They Bite

Chapter 23- Leaving (part 3)

I walked over to Felix, kneeling just behind him, not able to tear my eyes away from the rough slash that stretched from one side of Ryan's neck to the other. His blood stopped spurting out of it violently when his heart stopped beating, instead oozing out at a slower pace. Tears blurred my vision then fell onto my cheeks leaving trails down my face which was showing my disbelief, my chest felt empty as I looked at his young face, he was only 9, only 9. It felt like a part of me had been ripped out, we had all become good friends over the last month or so. When I finally tore my eyes away from him I instantly looked at Felix, if I felt like this I couldn't imagine what he must be feeling. But he looked calm, he was in shock, none of us had felt the kind of pain that he felt right now. Yet. The only thing that disrupted his calm disposition was the tears flowing freely from his eyes.

Then he snapped.

He suddenly dived for the corpse laying at Ryan's feet, letting out an angry roar, but I caught him by his shoulders and pinned him to the ground and sitting on him to crush any chance of him escaping before he hurt himself or someone else. I was just stronger than him because he usually tried to skip strength training. He struggled against my grip for a couple seconds before giving up, I felt him go limp under my hands and start to sob, I knew it wasn't from me pinning him, even though I hit his head pretty hard on the ground.

"I'm sorry," I said as I stood up, satisfied that he wasn't going anywhere too fast anytime soon.

"What?" he sneered as he scrambled to his feet, "YOU'RE SORRY FOR WHAT? THAT MY FUCKING BROTHER IS DEAD? OR THAT YOU TACKLED ME AFTER MY FUCKING BROTHER DIED?"

He pointed at me accusingly as he said it, causing me to step back, so he stepped forward, until I was against the wall, more tears falling onto my cheeks, his eyes glowing red with anger. He wasn't in a good place.

"Oi!" Tyler yelled from across the room, "That's enough, we have to move on."

"Fine," was all that Felix said before storming off into the next room.

Then I started sobbing. Sliding down the wall until I sat down, curling my limbs inwards around my head in the foetal position. I felt worthless, like nothing, my friend had just died and my other friend was angry at me for it. I knew he wasn't thinking rationally but it didn't make it hurt less. I guess it was just my inner Cancerian showing itself.

I heard Tyler tell Emma to stay with me until I'm ready and leave with the rest of the two groups. Then felt Emma sit down next to me against the wall with a thump. She didn't say anything, it was nice to just sit in silence, telepathically acknowledging each other's presence. It helped me calm down.

"Well," I said after calming down, I looked up for the first time since I had slid down here and noticed that someone had dragged Ryan's body away. I felt a twinge of sadness as I looked at the bloody drag marks across the floor, "I think I'm as ready as I'm going to get."

"That's good, I hope Tyler talked to Felix, He isn't in a good place and people in bad places do stupid things."

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Once we had cleared the building we had a quick break for lunch then got straight back to work, searching the building for all the items on the list.

Before we knew it we were leaving for the Hardware store. We piled on the bus again but this time it was different. Ryan's death brought a silence to the groups, not a comfortable silence like before, one that forbade everyone from speaking in fear that Felix would snap at them too, it was strange how much could change in just a couple hours. Emma and I sat at the back again but Felix sat right at the front, head down, trying not to notice the rest of the bus staring holes into the back of his head. The silence gave me a lot of unwanted time to think about Felix rejecting me as a friend, about Ryan and about Mel.

After way too long we arrived at the hardware store.

We loaded off the bus and assembled again at the door.

"Niki-" Tyler started but I cut him off, knowing what he wanted.

"Yep," I said making my way through the crowd to the door, pressing my palms against it and seeing inside.

"Ahhh!" I exclaimed, jumping back into Emma as my eyes snapped back to normal, "There are people in there."

Haiiiiiii....

Well that was depressing...

It was probably more depressing to read since I know what happens...

I am so tempted to update now but nahhhh, im too lazy and evil.

I'm also sorry that this chapter is shorter than the rest (except for at the start but we don't talk about those chapters, they're like the weirdos and rejects of the story) but killing people is hard work :(

I literally have nothing to say except...

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