Hope is Dead

Chapter forty six

Luke checked the shotgun he had and looked over at Marcel sitting across from him ''Did you sleep?'' Marcel looked up at him and nodded before looking back down at his hands as he played with the strings from his sweats, Luke set the shotgun down next to him and got up walking over to the window peeking outside seeing the horde take over the streets once again ''You think their ok?'' Luke looked back at Marcel getting off the box ''Yeah why?'' he asked sitting in front of him ''Evan's scared, I know he is, so are the other's but Evan's the most scared.'' Luke tilted his head ''Why would that effect all of them?'' Marcel looked at him and Luke could tell he was trying his best not to cry ''Because he's the thing that kept us together threw out the years.'' he said and looked away feeling tears in his eyes.

''Please don't cry.'' Luke smiled and Marcel smiled biting his lip slightly ''Trying.'' he chocked out, Luke moved his face to look at him and Luke stared at his glossy eyes ''They'll be ok, their all strong from what I could tell.'' Marcel smiled and looked down whipping his eyes, Luke raised his head again before pulling Marcel in for a hug ''Their fine.'' he whispered in his ear, when his breath hit Marcels ear it sent shivers down his spine, Luke just thought it was the feeling of crying. They pulled away and looked into each others eyes, Luke then sat beside him and wrapped his arm around him ''They'll be ok, when the zombies pass we'll go find them.'' Marcel leaned into him feeling safe.

''What if they come looking for us?'' he asked feeling a weird tension between them ''Then we'll meet up half way threw, hopefully.'' Marcel could tell Luke wasn't sure of anything at the moment and just stayed there silent, Marcel glanced over seeing that Evan forgot the guitar ''We need to bring Evan the guitar.'' he said and leaned off Luke looking at him, Luke only nodded simply, Marcel wiped away tears that were still in the corners of his eyes. Luke hung his head thinking about something ''Do you think I'm your friend?'' Marcel looked at him and nodded ''Yeah of course.'' Luke looked at him then looked down and Marcel could see what was wrong ''Back at that restaurant, if you didn't feel apart of the group I'm gonna say sorry for the whole group.'' Marcel explained, Luke looked at him ''Anthony and Scotty were kind of the same way but, less awkward,'' Marcel paused ''Not saying your awkward just, they had played games with us multiple times before.'' Marcel quickly said covering up his slip up. 

Luke smiled ''I understand.'' he said and slouched into the wall, Marcel sighed and looked over at the gun ''Can you teach me how to shoot?'' Luke looked at him then over to the shotgun ''Not with that.'' Marcel looked back at him ''I know.'' he said like a nine year old then turned front again, Luke sat up looking at him then reached behind him taking a gun out ''Up.'' he ordered standing, Marcel looked up at him seeing him do something to the pistol, he got up and Luke moved him in front of him bringing his hands up before giving him the gun ''Safety's on so if you shoot it won't actually fire.'' he explained so Marcel relaxed and straightened his arms, Luke bent his arms a bit and tried looking threw his perspective.

''Pretend your aiming at something or someone.'' Marcel picked a height then pulled the trigger flinching because he forgot the safety was off, Luke smiled ''Again.'' Marcel aimed again at the same spot and pulled the trigger again, this time not flinching as much, Luke then took the gun from him ''I'll teach you more when we're out of the city.'' Marcel smiled looking up at him a bit, he then sighed with a smile and shook his head ''I wanted to thank you.'' he spit out as Luke sat down ''For what?'' he asked, Marcel sat down next to him ''You saved me back in that grocery store.'' Luke smiled ''Wouldn't say save is the right word for it but, you're welcome.'' he said and looked at Marcel ''No it's just, before you came over and called my name I didn't even notice the guy.'' he said and looked at Luke.

''Then I would've died a cliché way.'' he giggled and Luke chuckled both looking down with dumb smiles on their face, Luke breathed in then leaned back putting his head on the wall looking up ''You think someone will fix all of this?'' Marcel shrugged playing with the stings of his sweats again ''In movies nobody stops it.'' Luke looked at him not lifting his head off the wall ''Why do you think that is?'' Marcel smiled looking forward ''They don't see a point in doing so.'' he explained before going quiet.