Zombie Apocalypse

Chapter 21: All Or Nothing

~A Month Later~

"Did you learn your lesson yet?" I got off the ground, my legs barely holding me up. He smirked at me, leaving me in the room. You see, I had made a "mistake" of mixing the poisonous berries with the non poisonous berries. They decided to punish me for that, but gave me some mercy. Three days of beating and no food, and isolation. Today is my last day, but I will be released later. While in the mean time, I'll just nap.

~A Few Minutes Later~

"Wake up you bitch!" I jolted awake, instantly grabbing my stomach in pain. I glanced up just to be yanked up by my hair. "Your punishment is over, one more mistake and you know what's going to happen." Still yanking on my hair, he pulled me to where everybody is. "The next time any of you morons fuck up, you're going to end up like her. Or even worse, got it?" Everyone nodded, terrified. He finally let go of my hair and pushed me, making me tumble to the ground.

"Dismiss!"

Everybody dispersed from the room, but Nash and everybody else rushed towards me.

"Oh my god are you ok?"

"Mommy?"

"I'm going to fucking kill him."

"I'll help."

I struggled to get up, but managed,"Guys its going to be ok." "Annabelle look at what this bastard did to you! You're my only family left! This is not "ok" in my book." I smiled faintly at my cousin. I looked around me and notice all the concerned faces of all of my friends, no, my family. "We are escaping tonight."

"What are you crazy? What if we get caught?" I smiled at my boyfriend,"I'll take full responsibility."

Now they really stared at me like I was a wild animal,"Now you really lost it." "I'm serious, Rain. We need to get out of here, its either now or later. And I don't feel like doing it later." They looked at each other, wondering if we should escape now. Cat sighed,"Guess we do need to get out of this place."

I smiled,"Okay so here's the plan."

~Night Time~

Everybody was asleep, how perfect. I woke up Cat and everyone else,"Its time."

They nodded.

We walked towards the doors. From what I remember, they don't lock their doors because they said it was "too complicated" on which key is the right one. I pushed one of the door slightly open, enough for us to get through. I scanned the area, looking for any guards that can be in our way. Spotting none, I signaled them to follow. Once everyone was in hiding, I silently closed the door. "We'll travel in the shadows. This place isn't rich, so no cameras or walkie talkies." I may or may not have stole some stuff from them, but hey, thats how the world is now.

I took out some daggers out, just in case you know? No? Well then. I sneaked around the sleeping bodies that were scattered everywhere. I searched around for a possible exit, finally seeing the little hole that was able to fit a petite girl. Rolling up my sleeves, I began digging. The hole was now big enough for all of us to fit. Silently signaling them over, Rain went first. Now that everybody was on the other side, I began to crawl through. Only to be grabbed. "And where do you think you're going young lady?"

Trying to kick myself me free, and failing miserably, he took a knife out and stab me in the thigh, making me scream in agony. "I wonder where your friends are. Are they through that hole?" I growled at him,"Don't touch them, or I'll-I'll."

"What could you possibly to me? If I must remind you, you're the one who still has a knife in her leg." I winced as he put extra pressure on the wound. "You are nothing, but a pathetic little girl, I should just kill you right now." I screamed out in pain as he added more pain by twisting the knife around. His cackling laugh echoed through the building, everybody was already awake. The people who have children covered their eyes and ears to distract them from the scene thats happening right in front of them.

Abruptly his laughter ended, and some of the pain went away. I looked up and notice Nash punching and kicking at Charles. After he was done thrashing his anger, his knuckles were bloodied and bruised. He carried me back to the hole of freedom and helped me getting through. After both of us was out, people started to flood out the hole. Running to freedom and death. I sat on the ground, slipping in and out of consciousness. Feeling the knife removing from my thigh. "I'm not going to make it guys," I faintly said,"I lost to much blood."

"Stop that bullshit Ann, you can pull through this. All we have to do is tend the would. We have the supplies."

Staring at my concerned cousin,"Don't waste it on me, save it. I'm a lost cause. Just leave me here, I'm pretty sure once they find me they'll put a bullet through my head." "Mommy, don't leave me!" I mustered up a small smile to the little girl,"I'm not leaving you sweetheart, I'm just going on a long vacation." Looking up to see many sad expressions,"Take care of yourselves guys, I'll miss you all." Closing my eyes, surrounding myself in darkness, I finally found that little piece of peace that I was craving.

A/N: 1.1K READS?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I didn't think I'll get this far really. Thank you guys for reading and voting and all that jazz! To be honest, I'm actually really proud of myself. I think I have improved a lot from over the years. And sorry for not updating in like years. I hope this makes you guys happy, and sorry that its short. I wanted it to have a cliffhanger cause yeah. Ok gotta blast! Love ya!