Haystack

Chapter ten

A/N. Hi! I hope you like this new chapter!

Thanks to my beta and pre-reader Kymbersmith90 for her amazing work!

Twilight is not mine only the plot.

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EPOV

“What the hell?” I shriek, wide eyed. I looked between the unexpected visitors as I drew my Colt from my belt and aimed it between them.

It was two guys, one blond and the other with brown hair. They were tall, like me, disheveled looking, tired and with their clothes dripping in fresh blood. One of them had a golf club covered in brain matter and the other had a pipe wrench in a similar state. The two of them dropped their improvised weapons to the floor, at the sight of my gun, and put their arms up.

“Don’t shoot us, man!” the one with brown hair yelled at me.

“Who are you? What do you want?” I asked forcefully. The blond one was the first to talk.

“Who are we? Who are you? What are you doing in my friend’s apartment?”

I narrowed my eyes at him.

“I asked you first, so I recommend you start talking if you don’t want a bullet in your head.”

He paled a little and began to stutter.

“We... we are friends of Be… Bella’s. We came here with her from the University. We mean no harm to you. I swear!”

My heart fluttered in relief when he said her name. Slowly I put my Colt back in my belt as they began to lower their arms.

“Were is she?” I asked, because clearly she wasn’t behind them. The blond was going to answer me when we heard a woman’s voice out in the hallway calling for them.

“Guys, look what the lanky guy gave me!”

I didn’t wait for a response. I sprinted out of the apartment to see Bella, but it wasn’t her. It was a petite girl with short black hair. My heart sank and my legs began to feel like jelly.

“What…? Who are you? Where… where is Bella?” I asked her, desperate. In her arms she was carrying some cans and bottles of water.

“She’s not, is she…” It was all she could say before she burst in tears, spilling the contents of her arms on the floor. I fell to my knees feeling desolate.

“Please, please tell me she’s not…” I stopped abruptly. I couldn’t even say it.

She shook her head in desperation at the same time the blond guy came to hug her. Behind me the other one spoke.

“We were two blocks from here when a horde came after us. While we were running, she told us where she lived. As we made the last turn on the corner, down the street, she ran in the opposite direction hitting the cars on her way past. She was distracting the corpses. I think she didn’t want them to follow us here.”

By the time he was finished telling me what had happened my heart was beating faster. I was so desperate I was pulling my hair hard. I was trying to not blow up in their faces.

“Is she… is she…” I didn’t want to say that fucking word, because I knew in my heart she was okay. When I tried to talk again the girl cut me off.

“We don’t know. The best thing we can do now is go to the windows to see if we can see her on the streets,” she said, trying to compose herself.

I lifted my head to see her and she was wearing a determined look on her face.

“Come on. We are wasting time.” And with that she passed me and the other guys, walking into the apartment.