The Thought of Losing You

Chapter 1

Zoey POV

it's been 12 days since I've last seen Ellis. I miss his goofy smile, his scraggly brown curls that were trapped under his hat, but most of all I missed his voice. His southern accent that made me get butterflies in the pit of my stomach. I know we never truly were face to face but just seeing him as close as I could was enough for me to know that I made the wrong decision of not asking him to come with us.

Louis and Francis and I are going on a run in the morning to look for supplies all together were left with 3 cans of beans and just about one magazine of ammo each.

When I finally fall asleep after hours of tossing and turning I see Ellis standing before me. I don't know what to say so I just run into his arms, but as I do so I'm grabbed around the neck and when I look to see why my Ellis would do such a thing I'm greeted with An infected grabbing my neck and slowly biting my flesh. I wake up with a shove to see Louis.

"Sorry to wake ya... But you were kinda hyperventilating" he says in a soothing voice

"It's fine... Just a bad dream" I state

"Well we're going out in a half an hour so get your gear together" he says

I just nod and go to the bathroom in the safe room to wash my face. When I look in the mirror I have hair everywhere. I quickly put it in a ponytail and splash water on my face to wake up.

The run we had in the morning was uneventful. But we still go and check out Shopcomart that is a block away. when we get there i go in the back aisles. And then I see it, and it breaks my heart.

A blue/white trucker hat on the blood covered floor of the Shopcomart we've been scavenging in for the past 10 minutes. I slowly pick it up to see the name 'ELLIS' written in sharpie on the inside of the hat. I don't stop staring at the name until I hear a moan from the next aisle over. I slowly turn to see horrified bloody body of....Nick.

"Nick" I shout shaking his pale body

He opens one eye weakly and then shouts "RUN RO. ELLIS GET OUT. COACH!!!!"

"Nick calm down I'm going to fix you up... Tell me what happened" as I start to pull open the med kit.

"Zo-zoey?" He questions

"Yes it's me what happened here" I ask

"There was to many of them I couldn't...." He saunters over his words

As Nick is trying to tell me what happened I call over Francis and Louis.

"Holy hell suit you look like shit" Francis states right as he sees him

"What happened here" Louis asks more concerned

Nick swallows the water I handed him and the starts with the story.

"Me and coach decided to check this place for supplies. We were doing good until we saw a survivor on the other side of the mart. The ASS CLOWN pulled the alarm and went out the exit. Then me and coach ran for the door to tell Ellis and Ro that we needed to leave. But as we got to the door we saw ellis and Rochelle running to us with a Horde behind them with plenty special infected. We did are best but we got cornered. The last thing I remembered was Ellis picking me up and then a loud explosion. Which was probably a pipe bomb that I saw Coach carrying before the Horde came"

"Did anyone else get out" I ask instantly, needing to know if Ellis is still alive somewhere.

"Look cupcake I told you what i know" Nick told me sternly

I roll my eyes and I make it over to the exit. Once I open the door I see a survivor digging through some trash.

I quickly put my gun to his head.