Roaming Of The Afterlife

Making A Friend

Jocelyn leads me upstairs, there was a man, he looked twenty years older than me, he had a bandage over his head and he just gives me a odd look.

"I have two little sisters, so maybe they can keep your little sister company." Jocelyn said as she walks down the hall, I see a man shaking as another man pushes him in a wheelchair, I follow her into a room, it was a bedroom.

"Here's your bedroom, you get yourself comfortable." Jocelyn said as she closed the door.

I look around, I place my bag on the bed then pulled out my revolver, then I put it down under the pillow.

Jocelyn seems pretty nice, I'm not going to immediately assume that she's good, after all this is a asylum.

I leave the bedroom then went downstairs to see Aurei and Dakota talking to a man who looked older, he had dark brown skin, he had black curls, I walk behind him.

"Well where is she?" I hear him ask, Aurei points at me.

"Right there." Aurei said, the man turns around, he had a chiseled face, he nods.

"May I speak to you?" He asks.

"May I know your name?" I ask, I'm not going with a stranger I just met without knowing their name.

"Fernando Hollingsworth, you must be Avery." He said turning to me.

"In the flesh." I chirp.

"If you would follow me." Fernando said before walking down the hall.

This place had metal doors, people who are just looking as if they were trying to figure out who I am.

Fernando opens the door and I see a woman sharpening her knife, she looked like she was my mother's age, she had dark brown hair with a blondish tint, it was tied back in a ponytail and she wore a plaid shirt with regular jeans.

"This is my wife, Madeline." He said, extending his hand out to her.

She nods at me and I just sit down in the chair.

"I just have a few questions, we don't take in strangers." Fernando explains.

"Please don't lie, we only ask simple questions and we have no time for bullshit." Madeline said with her legs crossed, I cut my eyes at her.

"Excuse Madeline, after we had a bad encounter with someone who was a traiter to someone's group....they came back and killed many people here." He said.

"It's fine, I don't bullshit either." I said.

"Well.....do you know how to kill the walkers?" Fernando asks me.

"I wouldn't get far if I didn't." I said, it's pretty obvious, at this rate the roamers rot so bad I could rip their arm off if I gave it a good tug.

"Have you eaten a human?" Fernando asks.

"Almost, until I find out that it wasn't any regular meat." I said.

"Have you killed anyone?" He asks, right off the bat he sounded like Mayfield.

"Yes, all in self defense." I said, Fernando nods.

"Well that is all, you can go now." Madeline said with a sly grin, I gey up then walked out into the hallway.

Jocelyn walks from one of the rooms, she smiles when I walk up to her.

"Hey." I chirp.

"Hey." Jocelyn says, turning to me, she had stitches on her right arm.

"Do you have any food?" I ask.

"Of course, we wouldn't be taking people in if we had food problems of our own. But dinner is only in the next hour." Jocelyn said with a frown, I nod.

"Hey, I have a place we could hang out." Before I could say no she grabs my hand then leads me back up the stairs, Aurei looks at me with a gentle smile while Dakota said there looking at everyone who seems to be pretty relaxed.

She leads me down the hall then through the door, I look around to realize that we are on the rooftop.

"Wow." I said, Jocelyn smiles sweetly at me.

"Amazing huh?" Jocelyn asks, she reminds me so much of Nina.

Jocelyn sits down then pats the space next to her for me to sit beside her, I glance at the ledge.

"Sometimes I forget that the world has gone to shit." Jocelyn said, cocking her head back.

"What's your story?" I ask, Jocelyn giggles.

"Well, it was always me and those two kids, I lost my boyfriend when he got bitten in the neck by one of the undead while we were trying to get through the escape route." Jocelyn explains.

"I'm sorry." I said.

"Don't be, you weren't there.....besides he got selfish and only fended for himself when we stopped at the train station, then we spent the night in the woods running, we couldn't defend ourselves when this happened, at that time we considered those things people." Jocelyn says, moving her fingers against the concrete.

"I see." I said quietly.

"People say that I talk too much but it's a lonely world.....Gordon knows that for sure...." Jocelyn swoons.

"Gordon?" I retort, she blushes.

"We've been close.....it's like friends with benefits." Jocelyn adds.

"What about that man....the tall one?" Jocelyn asks.

"What about him?" I ask, Dakota is a handful that's for sure....so I would understand why she's asking me about him.

"He seems scary...." Jocelyn said.

Me and Dakota sometimes hated each other, there are moments where he makes it seem like he wants to throw me off the edge of a cliff and enjoy doing it, if we did fight, we would rip each other's throats out, but there was that feeling, I know Dakota is damaged....and he goes brutal, so I will never betray him.

"Scary???" I ask before cocking my head back laughing, Jocelyn raises her eyebrows and smirks at me.

"Terrifying is more like it." I said, looking her in the eye.

Jocelyn looks at me, as if confused.

"I'm sorry.....what were you saying?"

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