind?"
Her eyelids blinked religiously, trying their best not to just close and stay that way. The one thing that was going through her mind was the thought that she wasn't going to make it another day.
"You can read me like the back of your hand," she whispered, turning her neck to the side to face him. "You already know what's going through my mind."
He slowly shook his head. "Maybe, but I want you to tell me yourself. I want you to let it out," he told her, staring deep into her light brown eyes that seemed a lot darker than normal.
She went back to staring off into space as Glenn waited for her to speak. She parted her lips, shaking her head unnoticeably. "We're still miles away from— from pharmacies and things like that..." she paused, wheezing in a breath, "and— and as long as we keep finding small amounts of water, we'll add to our time for how long we all have left."
Glenn gulped worriedly as he looked down at the ground. He knew exactly what she was getting at.
"I'm not scared of dying," she stated, a lump forming in her throat, "I'm just scared of leaving you... Zayn... Brianna.... the others. If— if I die—"
"You're not going to die," Glenn said firmly, exhaling shakily. "You're not— you're not going to, okay? We'll find something soon, I promise. I won't let anything happen."
Kloe attempted to blink away some of the tears that threatened to spill out of her eyes, but it didn't work. "If I die..." she continued what she was planning to say, "I won't be able to see you again. That's what scares me."
