Chapter 2:
Name: Bex. Well, I guess I could always change it, now.
Yea yea, I'm guessing you have found out a bit from L. There's more to know though. As you should know, there aren't many remaining cities. Everyone now, including babies, have lost at least all of their loved ones.
It was 10 years from today that this whole world changed. There isn't much to survive off of. I mean, come on, we're killing zombies for a living. I was about 4-5 ish, when everything went from perfect to horrible. You wouldn't believe how fast zombies can take over the world.
I guess I should have stopped saying that the movies were fake and that it would never happen. Now, I wish life was like Warm Bodies, change the zombies back to human, with love. I wonder if we'll ever live happy again.
Cities are the only safe place. That's why we need to get there.
Ash, L, and Bex.
*Present time in a dream*
"Bex! Come here!" My brother Drew yelled laughing. This is one of the only times that I would smile in my sleep. The only real, loving, memories I have.
I'm standing in a field at the age of 6. Smiling at my loving family playing soccer and skate boarding. Drew wants to teach me something. Something I'll need to use in the future. As I walk over to him, I take a quick glance at the woods next to us.
"Are we going in there?" I point to the woods. Not only did I love nature, but finding wild fruit that was good to eat, my perfection.
I ran towards the woods and Drew threw me in a tree. Learning how to climb. This should be easy. I'm a fast learner.
My dream skips past a few moments and goes straight to the day I almost lost them.
"Mom! Dad! Watch it!" I scream in Drew's arms.
My parents, Tod and Julie, they were amazing, but they only cared about the zombies now. I watched them sprint and kill the zombies. I watched them die.
"Bex, stop it! they're gone now. They're gone!" My other big brother said holding back the tears.
Drew being 18, Max being 17, and myself at 15. Lost is what I was.
I wake up brushing my blue bangs out of my face. I look at L. Sleeping. I look at Ash, still awake.
"Ash, you need to sleep. I know you guys don't really want me on watch because I'm the youngest, but you do need sleep I got the watch. Please." I place a hand on her shoulder and rub my eye. She doesn't really like to sleep, she'd rather stay on watch.
"Fine." She yawned. She moved out of her spot being careful that she didn't wake L up.
Ash finally got to sleep. I'm sitting here trying to keep a positive attitude. We can win this war. I hope. I look around and see a few people walking towards the balcony. I stand up with a gun ready to shoot.
"Who are you?" I whisper to myself They clearly see me and bring a gun up.
I look around them and spot a few zombies. Damn it. I shoot them, waking L and Ash up. They walk to the edge of the balcony. I pass out.
*Flash back*
"Bex! We don't have time for your shit! We need to go!" Max yells. We are staying in some random hotel, but the Z's have found us.
"You know what? Max I don't care anymore! I want them to take me." I cried sitting down on the cold, hard tiled floor. I look at both brothers, tears in their eyes immediately after I said such a stupid thing.
"Bex, I will never let them touch you. I promise. You're our little sister, we want you to live." Drew said walking over to me. He picked me up and threw me over his shoulder.
Max already outside. Screaming for help from Drew, was under attack. Drew set me down and told me to run until I found Liam's family, a close friend of his. I ran, I obeyed Drew's orders. I got to L, Liam's little sister. Out of breath I start to cry.
"Drew gone?" L asked. Liam was nowhere I could see. I looked at L and fell to the ground.
"He's helping Max. He told me to find Liam and his family. Where is Liam?" I asked. I was so scared. What if I never see my brothers again? This honestly kills me, just thinking about them being zombies and me having to kill them. I never want to see them as zombies.
L looks at the city from her window. It's an abandoned house, but I think we need to move or they will find us. I hate using the word zombies so I usally call them Z's, I think L picked up on that as soon as I said it.
"Liam, isn't coming back. He left.
*Present day, on balcony*
"Bex?" L asked worried. They were surrounding me. L, Ash, and the people from the street. I looked at them confused and got up. This shouldn't have happened I have been killing Z's for a while now.
I walk into the abandoned house and walked to a room. My room. I sat on the bed and grabbed the picture in my back pocket. Instead of wearing the blue skinny jeans and blue shirt that I wore the day I found L. I was now wearing Black skinny jeans and a black and white shirt.
"Bex, you'll be fine. Just rest. Good job child." Ash threw a blanket on me. I tried to fall asleep, but I couldn't shake the horrifying image of not seeing my brothers. I haven't seen them in a whole year. Are they even a live yet?
I lay there staring at my brothers' picture. mumbling to myself a little bit. On how stupid I was to leave them. This shouldn't have been how the world will end, because it will end soon. Not now but soon. In a couple of years maybe, I still can't believe that this is happening to us. I still want a Z to come and take me.
"L, As, come here." I say as they walk past my room. I need to ask them something. The one thing that's on my mind. I just need to know an answer.
"Yeah?" The girls say in unison. I take a deep breath not wanting to hear myself say this.
"Do you think that we could ever change the Z's back to human?" I look at them with curiosity. They exchange looks. I'm guessing it's not the answer I want to hear.
"Honestly, Bex, we have no clue. It;'s not like Warm Bodies. Love won't change them. The only thing we can wish for is that our brothers and sisters are still alive out there in the world fighting to get back to us." Ash comes and sits on the edge of my bed. She is the strongest as where I am the weakest chain. If they had to lose someone, they would throw me out I bet.
"Okay. Ash, why do you guys keep me with you? I'm the weakest and I just slow things down. Why?" I ask more questions then necessary. I just want to figure things out.
*Flashback*
L and I have been searching for days. Trying to find her friend Ash. I'm hungry and keep slowing L down. I honestly think she's about to feed me to the zombies. This will be an adventure that I don't want to be living right now.
"L, I'll never see Max and Drew again will I?" I ask running to catch up to her fast walk.
"I don't know Bex." She kept walking straight ahead.
I realized then. I'll never see my brothers again. Maybe.
*Present day*
"I'm never going to see them again." I cry, because it's the truth. And the truth hurts.
-Jasmine
