The Nightmare

Chapter 5: Oliver

After a week of staying at that camp, the group finally decided to try to find a new home. Cody came out of the car for the first time since Tristan's death. "Cody!" Jack yelled happily as Cody pushed his way up to them.

"Hey." Cody said simply. He still felt a horrible grief over Tristan, but managed to get it out of his head enough to do things.

"It's been a while since you've come out of that car, have you still been eating and drinking what we gave you?" Jack asked him.

"Yeah, I have." Cody responded simply.

"Okay. Well we were actually just deciding that it's about time we leave this stupid campsite and go search for a real home." Jack told him. "Do you have any ideas?"

"Well there's lots of places we could go, but I say we try to go to Oliver's house. He has a nice house that we could live in and he could possibly still be alive there." Blake told him.

"That's true, we never checked." Jack responded, having mostly taken lead of the group since Tristan's death he took a moment to decide what they would do. "I do think it's a good idea."

"Yeah me too." Cody told him. "Let's do it. As soon as everyone's ready we leave." After saying that Cody tried to walk away, but Jack grabbed him by the arm to stop him.

"Cody, we're a group. A team. You can't just make big decisions like this." Jack told him. "Even if I do agree."

"Jack..." Cody started while still facing away then turned towards him with a threatening look on his face. "Do you really think that i'm trying to control this? I'm simply trying to make a good choice, unlike the group did last week." He said as he turned and walked away. "Now just go when we're ready to leave." Cody finished as he got into the car.

Diego was sitting right next to him, looking down at the floor of the car. "Diego, you alright?" Cody asked him.

Diego shook his head and looked up, breaking the concentration he had. "Huh? What did you say?" Diego asked him.

"I asked if you were okay." Cody said. "Clearly not."

"I just... I can't stop thinking about Andrew. About how I always treated him badly and then he saved my life. He gave up his own life to save mine..." Diego started to break down again, starting to curl himself up and look down again, crying. "How could he do that!" Diego yelled. "He didn't even like me....!

"That's not true! He loved you, you just didnt always get along well... it's normal." Cody told him. Then suddenly Jack and the others piled into the car and the other vehicles.

"You ready guys?" Jack asked as he got in and took position in the driver's seat.

"Ready as ever." Diego said, wiping the tears off his face and putting on a determined expression. Jack then started the car and drove. They weren't very far from the house, so it didn't take too long to get there. They got out of the small wooded area and got back onto the main road that the trailer park is originally attached to. They then drove down the road and took a left when they got near a gas station known as Casey's. After that they parked in the parking lot next to Oliver's house.

They got out of their cars and started walking towards the house. Cody saw something in the upstairs window move, so he rushed to the door a little faster. He was the first to step up onto the porch of the lovely house. It had a large garage right there attached to the house and then steps leading to the front door to the right of it. It also had some large windows peering into the living room. Its second floor had only one window that could be seen from here, but Cody knew the inside well. It also had an extremely large, open backyard with a small shed-like building, a chicken coop and far in the back was a path into a large forest. Cody approached the front door, then knocked just as he noticed that in the window he could see what looked like zombies chained to the wall in the living room.