INFECTION (ATEEZ FF)

11

"We've made it." I heard Hongjoong speak up. I opened my eyes after falling asleep in the back of the truck. I had my head on Jongho's shoulder but he didn't seem to mind. I looked at the surroundings of the truck and we are very much in a desert.

"We should've brought one of those dune buggies hyung, it would've helped so much." Yunho said to Hongjoong.

"You only want it so you can drive around and do doughnuts in. Besides, dune buggies aren't sold here." He got out of the truck when Seonghwa stopped it, helping Ara out at the same time. Mingi helped me down from the truck and I instantly felt my feet sink into the sand.

"I feel like we're in the middle of nowhere." Seonghwa added, hopping out of the truck and grabbing the bag of food which we have yet to eat.

"It really does. It's so quiet out here." As soon as Wooyoung said that, a car zoomed past us, covering us in sand. The car stopped and a few unknown people got out of it.

"Hey, you kids lost? Sorry we hit you with sand." The guy spoke up. He had bright red hair which was tied up in a bun, followed by a black mask he was wearing and a few ear piercings. He was wearing a white shirt and black trousers with a chain hanging on the side of it. He looked pretty cool.

"Nope we're not lost, just going to check out a place near here. Also we're not kids, well except for this little one here." Yunho spoke for us, also mentioning Ara in the process as the only kid in our group.

"Ah I see. You all look so young so we were assuming you were still in school." Another guy with dark blue hair said.

"Oh we are in school but last year of high school. 2 of us recently started college."

"Hey we go to college to! Anyways, what place you checking out?"

"There's this prison looking building around here so we're going to explore it. Apparently more survivors are there." I explained as I was grabbing the bag from the truck which held mine and Ara's things in. I turned to look back at the duo who we were currently speaking with. I saw a small red tinge creep up on the blue haired guy's face.

"Mind if we tag along?" The red haired guys asked me.

"Su-"

"No." I then heard San speak up next to me.

"Well that was rude. We just want to find a safe area to stay in so maybe this will be it."

"I don't care." He then proceeded to grab his katana and assault rifle from the truck and place them behind his back.

"Don't worry about him. You can join us if you want." Hongjoong offered to the two boys who instantly agreed. They grabbed their stuff from their car and walked back up to us.

"We're ready to go." We all nodded and started walking.

"Hey, what's your name?" The blue haired guy asked me.

"Kyra, what's yours?"

"Damian, nice to meet you. You're quite cute you know." He said to me making my cheeks slightly heat up.

"Thank yo-" Just then an arm wrapped around my shoulder.

"She's not interested thank you very much." I looked to find Mingi slowly pulling me away from the guy.

"I wasn't hitting on her man."

"Sure, that's what it sounded like." He spoke back sarcastically. We both then walked over to Hongjoong who was having a conversation with the red haired guy.

"Joong hyung, why did you say yes? Kyra was literally getting hit on by the blue haired guy." He whispered to the shorter male who was listening intently.