"Where are we gonna go, Taylor? The school is flooded with infected." I sigh sadly. She lays her head on the window. "I don't know jasmine, that was home." She sniffles, her eyes watery. "I grab her hand, "Taylor, home is wherever we," I nod my head to the bed of the truck, where everyone was. " are. Okay? Your home is us. You're our leader. We all look up to you. We trust you, and we love you." I let go of her hand. "Especially Jessica." I say, giggling. Taylor blushes and shakes her head. "Thank you, jasmine. I really needed that. You always have the answers to everything." She smiles sadly. I laugh, "I don't always have the answer, I just compromise." I shrug. Taylor chuckles. "A compromise is an answer, dork." She tells me. "Hey!" I say firmly. "I'm not a dork! I may be a nerd and extremely attractive but, this person," I point at myself, "is no dork." I state, laughing. She shakes her head. "Just drive..." she pauses. "Dork" she mumbles. I give her a playful glare and give the road my full attention.
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We had stopped at a small convenience store after driving for 3 hours. We were all sitting on the floor, eating small snacks that were left on the nearly bare shelves. "Jasmine?" Jessica says quietly. I look at her expectantly waiting for her to continue. "What happened to your face?" Huh? What's wrong with my face? My eyebrows scrunch in confusion and I bring my hand to my face. I flinch as I feel the 4 lines of stitches. Oh yeah. I look at Jessica and begin the story, Beth and Harley helping me. When I was done, I asked "what happened with you guys while we were gone?" Harley and beth nod in approval of my question. Taylor sighs, "well, after you guys left, no one could find Blaise. We wanted to go look for you after you didn't come back but Sky kept talking us out of it. Blaise came back the next day, and avoided us all. We kept worrying over you guys. Then, one morning, we all woke up tied to those desks." She explains, Conrad, who still has an unconscious Blaise, and Jessica nodding in agreement. "Why were they there?" Harley asks, looking at Taylor. She looks at me, "they wanted to kill us." She whispers. "Well yeah, I kind of figured. " Beth says, rolling her eyes. "Shut the fuck up." I tell her. She glares at me, "Make me!" She says with a smirk. ""Maybe I will" I say with a glare. "Guys!" Conrad yells. I look at him, "Blaise is waking up!" We rush over to him and he opens his eyes. I pull my gun out and point it at him. His eyes widen and he sits up, scooting away. "Jasmine! I told you we weren't gonna kill him!" Conrad complains, "he totally likes me!" He whispers. Desperate whore. I put my gun away. "You guys aren't gonna kill me?" He asks, relief in his voice. Beth pulls out a knife and runs it slowly down him arm, "Not if you give us the right answers." She says sweetly. She's scary when she does that.
..Jessica looks at blaze, "what did the government want with us?" She asks. We look at him expectantly and he opens his mouth. "The government had plans to start a new world. They had the plan of killing off all the infected, and all the healthy people that weren't of use. Sky's and my job were to become trusted , find out if you were useful. And, if not, they killed you." He reveals. We all stare at him, unbelievablably. "What happened back at the school? When sky disappeared? " I speak up. He shakes his head and sighs, "at first, Sky wanted to stop the mission. But, I was persistent and stayed strong. Uh -when uh conrad ki-kissed me," our eyes widen at conrad as he smirks. "I figured maybe Sky was right, this could be home. But, when I talked to her about it, she seemed different. She said something about jasmine. She became the one that wanted to finish the mission." He muttered. Something about me? Bitch is crazy. "What did she say?" Harley asks. Blaise tears his eyes from Conrad, "huh? Who? What?" He asks in a daze. Harley huffs in annoyance "Sky. What did she say about jasmine?" She repeats. Blaise shrugs. "I don't know, something along the lines of 'she'll be hers once and for all'" he says, rolling his eyes. "Wait what? " I ask confused. Id be hers? Does it look like you can just snap a color on me and claim me? Hell no, I'm no ones. "Why would she say that? " I mutter, my face twisted in confusion. He laughs, "she's liked you for the entire time we were there." His black and blue hair falls into his face as he says this. What? She likes me? Ew. no. bitch has issues. "Not gonna happen. She's a crazy hoe." I snap. Damn bitch tried to kill my friends. No one fucking touches my friends. "Where'd she go?" I ask Blaise. He looks at me and shrugs. "Probably back to our safe haven, with all the government officials. She'll tell them what happened, they'll find us again, and try harder to kill us." He says with a nonchalant voice. Jessica looks worried and begins pacing back and forth. "I can't die, I can't die." She begins to mutter repeatedly. I grab her shoulders and stop her. "Jessica, you wont die. I'm here to protect you guys." She nods and looks behind me. Her face lights up and she yells "Is that a Starbucks?!"
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The Beginning of the End
Adventuresurviving with my 5 best friends for a year was a struggle. a year ago, a virus broke out. And we all seemed to be immune to it. When we take in two more people, it becomes chaos. At first, it was fine but, Sky and Blaise aren't who they seem to be.
