Life's Test

Chapter Nineteen - Falls Creek

DAVID'S P.O.V
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     The warmth of Ashers lips pressed softly against mine sends shivers down my spine, making me ark into him and moan a little, before I let Asher slip his tongue into my mouth, the sound of a little bell cuts us off, making us separate and spin around looking into the darkness.

     The noiseless sound of feet shuffling around the stop makes my heart slow, I take my gun out of its holster and turn the safety off, turning in a small circle with my flashlight looking around, spotting an Infected trapped behind the counter, I whistle to get Asher's attention, nodding towards the middle aged man, who has half his face ripped apart.

     We make our way over towards the Infected who is now aroused from our presence, Asher opens up the little door for the Infected to exit from behind his counter, it waists no time, moving swiftly towards Asher.

     I run up behind the Infected and drive my knife at an upward angle, placing my blade deep inside the back of the Infected's head, removing my knife before it falls with the body.

     "I need to get new clothes too, you should get new pants" I say motioning towards the worn denim jeans. Asher nods and we both take off towards the men's isle. 

     I end up grabbing a black tee, a red and black plaid button up with a gray hood, black skinny jeans, and some high tops. I change in the middle of the store, not caring if Asher sees.

     I roll the sleeves up and buckle my weapons onto my new jeans and walk over to the tall mirror, wiping it down with my old shirt, smiling at my appearance. Other then the bags under my eyes and greasy hair I look nice. I turn around to come face to face with Asher, who is wearing a long sleeve shirt, the arms red and the rest white, and some dark blue skinny jeans. Asher smiles as he looks at me from head to toe, plastering the very hot grin on his face.

     "You like what you see?" I laugh making fun of him from earlier. He nods and cups my face, connecting our lips. This time I don't think I just close my eyes and kiss back, enjoying this moment.

     Me and Asher make our way to the pharmacy area without trouble, we grab a hand held basket and we head directly towards the hygiene section. I don't really think it over but the smell of body odor has gotten to be to much, so I shove a shit ton of axe preponderant into my basket, grabbing a few sticks for the girls. I grab a bottle of shampoo and body wash just in case we come across a pond or something.

     As I'm making my way out of the section something catches my eye, I stop and look to my left, blushing when I see boxes of condoms. I start to walk away but stop. I grab the biggest box I can and bury them under the deodorant.

     I grab some other basic things like toothpaste and tooth brushes and meet Asher at the front of the store. He has his basket filled with food and water bottles, I grin when I spot a chocolate bar on the top of the pile; "You best share that bar" I say smiling, walking over to the stand by the counter, grabbing two packs of um for everyone in the group.

     Me and Asher were about to head to the store on the other side of the mall when three rapid gunshots echo throughout the mall, me and Asher look at each other before taking off in a mad sprint towards the sound.

     Four more shots go off before we turn the corner to see about a dozen more Infected heading towards a shaky Steven who is backed up against the corner.

     I drop my basket and take out my Beretta M9, i turn the safety off and run up to the closest Infected, pressing the barrel of the gun to it's head. I pull the trigger and control the recoil, watching as the Infected falls forward and to the ground.

     About half of the Infected take note of me and try for me, whatever flesh bag got closer, is the one to die, one after another. After killing about four, Asher starts to help out, bullet number one missed the Infected he was aiming for, and instead found a home inside a store display window, shattering it into millions of tiny pieces. The second bullet hits home. I watch as Asher's face lights up, and his confidence builds, he hits one Infected after another until there is none left.

     Steven walks towards us and wraps his arms around us; "Thank you" Steven says in between us.

     "What the hell happened here?" I listen as Lachlan comes up behind us, everyone else in tow. "I was in the store, and they just.. They came out of nowhere" Steven explains. Lachlan just nods before speaking up again, telling us we should leave before anymore Infected make their appearance.

     As we go to walk down the stairs to the main door, a loud bang catches our attention before we hear the real threat. The door to the cinema is now wide opened, and the massive herd inside is now piling into the main area, we all start to panic and turn around, only to be met by another handful, maybe from another part of the mall.

     "We need to fight through!" Alec screams from the back, just as he fires into the crowd behind us. The lobby area is already about full with Infected, maybe four dozen or so, behind us isn't as pretty. I grind my teeth before take out my gun, sprinting down the stairs and into the herd, kicking and punching my way through, firing at anything that gets to close.

     Everyone else gets behind me, keeping the Infected away from us. The gunshots are so loud, making my ears ring wildly. The Infected start to become to much to handle, and just as we're about to get completely closed in and killed, a loud voice booms; "GET DOWN!" 

     I don't think on it, I just drop to the ground, everyone else copies me, just before loud machine guns start to fire, it sounds like an entire army firing into the pool of dead. I watch in anticipation as bodies fall to the ground all around me. After several seconds the shots become silent, and the sounds of heavy boots grabs my attention.

     I look up to see about six people dressed in casual clothes, with big guns. Very big guns. We all stand up and look at the people who wear the biggest grins I've ever seen.

     "Thank you, but if you don't mind us asking, who are you guys?" Lachlan asks, hand gripped tightly around his gun just in case.

     "My name is Donald, you can call me Donnie, were from a community about a five minute drive from here called Falls Creek, we'd like to take you to our leader Grant, he'll decide if you should stay." The tall muscular man finises and looks over all of our faces, laughing at our blank expressions.

     "Well don't all speak at once!" Donnie laughs. "Fine, we'll go have a look, but if you try anything, and I mean anything, you'll be the ones to regret it." Lachlan says, Donnie just smiles and makes his way towards the door, his people and ours in tow.

     I pick up our basket and entwine my hand with Asher's we walk out the door into the bright sunlight.

     Hope.