The Love Of A Boy |C.G.|

Chapter 5

Hailey's P.o.v.

I groan as I wake up. I sit up. My head is pounding. I get out of bed and walk into the living area thing.

"She's awake!" James yells running to me. He hugs me tightly. I grunt as my head pounds even more.

"My dad told me to give you this." Carl says holding a pill and a glass of water. I sit on the couch as he hands me them. I take the pill and hand the water back to Carl. James goes into the bathroom and shuts the door.

"What happened last night?" I ask Carl as he sits next to me.

"You kinda over did it with the drinks..and.." He says.

What did I do?

"What?" I ask looking at him. He looks down, playing with his thumbs.

"You said you wanted me to kiss you."

I did what!? I froze.

"I-I'm sorry...Carl I di-"

"It's fine. I know you didn't mean it." He says cutting me off.

I don't remember saying that, but I know I did, and I did mean it. I was so close to just telling him.

"Oh.." I say looking at the floor.

"You were too drunk to be able to know what you were saying." He says.

I want to tell him it's true, so freaking badly.

"Yeah.." Is all I say.

"We better go get breakfast." He says. I nod.

James comes out of the bathroom right on time. We all go to the room where we had dinner.

"Hi everyone." I say taking a seat at the table.

"Shhh!" Glenn yells.

"Remind me to never drink again." He says.

We all laugh.

"I want to show you guys something." Jenner says waking in. He goes to his computer thing and pulls up a video on the big screen. We all get up and look at it. It looks like inside a humans head.

"Sissy what is that?" James asks. I shake my head.

"I don't know."

"This is T.S-19. This patient got sick with whatever it was that caused this." Jenner says.

"You mean you don't know?" Shane asks setting his gun down.

"Please let me finish." Jenner says.

"If you look, the patient just died. Everything you ever were is gone."

The brain just went black. I squint my eyes as I notice something begin to sparkle.

"I fast forwarded to when the patient came back. If you look, it only reactivates the brain stem. So the brain is the place to it."

I watch as something goes through it's head.

"You killed her." I say. Jenner nods his head.

"There's no cure."

We all look at him.

"Say what now!?" Daryl yells. I bring James close to me.

"You heard me clearly." He says. Everything was quite.

"Huh Jenner..." Dale says getting our attention.

"I don't mean to bother you with questions, but that clock on the wall...why is it counting down?" He asks. I look at the big clock on the wall. The big red numbers are counting down. What the hell could that be?

"More importantly...what happens when it gets to zero?" Dale asks again.

"The building shuts down."

What!? Shuts down!?

"What do you mean it shuts down?" Rick asks.

"The building is powered by a generator. When the fuel runs out..." He says.

"When the fuel runs out what!?" Daryl yells coming after him but Shane and Rick stop him.

"The system shuts down...causing an explosion."

I look at Carl who looks at me. I hold onto James tightly.

"Guys go and get your bags we are leaving." Rick says.

We all run to the doors. I look back and see Jenner push a button. It all happend in slow motion. The doors begin to shut. I go to run out but the door completely shuts. Cutting off the connection with James and I.

James...he made it over...he's on the other side!

"James!" I scream pounding on the door. James is on the other side, alone, and scared. I turn around to face my group with tears streaming down my face.

"Open the doors! Now! My little brother is on the other side!! Open the Goddamn door now!" I scream. I run to Jenner and hit him.

"Open the fucking doors!! He's alone! He's scared! He needs me! Open the door!" I scream as I continue to hit him. I soon lose my strength and fall to the ground.

"Please!" I cry into my hands. A pair of hands grab my shoulders and bring me up. The same pair of hands wrap around my waist and pull me into a hug. It's Carl. I hold on to him tightly as I cry.

"I can't open the doors." I hear Jenner say. I pull away from Carl and look at Jenner.

"Why not!?" I scream.

"There's no point in living! It's better to go fast and quick then getting ripped apart by one of those!" He screams.

"We still have a chance! Hope! None of us deserve to die like this, without taking a chance! If we make it out there then great, if we don't, so be it! We still took a chance! Now please open the doors, my little brother doesn't deserve this!"

Jenner looks into my eyes then gave in. He presses the button which unlockes the doors. I run to James and pick him up as I hug him. I run to our room and grab everything. We all grabbed our stuff and ran into the lobby.

"Here Rick take it this might work." Carol says handing Rick something. Rick throws it and it explodes making the glass break. We all run out.

I run into the R.V. and take cover. The place is going to blow any second...I was right.

The explosion shaked the ground. Once I knew it was done, James and I went into the pick up we were driving in before. The same people are in the car, Rick, Lori, Carl, James, and I.

I don't know if any of our group stayed behind...all I know is I'm ready to keep moving.