The Ruins Part 2 (Sequel to The Ruins)

Chapter 7

After days of traveling in the vehicles, they found the university. Mal and Negan went on their own to arrive at Colorado while the other stayed behind at the neighborhood not to far from the university.

While they were side by side Negan would talk about the joys he had when he was in university; going in so much parties while doing his job in school, yet still had the rebellious streak of getting drunk until waking up with the worst hangover. He then teach Mal the logic behind football as they drew closer to the university with one major sport, that is Football.

"OK, so let me get this straight. If you mess up your fourth down, then you give the ball to the other team?"

Negan nodded, "Right it's called a turnover."

"And if you clear the ten yards then you're back at the... first down?" Mal asked.

"First down, that's right." Negan nodded. Mal sighed in confusion, trying to get the idea behind football. "You gotta play it a couple of times. It'll all make sense."

"What a weird game."

They hop over a wall. The university looks nothing empty or ruined, the building had this ancient feeling that its history will never disappear or be broken down, the vines inhabiting the walls, windows dusted. The place was emigrated as a quarantine zone, a medical faculty to experiment and work on a cure, if they even tried but failed miserly.

"Let's head to central grounds. Should be able to see most of the campus from there."

While walking past the buildings, down to a slope, Mal asks Negan. "You went to college?"

"Yeah. Used a bit online dice my job."

"What's college was for?"

Negan had to think about the simplest way to explain. "Well, college was a school where you will live at and study, even party to find the next chapter in your life. They're usually the best parties than the shits I've been."

"But aren't you going to a high-school? Why come back another time?"

"To there education of jobs, what you want to be. I should of takin' a fucking year off, that's my regret about college."

Inside they split to search every dorm of the one building. Mal inspects a lot of the rooms were similar. Bunk beds decorated for roommates, posters of movies, instruments, desks filled with papers and textbooks, and once a while have a tiny fridge full of beer. Coming outside where there was a camp, a scout. Two lawn chairs, a sleeping bag and binoculars. Then under the bag something glistened by the metal. It was carelessly left behind homemade flame thrower.

"Hey, Negan check it out." Mal chuckled holding up the weapon.

"I'll be damned..." Negan smirked. "This is a badass motherfucker. I guess I was on the good list for Santa." Mal handed the weapon to Negan and he secured to his bag. They went back outsides to search the musky and dark space where students would work on cars.

"Ah, shit," he proclaimed.

"What?"

"Thought one of those dorms would have some dope in there. Been awhile."

Mal rolled her eyes. "And have to deal with your messed up bullshit while we're in war, hell no."

Negan giggled. "After the war. Be like a celebration, smoke a joint."

Further into the campus, across the building is a light shining down a glass window- no, a glass building. The Science building, it was called, was nothing but windows on the side giving it an appearance of a mirror. Negan flips a switch to the electronic gate that Mal had to reactivated with a generator beside the wall, "So what about you? What'd you want to be?"