The Apocalypse

Big Secrets

We were all on the platform outside the tree condo's front door by the time that the others realized Michael was missing.

"Where's michael?" Sammy asked.

"He's..." I started.

"HES DEAD! THE ZOMBIES GOT HIM! HE FELL AND THE ZOMBIES GOT HIM!" Tony screamed.

Eddie put her arm around him. "Tony, it's okay."

"NO ITS NOT! HES DEAD!"

"Technically he's not dead, he's a zombie now." Sammy interuppted.

"SHUT IT LADY TARZAN!"

"What did I do?"

"Nothing! She did nothing Tony so calm down and stop screaming!" Meredith yelled at him.

"THIS IS ALL HER FAULT!"

"How is it her fault? She didnt do anything!"

"IT WAS HER IDEA TO GO ALL TARZAN AND SWING TO A TREE CONDO! AND IF SHE HADNT SUGGESTED THAT MICHAEL WOULDNT HAVE FELL OFF THE VINE!"

"Well if we wouldve stayed there, all of us wouldve died!" Leila said.

"YOU GUYS DONT EVEN CARE! HES GONE AND I SEEM TO BE THE ONLY ONE WHO CARES ABOUT HIM!"

"It's not that we dont care! We just need to learn to move on because we all knew that someone was going to die eventually!" Joe said.

"SEE! NO ONE! FUCKING! CARES!"

"It's not that we dont care Tony! Calm down!"

"CALM DOWN? CALM DOWN?? CALM DOWN??? HOW BOUT YOU FALL DOWN!"

Tony ran over to Joe and pushed him over the side of the platform, then stormed inside.

"JOE!" I screamed.

We all ran to the edge of the platform to find Joe hanging from a tree branch.

"I have some rope inside, I'll go get it!" sammy said, running inside.

She came back out with a long rope. She gave each of us a part of it to hold on to to pull him up. Then, she slowly lowered the rope down to him and he grasped it like his life depended on it -- because it did. We all pulled him up and he climbed up onto the platform.

"Joe are you okay?" I said kneeling in front of him.

"Yeah, I'm fine."

I helped him up and walked him over to a chair.

"Thanks Chlo."

Then we heard the sound of glass break.

Sammy sighed. "Can someone please go inside and make sure Tony's not destroying my house?"

"I'll go." Fifi said.

Fifi's POV

I ran inside and up the stairs to find Tony face down on the bed with a broken vase on the floor.

"Tony, are you okay?"

"Leave me alone." He muttered into the pillow.

"Tony-"

"Just go away!"

"No. I wanna know what's going on with you! You've never been this upset before."

He sat up on the bed.

I sat down next to him. "I feel like you cared a lot more about him than you said you did."

"So what?"

"So tell me."

"Tel you what?"

"Why it's making you so upset!"

"I cant!"

"Why not?"

"It's a secret."

"Just tell me."

"Yeah, like I can trust you."

"You can! I promise. I you tell me your secret, I'll tell you mine."

"Fine, whats yours?"

"Ah ah ah! You first."

"But then how do I know that you dont really have a secret and are just trying to get it out of me."

"I'm not I promise."

"Pinkie promise?"

"Pinkie promise."

"Okay, so the truth is... Michael is like more than just a friend to me."

"Yeah. He's your best friend."

"Yeah but, hes like .."

"A brother?"

"Not exactly."

"Then what?"

"He's the love of my life."

I was in complete and utter shock. "Wait but arent you dating Eddie? As in my best friend Eddie?"

"Yes but."

"And what did you think would happen when Eddie finds out?"

"Thats why she cant!"

"Well why shouldnt I tell her?"

"Becase you promised you wouldnt." He held up his pinkie.

"Ugh, fine. I wont tell her."

"Now you have to tell me your secret."

"Fine. My secret is. I like Joe."

"You mean likelike?

"Yeah."

"Well how is that a big secret?"

"Because I think he's back to liking Chloe, and I think she likes him back."

"I thought she was dating Robert."

"No, Robert is just one of her best friends."

"Oh."

"Yeah."