You and I, Us and Them.

Chapter Four

Whats your star sign?.    Yuuki's POV

My dreams were normal, it was relaxing, I could hear the forest again, the breeze blowing past me. I felt at peace. "Take him!" Huh? That sounds like...no it can't be, I'm just making it up, "Take him please!" Haru's mother? Wait, I can see her. I have taken him can't you see? I'm stood face to face with her. "I'm begging you please!" She's acting weird... "Take him..." her face distorted, it began to rot and fall off, I was stuck, I couldn't move. She attacked me, I struggled and struggled to get her off of me. Her teeth sank into my shoulder, pain coursed though my body.

"Shit!" I sat up quickly and checked myself for bites. Nothing?... I try to get my usual breathing pattern back.
"Hey..hey, are you okay?" I turn to meet the voice, it's Loki, for once I don't feel hatred towards him, I just want a hug. But I won't hug him. If I had a nightmare I'd always drag Winter over to mine just for a hug. It became a tradition mainly because I had nightmares once a week or two.
"Yeah, I'm fine, just a nightmare that's all, haha." I sighed, It's gotten brighter, maybe it's nearly time to wake up, the fire has gone out, that's why it's cold...
"Are you sure you're alright? You look a bit shaken." My thoughts were interrupted, he shuffled closer to me. For some reason, being asked if I'm alright set my emotions off, I began to tear up. Why?. This hasn't happened before when Winter helped. 

"I'll be okay." I don't think I will. It's best to keep emotions to yourself in a survival situation.
"Come on, tell me about it, what happened?" He sat in front of me, I didn't look up at him. Something in me just decided to give up 
"Fine." I sighed, "When we first found Haru, we were at the coast. It was the first day of the outbreak. We were packed into a house full of 37 or so survivors. People! I mean...people. I was about to escape with Ren and Winter but, his mother pulled me back and begged me to take him. Other people begged me to save them. I grabbed Haru and ran." At this point, I was crying but he couldn't tell, I was too busy looking down at my hands. "But, in the dream, his mother turned right in front of me, her face rotted off and her words turned to gargles. I was stuck. And she bit me." My sobs were audible, why did it have to be me the dream came to?. Why not someone else?.

I saw his hand reach towards my face, he lifted my chin and pulled his sleeves up to his hands.
"It was only a dream," He wiped my tears away. "It's not real, it didn't happen, you're safe okay?" I nodded.
"Don't tell them I cried." I say looking back down. "If you do I don't think I can trust you. They always treat me like a baby if I cry." I didn't want to be this emotional over a stupid dream, then again, I've never really opened up like this, why to him? Ren has asked me what's happened before and I refused to tell him. Loki took my hand and made us intertwine our pinky fingers.

"I swear on my life, I will not tell them." Hearing him say this made me smile, I know he is a stranger, but looking more into it, he isn't that bad, I still don't trust him that much.
"Hey uhm," I reached into my pocket and brought out the rice krispies bar, "Wanna half it?" He smirked.

"Are you asking me on a date? To eat half of a bar." He laughed and I laughed to.
"Shh I'm not gay! Plus I'd never go out with the likes of you." I halfed it with him, "To survival."
"To survival." Loki smiled before taking a bite out of it.

"Can you two be any louder?" Winter looked at us both and shook her head, "What's the time?" She sat up trying not to wake Haru. I looked down at my watch, 7:46am not too bad.
"Seven forty-six" It's almost time to leave, we were meant to get up at 6:30 but oh well.

Standing up I took the time to stretch, my back still hurt from slipping yesterday but it wasn't too bad, it'd be worse if it was broken. We woke the others up and got packed and ready to leave, they weren't too happy about the early waking call. However, we brought the blankets with us they can come in handy for a lot of things, keeping warm, people in shock, picnics, sleeping...blankets are so cool. Anyway, Kyo checked that the coast was clear before we began  venturing out into the forest again.