As more and more days began to pass by, Taemim had gotten some training with the gun and even doing some exercises to learn how to run quicker and be able to escape from the zombies more efficiently, of course, Ye-Joon was helping him with this. Taemin began looking up to Ye-Joon, and they became close friends, however, Ye-Jun was way older so Taemin saw him more as a father figure than a friend, they would talk and share stories with one another, and it even encouraged Taemin to grow closer with the others
But
A few weeks in, almost closer to a month, Taemin began feeling something strange, not from the group nor Ye-Joon but from Baek.
Taemin was gathering some canned food for the others since it was time to eat 'I get more anxious the more these shelves start to look empty...' he sighed.
"Tae! There you are" Baek walked up to him.
"Hm? Baek?"
"I need you to go on a special expedition, along with Ye-Joon and me"
"Special expedition? And you're going..??"
"It's special because we're going to be going pretty far, just to explore around more and gather some stuff...who knows...maybe we'll meet others too.."
"Yeah I guess that makes sense"
"Great, I already told Ye-Joon so just be prepared, we leave tomorrow"
Taemin nodded 'That's weird...I haven't seen him in a good while...I wonder why he suddenly wants to go on a risky expedition' Taemin shrugged it for now and brought the food over to the rest of the group, they all ate up what they could happily.
[Next day]
"Hey Ye-Joon" Taemin walked up to him
"Yes?"
"Do you think Baek might be planning anything big? This expedition came out of the blue..."
"Im not sure...all I know is someone is getting anxious"
"Huh"
"Baek, I guess seems as how there's a lot of us inside this tiny store is giving him anxiety, I mean, just look at the shelves, im sure you've noticed"
"Yeah..."
"I guess that he wants to move into another store, a bigger one, that's why we're going far...probably"
"That would make a lot of sense actually"
"But who knows, he has been distant...and spending a lot of time with those new buddies of his.."
"So you noticed too? ever since he brought those two guys...he's been strange..."
"Anyways, we should get prepared"
"Right"
After the two began grabbing their stuff, they headed straight to the car, where Baek had already been inside waiting.
"Finally you two show up, we gotta get a movin' ya know" He began driving off at a high speed.
"How far are we going?" Ye-Jun asked.
"Hm...who knows, until we find something good"
The two just agreed and went along with it. Until it's been at least 20 minutes of driving.
"Anything good yet...?? What even is 'good' to you?"
"Actually, it might be here" Baek stopped the car. He parked in front of a bigger store.
"Finally" Taemin and Ye-ajoon began getting off along with Baek. "So here's the plan...just get whatever you see is good and may help us, I brought some big duffle bags" Baek explained. They each grabbed one.
"Let's go inside with caution, who knows how many of those monsters are in here," Baek said.
"Of course" Ye-Joon agreed. Taemim as well. And so they made their way inside the store, it was awfully quiet however. As they went inside the store. Taemin began getting an eerie feeling.
"Looks like there aren't many of them in here... it's pretty quiet" Ye-Joon said.
"Yeah.." Taemin began looking around.
"We should go over to the food section first" Baek suggested.
"Right," they both said and began making their way, the food section seemed to be way back, and seemed like some zombies were there. Taemin and Ye-Joon immediately began shooting at them, clearing most of them. They gathered up some food quickly and the three left the area shortly after.
"I'd say we should split up from here, and start finding other stuff to make our search faster, if anyone needs help just yell loudly"
The two agreed and off they split up into their paths.
Taemin saw how there were some zombies around, he grabbed his metal bat and began to swing at them since there weren't many and he didn't feel like using up his bullets. He was headed towards the section where they had mechanical stuff, he searched around for any useful stuff they may have.
'I guess I could take some of this stuff..' he placed down his duffle bag and began grabbing some stuff, before hearing a single gunshots fire. Taemin stood up immediately and grabbed his bag, he began running towards where he heard it which seemed to be from the back of the store, he ran his way over "Ye-Joon?? Baek??"
As he neared the back of the store he began hearing the noise of zombies grow louder, a bunch of them.
'Where could they be..??' He began searching around before finally finding someone.
It was Ye-Joon but he was lying on the ground. Taemin panicked and he walked up to him in a hurry. "Ye-Joon!!" As he grew closer he could see, that Ye-Joon was shot straight in the head
"No...Ye-Joon.." he said with a shaky voice and teared up.
"Baek...there's no way...did he...shoot Ye-Joon...?" He looked around "Baek?!? Where are you!?" He yelled out in anger, but it only seemed to attract the zombies nearby, they quickly came in huge groups and walked towards Taemin, Taemin got up and grabbed his gun, he began shooting at them while running away 'Since when were they're so many of them???' He tried running towards the entrance but noticed how it was also blocked by zombies 'What the hell??? How do I get out of here???' He began to try to think. His mind was pretty messy at the moment, he couldn't stop thinking about what happened to Ye-Joon but also at the same time had to think of a way out.
"I...there's no time to think straight.." He looked at the entrance 'One of the doors seems to be broken...if I can just push through them..' Taemin hesitated but quickly forced himself to go and run. He ran into the hoard of zombies as quickly as possible, pushing through them. He struggled through, and for a moment he was stuck in the center of that hoard, he could feel the bites and scratches, but he pushed through again and threw himself out the entrance. He immediately got up, trying to ignore how much pain he was in just now. He ran out, through the parking lot.
'That damn asshole's car isn't here' he looked around as he ran towards a safe spot, towards another building that seemed like it contained a small store. Taemin ran over to it and entered, locking himself in, before he could relax and calm down he looked around for any zombies, to his luck, there weren't any. Taemin sat down on the ground and sighed, breathing heavily.
"Fuck...it hurts..." he looked at his arms and feet "shit...my head hurts... everything hurts.." he leaned against a wall and curled up "Ye-Joon...Baek...I don't know what to feel right now...I feel sad...and angry...but I feel hurt...physically, mentally...what do I do..? Should I cry? Yell?' He looked up 'I want to sleep right now...just rest...I don't want to think about it today...maybe tomorrow..or the next day after that..' he closed his eyes and immediately fell asleep.
