Roaming Of The Afterlife

We All Have Issues

I could feel hard, heated slaps across my face.

"Come on!!!" I could hear Aurei yell, I grab the hand that kept slapping me and stared hard at Aurei who pants.

"What's going on?" I ask.

"You stopped breathing, then you blacked out." Aurei explains as the car begun to slowly stop, I could see Dakota take the driver's seat and Fern sat in the passenger's seat, she had her sleeves rolled down and she looked paler than before.

"Are you alright?" Fern asks me.

"Is it that bad?" I ask, Aurei scowls at me and judging by that look, it proved that it was.

"I just wanted to say....that I'm sorry for not explaining everything to you guys, I'm sorry that I threw all of this down on Aurei, that's unfair....I may not go with everything you do....but I owe you a apology." Fern said weakly, she had bags under her eyes.

"The people who locked you in.....are they dead?" Aurei asks.

"I think so." Fern said quietly.

Aurei looks at me, I take a deep breath.

"Look, I'm sorry about beating you up..." I said.

"I get it Avery, I get it. I would've done the same thing, I knew that was going to happen too." Fern said.

"Well if we're done cherishing moments then we need to focus on where we need to go." Dakota said.

"Like where?" I ask.

"I don't know, but we need to find someplace that is safe." Dakota said, I glance at Aurei who just stared at me. Her hand is still bruised but she wraps it up with the bandage. Right off the bat I could tell Aurei was growing on Dakota.

"I don't care where we go, as long as we're safe." I said, Aurei may be able to take care of herself but I'm still going to protect her every chance I get.

"For a while." Aurei said quietly.

Fern turns to look at Aurei.

"You're a smart girl. Normally people would agree." Fern said, she's right, you can only be safer....even then it's best to stay on the move, because the undead is always a threat.

"Oh shit!!!" Dakota yells, Fern begun panicking and Aurei just held on to the door. A roamer gets on the window shield and Dakota tries swerving the car to get it off.

I could feel us sway, Dakota tries to keep driving but Fern grabs ahold of the wheel. I grab everything as the car kept swerving and Fern starts screaming.

"We're gonna-" Fern's voice gets cut off as the car crashes into the tree, her head snaps back, Aurei hits her head against the glass, then she blacks out.

The groans and gurgling sound of blood was the last thing I've heard before I blacked out.

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I could feel my back ache, my breaths became short.

"Avery wake up!" I hear Aurei yell, I felt a hard tug.

"Move!" Aurei yells as she slaps me hard in the face then she grimaces at me.

I sit up to see the sun rising but the undead following the car, Dakota struggles to get up, but Fern's sleeve was rolled up, there was a dark spot, a bite, there was dried blood around it, the teeth marks are fresh.

But Fern didn't move.

"Guys-" Fern starts gurgling and she tries to grab Dakota, trying to bite him, Aurei pulls her by the hair then stabs her quickly through the back of the skull, she pants.

"She never told us about that she was bitten." I said quietly.

"No shit." Dakota grunts.

The front of the car begun to smoke, I immediately open the door, shooting roamers by the head to buy Aurei some time to get out of the car. She opens the driver's door, but Dakota climbs out, the engine to the car goes into flames.

Dakota gives Aurei a shove, I run down the road, she comes after me, a roamer grabs my by the wrist, I stab it by the head as it tries to bite me then I kick it in the chest, Dakota covers Aurei but she shoots a roamer clean through the head.

We kept running down the road, my feet ached and I slowed down.

"Keep going!" Aurei yells after me.

I was the only family Aurei actually had, but she would be fine if she lost me....I know she will. Hopefully she doesn't change for the worse. But apparently she's learned from Cassie and Lydia....and all the stuff she has been through....if she made it by herself before she met that couple, she could make it without me.

Besides, Dakota will watch her....I still see good in him. But Dakota couldn't accept it....and I wonder why.

I picked my feet up, then I kept running, I could feel myself growing tired. I couldn't stop thinking about the things that could happen.

I could tell that I'm growing on him, he knows that, but he wouldn't accept it....if he didn't really like me he would've just nodded and walked off, but he couldn't take it.

Life isn't a fucking fairytale.

The funny part was, it wasn't.

My mind goes back to Fern....she was our only hope for a cure or some sort of antibiotics to stop a roamer bite. She was trying to find herself a cure....that's why she never gave up, that's why she stayed inside and wrote in her notebook all the time, but how did she get bit?

But I did try to take her into the woods and teach her how to kill a roamer so she could protect herself. It might've been when I killed a roamer that laid on top of her, I don't know how I didn't see it before....and I don't know how she could've hid it, when you're bitten you never stop bleeding, you start coughing out blood then you run a fever, but you wouldn't last long.

But we didn't look back as we ran across another bridge and below it was another city.....