When it comes to surviving in the end of the world, Noah needs her best friend. Together they manage quite good out there, but Noah wonders if they are meant to die alone in this new world. When they come across the Atlanta survivors' group, things...
The hot Georgia sun shone bright above us. It was around noon. My best friend and I walked through the woods, not really knowing where we were going. Atlanta was long gone. It was full of those things; I called them zombies because that's the closest thing I could come up with. They were dead and ugly ant ate people. I used to like zombie movies, even dressed up as one for Halloween. Now here I found myself visiting my best friend for the summer, when the virus broke out; 3 months had gone by. I sighted as I stopped and plopped down on the ground.
"I'm tired," I told my best friend with puppy dog eyes begging to take a break.
Truth is we made the perfect pair for the zombie apocalypse. She was the ying to my yang as I liked to call it. I was smart and a good shot with anything but i hated running and tired easily. She had the fitness and the survival skills. We met each other in 3rd grade when I tripped on my untied shoe laces and she helped me get back up.
Now here she was rolling her eyes at me. She sat her backpack down before she took a seat in a nearby log. My friend was the opposite of me when it came to looks. She was tall with really tanned skin and straight jet black hair, while I was short barely 5 feet with light skin and short brown curly hair that hid under a hat at the moment.
I saw her taking out a water bottle for her and tossed another one at me. "Drink it, Noah," she told me with a stern look. I gave her my silly smile. "Yes ma'am. What would i do without you?"
She took a sip of her water then turned to look at me "let's see," pretending to be deep in thought, she continued "you could have already died of dehydration, hide under your bed and dies thinking it was a good idea, tripped and brake your neck running away from those things, trust everyone you meet and wait for them to kill you, or you-."
"I get it, I get it," I cut her off and she laughed.
"But without you i wouldn't be able to kill those things and would die of boredom."
She was right I might not be fully cut out for this new world but at least i was useful at something. I had a gun with a couple of bullets left and i never missed plus a slingshot and a couple of marbles that were useful if I couldget the zombies in the eye sockets. We both carried a knife in our waistbands as well.
"Alexis, where exactly are we going? We are running out of food and the forest scares me at night."
"Dont be such a baby. We go high up in the mountains, get high ground, and then think of something there. Come on get your lazy butt up time to continue."
She pulled me up while I protested and whined. We kept walking. We had decided to hide our hair up in hats and wore baggy clothes when we left the city to hide the fact we were women. I figured two women walking alone in the end of the world was a bad idea. I might be gullible but even I knew what happens to women who travel alone.
While we walked, I took down two squirrels with my slingshot and marbles. At least we would have something nice to eat tonight.
It was getting dark so we stopped in a clearing and set up our sleeping bags and Alexis made a fire so i could cook the squirrels.
I skinned and cleaned them as as she looked at me with a disgusted look on her face. I didn't mind getting dirty but her on the other hand preferred to see the squirrel only after it was cooked. I had an idea.
I grabbed some guts and turned to look at her.
"Oh, no no no I know that look don't even think about it." I threw the guts at her as she squealed and tried tried to get it off her. I laughed hard, I loved messing with her.
"This is gross. You and your childish pranks. I swear one of this days I will leave you here alone and you will have no one to mess with."
I stopped laughing. "No no please you know I hate to be alone don't leave me. I'm sorry I will try to not do it again!" I reached out to hug her waist like if she could take off any minute.
"Eww get your stinky hands off me you smell like dead squirrel. Relax I was kidding. You really belive anything and everything you hear." She pushed me away and rolled her eyes.
"You are mean." I told her as she laughed.
That afternoon we ate telling stories of back in the day when our biggest worry was if we would be allowed to have a sleepover.
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We usually took turns keeping watch while one of us slept. She took thefirst watch and I laid down in my sleeping bag looking up at the stars wondering if we were going to die out here just the two of us trying to survive not really having any place to go. Alexis tossed my teddy bear at me.
"You know how embarrassing it is that you are 25 and need a teddy bear to sleep?" My simple teddy bear had beed with me since i could remember. He hadno name; never named him. I never liked to be alone sp holding on to it made me feel less lonely at night. We all have our embarrassing traits, don't we?
"I can't help it. Besides I think the world is too fucked up already foranyone to care abouta 25-year old carrying a toy around."
"True. Well go to sleep. She woke me up soon later for my turn to take watch. It was an uneventful night. No creepy man-eating corpses lurking around. The following morning, we packed up our stuff and continued walking to high ground.
Hello!
Been reading a lot of Daryl/OC stories lately and I've had this idea in my head for a while. I'm studying Engineering so writing is notmy strongest suit. I will try not to make this story a complete fail. I just could not get this idea out of my head. I'm giving it a try so let's see how it goes.
I have this story up on Fan Fiction and already have the second chapter there. I wanted to give Wattpad a try and i like how you can add pictures here too! Anyways I will try uploading the second chapter here tomorow. Don't know if anyone will eventually read it but keeps me busy.
