The Five Survivors of The Apocalypse

Drucilla's Beginning

­   I walked down this cracked concrete walkway featuring soft plant life surrounding it, and  scattered ocean blue flowers hiding within the soft grass.  

 I wasn't to mindful of the beautiful scenery, my main focus was on the upcoming looming black gate hiding the new building that would be my new start, a fresh start.

As I approached the giant metal gate I slowed my pace slightly, it was somewhat startling to see this gate for the first time it. I kept my pace slowly moving forward only to reach the gate and softly place a hand on it. It was actually icy cold in this scorching weather making my hand was slightly shaking from this distract temperature change. 

 Something out of place had been seen from the corner of my eye, there seemed to be a small black panel on the side of one of the gates. It was easily seen and I should have seen it sooner.

 I slowly made my way to the panel only for it to open and its features would be shown. A small screen which displayed a person looking away writing something quickly and it seemed to be important enough at the speed she was going. She didn't even seem to have any situational awareness at the moment due to my presence, not that it was too noticeable. 

With my shaking hand I pressed a button that was to the right of the screen, and I tried to say something, but it felt as if nothing even came out of my mouth nor did it feel like my vocals actually did their job. I stood there awkwardly trying my best to get anything out, but I couldn't. I let out a soft squeal by accident from a sudden gust of wind striking against me. The sudden sequel had cause a soft tint to take me over, thankfully the person didn't hear my sequel.

 I finally managed to get something out, "H-Hello, excuse m-me" I said with a soft tone. This soft noise had caught the person's attention. As they got close I was able to make out their appearance. 

The person was female that didn't seem like she any older than twenty-five, with light brown hair, she was also complemented with a light skin pigemont. She seemed to look at me with a angry then kind glance with her eyes I couldn't tell their colour due to the quality of the screen. It looked through a blue tint that made it rather hard to look into easily. 

 As she looked at me she glanced down at something else on her desk that seemed pretty close to where she was standing. Her eyes squinted in between looking at me and whatever she was glancing at, she then leaned in and pushed another button that allowed her to speak, " Drucilla, Drucilla?"

I simply nodded in return with an awkward smile, trying to look like I know exactly who she is and how to properly react to her.  

Finally with what seemed to be hours of nodded my head quickly.The women from behind the screen gave me a weird glance it felt as something was off about me. 

After a minute or so the women behind reached for something which I couldn't see, I assume to was a button due to the fact that the gate's giant black doors sprung inwards. The young women ,that again I couldn't make out all to well, motioned for me to step inside and I did as she wished and stumbled through it quickly. I didn't want to waste her time with me taking forever to even get inside.

Once I had gotten inside I got the chance to observe every new factor that suddenly came into light. The school that I would be attending was actually was much different than I thought it would be it was large and had two buildings and its scenery was really beautiful and calm. It was paradise to what I thought, I assumed it was going to have a cold vibe and be dead. I am actually really happy that it turned out this way rather than some other schools I've had to see.

I broke out of my trance and thought to see an individual exit, from the distance looked like the main entrance, quickly heading my way. I felt sacred as I believed I have done something wrong. I stood there watching as the person jogged at me. As they got closer I could see the features that seemed to match the young lady behind the screen. 

She had made her way to me after a full minute. She had slouching down and breathing slightly heavy, " Drucilla? I have been waiting for you. I was called that we had a bright new student coming here." She was still breathing heavy from the jog here to the entrance on the school. 

I gave a weak response that was really low, "I-I'm sorry for making you run so far and making you t-tired.." 

It looked like it took her a while till she properly understood what I said. She looked puzzled for a while staring at me, this stroke me with a strong case of fear mixed with heavy anxiety.

She finally got what I said and shook her head, " No, no it's okay honey I would have had to come out here either way. You're good." She finished  with a soft smile on her face, finally regaining her strength.

I gave a weak smile back to her still feeling some what bad for not coming halfway with her. As if she could hear what I said she put her hand suddenly on my should and tried to say something, but I jolted back and fell down to meet the soft grass below. I looked up to her and she let out a heavy sigh, " Sorry let me help you up, we need to get inside soon"

She crouched down and stretched her arm out to help me up having another warm smile on her face. I reached out and took her hand and she quickly pulled me to my feet, then slowly walking towards my new start. I ran to catch up with her and gave her a soft smile once I caught up, she simply looked at me with a keen eye then back to the building. The entire long walk to the building was filled with a strong awkward silence only to have the sound of the wind blowing the life around us. 

  After around ten minutes we finally reached the building it only took this long because my pace was kid of slow compared to what she wanted to go. She looked at me sightly annoyed which I could understand again because we took quite a bit longer than she wished. She brought her wrist up to where she could see a silver watch after looking at it her eyes went wide,
" Oh no we are running really late, crap. Alright we are going to have to rush through a few things okay. Actually I'm going to pass you on to one of the other students, she will help you get adjusted to the school and show you around."

I simply nodded quickly to her statement and looked into the building through the transparent door. She quickly grabbed the door's handle and opened it and held it open for me. We entered and she walked me to where I saw her on the screen earlier. Her office was small with a medium size desk that held a computer and a messy pile of papers mixed with books and agendas. She had a few pictures of what looked like her in a bikini on vacation and what looked like children playing smiling and being free.  

She leaned over her desk to fumble through all the papers trying to find something, after a good bit she found a paper with several numbers that looked like room numbers with phone numbers. She glanced at me for a quick few seconds before reaching over to her phone and calling someone, getting an answer quickly, " May I borrow Ruby, I need her to show a new student around the school."
After the other person said something she replied slightly annoyed,
" I would show her around, but the boss needs me to write up a few things."
The person said one last thing and she hung up on them shaking her head moving a hand on to her forehead rubbing it slightly.
"Ruby is going to show you around okay. She will be able to help you more than I could."

"Okay t-thank you m'am, sorry again."
"It's alright hun I'm just really busy."

Then I heard footsteps quickly coming towards us, I turned to see the individual that would be helping me get adjusted.