Z APOCALYPSE

CHAPTER 29: Silence

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The snow began melting under the watch of the newly born sunshine in the east. The cold temperature slowly fading away when the heat started stalking inside the pretty much-abandoned prison.

"We bury our love ones, we burn the others." This is what I heard from Sehun who had a shovel in his hands. I tried to look away and busy myself instead, I focused on the metal screens that separate us from the outer world.

"Hey." I heard Kai's voice from behind me. I turned around.

"Kai." I addressed as I drank the clean water in my bottle that Lay tried to boil to kill any of the bacteria.

"I thought that you'd like to see Minho before we finally bury him." He trailed off carefully as he watched my expression.

I just stared in the burial place far away from me.

"I guess, yeah, I'll just get going. I'm sorry I-"

"No, I'm coming," I assured him as I swallowed the lump that built in my throat. There's no way that I wouldn't see him for the last time anyway. Lay, being the doctor he was, he preserved Minho's body using some supplies in the infirmary and with the help of the colder winter so we can give him a proper burial as fast as possible. He's just pale. Several bites on his body, nonetheless, he died peacefully.

Fuck these tears again.

I blinked the tears away. I don't need tears right now. I should be happy that he'd be with his family now.

I felt Kai held me beside him as he tried to comfort me. I just bit my lip. I don't need the weak Baekhyun at this moment.

"Yeah, you should bury him now," I said as I set the wildflowers that I painfully picked. It reminded me that these flowers are about to be given to someone I value. Someone who just passed away.

We all stood there. We are about in our thirties or forties. All are original members of the sanctuary except Kyungsoo. We told our last words on his grave before Sehun started scooping soil to finally cover his remains.

Upon watching how Sehun dig the ground to cover Minho hyung's body, over the other side where I was standing, I saw Chanyeol staring at me.

We had eye contact for a second before I looked away, wiping the tears on my eyes. Maybe he doesn't want to see me being vulnerable around the other fellows. He needs me to be strong right now, I guess. I could say that I'm the second in command after all that had happened.

I glanced at him again. The sunshine fanning over his face. His height outshines all of us. He stood with authority and just. I could say that he's handsome. But something caught my attention. His eyes. His eyes aren't on mine anymore. But I know he's looking somewhere else over my direction. He's still looking at me.

And then I found out. Yes. He was still looking in my direction. No delusions. He was staring at me but specifically on the hand that is wrapped around my waist. Kai's hand.

Why is he looking at me like that?

I'm about to react and think of pulling away from Kai but when I'm on the verge of doing it, he stepped back quickly as he pulled away from his stares, he whispered something to Suho's ears before backing away and leaving the area without uttering a single word.

My eyes followed his broad back. He got inside the cell alone. I shouldn't be worried anyway, the cell is zombie-free now. We checked that too many times that we are already had gotten familiarised with the place. We thought that the prison is small after all.