Now They Walk

First job

------------------------Jake------------------------

I woke up to the door being beat on. All of my learned reactions took control.

I got up quietly and walked over to the door, noticing that is wasn't even morning yet. I moved the peephole cover and then looked through it.

"Jake, Nate, y'all awake?" A voice said

An unknown voice. But at least it wasn't the soldier. Or an infected

I unlocked the door and opened it. A blonde headed boy and a brown headed girl rushed inside.

"You Robert's new guys?"

"Yea" I said "lemme wake Nate"

I walked to the door and knocked.

"Nate, time to go" I said

I could hear him getting out of the bed and not even a minute later he was out of the door and dressed.

"You might need a shirt" Nate said as he brushed past

I picked through a drawer in the bedroom. I grabbed a black shirt. The universal color.

"I brought two jackets, it will help conceal us"

The blonde headed boy handed me a jacket. I put on the black fabric, it being a little tight against me.

"What's your names?" Nate asked, staring at the blonde boy

"I'm tanner, that's Ellie" he said pointing toward the girl "she is my sister" he smiled

"I'm Nate, this is Jake" he returned

"Any relation?"

"No" I said "just friends"

"Well come on, the soldiers haven't got back yet and we need to slip past them"

We walked out the apartment and then down the steps.

Tanner stuck his head out of the front door.

"Alright, let's move" he said

Me moved quickly across the street. He turned down the road, staying close to the darkness of the apartment buildings.

"We have to make it to the drain" Ellie said looking back at me. I hope she wasn't expecting acknowledgement.

We kept moving along the buildings, using the darkness to mask us.

"Almost their" tanner said

We ran onto grass, our feet making full noise as we went across it. Dew had already started to form on it. I think I got the idea of what time it was.

Ellie and tanner crouched next to a manhole cover.

They started to pull it up, casually dropping it off to the side.

They went down first and then me and Nate followed. I pulled the steel cover back in place as I did, the metal scraping the well.