The Walking Dead || 5SOS

Chapter 12

Calum

Everyone sat in the living room in silence, but it wasn't exactly a "peaceful" silence.

Ashton had a black eye and cut lip from God knows where, Michael was pissed off for some unknown reason, and everyone was quiter than usual.

The only noise was the sounds of Bella's soft gurgles and the clitter-clattering of her toys.

The air was tense and everyone could sense it, "Okay, we aren't going to sit on our asses all day while the world is ending" Arden spoke. "I agree, we need to raid stores and restaurants" I responded

"Thank you Calum, at least you're responding" She grumbled while I laughed. "Well what do you want us to do? There's going to be people who want us killed for our stuff"  Michael spoke in a harsh tone.

"Dude whatever got you pissed off, you need to let go of it and start helping out with this group." I snapped

"I'm not going to let go of it!" He shouted back

I was about ready to flip him off but Ellie stopped us, which was quite unusual considering how quiet and small she is.

"Both of you, stop arguing! We need to focus on keeping us alive because in case you haven't noticed, THERE'S A ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE TAKING OVER THE WORLD AND WE'RE THE LAST FEW SURVIVORS!" She yelled. Everyone just looked at her with wide eyes. Damn, she can be aggressive.

"Okay then...that settles that then.." Ali awkwardly spoke. "Let's split into groups of two. Everyone going out different directions, but two people need to stay with Bella. We can't let her go out there." Ellie demanded.

"I'll go with Jemma" I voluntered. Ali and Ashton paired up together, so did Arden and Michael which left Ellie and Luke to team up.

"Um, maybe Ashton and I should stay here with Bella considering his current state" Ali motioned to his bruised face. Ashton grumbled in response but agreed to stay.

We all packed up our equipment and set off. Jemma and I took the south way to find any stores or restraunts to invade. We walked together in silence, she seemed like she wanted to say something but nothing came out of her mouth.

"Are you okay?" I finally asked. "Yeah yeah I'm fine" She spoke with a slight stutter and nervousness.

"Are you sure?" I asked.

She sighed in defeat, "No, no I'm not. Michael almost kissed me yesterday and dear God this sounds like some romance movie, it's disgusting"

I laughed as we continued walk and she continued to tell me everything that happened. From when I found her in the middle of the field in tears, her rule to never get close to anyone, and when Michael almost kissed her last night.

I was finally about to say something when we stopped infront of a Costco. We both looked at each other, "Let's find a back entrance, we can't let nobody know we're here." I said. She nodded in agreement and we went behind the building to find the emergency exit.

I pulled out my flashlight and knife. I looked around and finally kicked open the door, it was like something that you would see out of an action movie. I scanned the area for walkers and for people. There didn't seem to be any but Jemma and I decided to not to split up if it were the case that someone - or something - was here.

I quickly pulled out the duffle bag and grabbed as many necessary iteams as I could.

"Okay maybe now is a good time to split, go onto the otherside of the store and grab stuff that we need. Yell for me if something happens." She hesitated but slowly walked to the otherside.

I jogged over to the back of the store. The sign read, "Employees only" but that obviously doesn't matter anymore. I stepped inside the room and scanned the room for walkers. It was all clear.

I started grabbing items and stuffed them into the duffle bag. I tripped over a box and cursed under my breath, "Shit."

A soft groan was quietly heard in the dark and I dropped my gun and flashlight when I fell.

I grabbed my knife from my pocket and slowly started to back away. I crashed into something, it wasn't a wall. It was a walker. I whipped around but we both fell down. I tried stabbing it in the neck but it bit down onto my forearm instead.

I screamed out in pain but somehow managed to stab in the eye. I backed away against the wall holding my arm. Jemma came running in and knew what happened when she saw me and the walker.

"No, no not you too. I can't lose anymore people." She began to cry.

"Jemma, I'm going to die."