Hope is Dead

Chapter sixteen

Luke held the door open letting the other's into the side store of a mall and they looked around ''Are we sure we want to be in a mall?'' Craig asked looking around, they all glanced around ''Yeah I have a bad idea about this.'' Lui added sneakily holding David's hand since they were in the back of the group ''We aren't going into the mall we're just staying in the side stores.'' Tyler looked at him ''That's in the mall?'' Luke looked at him before cocking the shotgun and walking forward, he went to the door's and peeked into the halls looking up and down the big hall seeing some zombie's to the right and more to his left, he pulled the door's shut and turned to them.

Everyone got why he shut the doors and walked around the small store they were in, he walked over to Marcel looking around as he approached him and looked at the different instruments he was looking at, they were in a music store because it was the closest one to where they parked outside, David went straight for the guitars, Lui followed him entering the room with him, David picked an acoustic guitar off the wall and sat down on a small stool and strummed it hating the sound and started tuning it, Lui pulled a stool up in front of him and watched him tune the guitar, Lui looked over to the door then back at David  ''I love you.'' David looked up at him and smiled while he continued to tune the guitar taking the tag off ''I love you too.'' he said meaning it, Lui could see he meant it.

Brian peeked inside that room seeing the two sitting together with smile's on their face while David played something on the guitar which made Lui look at him in a way Brian never noticed before. Lui was looking at him so intently that it seemed he'd forgotten everything around him ''What-cha looking at?'' Brian looked to his side seeing Craig and saw him look into the room ''The guitars.'' he said and turned away walking over to some drums, Craig followed him ''Why are they in there?'' Brian shrugged ''David Like's guitars.'' Brian lied hoping to get away with it but Craig saw threw his lie ''What aren't you telling me?'' Brian looked at him ''Nothing.'' he said trying to play it off and picked up two drum sticks, Craig grabbed them from him.

''Are they a thing?'' Craig asked and Brian looked at him and pretended to zip his mouth shut and took the stick's back not planning on playing the drum's just wanted to sit with them in front of him. Craig narrowed his eye's at Brian being very suspicious ''Their a thing.'' Brian turned to him ''Why don't you go ask them?'' Craig smiled ''Good idea.'' he said and walked over to the room, Brian was fast to run after him stopping him from entering the room but Craig already opened the door alerting Lui who leaned away from David pretending to be bored and got up walking over to the door slipping out between the two, Craig then stepped inside the room and Brian followed.

Marcel picked up the violin and the small stick that came with it with a string attached to it ''Use to play?" Luke asked as he walked over and leaned on a shelf, Marcel nodded ''When I was younger.'' Marcel simply explained and Luke sat down beside him, Luke looked over to Evan who was checking out guitars outside of the small room where more guitars were, Luke then looked down ''Evan told me about Simone.'' Marcel paused putting the violin down ''What did he say?'' Luke looked at him ''Said you two had a fight and got divorced.'' Marcel smiled a bit then nodded ''Did you ask about that?" he asked looking at him and Luke paused not knowing what to say ''You seemed down and I was... Concerned.'' Marcel looked at him a bit confused but shrugged it off ''Yeah, it was something stupid.'' he said almost shyly, Luke didn't question it.

Everyone froze hearing gun shot's coming from inside the mall, they then watched as the zombie's ran past the store, they all ducked down to be sure they weren't seen and continued hearing gun shots, Luke left Marcel side and pulled his shot gun around crouch walking to the door's, he peeked outside them and looked up and down the hall seeing it was empty and it was their opening, he stood up and waved for them to follow. David grabbed a guitar strap and attached it to his new guitar and put it on his back walking with the other's leaving the store.