The Apocalypse

Xia & Leon

We trudged through the garbage and weaved in and out, between crashed and destroyed cars. A heavy amount of black smoke filled the air. Everything was ruined.
'Nightfalls approaching' I told them.
'Well I don't know about you two but I definitely need somewhere to rest' Poppy responded.
Caleb jumped up onto one of the battered cars and searched around.
'This place is empty, besides I don't think we're going to find safe shelter anywhere'
Caleb turned to us and shrugged his shoulders in despair.
'Errm Caleb'
'What?'
There was a red laser pointing at his forehead. He froze. My eyes followed the light, it led to a boy our age, tanned in skin colour with dark brown curly hair, he had a sniper rifle with a laser attachment aimed at Caleb.
'Emily' I quickly turned my head around to see a pale girl with black hair, a bandana wrapped around her forehead, stripes of paint under her dark eyes and a knife to Poppy's neck.
'Woah woah woah, let's talk about this for a second' I stressed.
'Who are you?' The girl asked threateningly.
'I - Im Emily'  I stammered. ' and this is Poppy and Caleb'.
She raised her eyebrows at me, ushering me to continue.
'W-we don't mean any harm, you see we've only just managed to get out of our school'
They both laughed. My heart beat began to rise rapidly.
'With no weapons or any type of self defence, pathetic' The boy commented.
Caleb groaned with anger.
'Caleb please calm down' I said.
All of a sudden the stranger let go of Poppy and pushed her towards me, her maroon hair all over her face. The other lowered his gun.
'Who are you?'
'Ugh fine since you don't seem too bad, I'm Xia and this here this is Leon my er' she took a huge gulp 'Bestfriend'.
'Slash Boyfriend' he smiled.
'Whatever' Xia rolled her eyes.
'Could you possibly help us?' -Poppy.
'Depends' Xia replied.
'We kinda need shelter before nightfall'
'We'll help if you show us what's in there' she used her knife to point to my backpack.
Doing what she said, I zipped it open.
'WOAH!' Leon exclaimed, stepping back and raising his gun at us. I dropped my bag and immediately put my hands in the air.
'Where did you get all this' Xia asked crouching down, pulling out and examining each knife one by one.
'Our school kitchen' I panicked.
She picked my bag up and slung it over her own shoulder.
'Woah wait a minute' I stopped her. ' you can't have that'.
'You want shelter or not?'
'Food included?' Caleb sounded curious.
'Yeah I'm sure we have some rations to share' Leon grinned proudly.
'Cmon Emily, they have food' Caleb pleaded. 'I'm starving'
'But then we definitely won't have any form of self defence' I complained.
'These would never have been of much help anyway' Xia walked off.
'Don't worry Emily, we will just find something else' Poppy attempted to reassure me.
'FINE' we began to follow our two new 'acquaintances'.