Heathens

0.8

"Oh my god. Kyle, that is you!" She pulled me up and hugged me. I hugged her back since she smelled like home. I recognized the accent and I wanted to cry.

"Jess." I whispered and held her tighter. She was my step sister but I loved her dearly and as my own sister.

"Yeah." She hugged me tighter also and then someone called out.

"Jess, we don't have time for this." And she gave them the middle finger as we got up and walked to them as my team followed. We were glad they shot him in the head at least. Spare us the trouble of cutting it off.

"Oh Lord knows I have so much to fùckin' tell ya." She waved the guys down and we kept walking.

"Guys, this is the little shit I've been telling you guys about." She laughed and everyone shook my hand. That's when I saw someone I hoped to never see again.

"Kyle? Kyle Walker is that you?" Marie asked and I nodded. She lost a lot of weight (and I mean a lot) and shook my hand. Might I say she looked... Hot.

"H-hi." Was all I can manage and we continued to walk. She walked beside me and shook her head.

"Oh man, it feels good to see you." She said and side ways hugged me. I laughed and nodded.

"Umm.. yeah, I guess." I scratched the back of my head.

"So where's... Paige?" She asked quickly and I shrugged. Of course she'd bring up Paige. Why is she acting like this suddenly? Wasn't too long ago she was acting like I was the Anti-Christ.

"I... I don't know. We got separated a few days ago. We tried to pick up on her trail but she disappeared suddenly, so since then I.. yeah." I whispered then laughed quietly.

"But that's life! Nothing good lasts forever." I continued and so Marie rubbed my back.

"There's always a silver lining." She said and walked off to a building with other girls.

"Hey girls!" I heard her yell as we walked faster.

"She seems interested in you." Jess laughed and I shrugged. I looked at her and smiled.

"So this... Paige girl. Is she the one you always go see? Like she lived across town and you'd take the bus just to see her. Even if it was for a few minutes." Jess asked and I nodded.

"Yeah, of course. Wouldn't have it any other way." I replied. Then she stopped me. We walked about half a mile, basically five minutes.

"Here's our place. Well my apartment. I knew I had people I cared about left, so I asked if I could have a building to myself. I had hope I'd see you again." She smiled and I hugged her.

"There's three floors and a basement, two flats on each floor. I got the basement, and well you guys can choose what flat you guys get. Don't worry we cleared it all out." She called at us and we nodded. We went inside and chose our places.

Vic got 3rd floor. Alec and Adrien got 2nd. Eric got first, while I shared basement with my sister. I told them Eric would move across from Vic when we find Paige. Then her and I will either share a floor or apartment. While we got our van in front of our apartments, we unloaded the beds and drove to the furniture store. In this case we got to choose whatever we wanted. I noticed there was a lot of soldiers, but I think they live in houses. Since before the apartments there was a few big and nice houses. Along with a market. It was something out of the movies. A little town in the apocalypse trying to live, and there's always something on the other side. Except this is real and no movie or book. I shook my head as we loaded my stuff out. It took us a day and a half to get everyone settled in. We had to visit three furniture stores just to get the proper things. Marie even helped out. She helped make up Paige's apartment and we made it cool. Painted her bedroom a navy blue, and I made sure we made everything a dream bedroom. We did it first anyways since I sort of may have ordered we did.

Tomorrow is the day we start work. Alec and Adrien start off in training and basically got to see action up in front. Vic is put on patrol, while Eric's in the kitchen. I knew he couldn't cook, so I told them and he was only put as the dishwasher. Me? I was put as guns master. As in I delt with guns, and put to trade with them. Like a store, I sort of own a store for guns since we had a lot now. I didn't know we would get treated with such superior, but I guess that's what I get when my sister happens to be married to the guy in charge. Was he a bad guy? No, I could even tell he wasn't and I know bad.

"Don't worry, Love. If anyone knows my brother it's me or Paige, and he's good." She said while I heard them argue. They went on and on about how much he doesn't trust us only since we had Medias van. I guess they made up since I heard moaning, so I left my apartment and went to Paige's place. I found some possibly gross noodles, but I still warmed them up and ate them. They weren't as good as my sister used to make them but they were still good.

I heard a knock at the door and I knew it was my sister, so I unlocked it and let her in.

"Hey.. how are you?" She asked and I walked to the couch and sat down. I need to go get books tomorrow, since she loves to read.

"I'm great." I lied, deciding to lay down. She sighed and sat on the other couch looking at me. I looked away and closed my eyes.

"Liar, but tell me forreal my dude." She laughed and I shook my head.

"How about you tell me where you went? Where were you when it went to shit? I got home as fast as I could and I had to kill our parents myself while you disappeared. Then I lost the love of my life." I whispered and she stood up. She sighed again and I opened my eyes, then looked at her. She was wearing one of my dad's old shirts and our mums sweatpants. Her hair was in a messy bun, while she had her reading glasses on. I just had some red plaid sweats and a tank top she gave me. Along with a new watch I found while looking for my things.

"Wow.. okay, I knew this would happen." She started off and I raised my eyebrows, while she tapped her hands on the arm chairs.

"Well.. when it happened, they attacked mum and dad. I killed who attacked but I couldn't do it for them. So I called James about it and he came home to get me. I tried to stay but he said he checked your school and you were gone. And so we left and came here, that's when some people saw the army as leaders and well it lead us to becoming the president of the community." She said and got up.

"What about you?" I sat up and she sat beside me on the other side while we had our knees to our chest.

"I fúcking failed everyone."