I'll See You on the Other Side(DISCONTINUED)

Chapter 8: Roomates

2 chapters in the same week oh mer god

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(Washington pov)

"Absolutely not."

"Come on, do you really expect me to leave them out there with no house or anything?"

"Uhhh yes!"

"You are a terrible person Jefferson! Your not even the one in charge here! I AM AND I WILL DO WHAT I WANT!" what gives Jefferson the right to boss all of us around. Things will be different around here. Starting with 4 new recruits to our 'gang'.

"There are 4 bedrooms and we switch off guard duty every 4 hours in pairs. You can choose who you room with." I explain everything to Laurens, Mulligan, Hamilton, and Laffayette finally taking charge.

"Oh and Hamilton, your not staying with Jefferson or you two would be dead by morning," i add.

"THANK GOD!" Hamilton exclaims relieved.

"Why cant you and your people take two rooms and we take the other two?" Questions Laurens.

Shit thats a good point i need to think of something, "to get to know eachother better."

Laurens laughs, "thats stupid but I'll respect it."

"Ok Mulligan with Jefferson, Laurens with Madison, Hamilton with Burr, and Laffayette can stay with me."

Mulligan gasps overdramatically, "i thought you said WE got to choose??"

"I did but i changed my mind."

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(Alexander pov)

Aaron Burr. He seemed pretty quiet. Not too annoying.

"Good luck," Jefferson laughs in my ear.

"What the fuck are you talking about?" Jefferson is acting like a child. We wont be here forever its probably just a couple of days. And who cares who we are sharing a room with anyway.

"Hehehe soon you'll seeee."

I decide to let it slide and slip into what i assumed was burr's room. He was seated in a cot writing something in a small journal but snaps it shut as i step into the room.

I nod in his direction as a sort of greeting he does the same to me. We sit in silence as we both stare at the wall. I notice a crack and indentation in the door near the bottom. This house was falling apart. Even something as small as a dent in the wall was a sign. The world was ending, we were all going to die. It doesnt even matter that i now had some aquantinces. We were all going to die alone in hell, the world would cave in and everything would fall to the center of the earth AND EVERYONE WOULD BURN AND-

"Alexander are you all right?" Burr turned to look at me. I didnt even notice anything had been said to me.

"Oh yes everything is just perfect," i say with heavy sarcasm.

"Oh really?"

"NO OF COURSE NOT! we are in the midst of a zombie apocalypse probably on the verge of death, so for your information i am not alright," i grumble and lay down as far from burr as possible.

Burr blows out the candle (A/N ive been told there would be no electricity so i guess they would use candles idk) and says, "we have second watch so Washington and Laffayette will wake us when its our turn."

It heard what burr said but i didn't respond. I was exhausted for once, i hadn't slept in days. I close my eyes and can already hear burrs breath begin to even out. The last thing i think of before falling asleep is death, all death not just mine.

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I hear screaming, doors slamming, more people screaming. I shoot straight up and realize the screams were real and not just in my dreams.

I rub my eyes and take in the scene. Burr is standing by the door talking to Washington as i hear Jefferson scream something from down the hall and slam a door.

"We have this watch so no trying to go back to sleep." Burr moves so hes leaning against the wall.

"No worries, my insomnia wouldn't let me anyways...and i apologize about snapping at you earlier there is just a uh lot going on right now." I put my head in my hands and sigh. This is just too much. I wouldn't cry. We all had so much going on, and we were all going to die. So negative yes but true, so very true. If i cried about everything that upset me i would have no tears left. I lifted my head and stared ahead of me at the dent in the wall, the boarded up windows, burr sitting so far away from me in this tiny room.

"Its alright... i understand how you feel. I bet everyone does." Burr reaches next to him and picks up his journal. I hear the scratching of a pencil on paper resume.

"I used to write in a journal," i say to burr and turn to look at him.

Burr closes the book and shifts so we are facing eachother, "it helps with all the stress and shit going on. Just writing down all of your problems and anything on your mind."

I chuckle,"Yeah i bet it does. My mother gave me a journal when we were both sick. She said to write down all of my problems and somehow, they would be fixed. I wrote everything in it, until one day it was gone."

"What happened to it?"

"It was washed away and lost in a hurricane in the carribean where i used to live. I lived there with my mom, dad, and brother. But my dad left when i was young, my mom died, and my brother was lost durring the storm. He could be dead for all i know." Burr is the first person ive told any of this too.

"Thats terrible Alexander im so sorry i had no idea."

"Don't feel bad for me, people have had it worse."

Burrs face grows grim, "yes, yes they have."

I decide not to question how burr has probably had rough times as well. He will open up eventually as time goes on. Im not exactly sure how long i will be staying here, or how long i will be alive. But i wouldnt mind staying for a while.

Burr and I sit in silence. Not the awkward kind you want to run away from, but the comfortable one. Maybe things are getting better. Maybe my life won't become a complete living hell....yet.

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Ya i know crappy short chapter. I have no idea how this whole zombie apocalypse thing works so please no hate. Give me some tips on how to improve this andif anything is confusing or doesn't make sense.

I'll start making this interesting in the next few chapters. Im introducing the Schuyler sister's and maria soon too. Please don't give up on this story yet and please keep reading thanks bye