The Plague

Chapter three

"Aim for the head!, anything else is a waste of ammo" Dave shouted at Lucy, clearly frustrated with her constant failure.

Lucy blinked away her tears. She was scared of even holding a gun, let alone shooting something with it. She took a huge breath in and let it all out, trying to calm herself.

She aimed at the head of the zombie made of cardboard, her hands visibly shaking, and pulled the trigger.

The bullet shot out and landed on it's shoulder.

"You call that shooting?" Tyler said from behind her. Her face fell and she stared at her feet.

They were all in an abandoned store house. No zombie in sight and the safest place so far.

"At least this is better than your last four tries" Dave said walking towards her. "You managed to hit the zombie"

He walked past her to Helena who kissed him immediately and they walked out of the store house.

Brad and Ruby walked towards Lucy and Ruby held her chin up.

"Cheer up, I was worse than this when I started"

"Yeah" Brad said " I couldn't hold a gun for two weeks. But, you get used to it after sometime"

Lucy smiled at their attempt to cheer her up and they smiled back. Tyler scoffed and rolled his eyes.

"How long have the zombies been around?" Lucy asked, trying to ignore him.

"Well, they came to my town four months ago." Said Ruby," But, they had been around long before then. No one knows exactly when. But the first people in this group were Dave and Tyler "

"If you want to know when this all started, your best bet is the both of them" Brad said and the both of them walked out of the storehouse. Leaving Lucy and Tyler.

Lucy knew Tyler would probably ignore her if she tried talking to him so she focused on shooting the cardboard zombie.

The bullet sailed and passed through the neck of the zombie.

Almost there

"Pathetic" Tyler said, walking out.

"What's your deal" Lucy shouted at him, "all I've done is mind my own business but you seem to find fault in everything I do!"

He stopped and turned to look at her. They glared at each other for a while then Tyler turned to leave.

"Hey!" She ran towards him and tried to stop him but he was too fast and he grabbed her, squeezing her wrist.

"Stop" she said wincing in pain, "you're hurting me"

"Weaklings like you can't survive this apocalypse. We should have left you to die"

A tear slid down her cheek and he looked at her with disgust.

"Pathetic" he let go of her hand and walked away as she massaged it.

She cried silently for a while, held the gun tight and pulled the trigger...

***

"Hello?" Lucy said after walking into the incomplete building next to the storehouse and seeing Dave resting on a couch.

"Hmm" Dave opened his eyes and sat up.

"Can I talk to you?" He pat the part of the couch beside him, gesturing for her to sit.

She sat down but avoided eye contact.

"So, what do you want to talk about?"

"It's about Tyler"