Against the World

Ch 2- Emlyn

Blood is all over me. I took down a gang of 5 people before I pulled out my knife to kill the other 7. Austin is collecting all the weapons and food they might have. I stand in silence as I watch the walls fly by through the window. The train shakes a little which causes Austin to fall one of the bodies I stabbed to death. He stands up and says,"Oops sorry." He then tip toes through the maze of bodies and I catch a few mumbles,"excuse me. Oops pardon me. Oh sorry I didn't mean to step on... your head." He walks up to me and says,"Well I got you 4 new guns and 2 new knives. Food wise I got us a crushed bag of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and a bag of bloody bread." He holds out both of them and I laugh. I say,"You can have the squished sandwiches and I will save the bread for someone desperate." Austin says,"You should at least have a little bit of the sandwiches." I sigh and say,"I'm not hungry and your probably starving anyway." He rolls his eyes and says,"I know they used to starve you but you haven't eaten in days!" I pull out my bloody knife and hold it to his throat and whisper,"What did I tell you about talking about that!" He looks away and looks very guilty. I put down the knife and I hear him say,"I'm sorry I forgot." Though I have never told Austin about my past. The only thing he does know is that wherever I was they never fed me so I had to find my own food. I relax a little and he hands me the new guns and knives. I smile and say,"We did good today huh buddy?" He says,"You did all the real work! I just watch you and collect all the stuff while you are catching your breath." I roll my eyes as the train comes to a stop. We get off and set up a spot for tonight. I realize that I am leaving a train of blood and I look at Austin and say,"Hey I'm gonna need your help." He nods and flashes a cute smile. I look away and walk toward the bathroom. Austin and I walk into the bathrooms and he sets down all of our stuff. He pulls out a towel and puts it under the sink. I'm looking into a corner where a rat lives. That's its home and this is where it will live. I live here too. Home is just a distant memory and it slowly fads away with each day. This rat has a home and that's more then I got. I look up at Austin who is watching me. But I guess that wherever I go with this idiot is close enough to home. Austin says,"Hey do you wanna hear a joke?" I say,"Sure." He laughs and catches his breath and then laughs again. He takes a giant inhale and begins,"So I was walking past the mental hospital-" I yell,"AUSTIN THATS MY JOKE!!!! ITS MY FAVORITE JOKE!!!!!!" He laughs and then I laugh. He looks at the towel and says,"Alright. Ya ready?" My heart races and I quietly say,"Yes just make it quick." He takes the towel and squeezes it over my head. I shake my head and water flies everywhere. He laughs and says,"You said quickly! Let's go!" I roll my eyes and I turn to the mirror. My heart starts pounding and everyday when we do this it beats just as fast. When I look in the mirror the reflection still shocks me sometimes. I grab the bottom of my shirt, and I freeze. Everyday I struggle with this and everyday after this we do not speak for a while. I take a deep breath and pull my shirt up and other my head. I throw the bloody shirt on the ground and the water slides down my back. Austin then starts scrapping off the dry blood with the towel and my heart is still racing. To many bad memories. He plops the towel back in the sink and leaves the bathroom without a word. I remove my pants and everything else and bathe myself with the towel. I ask him to do my back because it's impossible to clean your own back. Once I have finished cleaning myself I grab dry and clean clothes from the bag and I throw the bloody clothes in the sink with some soap. I shake my wet brown hair and then I open the door and say,"Your turn Austin." He comes into the bathroom and I wash his back and then leave. I do it as quickly as possible just so I can rip the bandaid off fast. I sit down and I hear a ripping noise. I look at my pants and I just ripped my knees. I have had these pants for about a year now, I knew it was only a matter of time before they rip. I have black pants on with a gray shirt. Austin comes out a few minutes later and begins to eat his sandwiches. I pull out a can of beans and chug half the can in one go and I hand the rest to Austin. He tries to hand me a sandwich but I refuse. He says with his mouth full of food,"Comon is yunny!" And he presses the sandwich to my lips. I turn my head away but he keeps waving it in my face. To be honest I'm not a big fan of jelly. I grab the sandwich and when he swallows I shove the sandwich in his mouth and say,"You need to eat." He eats it and we save the other sandwiches for later. As we are putting away our stuff and getting out our things to sleep on, a girl with blue hair and light brown eyes runs up to us. She is wearing a green sweatshirt that is over her head and she has a gun in her hand. Her wet boots leave little marks on the floor and she is also wearing sweatpants, it must be winter. She walks up to us and says,"Name's Brii. I'm gonna stay with you two for as long as I want, I won't kill you, as long as you don't kill me." She sits down next to Austin then asks,"And you are?" Who the hell does she think she is?! I know she probably means no harm but why did she just march up to us and didn't give us an option. Austin says in his special way,"Hiya! My name is Austin and this is Emlyn." She nods and takes off her backpack and puts her head on it. I'm completely bewildered and I ask,"Excuse me? What makes you think you can just come here and order us around?" She answers,"You're right. I'm sorry. I should've asked. May I stay with you for a while?" Austin answers for me,"Yes! We've been needing another person in our group for a while. And my Austin senses say we can trust her!" This reminds me of when I met Austin for the first time. I lay down in everything we have set up for the night and check to see if Brii is awake. But she is knocked out. I am about to lay down when Austin says,"Goodnight Emlyn." And I reply,"Good Austin." And I lay down. I'm still pretty awake so I think to myself. If I took Austin in then I guess I can take Brii in too. If she doesn't do anything crazy. I roll on my right side and try to get some shut eye. I'm on the edge of being awake and being asleep and then something snaps me awake. Austin's arm wrapped around me. No, I roll over and Austin's arm falls. I open my eyes only to see Austin's bright blue eyes staring back at me. I almost scream but instead I laugh and so does he. And that's the last thing I can remember of that night. The rest where just horrible nightmares.