Last Dawn of a Horde

Chapter Five: The Reunion of the Stars ~1 Jules

~Jules~

    "Dinner everybody! Meetings later!"

    Stanley called the others, and the first ones to sit by the long table I had found here in the warehouse were the cooks. We always assign three to five people to take watch every four hours, and unfortunately, these people will not eat first-handedly.

    John sat on the far end of the long table, the seat usually given to the highest official. It's not a matter to me anymore--being the class president in the past was already enough for me.

    June led the prayer, and it was very long. We try to pray before we eat, and thank God we are alive for another night. If I were to count, we are still students for two days and one night. Tonight's the second night.

    John didn't seem to enjoy the food which was unbelievably tasty. The thought of us eating stolen goods wasn't a good idea to ponder on, but it's fine to me. It's better than nothing.

    After we ate dinner, I set off some of my classmates to prepare the beds upstairs. From the home appliances store we had entered hours before we found John and Rich, we found some pillows, blankets and mattresses. This is our second night here and the first time we get to sleep comfortably. When the idiom says Hit the hay, we did it literally.

    The meeting was always boring. My classmates always complain that food is running low, or that the warehouse was really boring. Electricity here was even free, though.

    "Okay," I finally said. Noe and June stopped talking about how food here is roughly prepared. "Now, what time tomorrow will we have a mission to...find James and the others?"

    I looked at John. He was so quiet, sticking his spoon on his empty bowl.

    Rolcene tapped his glass. "It's now eight o'clock! Sleeping time!"

    This guy didn't like meetings, and he was the one reminding us of the time.

    "Yeah, yeah, maybe we could use a few more minutes," I tell Rolcene. "Now, I had this plan of getting two groups to find them in the forest again."

    Murmurs started to grow louder. When I say 'mission,' it means 'danger.' I can't blame the other students we got; one of Jet's twelve classmates here, Katie, glared at me.

    "I say you use your classmates for the search," Katie said grumpily. "You can't kill any more of us."

    I didn't like the manner she said that. I stared at her, and she calmed down.

    "Actually, if you let me finish my talking, you could have said something else," I tell her. "If we find nothing, nothing but hungry zombies, then I say we'll go back to the supermarket again."

    Leo, who was dangling by Jet's arm, chimed in. "What? The last time you sent people there three died!"

    "Well, we can't really prevent dying," Stanley beamed. "And if no one cared to risk their lives, all of us will die hungry!"

    "Thank you, Stanley," I say, as I motioned him to sit down. "Two troops by the morning. Rolcene, time their task."

    Rolcene straightened up.

    "Any more concern?" I ask.

    Perry, one of my classmate, raised his hand.

    "Perry," I called, rolling my eyes.

    "When will we kill zombies? I'm waiting to fight some! Like in the movies!"

    When he saw that no one found him funny, he grinned at us and sat down again. He had this idea, though. When we found John and Rich, actually there are at least ten zombies fifteen meters away from them. Although the zombies rarely walk or run alone, fighting one can be deadly. One of the juniors we have, Mark, got infected by just an accident of taking in zombie saliva that spurted to his mouth.