Running Alive

Chapter 2.7

Luke's POV:

Ghiel and I went back getting supplies since the guns and ammos are on us. "I can't believe that happened very fast." She was talking about Niall. "That's destiny." I said. She wrinkled her eyebrows at me and said, "Destiny? No it's not Luke! We already lost three of our members and you call it destiny? What's wrong with you?" I softly spoke, "If we keep arguing , it will." For sure she heard me. "How can you be so sure?" She spoke with a hint of irritation. Ouch. I began to explain, "As you can see, all of us argues about petty stuff. Just like what we're doing right now." "Okay you know what! This is useless. So let's just stop this shit and find what we're finding!" She said in an angry tone.

I'm trying to hold back my sadness for what she did. I pulled her into a hug and said, "Please don't be like this. You're always getting mad at me. What did I do wrong? I'm getting hurt every time you're doing this." and my tears fell down. I can't hold back anymore. This girl is the most important person to me. And ... I have... Feelings for her... I snapped back to reality and realized she was hugging me very tight. She spoke, "I... Just love you..." I hugged her back but she continued, "... All"

I was expecting too much. I... I thought... She felt the same... I quickly pulled away and wiped the tears on my face. "Let's go back to supply hunting, shall we?" I said in an unexpected cold manner. Gosh, I didn't mean to do that! She looked at me with sad eyes and then she completely turned away. But before she continued walking to the gun shop, she said, "If you only know how much all of you mean to me. Especially you." Then she kicked the door of the shop and took every gun and ammo we need. "What?" I said as I went inside of the torn down shop.

What did she say? I'm not deaf but what? She quickly went to me, looked me in the eyes and kissed me on the lips. That surprised me a lot. She pulled away after three seconds, "Luke, I love you okay?! Right from the very start! You're like my world! I just can't show it because we will never know what will happen! I don't want to lose you!" she confessed to me. My heart was filled with a lot of emotions right now. "Ghiel I--" was all I can say. I stood up straight and I went to her. I cupped her face with my hands and said, "I'll always be here. I won't leave you." She smiled at me with a tear going down on her cheeks. I wiped it off and told her to continue our supply hunt. While we were returning to the van, I noticed two figures of people from afar. I shook my head and then it was gone. Did I just see something or I was just tired?

Connor's POV:

I'm staying at the van together with Joyce and Louis. We were waiting for the others to come back. I was a bit sleepy when I heard a growl. I looked around and I saw Niall's corpse crawling towards us. In a flash, it got Joyce's foot and was pulling her. I panicked but then I saw Louis who was the nearest to her. I ushered him to help her, instead, he ran away to the woods.

"Louis! Damn it!" I cussed and then pulled myself together. "Connor, help me!" She was screaming and resisting the eater's grip. No no no, I can't let her be one of them. I pointed my gun at the eater and the eater instantly went down to the ground. She hurriedly got up and got behind me. "Is it dead?" she asked with a shaky voice. "Yeah." I let out a huge sigh of relief. Thank goodness she's okay.

A few minutes later, I saw Louis with the others going here. My blood boiled as I saw him running towards us. "I told them that--" I didn't let him finish and just straight punched him on the face. He was knocked back a bit. Everyone has a shocked expression. "The eater almost had her, Lou! I asked for your help! What did you do?! You ignored me and ran away!" I shouted at him furiously. He just looked at me and bowed his head for a bit. "I'm sorry, Con." He said. I tried to calm myself down and rested for a bit.

Lou went to Liam, Alyssa, and Ashton. They talked about something... I can read their mouths saying "Next time... I'm sure we'll... Let's wait..." It's kinda suspicious. What do they mean about next time? What do they mean about waiting for something? I shrugged it off because maybe I was just tired that's why I'm thinking a lot...

Ghiel's POV:

I am just blankly staring at nothing. I was thinking about what I did to Luke. I was being harsh on him this past few days. I'm guilty about that. You can't blame me for that. When I love someone, I'd do anything. I care about my group. They trusted me to lead them through this. I'd never break that trust.

I rummaged through the supplies we gathered and I found the walkie talkie I saw. I immediately showed them and said, "I found this and well, I'm not clearly sure it is still functioning." I opened the back cover and it needed 4 batteries. "Try these batteries. I got them from the chamber of those bastards." Zayn said and handed it to me. I noticed that it was already eight in the evening according to my watch. I told them that we'd try this out tomorrow. Then they went to sleep. Except for me.

While they were sleeping soundly, I tried if the talkie works. I inserted the batteries and there was a static sound. I smiled to myself because we would need this for help. Just then someone spoke in a dangerous tone, "Hello..."
I was very shocked. I whispered tom myself, "What the?"

I carefully went outside of the van and talked to the person on the talkie, "Who is this?" There was a short static pause and then the person spoke, "Listen to me carefully, I know where you are. You're all gonna pay for what you did to me." Who could this be? And he said he knows where I am. I stayed silent and let the guy speak. "Anything can happen tonight, Ghiel." he said. Gosh, he knows my name! I'm very nervous now. I'm shaking like crazy because I don't know what will happen. "Guess what? Something is gonna happen tonight. This very hour."

Holy carap! I have to tell the others! I was about to open the door when someone covered my mouth and nose. I tried to punch whoever this guy is but then I started to get weak. My vision is getting blurry, my head is spinning like crazy and I don't have the strength to fight off the I intruder. That's where the talkie on my hand dropped and I blacked out.

The next morning...

Ashton's POV:

I was the first to wake up. I stretched for a bit and then I looked around. Then it hit me. Ghiel was not around! The last time I saw her was she was beside Luke last night. She was not outside either. I know Ghiel. Sh won't wander off by herself. She'd wake someone up just so someone would know where she is. I saw Alyssa getting up and I quickly told her, "Alyssa, Ghiel is not here! I don't know where she is!" I told her in a whispering manner. Her eyes widened and said, "What the fuck!? We have to tell them! Quick let's wake them up."

I waked up Julia and Luke while Alyssa did the others. Luke scratched his head and said, "What is it, Ash?" with a groggy voice. Julia said the same thing. "Its Ghiel. She's nowhere to be found." I said as calm as possible. "What?" Julia's eyes widened. "She wouldn't just wander around without telling anybody. The thing is nobody knows where she is." Alyssa said. "Whoo. Okay everybody let's get out of the van and talk about this." Julia said.

We went out and Zayn said, "Guys, look!" We went to him. "It's the talkie she found." He said. He handed it over to Luke. "Why would it be out here?" Michael said. Luke spoke, "She said she'd try this, right?" Just then the talkie made a static sound that surprised us. Then someone spoke, "... Rise and shine lads!..." We all looked at each other. Luke answered, "Who is this?!.." There was a pause then the man spoke again, "You've forgotten me already?" then he laughed. Luke is very angry. Then someone spoke in the talkie, "Luke? Everybody? Please... S-save me... I..." Then the other line was cut. "Ghiel? Ghiel!! Please don't hurt her!" He begged. The guy wouldn't speak anymore. There was another pause again and this time it took a few minutes. Then the man spoke, "I'm not gonna hurt her. There's an ocean of dead between you, me and her. If you want her back, you're gonna have to find us. Find the building named 'Exentrix' Good luck finding us." Then again he laughed.

Liam, Alyssa, and Louis called me in a separate group. I looked at the others then went to them. Louis whispered to us, "Alright our plan is working. They should be able to try to find Ghiel." "Nice acting skills Ash and Alyssa. They easily fell for it." Liam said. Liam is the one who called the backups who kidnapped Ghiel. Then he told me and Alyssa to act it out. Louis also knew it. I hope James is happy of what we did.

Then Michael was staring very suspicious at us. "Guys let's go to them. Michael is having suspicions about us. So we can't do this often okay." Louis said. Then we went back to them. I avoided Michael's eyes and acted smooth. We're really hoping no one notices us.