There Once Was Life

Chapter 11

I awake to see Dylan crying by his self,he is sitting with his palms covering his eyes,and his legs up to his chest. I silently get up and walk over to him,as I sit he just keeps there. I sit there with my legs crossed,and hands in lap. Finally I ask,"what's wrong Dylan"? He shakes his head,then leans on me. I hug him,trying to comfort him,he soon pulls away and wipes away the tears left. I look at him with a comfortable look. I.."I was walking around this morning and found a little kid,crying just crying for his sister". His sister was laying in front of him dead. This little kid was Sam's age,and was just yelling,crying her name. "I tried to bring him with me,but a zombie came up behind him and killed him". And it's so sad because I thought of Sam losing you,and I though I'll go through Hell and back to keep you alive. "I will try my best to keep you alive for him,I swear",he finishes. I am about to cry when he kisses me,his slow,soft kiss makes me think of nothing but him.

We pack up after breakfast and start to walk towards the raider camp. We camped a mile away,and we start our walk. "You know a mile is longer then you would think",Thomas says lightly. I chuckle,yeah on a car it's like five minutes,while on foot it's like thirty to an hour,I say. That gets everyone laughing,"man what I would give for a truck right now",Gale says. Woo,dude no a Ferrari,Dylan says. Nah,I'm a type of guy that likes trucks,Gale says. What?! Your one of those guys? Me and Thomas say at the same time. We look at each other and laugh,and Thomas says jinx and punches me. After a while we arrived with guns in hands ready to fight,but see no one. "Could they be inside"? Gale asks. For some reason I don't think there here at all,I say. Dylan looks behind us and says,"call Romania". I do and she picks up,"they aren't here",I tell her. What? Where could they be,she asks. "I don't know,but this doesn't feel right",I say. Okay,head back,she says.

We are a half a mile from the Safe Zone when we hear screaming,and see the whole city on fire. Everyone stops dead,with their mouths open. Dylan is the first to start running then the rest do. The gate is busted open,and we run through. As I run through the city I look at it,it's all on fire there are screaming kids and woman everywhere. Men are fighting raiders,and I realize the raiders already attacked. I arrive at the hospital,it's also on fire. But I run in it,Dylan trys to yell after me but I don't listen. I go up the stairs,a emergency door is closed it's wooden so I backup and bust it open by running through it. The smoke is so thick up here I can only see the glow of the fires that are in different places. Gale,Dylan and Thomas have followed me up,we hear coughing and I tell them to get as many people as they can out of the building. I run for what I think is Sam's room,but it's a little girls room,she is crying and I frustratingly pick her up and run her outside. Then I run back up to get Sam. I enter the right room this time and see Sam's limp body laying cuffed to his bed. I cover my mouth to not scream but I do. Why?! Why God,why him he's so good and pure,why not me instead! I yell as I look at the roof,trying to get an answer from him. I take my gun and bust off the cuffs,and pick him up. I am crying as I come out and lay him gently on my lap. I push his face up to mine and say,"I'm so sorry Sam I tried". "The thing I wish I did do to momma and daddy,is when I wanted to move out and live with my friends". We got in a fight and I never said sorry,that's what I wish I did,I wish I said sorry.

Dylan and everyone else are still getting kids out of the burning hospital. I am sitting with Sam,as I see a shadow come over me,I turn around and see Hayes standing there. He looks at me and says,"it's such a shame that I did it,I killed him Ali,and he suffered",he says as he smiles. I slowly get up and say,I will kill you. I pull out my knife instead of my gun,and I'll make sure you'll suffer,I say. I run after him and strike him on the eye again,and it's deep. He laughs,"sorry but is that all you can do"? He punches me in the stomach and then tackles me,and gets on top of me. I try to push him off but he just sits there laughing. He takes a knife and slowly slides it across my collarbone,he makes it deep and painful but I refuse to scream out. "Does that hurt"? I look at him and don't answer. He punches me in the mouth with the back of his gun and yells,"does it hurt"! My mouth is bleeding and I look at him,as I spit right in his face,and say "Go To Hell"! If I do your coming with me,he says. He pulls the knife to my eye but takes it away,I could use a girl to play with,he says and pulls me to my feet. As he does I grab the knife from his hand and stabs him right in the gut,then in the chest. He falls backwards and lays on the ground trying to breath,I get on top from him and asks,"does it hurt"? Fuck you,he barely says. I smile and stabs him in the heart.

My eyes widen as I have never killed a person like that and it's horrible. I fall off of him in a hurry to get off of him and lay there on my back. My infected bite is burning,as my mouth just has dry blood all down my chin and lips,and my collarbone is deep,painful and bleeding uncontrollably. Maybe I'll die...maybe I'll be out of his hell hole,maybe at peace.