𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐝...

Chapter Three

I used to just zone out of reality a lot, figured a way to escape it all but no matter what you try to do something gotta pull you back into the ugly truth. Every single time.

"So... wanna tell me what has happened here?" Sargent Alexander pulled me out of my thoughts, looking at the gory scene in the backseats. I looked at it too through the mirror and shivers shots through my body of how could I ever possibly have done this, I turned to look at him and shook my head in disappointment. There was silence for a few seconds, but he spoke again. "No matter what you think of yourself... you protected yourself and your own people. I don't know you yet, but I got a feeling that maybe this is your first time killing someone. I know in this time you might feel like a monster or a fucking messed up person? But it ain't true. Defending yourself ain't a crime". I looked at him again and he send me a reassuring smile and I nodded back and took a deep breath, "I tried my best not to kill him... I knocked him down to deal with him later on but I forgot about him and he attacked me straight out as he woke up and started choking me. And even when I gained control I tried not to be lethal but he saw my rifle and wanted me dead, then my survival instincts turned on and I haven't realized that I shot him in the head until he fell on me.. Blood everywhere. But my family is not gonna believe this! They're just gonna believe in what they expect of me, of course, she killed a fucking human she had always been a freak, messed up and weird, all into guns and cars and shit, this is expected from her kind." I mimicked their way of talking down to me. "Shit I'm sorry you had to live through that" he furrowed his eyebrows, "no don't" I warned him looking at the road, "don't what?" he questioned, "don't pity or feel sorry for me. I don't need that at all. See how tables are turned now? They now need my help to survive, and without me? They'll be as good as dead" I affirmed proudly, "hell yeah boss" he chuckled and so did I.

As we go closer to near downtown cities, crashed cars and hordes of walkers were blocking most of the lanes, so we drove slower and more carefully.

"what is your story? clearly you are not related to them yeah?" He finally questions when he looks at me as we drove along the emergency lanes. "No I am not. They adopted me when I was almost a teenager on the streets of Europe...Did the color of my hair expose me?" I chuckled as I focused on the road ahead. "no... your eyes are purple!" he scuffed and I giggled. "lilac but yeah" I speak. "so KK? where are you from? Originally?" he asks. "it's Kami and I don't like to talk about it" I shake my head. "Oh I apologize. I know we're strangers but you intrigue me for some reason... anyway sorry" he states. "no no it's not because of that. I just like to put it past me that's it" I admit as I turn to him and with still confusion in his eyes, he nods.

After the short conversation, the car fell into complete silence as we looked ahead.

We were stupid enough to believe that we won't walk through any other survivors, believing we were the only ones.

We were supposed to go on a 40-minute drive on King Fahad road unit we get to Jaber Al-Ali town, enter the road after skipping the bridge to Jaber Al-Ali and take the seventh ring road and continuing with the road until we reach Al-Jahra city then take the bridge to Route 80 or Al-Jahra road till we get to the farm.

But as always, our luck didn't go as planned. Shocker!. Just before Jaber Al-Ali, we saw traffic, like literal traffic with people in cars waiting for something!. "What the hell? Are they stupid or some shit?" Matthew spoke on the radio, "they're literally sitting targets" I turned to Alexander, he shook his head, confused, and then talked to everyone on the radio, "Imma go see what's happening, everyone, if something happens don't panic and staying together is our best way of surviving" he advised, "want us to come with you Sargent?" James offered, "no I want you to stay with the family just in case" Alexander said and then he goes out of the car and started walking toward where the traffic is holding up and he took my radio with him. He asked a couple of people but none of them knew, they were told that a group of people are taking in other survivors to safe heaven or something, you just need to pay an amount.