Hope is Dead

Chapter twenty

Marcel sat up slowly and looked down at his feet ''Why aren't you sleeping?'' Marcel turned seeing Luke was already awake ''I couldn't ever sleep properly.'' he said getting up from the bed ''Is that true?'' Marcel looked at him as he pushed off the wall ''Yes.'' Luke stared at him for a bit longer before nodding and turned to leave ''I have nightmares.'' Marcel spit out stopping Luke from leaving, Luke turned facing Marcel ''When did they start?'' Marcel looked at him ''Day one.'' he said and sat down on the end of the bed while Luke walked over.

''I slept in the truck that night because I knew it would be uncomfortable and I knew I wouldn't be able to sleep.'' Luke sat down beside him and looked at him ''It's not healthy to stay up for this long.'' Marcel nodded ''I know.'' he said and looked at Luke ''I slept last night.'' Luke looked him in the eye's seeing that was the truth, Luke learned very fast how to read Marcel, he was easy to read ''Come on.'' he said getting up ''Gotta get the cars back.'' Marcel got up and followed him out of the room and downstairs where they saw Evan and Craig up already ''He'll be fine, it's just another of their fights.'' Evan explained while the two walked over ''It's getting worse Evan.'' Craig worried and Evan smiled at him.

They looked over hearing someone else coming downstairs seeing it was Lui and David, Craig looked at him ''Just help me keep an eye on them.'' he said and took the glass of water from the counter, Luke stopped him ''Is that from here?'' he asked, Craig nodded and Luke looked at them ''Why didn't you say anything?" Craig shrugged ''It's just tap water.'' Luke's eye's widened and Marcel looked at him shocked as well ''What?'' he asked seeing their face ''There are shower's here y'know.'' Craig looked at Evan then they both looked at the two, they then all ran upstairs, Lui and David got up hearing their conversation and went back to their room. They went into separate room's, waking up the other's to tell them about the showers. 

They all entered different showers except for David and Lui who just shared one, all of them turned the hot water on and cheered threw out the second floor being very happy about the fresh clean water coming from the tap. David wrapped his arm's around Lui having two reason's to be happy now, Lui smiled cleaning his body then turned cleaning David's, they looked at each other before kissing one another. Lui turned around and picked up the bar of soap while David wrapped his arm's around Lui's waist while Lui thought about something bothering him ''Now when are we telling them?'' he asked and David hummed leaning down to kiss Lui's neck ''When ever you want to tell them.'' Lui smiled lightly running his finger tips over his hands that held Lui close.

David moved his hand's up and ran them threw Lui's short hair combing it back as the water soaked it and Lui knew he be regretting this but needed to hear it ''David can you promise me something?'' he said and held the bar of soap, David hummed again holding Lui's shoulders ''Don't leave me.'' David looked down at him as the water hit his left shoulder hard, Lui looked down to his right where David's hand was waiting for his answer, David leaned in placing a kiss on Lui's head ''I promise.'' he said feeling a strange tension between them now.

Luke exited the shower drying his hair smiling at the smell of freshness, he grabbed his clothes and got dressed hearing someone knock on the door, he got his boxers on and his pant's walking over, he opened the door seeing Evan was standing there, Evan looked up at him ''Hi.'' Luke looked him up and down seeing he had just gotten out of the shower as well ''Hi.'' Evan looked to the side ''Do you think Jonathan's ok?'' Luke stepped aside letting Evan inside ''I mean, it's been a while now and he's alone.'' Luke nodded grabbing his shirt ''He's fine, I'm sure he's still at our house right now trying to contact us.'' Evan looked down and Luke could tell he was worried ''I taught him everything I know.'' Evan looked at him ''If he get's hurt he knows how to take care of it, the same thing when he get's in a bad situation.'' Evan crossed his arm's over his chest ''We'll get to him.'' Luke reassured and Evan nodded still being worried.

Everyone met downstairs again and started making a plan on how to get the cars from the parking lot, once they had a solid plan set they packed up everything they had and got ready to leave ''All the zombies should be spread out by now.'' Luke said peeking outside the window threw the curtain not seeing any zombies ''Everyone knows who their ridding with?'' they all nodded and Luke grabbed the door knob ''Let's go.'' he said and pushed it open unsure of how he became the leader of the group over night,  they made their way down the street and towards the parking lot, some zombie's noticed them so they made a run to the cars.