(Charlie's Point Of View)
As I sit staring out the window while the world moves fast past me, I slip my hand into my pocket and pull out an old rustic pocket watch which once belonged to Kyle he gave it to me long ago.
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(Five Years Ago...)
Sitting on the porch swing at my grandmother's house where my dad and I live. Next door lives my best friend Kyle James.
"Well how are you Miss Charlotte Mae Wilson." Kyle says as he walks across my front lawn and onto the porch before sitting down next to me holding a small box.
"Very fine Mr Kyle El James." I say in a fancy voice mimicking him, we always talk like this as if we were two people from the olden days. "What is that?" I say pointing to the box on top of his lap.
"It's a gift... For your... Birthday...?" He says trailing off before handing me the gift.
"My Birthday was five months ago," I state while opening the box. Inside is a rather large old fashion pocket watch with a beautiful flower as the lid to the watch so when you click the button it flips open to reveal the small clock inside, I flip it over and see engraved on the back, 'Just because I'm crying doesn't mean I'm weak, it just means I care. –Melanie Kingston-James'.
"The words are of my great great grandmother, she was feminist whom had enough of the annoyance about her tears. This was what she told people and on her birthday one year my grandpa Henry got her this pocket watch with the words she knew had made up and ever since then my family have been passing it on through the family and my mum told me when I found a girl I love I should give it to her and then she will give it to her kids passing on Melanie's words." He said as in an attempt to explain.
"So why give it to me?" I ask pretending like I had no idea what he was talk about but for a ten year old he was pretty confident and sure of himself.
"I don't think I need to answer that. Just please take care of it." And with that he walks off.
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(Now...)
As I'm snapped back to reality by the sound of the car stopping, I noticed a few tears have escaped my ears and that everyone in the car is watching me.
"Why have we stopped?" I say wiping away the tears.
"It's getting dark and we have found a house we could stay in tonight." Logan informs me.
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As I sit in one of the empty bedrooms, waiting for Indigo to enter again just so I know I'm not sleeping alone.
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(Logan's Point Of View)
Milo, Teddy, Dylan, Indigo and I enter the house before anyone else making sure it's clear, once done we notice the house has four bedrooms. So we split into groups of two and choose a bedroom.
Indigo and Charlie decided they would share a room with two kid beds, because Indigo still seems to be trying to avoid Milo, so he and Teddy pick the room next to theirs with two kid beds.
Leaving Carter, Howie, Dylan and I. Howie asks Carter if he can share with her and she nods, but then when she notices they just left us two in the last room. Howie and Carter's room has a queen size bed and a bathroom joint in with the room.
Dylan walks off to find the last room, and opens the doors before wondering in. I slowly follow behind, it seems like a guest room with another queen size bed but this room has a couch as well as a bathroom.
"Okay then you're sleeping on the couch." She says with this fake smile, before she walks out again.
I sit on the couch and the firmness hits me instantly making the whole couch seem insanely uncomfortable. About five minutes after Dylan left the room she walks back in but this time she's wearing shorts and a short sleeved t-shirt, before walking towards me and sitting down. She jumps up as soon as she sat down I guess she thought it would be softer.
"Nah, you can't sleep on that." She says mostly to herself. "I guess you can sleep in the bed, but stay on your side okay?" She says finally talking to me.
"Okay." I say a little too excited and she seems to notice because she gives me this look and that's when I see it, the sadness flickered past her eyes in a glimpse I would have missed if I had blinked, but it's there and I realise she doesn't really have anyone left.
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She gets into the bed first on the right side closer to the window, I get in on the right side and blow out the candle that was in our room (We made sure that everyone has one to light up their room). She seems to have fallen asleep first and I just watch her as her chest slowly rises and falls reminding me that she is alive, that's she's still here.
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I wake up in the middle of the night releasing I must of fallen asleep with my arms wrapped around Dylan and I can feel her heart beating at a normal rate and that's how I know she's still asleep so I just stay in this position until I enter darkness once again.
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(Dylan's Point Of View)
As I wake with the sun shining in my eyes I try to move away from it but then I notice two massive arms wrapped around me in a firm grip.
I try to move an arm at a time without him waking. When I lift the first arm he shuffles and lifts me onto the other side of him and wrapping his other arm around me once again.
It's funny a few weeks I would of loved this so much but I'm not that girl anymore I have lost everyone I care about I refuse to care about anyone else as much as I cared about those people.
I turn around in his grip to face him, I can feel his warm breath blowing my face that's how close we are, I can heart his heart beat slow and calm that's how quiet it is. I try to move to his ear and I think about when I can do not to wake the others if there sleeping but wake him. I decide to whistle in his ear.
As I whistle he lets go of me and covers his ears, awaking him instantly. The shock look on his face makes me feel bad but it's not as bad as it would be if I have stayed in the position and then he goes and dies.
"What the F-" He whisper shouts until he sees me and notices that I am as close as I am, his voice drops quiet and just stares at me.
I take a deep breathe before telling him, "You were holding me and I really need to pee..." I say running out the room. I didn't really need to pee but if I said the truth it would probably make him feel embarrassed.
Once I get down the stairs I see Indigo and Carter staring at me, well breakfast is going to be awkward.
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Escaping The Zombie Apocalypse
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