Hush little baby

Chapter 2

Alice's POV

What did the woman mean. He was coming

"What do you mean" my mother asked as she took a seat next to the woman. My father stood back and just watched. I saw his hand on the gun in his pocket, I guess incase the woman tried anything

"A man, a man" the woman made out "a few months ago I found a group, we formed and now he's after me, because I tried to leave" she whispered. She had calmed down.

Now I had heard of groups forming. And of course in a god which god forgot, not all these groups are good

"They call themselves the vipers, they seemed like good people but-" the woman shook her head and looked around the shelter. Her eyes locked into mine and then my brother

"It's a nice place you have here, lovely children" she sighed

"We got lucky, this is Alice and George" my mother said "oh and I'm Madeline and this is Steven" my mother said introducing her self

"Laura" the woman smiled and took another sip of water

"So this man, how far was he from you" my mother asked

"God knows, I was just running and when I saw the shelter I just prayed that maybe someone was inside" she took in a deep breath before saying "don't worry, he won't find me here, he won't hurt you guys" she reassured us yet I could hear she wasn't confident in that statement

She looked back over to me

"You're a pretty girl Alice" she said, I was about to thank her before she said "that's a curse in this world, trust me, it's the pretty ones who-"

"How about I open up some fruit cocktail and we can all have a little snack" dad said interrupting her. Laura coughed and turned to him

"Sounds great" she then turned back to me and gave me a weird look before turning back away.

What the hell was she trying to say. I mean yes even before this mess I knew what happened to "pretty girls". It knew it was a blessing and a curse but now she's brought it up again, it's made me realised something I didn't want to ever realise. People will use and hurt me for it. Desiring my face as it appears to be something not as ugly as this new life.

Dad handed me two bowls and I have one to George.

"So how much have you all seen, you know outside" she asked as she lifted up a pineapple slice

"We have been here most of it, we witnessed the frantic beginning but nothing more than that, how about you" my mother asked

"Enough" Laura sighed "you think maybe you'd get use to it but you don't"

"So this group, what was it like" my mother asked and she leaned in closer

"Well they saved us from a hoard, me and my husband and kids" she said wth a gulp and she paused. The shook her head and regained her self "they gave us shelter and food and they seemed to have advanced quietly, the had a safe area, people on Watch out, killing approaching- monsters. They seemed perfect, we even had medical treatment" she said

"It's seems perfect, what went wrong" my father asked as he too came closer

"Who are the monsters and who are the men" she sighed "they soon started to want more from us, it's hard to explain but things just became dark. They started to become more violent and began to terrorise us, they made us work, they shot innocent men, raped women and did God awful things to children. I don't know what happened but I saw my own family die in front of me" I saw tears begin to stream now her face "I managed to make a run for it, but he noticed and he chased me, and now I'm here" she said as she wiped her eyes and stretched out her face like she was trying to calm her self

"We came about 5 months ago. 4 months ago I saw heaven turn to hell. And 30 minutes ago I watched my family get slaughtered. Crazy world but that's how it is now" she said as she reached for my pineapple.

Non of us really knew how to react.

Who were the real monsters in this world. The "zombies" or the sociopaths left.