I hear footsteps behind me, when I turn to see whos they are I see a boy scramble to hide behind a tree before I can see him.
"Why are you following me, stalker?" I tease.
Carl comes out from behind the tree, "Don't call me that."
I roll my eyes...
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I S A B E L L E
"Should we head back yet?" I ask Damien as I wipe the sweat off my forehead with the back of my hand. It's scorching hot outside today so I'm sweating a lot more than usual. I probably look like I just jumped into a pool, that's how bad it is.
"Nah, we still have a little more time." He responds looking back at me. "We haven't even caught anything yet."
"We haven't caught anything 'cause you refuse to kill squirrels. You keep insisting we'll find something better, but we haven't." I roll my eyes at the boy.
"Who would want to eat squirrel?"
"Me!" I exaggerate. "I'll eat a squirrel. I'll eat a million squirrels if it means we can go back to the church." I groan. Maybe I was complaining a lot, but to be fair the heat on my skin is affecting my patience.
"Ok fine. I'll kill the next squirrel I see but it's your problem when juniper refuses to eat it." He shrugs with an annoyed look on his face.
"Juniper refuses to eat all animals." I laugh. "She would probably be worse if we brought back a deer. Do you even know how to cook a deer?"
She only eats canned food. A little while ago when we were completely out of food and had absolutely nothing, we had to kill and eat a cat. She sobbed the entire time.
"Yeah. Sorta. My mom taught me when I was like... eleven? I think. Yeah, eleven." Damien answers as he looks up into a tree, "Two." he nods in the direction he's looking.
I look where he's looking and see two squirrels sitting on a branch. One's eating an acorn.
"You get the one eating." Damien tells me.
"Why do I have to get the one eating? It's cute." I argue. "You kill the cute one."
"Really? You're the one who wanted to kill them in the first place— y'know, fine whatever." He rolls his eyes dramatically.
I aim my gun and shoot at the same time he shoots the other squirrel.
"Yum." He says as the squirrels fall.
"Looks tasty." I comment flatly, being sarcastic as he goes and grabs both squirrels.
I hear Damien scoff before he starts walking in the direction of the church. He and I have the woods around the church memorized. We've been coming out to hunt almost every day.
Sloan and Juniper stay back at the church doing whatever they do. Sloan has no clue on how to hunt and Junipers only eight.
We've all been staying in the church for about a month I think. We found it when we heard the bell ringing.
Before the church, we were staying in a grocery store. It was really good. We had a bunch of food and other stuff, and it was pretty safe. We had boarded up the windows and made traps outside so if there were walking corpses we'd hear them.
