Hope is Dead

Chapter thirty three

Tyler didn't trust Craig walking on his feet, even with the crutches they found in one of the house that Tyler made Evan carry, Luke and Brian were in front of the group peeking into abandoned cars to see if there was anything useful in them or car keys in the bigger ones that held all of them, Lui was in the back walking slowly behind, Brock sighed and turned around looking at him seeing the sunglasses he grabbed when they were in the house. Brock waited till Lui was close enough then walked with him behind everyone. Brian went past the last car and looked inside only to jump back as someone hit the window forcefully, Luke went over being on the opposite side of the road and saw the woman inside seeing her forceful blow to the window left cracks around where she hit.

''Careful.'' Brian looked at him as the other's passed by them ''I can walk.'' Craig complained hating being up in the air, Tyler shook his head ''Nope, you'll hurt yourself walking on this broken ankle.'' Craig put his head back ''It's not fair your making Evan carry those.'' he said sitting up looking at him, Tyler turned around ''Are they heavy?'' Evan looked at him and shook his head, Tyler turned around again ''See, he can hold them.'' Craig looked at Evan who sighed and walked closer putting the crutches behind Tyler's back balancing them on the straps of his bag before stepping to the side, Tyler looked over at him.

''If he wants to walk Ty, let him walk.'' Marcel said entering the conversation, Craig then looked at him ''You can walk when we get off this street.'' Luke's eye's widened and he ran ahead of the group to a van that had it's door open, he looked inside cautiously then climbed inside seeing the key's in the ignition, he sat down in the seat hearing the other's run over, he tried the key's hearing what he herd the car's back on the road make ''No, come on.'' he groaned tried it again, then it came on, he smiled but then saw the gas and hung his head ''Empty.'' Brian looked around and smiled landing his eye's on a store not far from them ''Car place,'' Luke got out and looked over ''That has to have gas right?'' Luke nodded then looked back at everyone seeing Lui and Brock just got to them ''Evan, come with me and Brian to got to that place.'' he said looking over to it ''What about the rest of us?'' Tyler asked a bit shocked.

''Stay with the car.'' Luke said as they walked away, Brock opened the side door and put a seat down letting Tyler put Craig in the back seat before climbing in himself, Brock then got in and Lui sat next to him while Marcel stood outside of the van watching them walk away. The three turned looking around ''Isn't it weird there's like, no people?'' Brian nodded as they walked down the street ''Like they all kind of vanished.'' Luke then stopped listening to their conversation ''Luke?'' they asked and he turned to them looking around ''You're right.'' he said seeing the paper scattered ''That zombie back there, how old did it look?'' Brian looked at Evan trying to remember the zombie then looked at the ground guessing ''About a month.'' he said and looked at him.

Luke then looked around ''It started here.'' they looked around ''There aren't any people here because their either hiding or gone.'' he said and looked around some more towards the store they were going to ''All the zombie's are gone because they left looking for food.'' Luke nodded to Brian's conclusion ''We need to leave before some from a nearby town or city come looking.'' he said and they ran towards the store. 

Marcel tapped his foot looking around ''Come inside.'' Brock said seeing he was worrying ''That store isn't that far away why are they taking so long?'' he said looking down that way, Tyler looked behind them not feeling safe just sitting there, Brock looked away not knowing the answer to that questions or not wanting to know the answer to it. Marcel had his arm's crossed while Lui sighed leaning back into his seat crossing his arm's as well ''I'm sorry.'' they looked at him ''I don't know if I said anything hurtful last night but I'm sorry anyways for getting drunk like that.'' Brock reached over rubbing his shoulder, Lui grabbed his hand keeping it there, Tyler was going to say something but looked down at Craig remembering their talk on the tracks and kept his mouth shut looking out the back seeing something walking on the street.

''Marcel get inside.'' Marcel looked at him ''Why?" Tyler sat up a bit and looked around grabbing some binoculars in a small pouch and looked out the window, Marcel looked back seeing what he was looking at and moved Lui over fast shutting the door, he then reached into the front shutting that door before sitting back, Tyler put the binoculars down and slouched down pulling Craig down with him so they were out of view, the three in front of them did the same, they stayed down and stayed quiet hearing them getting closer.