Survivor (Book #1 of the Survival Series)

Chapter Sixteen

---Luke's P.O.V---

I slipped on black skinny jeans and a black T-Shirt. I grabbed a sweatshirt and slipped on my shoes and walked out, not forgetting Juli's gun and her katana. It wasn't like her to go anywhere defenseless. I had her katana strapped to my back, I don't know if I would ever use it but I had it for her.

I ran into Daryl, he looked down at me and motioned for me to follow. Something was wrong, nobody was around they were all gone.

"Daryl what's going on?" I asked him, he didn't turn around but answered.

"It's Juli." He said. It was a short answer but enough to make my heart leap to my throat and stomach to drop.

"What do you mean? She's okay right? What happened?" I asked more questions.

"Look, I don't know the full story but Michonne, Hershel and Juli are all gone. They disappeared." Daryl tried to explain as best he could. I could hear in his voice even he was worried.

"But how?" I persisted. I wanted answers, "I just saw her a while ago."

"We think they were taken." Rick said walking up. "Michonne and Hershel, Juli just may have been in the wrong place at the wrong time." Rick said

"That's it? All three just vanished?" I asked

"No, there were four." Rick said looking at me, "Michonne, Hershel, Juli and Brody."

"Dammit." Daryl cursed under his breath. He kicked a bucket that came from who knows where. Rick and I looked at Daryl with confusion. Daryl sighed. "I knew he was planning something. I fucking knew it." He growled, "That boy is going to pay."

"What are you talking about?" I asked

"Brody." Daryl hissed, "Has a thing for your girlfriend. I threatened him that if he touched her he would deal with me but obviously I wasn't a big enough threat. Well," he said grabbing the crossbow off his back, "That's about to change."

"Daryl, where are you goin'?" Rick called after him.

"To get them from Brody." Daryl called

"You don't know where they are!" Rick called back

"I have an idea."Daryl yelled getting on his motorcycle. "Luke! Let's go get your girl."

I started running towards the truck.

"Can I come with you?" a girl asked. She had the cell next to me and Juli, what was her name again?

"Um, sure..." I said trailing off for her to fill in her name.

"Charlie." She smiled.

"Okay Charlie, let's-" I was about to finish when I was interrupted

"I'm coming to." Said a girl with Brown and blue hair. She had Hazel eyes. I remember when I talked to Juli she said there was another girl she thought she knew. "I'm Fay, by the way. I'm Juli's best friend."

"Oh, well then I guess I'm obligated to bring you." I smiled and opened the truck door for both girls.

I drove as we followed Daryl on his bike. Man I wanted one. The truck was silent. I didn't know either of the girls as well as Juli did. She told me little about Charlie, I know she has a sister and she's in the cell next to us, yep. That's about all I know. Fay, I knew a little more, but we didn't talk that much about her because Juli wasn't sure if Fay would have made it here.

"So Luke, you were in a band before all of this?" Charlie broke the silence.

"Yeah, we were called 5 Seconds of Summer." I smiled to myself remembering all of the happy memories, things I don't think I'll ever have again.

"I remember Juli talking about you in History class." Fay said,

"What did she say?" I asked out of curiosity.

"She loved your music. She always talked about how hot you were." Fay laughed. "One bitch though, told her that she would never end up with you and called her names like slut, whore and bitch. Juli didn't deserve any of that treatment. She turned away from friends and family and blocked out life with music."

I looked at Fay, "What do you mean?"

"I mean she had this period of pure depression. She turned away from everyone for a good amount of time. Became anorexic but I forced her to eat, she's an athlete and needs food. She attempted to cut but I took away her blades and razors and anything she could use to hurt herself." Fay explained, "No scarfs were allowed near her. Of course, her family didn't know about this, nobody did really."

"How did you?" I asked

"I'm her best friend Luke." Fay answered, "And, I went through the same thing. I would go over to her house and we would just sit and listen to music, sing and I would try to keep her mind off of everything."

"What bands did you listen to?" I asked in just sheer curiosity.

"You know, well, Juli's music taste varies but we mostly listened to stuff like Green Day, All Time Low, Sleeping with Sirens, Pierce the Veil, stuff like that. Fall out boy and you guys." Fay answered. Wow, Juli and I had the same music taste, Wish we still had our instruments.

"So which one of us is your favorite?" I asked, again just out of curiosity. Both girls were cute, one cuter than the other, but no one could come close to Juli.

"Ashton." Fay and Charlie answered at the same time. I felt some tension rise and felt uncomfortable. Plus, Ashton had a girlfriend, Clarissa and I don't know if he'd leave her for Fay or Charlie, but I guess in this world anything's possible.

I just hope we find Juli.

---4 Days Later---

Daryl finally slowed down his bike, I don't know how long we'd been driving today but it was long enough for me. For the past days we've looked everywhere, except here. Daryl was sure this is where they took the three. Daryl stopped and hopped off his bike and started our way. I noticed both girls were staring at him. They both liked the same guys. This was not gonna be pretty.

"Okay, I'm 99.99% sure your girl is in there." Daryl motioned towards what looked to be a camp.

"What is this place?" Charlie asked

"The Governor." Fay whispered.