Them

Trouble

Chapter Ten:

Trouble

Luis

I couldn't even understand what Jessica was trying to tell me. She had said that she 'might' have found Jerry but also 'might' be in trouble. I groaned and kicked the weak wall behind me causing it to shake. "What do you mean he MIGHT be in trouble." I said a little too loud. J was already pacing in a circle and it made me anxious for the answer even more. I raised my hands in the air to get her attention and I rolled my eyes when she looks up at me and then back to the floor, still pacing.

Fine, if she won't tell me then I'll go down there myself. It took her to hear me go down the first flight of stairs and walk four steps down the next flight for her to realize I left her. "Luis." She calls down from the top of the stairs and goes down the stairs, skipping a step. J stands next to me and struggles to open her mouth to say something.

Fixing her hair so it could be tied up, she breathes heavily and tells me what she had seen on this floor. "I couldn't believe it Luis. There are 10 Beeps at the end of the hallway-- But to the right-- Be careful." J whispered as loud as she could to me as I sprinted down the hallway. I slowed down to a halt when I heard growls and scratching.

"What the hell." I gasped at the amount of Beeps and the idea of trying to kill them all was crazy.

10 vs. 2 Yeah! That seems fair to me! (Sense my sarcasm) I did not know where J was, maybe behind me. I turn my head and see she is doing the most stupidest thing she could do right now.

J was running, her boots making loud thumps, and getting ready for the impact of... the floor?

She starts to skid and then perfectly slides on her right shoulder on the floor, down the hallway she went. Her feet hits the wall that makes the right turn, her bow already drawn and pointed at a Beep. "J, no!" I shout and then cover my mouth when she shoots her arrow.

Screeches and stomping is what made me hide inside one of the rooms on this floor. I can't believe J just did that, she is going to get us killed. I hear more of her bow and arrow action and I swing my knife at the Beep who followed me into the room. I stab it's stomach; it's still not dead. I take out my gun and shoot the next 2 Beeps that scream their way into the room. I finish the other Beep off, it's insides were spilling out and I wanted to throw up. I stabbed it's head and run out of the room and take a right to the hallway filled with Beeps. I shoot one and it lost balance so it falls on top of me. As hard as I tried pushing it off of me, more Beeps piled on top, trying to grab me.

I see an arrow strike in each of the Beeps heads that piled on me and I was finally free. I gasped for air since almost all of it was squeezed out of me. Jessica was fighting the last Beep and was having trouble because all her arrows were in the dead Beeps bodies. "J!" I call out and we make eye contact. I toss my gun to her and before she could hold it right, the Beep threw itself at her and they both collapse on the floor. There was a gun shot but I was afraid that J might have been bitten.

Quickly she kicks the Beep off of her and sprawls herself in a corner. I take the gun out of her hand and slip back into the back pocket of my pants. I pull her up and she steadies herself by placing her hands on my shoulders. All I do is wait for her to get it together. There was a knock on the door named 'Janitor' and my heart was beating fast. Was the knock a sign if it was safe now or to go away?

"It's over... Jerry? You in there?" I asked, mostly to the door.

Feeling stupid, I look at J and she wipes her hands on her jeans then shrugs. We both find ourselves walking up to the door but stop when there was another knock on the door. Jessica puts her arms out and her fingers trembled as they twisted the doors knob and pulled the door wide open. I took my gun out when I saw a body flailing on the floor in the Janitors room. Mops and brooms were covering most of his face, but I saw his body... his infected body.

"Jerry!" Jessica said in relief, glad we found him but I grab her around the waist as she tried to embrace Jerry. "No." I said to her and pulled her back, "He's infected." Jerry's squirms were making me uncomfortable and I didn't know what to do. The bite was on his left arm, his sweaters sleeves were rolled up to reveal it.

He opened his mouth a few times and had finally said a few words, "I. I heard screams. W-Went down stuuurs... They killed the family. And I, trapped. I. Got. Trapped. Beeps, everywhe-" Jessica shushes him and kneels next to him, caressing his hair. "J-" She just kept interrupting us and didn't let us speak. She had her thinking face on and I was afraid what her next stunt would be.

I think all of our stomachs dropped when there was a booming noise at the entrance of the apartment building.

Immediately I scurried to the Janitor's room but was grabbed by my hair and thrown on the floor, landing on my face. I was furiously kicked in the stomach and I coughed crazily. "Stop! Please!" I heard Jessica cry out and I then knew she was being hurt too. My eye sight was blurry but I saw Jessica's body being thrown next to me and she yells when her head collides with the floor.

For a second I thought she was unconscious until I saw her arm stretch out for her bow.

A pair of boots walked to the bow and a hand picked it up. I heard the snap of the bow breaking and the person threw it on the floor for J to see. I could tell she was in rage and wouldn't think twice of killing them but her gun was in her back pack and was taken off of her. We were grabbed by the arms and were forced to sit up against the wall. "Chief, one of them is infected. Do we kill him?" One of the attackers said in a deep voice. I take a look up at who he was talking to. A man, probably 50 years old, had his hands on his hips and stared at me in disgust then at Jerry.

Apparently he made the decisions in his group and was depended on. When he nods yes, Jessica goes all out and yells like never before, "NO! HE'S NOT INFECTED!"

"You bastards think we're stupid? We know how infected people look like!" The chief yelled back and kicked Jessica's leg. I stutter and give up to say anything because I knew he wouldn't want to listen. All he wanted to do was kill us and steal our things. I've seen this happen before when J and I went hunting for supplies out of the Quarantine sometimes. We never made it this far before and it's a shame that we are going to die now because of these shits.

They were a group of 5 men, the chief gave orders to his group that I couldn't hear. Two of the men pointed their guns at Jerry and the other two pointed their guns at J and I.

This is the end I guess. I won't have time to say my good byes to Jessica and Jerry. He was laid down on the ground, still squirming and twitching. Jessica had tears rolling down her cheek but she didn't burst out sobbing. Me, I just used all the strength I had left and stuck my middle fingers up at the sons of bitches.

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