Acid

Chapter Nineteen: You've Been Warned

"Shouldn't we wait?" Darrin suggested, as myself and the others nodded.

"There's no time. Look at all the feral's who were hanging around here!" Liam paused "You want to meet there friends, that were drawn by all the noise we made!"

Everyone stopped talking at the sound of Liam raising his voice. We could tell he was becoming unhinged, and just watching as he continued to yell at all of us, I couldn't think of anything else but waiting for Rae, she seemed to be the only one who could get through to him when he's in a mood. Plus who wants to go inside a creepy ass building with someone who can't think straight? Well I guess I understand why he just wants to get it done and over with before Rae gets here, I just wish he could calm down a tad bit and realize how much he's scaring the others.

"Yeah that's what I thought!" He shouted.

Liam soon stomped off, picking up what little gear he had as he walked to the pharmacy, bunking into both Darrin and Dane's shoulders, rather aggressively as he passed. It was like watching a toddler throw a tantrum to me, but I could clearly see that everyone else was rather frightened by his outburst. We all stood there awkwardly staring at each other while listening to Liam struggle to open the boarded up doors of the pharmacy. The others briefly looked behind them as to watch what he's doing but even though they wanted to help nobody moved. Guess it's time I say something to motivate them.

"He's just hungry, just like the rest of us, don't hold it against him" I stated "Once we get some food everything will go back to the way it use to be... soon"

"I hope you're right" Dane said.

I paid attention as everyone hesitated to continue on, and as always I had to be the one to go first. I broke from the group and walked to the pharmacy door, where Liam was so desperately using his knife to rip the nails out of the boards, that had been nailed to the door. I put my hand on his left shoulder, to calm him down as well as letting him know I was there and with that little gesture he smiled and gave me his other knife. I grasped the knife in my hands tightly as I began to work on the other side, but I couldn't help but notice that on the old wooden boards was a letter 'A'. The letter was burned into the corner with some special tool that gave it the smell of firewood burning when I got to close, I wonder what or who did this? I took a quick whiff of the wood and it seemed to smell still fresh, as if it had just been placed there, recently. Goosebumps ran up and down my back as I got the shivers, you know the ones you get when you feel someone is watching you and you can't see them? My mind flooded with questions, than answers to the questions, but in the end I just developed more bloody questions! The only one that stuck was the one I couldn't find an answer for. What does 'A' mean?

The nails soon gave out, breaching the surface and flying out to the floor as the board fell along with it, a clanking noise following. Liam's face lit up with excitement as he swung the door open just about to walk in, before I stopped him. My arm straight out in front of him propelled his body backwards as he clashed into it. He turned his head giving me a weird look and in return I gave the same, before breaking eye contact to knock on the door frame. I counted down in my head waiting for something to have followed the noise I had just made, 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... When nothing came I peeked my head inside and listened, going threw a safety check list I had come up with when entering new surroundings. 1. Can't hear any movement nor sounds, 2. No shadows or silhouettes of people... or feral's, 3. No rotting smell, 4. stop being paranoid and get your tiny ass in there. I soon removed my arm from in front of his torso as he proceeded to walk in, the tiny welcome bell ringing as we entered.

"Damn it's dark in here" Sandy said quietly.

"Hold the door open so we can see, until I find something we can use to wedge it open" Liam commanded.