zombie apocalypse | the fallen (book One) [REWRITING]

chapter 13

Zoe p.o.v
The building was dark and yells could be heard from all around. The sounds of feet following behind your group got louder with each second. You found an open room to hide in. "Preston" you whisper down the hall. Preston walks over quietly and looks where you are looking.

You all go in and close the door. It makes a scraping sound so you stop and wait a few seconds before closing it fully. You lay your mom down and search in the dark for medical supplies. You manage to find some bandage wraps, some thread and a needle to stitch her wound shut but nothing to clean it.

You take the chance anyways and do the best you can to dress the wound. "AAHH" kryssie screams into her hands as someone ran by. They stopped right infront of the door then continued running.

An hour passes and you decide to look out the little window in the door. Nobody is around at the moment but you know when the door opens it'll draw attention through the silent building. You wait until the building started to make its sounds of settling before lining the door's movements with it.

You all leave the room as quiet as possible, your feet crunching dirt underneath you. You walk down the hallway and look around corners before telling everyone to follow. You can't see a thing so you have to walk slowly. The darkness shielding you is nearly useless as sounds of footsteps echo through the air.

You all freeze and stop breathing. A gun went off but everyone moved just in time as you grab the woman's arm and push it to the side. When she tried to scream for help, the only sound that came out was one of her neck breaking. You dropped her to the floor slowly and kept going.

"what the hell was that may?" a man is walking towards you, lights turning on. "Shit" you all have to turn back but before you can you get grabbed by your hair. The woman, may. You struggle against her grip because it's too strong. She turned dangerously fast. Preston helps you and kicks may's face into her skull. Then preston gets grabbed by the arm and starts trying to fight back. So much for slow and silent.

After a few more minutes a bigger fight broke out between your group and randals. Blood spilled on the walls and floors, you couldn't turn anywhere to avoid it. isabella was stabbed but not badly so she could keep going. Preston was almost shot right between the eyes but you jumped in the way, hitting the gun. You took a bullet to the shoulder for Preston.

As you fell to the ground a deep voice screamed "stop!" Over an intercom. "all of you knock it off. It's two-forty-seven- in the motherfucking morning. I need to get my beauty sleep and i cant if you fuckers won't shut the hell up!" then a door at the end of the hall opens.

Randal walks out katana in hand. " what the hell are y'all figh'n about?" You roll your eyes without thinking about it and Randal starts walking towards you. He was speed walking and Preston tries to move you out of the way but you just stay there, not breaking eye contact with randal.

"you just roll your pretty little eyes at me young lady?" "yeah. Is there a fucking problem?" you spat back. "listen sweetheart, i don't know who the hell you are or what your problem is, but your attitude better drop dead before you do." " I dare you." Randal laughed in your face. " For a girl you got quite some balls."

You were seething but restrained yourself from doing anything physical to escalate the situation. "obviously bigger than yours if im still standing here, breathing." " Damn. This one yours kid?" He looks to preston then back to you.  "She's pretty ballsy. Are you the woman of the relationship?" Randal turns fully to preston and laughs.

You can tell preston is ready to beat Randal's ass. You thought about letting him. "Now you killed one of my people. Again. Atleast one of you needs to die and you can leave." " You're the one who kidnapped us and beat us. Tried to almost kill us first."  you say putting more pressure on your shoulder.

" yeah well the keyword there was ALMOST. ALMOST killed you. You DID kill my people. So you're gonna have to pay." before you can even react a gun fires. "NO!"

You fall on the floor next to your mom. You grab her lifeless body hoping this was all just one fucked up nightmare. "you son of a bitch." Preston spits at Randal and quickly throws a punch. Randal shoves Preston and takes his turn. You and Isabella moved kryssie out of the way. Everyone let Preston and Randal battle it out, both sides confident in their fighter.

Preston rips his knife out of his pocket and swings. Randal dodges and grabs one of Prestons arms, Pulling it back. the knife flies towards isabella. Preston is trying to worm his way out of Randal's grip but is unable. Randal was about to snap Preston's arm, but the sound of metal cutting, and the smell of blood, filled the air.  Isabella had grabbed the knife, and slit Randal's throat.

Preston thanked Isabella and regained himself, before talking to Randal's people. " Now who the fuck shot the gun!" Preston starts yelling towards the now fear-filled and nearly silent group. Their cheers for their leader had turned to quiet cries. "TELL ME BEFORE WE SLIT ALL YOUR FUCKING THROATS!"

A man steps forward. About the same height as Preston. " i didn't want to. I-im so sorry. I-i- i just didn't want to be killed like everyone else who didn't listen to him" "that's what the last asshole said." And with that preston took the gun from the man and shot him repeatedly. Everyone watched in horror but at the same time looked relieved. No one else would have to die.

Preston crouched down next to you and isabella, who had returned to her spot on the floor. "Zoe im so sorry baby. And isabella im sorry too. She won't be in pain anymore though." you just stay silent.

"im sorry too. I heard about emma. Even though i don't know her i know how much she meant to you two. Especially you Preston." Isabella finally said something. "thanks." preston says in almost a whisper.

"All of you assholes listen up. If you want to stay alive you will give us a car and supplies. Or we will kill every single fucking one of you!" Preston demands and people step back. " you took part in this so you're gonna help us. Especially after this." he looks towards kryssie and back.

People start going in and out of rooms with supplies and someone came out with car keys. " it's out front. Heres supplies." a little girl hands preston car keys and her, who you assume is her mother, hands him a box of food, water, and ammo. He nods as a thank you.

" we gotta go now zo." Isabella says clearly trying to choke back tears. You still say nothing. The only thing you can do is cry. "Zoe, i know how much you love her. I love her too. But we have to go. We can bury her in the meadow." "The meadow?" Preston comes back inside. "when we were little we went to a meadow with our mom. It was her way of helping us cope with losing our dad. We could run around and play while she watched us."

A smile forms on isabella's face while she talks about it. " that's beautiful. Where is it?" " Just down the road and a little ways to the right. When we lived out here we always went. But once we moved to another state we could only go there when we came to visit family or something."

" We can definitely bury her there. Zoe what do you think?" you just nod your head weakly. " Let's go then." Preston grabs your arms and pulls you up. You almost fall back down since you feel completely numb, so Preston carries you to the car.