This Is It

Chapter 6: Don't Go Out There

I woke up to Jackson running in and cuddling with me, I pretended like i was sleeping and rolled over and started fake snoring. His contagious laugh filled me with joy, "Stop u piggy!"Jackson said slapping my face lightly. I opened my eyes and his face was red from laughing so hard, "Good morning Jack" I laughed. "Morning sleepy head." he giggled. "wanna go get breakfast?" I asked sitting up. "Yes." he said grabbing my hand and leading me out of the room. We walked down the stairs and down the long hallway to the cafeteria where everyone was at. "Aye! Sweet Tarts sleep well?" asked Bob, "Yep." i smiled. "Hey I need all of you today, Syd, Paige, Mary, and Renee. We need medications for all of us, the cold weather is coming so flu is gonna come. And we need to search more for more survivors because they can't survive for long out there on their own, I'm going to need a car too Paul. Got any in you're hands that won't break down?" I asked. "I got a four door truck?" He asked seeing if it suits my needs. "Perfect, how much gas?" I asked. "3/4 of a tank." He said. "mmhm ok it'll get us somewhere." I said. "someone is intense." Tiffany said. "Yea I need to start cracking down." I said.

Paul was wrapping my forearms and I already had all my supplies set out, I need to go check the truck and get it started. I had my revolver and another pistol on my waist band, I had my cross bow on my back plus my emergency knife in my combat boots. I walked out of the gym doors and then found the truck in a parking space almost right in front of me. I walked to the bed of the truck and threw my cross bow into it. I opened the driver's door and started the truck up, i revved the engine and heard the nice purr of the old ford truck. The memories flowed into my head like the summer rain that just pours down from the sky without any pause in-between the big rain drops.

*I knelt in the bed of the truck as Dylan drove the truck on the dusty back roads, the wind ran through my hair. The air smelt freshly of cut grass, his brown eyes were on my through the side mirror. His face had a beautiful smile across it, his eyes connected with mine and it was like the moment became 5x better. I raised my hands in the air as i smiled filling the joy and the freshness I always had with him, I was a complete different person around him. A better one with him.*

"Hey Mackenzie are we gonna pull out anytime soon?" Renee said. My thoughts snapped back into reality I felt everyone's eyes on me, concern was applied to their faces. "Are you ok?" asked Mary. "Yea sorry just day dreaming." I said forcing a smile onto my face. I never knew what happened to Dylan, I know my family is dead because I had to shoot them myself. But I never found out if Dylan is still out there searching for me, or wondering what my flesh taste like. "Is everyone's weapons in the bed of the truck?" i asked. "Yep, let's get the show on the road." Syd said.

I took the road that went through the suburbs since its the shortest way to the hospital, I'm not going to lie I'm kind of scared to go to the hospital. It's in the city, where there are a lot of the undead. I was looking out the window as i heard Paige yell, "STOP!" so i slammed on the breaks and came face to face with a girl our age that had fear all over her face. The trucks wheels screamed against the cracked pavement. I jumped out of the truck and ran over to the girl with my revolver in my hand. "Help me, Help they're chasing me!" She screamed. Then I saw two men run from in-between two houses with guns in their hands. "Stop right there!" I shouted. They stopped right in their tracks, and then raised their guns at me. "Put the guns down now or ill shoot." i said. "You shoot we kill the passenger in your car." the one guy said. i looked and i saw Paige in shock. "Give us the girl." said the other guy. "why do you need her?" i snapped. "Don't let them take me, please don't." The girl begged. "Put you're gun down or your friend in the passenger seat dies." The guy snapped. "If someone is gonna die it's gonna be me or you." I snapped. "Do you wanna test me?" He snapped. I stood there hesitating to put it down or not. I put down my gun and then put my hands up. "Good girl." He said. "Now we can have both of you." The other guy said walking over to me. I heard two loud gun shots and I stood still in fear and closed my eyes, I opened my eyes and saw both of the men laying on the ground in a puddle of blood. The girl ran over to me and wrapped her arms around me and i hugged back for reassurance, she was trembling in fear. "Thank you so much." she said. "Of course." I said. "Kenzie get in the car now!" Paige yelled. "Why? we can search their bodies." I said. "Those weren't our gun shots. Someone else killed them." Renee said hanging out the window. I spun around and scanned all the houses for any sights of someone, no one was there. "Make room for her." I said. Sydney got in the bed of the truck and the girl sat behind Paige, Paige had a gun pointed at the girl the whole ride. "Hey put the gun down." i said. "We don't know what she is capable of." She said. "I said put it down." I demanded. I looked in the rear view mirror and made eye contact with her, "Whats your name?" I asked. "Jenna." she said. "alright Jenna, I'm Mackenzie, this is Paige, Mary and Renee, Sydney is in the bed of the truck. How old are you?" I asked. "15" She said. "Okay well we need to go get some supplies and then we are going back to our basecamp where you can have your own room, wash up, and eat." I said comforting her. "Thank you guys so much for saving me." Jenna said. "I honestly would've left you." Paige said. "Paige." I said. "What? I was just kidding." Paige laughed. "When we get back to base camp we will train you for what ever your job will be." I said. "Ok." she said.