Days Gone By

Day 4

Rose's P.O.V

Jade and I walk for about 40 minutes to get to my work, we don't see anyone but the further we get into town the nastier the streets look. There are cars lined up on either side of the street. Take away a few splatters of blood inside the cars and the odd flipped car and the street would look perfectly normal.

As we approach the store, we see that it looks in perfect condition. The closer we get, however, Jade and I realise that my colleague Larissa is fighting off three figures.

I start sprinting towards the store, banging on the doors once I get there. The door doesn't budge and I lean back, lifting my foot to kick the door. After three or four kicks, the glass shatters and Jade and I push the lighter showcase out of the way before I rush in and slide one of the butcher knives out of my boot, sliding it into the back of the closest things head, watching it drop as I dodge and slide my knife into the left eye of one of the others just as Jade knocks the third over and stomps on its head, it takes a bit but eventually her boot crushes through the skull and into the brain, making a dark red mush coat the sole of her shoes.

"Oh, gross." Jade gags as she tries to shake the goop off of her prized nikes that I got her for Christmas.

"Yeah.. It only gets worse. Hey, thank you for that." Larissa looks at me and smiles before I pull her into a hug, feeling her shake.

"No worries. Let's get cleaned up and board the door back up.." I half smile before we all drag out a body each, leaving them on the other side of the road before we walk back in and board up the windows by breaking up empty shelves and using the wood, some hammers and nails, found in the hardware section, to board them up.

Jade and I then drape curtains over the nails high up, covering the windows with another layer of coverage whilst Larissa finds three single mattresses and we help drag them over to the back of the store, near the storage room.

We then go back to the bedding section and pick out our own coloured bed sheets and blankets so we know whose bed is who's. I pick black, Larissa picks purple and Jade picks blue.

We each put the sheets over our beds and lay the blankets down with a fluffy pillow each. We then find a portable fire pit and the girls look around for some meat that will go off within the next few days as I break apart some wood from the shelf with an axe I found in the hardware section, once I was done I walked to the fire pit and put some wood in it, using some crumpled up newspaper and a lighter I get the fire going, the newspaper creating enough flame to ignite the wood.

The girls walk back over with some steak and I leave the cooking to them, getting up to find some bottled water. I walk down the aisles, looking over the cashiers.

Shaking my head I walk down to the water, picking up three 2litre bottles before I walk back, resting one beside each of our beds. I then walk over to the hardware section and look over the camping tools and hunting essentials.

I pick up a crossbow and an arrow, resting it on the toe of my boot as I place the arrow in its socket, pulling the string back and sliding it into place, I then pull it up to eye-level, looking through the scope at the end of the aisle, which just so happens to be a LifeSize cutout of a family, promoting the new Milo cereal.

I aim in at the fathers head and let out a deep breath before my finger pulls the trigger, the loaded arrow shooting out in front of me, causing me to take a step back and within a second, the arrow protrudes from the wall behind the family cutout, a hole through the fathers forehead.

"I guess being the only girl camping with dad did me a few favours.." I smirk and grab 3 more arrows, slipping them into their holding slots at the front of the bow, giving me easy access if need be. I then reload the crossbow with another plain black arrow, grabbing a full quiver incase I need more arrows.

"Talking to yourself again?" I quickly look up, calming down at the sight of Jade smiling at me.

"Who knew hunting a few rabbits would prepare you for the end of the world?" I smirk and we laugh quietly before I usher her over, motioning to the wall.

"You're gonna need to protect yourself.. You always came hunting with us. You're a good skinner. Would you be more comfortable with a hunting knife?" I watch as she nods and picks up quite a large knife that's got a smooth side and a serrated side.

Smiling, she then grabs a specially made belt for holding all sizes of knives, wrapping it around her hips, weaving it through her belt buckles before she slips the knife into its holster.

"Reckon I'd hit anything with these?" The questions as she picks up a 12 pack of small, very sharp, throwing knives.

I nod and look behind us. "Larissa?" I look back at Jade and she shrugs.

"She said she was okay with cooking and for me to find you." She grabs another pack of throwing knives, another belt, knife and an axe.

"She should find one of these of use." Jade mutters before we walk back down the aisles to Larissa. By then I've weaved my very own belt through my jean buckles, a matching hunting knife handle protruding from its socket.

Once we get back, Larissa has the food cooked and I look down at my black and blue G-shock, seeing it's only 4:30pm.

"Smells delicious." Jade hums as she sets the weapons down on the end of Larissa's bed, I watch as I sit down and Larissa looks through them, choosing to slip the belt on, a hunting knife and she leaves the throwing knives for Jade.

General P.O.V

As they eat dinner they share their stories, the girls go first as their story is shorter. Larissa then tells the girls how she woke up early and went to work. She hadn't opened up the shop before the cop cars were rounding up groups of drunks that ended up having an all out riot and she hid in the storage room for a few hours until she heard someone calling for help and knocking on the windows.

She opened up for her and her two male friends and they sat down with them and fed them before taking a nap and waking up to the two guys turning a few minutes apart and digging into the girl, changing her within minutes and they all attacked Larissa.

Rose's P.O.V

"And that's when you turned up.." Larissa looks at either of us and I nod softly, thankful that we showed up when we did.

After dinner the girls turn in for the night, whilst I enforce the barricades around the whole store. I spend about half an hour boarding up the windows before I myself lay down, I close my eyes and near 10 minutes later I've fallen asleep.

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Hope you're having a good day/night :) x

~TheUnicorn