Something Wild

Part IV: Chapter Fifteen

I FINISHED MY PAPER AND IM DONE IM FREAKING DONE!!! I graduate on Saturday and start my big girl job in June 😍😍 look out world, you got a badass lesbian coming through!!!

As celebration, here's an update. But don't celebrate too much because, ummm...you're gonna fucking hate me soon.

Enjoy (?)

Chapter Fifteen:

            "Do you even know where we're going exactly?" Val asks the next day as we continue to head north.

            "North."

            "Yes, that's obvious," she says pointing at the sign that read 95 North. "But all you know is north?"

            "I know more, just not about the location...specifically," I explain peering over at her. She tilts her head curiously waiting for me to continue. "My dad, Jacob, worked with a lot shady people, one of them being a guy, Samuel. He makes Jacob look like an amateur compared to what he does to people. There was a lot of talk in the Q-zone I lived in about a ruthless bandit group up north ran by a man with the same name; Samuel. It could be the same guy, could be someone different. But I have no doubt that this is where my mom would have headed to find Jacob."

"Your plan is to head north until we find them?"

            "It's not so much of a plan as it is wishful thinking," I shrug. "Look, this group, Samuel and his men, are entirely new breed of assholes. They will do anything and everything it takes to survive in this world."

            "Won't we all?" Val asks, but I shake my head.

            "No, they take it to a different extreme," I reply, gazing around at the abandoned cars on the highway we walk on. "We would never kill an innocent person just for their supplies, just because we could. They get high off torturing people, killing them, robbing them, and—well—raping them. They don't care about people the way we do, Valerie. They won't hesitate.

            "Do you know how many stories I've heard, how many people that have been sent on scouting trips to never come back?" I ask her, a shiver runs down my spine at the amount of lies we've lost to them. "They're not to be fucked with, Val, and they're not to be taken lightly."

            "And your sure your mom would've come up this way?"

            "Yes," I nod, "it's the only place she ever thought Jacob would've ended up."

            "Okay," Val says walking beside me. " Then I've got your back, Peaches."

            "Even though I could very well be leading us directly into danger?"

            "Look around," Val says, opening her arms wide and looking around, "we're constantly leading ourselves into danger."

            "I guess, but this is higher stakes, Val, these are humans that are beyond ruthless and won't give us the chance to get close enough with our melee weapons." Val stops walking and turns around to face me, resting her hands on my shoulders. Gone is the easy-going smile and soft blue eyes, in their place is a seriousness that I've only seen a handful of times since meeting her.

            "We are going to get through this together," she says, her eyes boring into mine. "I am not going to leave your side, okay?"

            "You know that's not feasible, Valerie."

            "I'm not leaving you, I'm not losing another damn person to this world, do you hear me? I don't care who I have to fight, I will do it to be with you," she says adamantly, tears forming in the corners of her eyes.