Escaping The Zombie Apocalypse

Chapter Nineteen

(Dylan's Point Of View)

The more time I spend with Howie the more he reminds me of Grady. Grady was the one who introduced Paige and I he was my first friend, he also introduced us to Logan, which eventually led to meeting Carter, but back then Carter was just Logan's little sister, it was just Paige, Grady Logan and I, the best of friends. Until we weren't.

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(Logan's Point Of View)

As I lay on the floor just waiting for sleep to finally take me away for at least a couple hours, Dylan speaks to me for the first time since yesterday.

"Do you remember Grady?" She asks in a quiet voice almost too quiet. I haven't thought about Grady since I was 13, well most like I stopped thinking about him at the age of thirteen only a few months after the accident, I had to stop crying, I was upsetting my mother and angering my father. So I just cut all ties to him which included her and Paige.

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(Dylan's Point Of View)

"Of course I do, he was my best friend..." He says almost as quietly as I asked the question he was answering, it was true Grady was his best friend but he was like a brother to me, and he was Paige's first crush. But the reason Grady was like a brother to me was because I didn't have Jayden at the time she was only thirteen and already experimenting with drugs, she had told me once why and I will never forget what she said...

(6 Years Ago...)  

"Dylan, Dylan wake up," 

The sounds of Jayden's voice travel into my dreaming waking me up instantly, "Wha-t?" I mumble slowly opening my eyes to a scared looking Jayden.

"I have to tell you something if you promise and I mean it promise you won't tell anyone?" She questions holding out her pinkie trying to plaster on a smile only for some stranded tears to drop from her eyes and roll down her check. I slowly drag my hand towards her shaking one and wrap my pinkie around hers and shake, only to be unable to let go, knowing if I were to let go she would probably break into more tears and I can't handle that. So I just sat there holding her hand waiting for her to continue.

"I saw something  I shouldn't have, I saw this woman on my way home pull out a gun outside a closed sho-p, pointing it at another woman, right before..." She stopped for a moment to let out a sob before continuing, "Right before she shot her right though the head, I gasped loudly only for her to turn and point the gun at me-e..." She stops again only this time to take a deep breath, "I started to run before I heard another shot and just like that I was ou-t. Then I wake up on laying on the street by myself completely alone, I start to search my body to see if the shot hit me..." And that when I notice her right ear was bleeding, it only looked like a small cut but it was enough blood to make her light brown hair look dark even in this light, "I don't know what to do?" She says looking at me still crying.

I move over in my bed a little and pat the side of the bed next to me and she hopes in and lays with me until she falls asleep.

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(Now...)

So with her going though that I felt alone at home it was only when I saw Grady, Paige and Logan did I feel okay.

"Why are you asking?" He asks in the same tone as before,

"I don't know, I guess because of Howie, he reminds me so much of him, I still remember that day he introduced Paige and I to you, at first I thought it was weird he was friends with someone a year older than Paige and himself, but then I thought he was friends with me and I was younger by a year." I stop myself for a moment to just enjoy this one of few happy memories I have left before I think of the horrific events of what happened just after I had turned eleven, "I still remember the day, the day we lost Grady..."

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(Logan's Point Of View)

"So do I, I doubt I will ever forget it..." We were playing Soccer at the park Dylan, Paige, Grady and I, I had kicked the ball to Dylan on a bad angle so when she tried to save the ball from going out of bounds she accidentally kicked it onto the road and of course Grady went after it because we had split into teams and Grady and Paige thought it would be a good idea to have the oldest me and the youngest on the same team the only problem with that is didn't think we were both great at this game. So Grady went after it because when he got it back it would be his kick in. 

The only problem with that is he never made it back, when he was going to get the ball he didn't bother looking both was and a speeding car came rushing down the road killing Grady instantly, right in front of all of our eyes scarring us for life, I was the oldest so I got most of the blame even though I knew Dylan was blaming herself and Paige just couldn't handle it, I was the only one who just pretended it never happened and that we were never friends any of us...

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(Dylan's Point Of View)

Before spending all that time with Howie I hadn't really thought about Grady in years, and I still can't believe that only two of us are left from the group of friends that once was, and in that two one of them left the rest in pain while the other was the reason any of the pain ever came.