The Last Of Us

Chapter Two: Start of a new world (Part 2)

They stare at me with wide eyes, utterly shocked and disturbed by the circumstances that took place here. We're still in the lobby area of this building, yellowish lights are lit throughout the place, no trace of any people around. High-pitched traumatising screams pierece through the air from the streets. I'm still leaning against the wooden wall, using it as my support to stand still. My head still is spinning round and round due to the accident i had earlier, throbbing like someone is hitting me with a hammer.

Others stand on the opposite near the door, peeking outside on the road thought the glass. My mind insists to look outside but my pounding, terrified heart declines. I don't move an inch, i stand still in the corner, scared to see what is going on outside. I move my hand up, gently touching the area on my forehead that hurts and i feel warm 7liquidy substance on my fingertips.

"Damn it." I sigh as I glance and find blood.

"You okay?" Lori asks as she hears me.

"It's just a cut." I reply pointing the cut with a finger.

"Let me look." She says back as she takes small steps towards me. She tilts my head a little, moving  few strands of hair with her hand as she observes the wound on my forehead. I flinch at the contact of her finger on my wound and she moves her finger away immediately.

"How bad is it?" I ask, hoping it wouldn't be that bad.

"Not that bad but it needs to be taken care of soon or it will get infected." She jolts as soon as she finishes to a loud scream.

"What's going out there?" I ask, concern filled in my voice.

"The street is quite empty now.Only a few cars." Aaron says peeking out once more. " We need to get back to our hotel."

"We might get attacked again, and we somehow managed to get out last time. We can't risk our lives again." Josh says out of the blue gaining all our attention.

"But we have to. All our belongings are there and we need to get out of here." I say, totally freaking out. We can't stay here and if this drug or whatever is doing all this, us staying here is not going to end well.

"I agree," Lori starts to say and I smile at her knowing she is supporting my decision like always.

"No, not with you, Em. With Josh cause who knows what's happening there, and there might be more of those people in the hotel." She completes and my eyes go wide when I realize she's against me. Not like I'm angry because she's right and there's nothing here, at least not yet and I hope there isn't anything here.

I start to walk away when Josh stops me, holding my wrist tightly in my his hand. "What!" I shout at him while I continue walking towards the door where Aaron stands.

"We should wait here till the morning, Emily. It's better than going out there not knowing what's there." Jake says, taking a step towards to stop me.

"Like you care what happens to me." I roll my eyes.

"Really? I thought we were over this shit a while ago." He raises his voice.

"I didn't want to ruin the vacation by arguing with you!" I say as I cross my hand over chest.

"Oh? Trying to be all goody like always? But guess what? You ruined it!" He shouts, taking a step forward.

"Well, this vacation was already ruined with the mayhem caused outside!" I fight back, taking one more step towards him.

"Hey! Hey! Hey! Guys, chill!" Aaron interrupts our little fight. "Boys, you're older so act like it. And Emily, they're right. With all the mayhem outside it's not safe." He politely says to me, looking right in the eye and I nood in defeat.