Fight like hell

Sixteen

Evin looked around as they approached the small town next to the shore ''We're almost there.'' Mike said excitedly seeing nothing in the town but Evin was getting a bad feeling ''Yeah, let's quickly loot then I think we'll stay for the night before leaving early in the morning, ok?'' he stated and looked down at Mike who nodding, holding his hand as they walked towards the first building, a gas station, once inside Evin shut the door's and turned having his pistol out, he walked forward checking each isle before going behind the cash register in the middle of the store then went to the bathrooms and storage room seeing it was clear then walked back seeing Mike was already grabbing water and chip's for their trip across the sea.

Evin checked for different food knowing that living off of chip's and candy bars wasn't really ideal for a child, but everything was rotten or rotting, a gas station like this didn't ever have fruits and vegetables, if they did they would be long rotten by now. Mike brought the thing's over and took his bag off getting the water into his bag and a bag of chip's, he looked to Evin moving two water bottle's to the side and a bag of chip's before getting up, Evin saw him do this and smiled walking over taking his bag off and put the thing's inside before going into the bathroom, he saw the medical kit on the wall and looted it before walking out and joining Mike. They moved to the next building that looked like a cafe.

Evin went ahead and looked around before pushing the back door open and looked around not seeing any zombies making him concerned, he left the back and looked around seeing a sign of a struggle. Mike was already walking around, looking into a cabinet with different plates ''I never understood why people collected plate's not intending to use them.'' Evin smiled looking at the plates ''Same.'' he explained and went behind the counter checking the small display cases for anything. Mike walked over to the window and looked around outside and caught something move in the corner of his eye, he was a bit confused and looked back to Evin who came around the counter, they left and headed down the road, Evin didn't see a reason to check every single building so they moved right to the houses, there were only ten houses in this small town. So they started with the first one, Mike stopped and looked back seeing a trash can fall, Evin looked over hearing it hit the ground and saw it roll a bit before stopping against the sidewalk ''Inside.'' Evin stated and looked down the street while Mike went to the house.

Evin ran over and opened the door before shutting it and locked it, he turned keeping Mike close and looked around ''Evin maybe-'' Evin covered his mouth hearing a groan in the next room and leaned against the wall with Mike in front of him ''You're gonna run up stairs and go into an empty room, do not come out until I come get you.'' Mike nodded and booked it upstairs, as he did a runner chased after him but Evin grabbed it as it came into view, he pulled it away from the stairs and tossed it to the wall taking his knife out getting ready to fight it, it turned fast staring at Evin before running at him, he grabbed Evin's arm so Evin brought his knife up but it knocked it out of Evin's hand and pushed him back hitting the wall hard, he reached down taking his gun out then saw another runner come into the area, he ducked down as it tried biting him, he grabbed the knife before turning around and shot the first one then felt the other bite his leg, he sat up and stabbed it in the head before kicking it off him, he pulled up his pant leg and watched as the veins around the bite turned black almost immediately telling him this wasn't good, he got off the ground and grabbed the wall falling forward.

His vision went hazy for a second and he felt nauseousness fill his system, he pushed off the wall before leaning over putting his hands on his knee's throwing up, he stayed in that position for a bit before standing up and whipped his mouth knowing that this was bad. He looked up the stairs knowing he needed to tell Mike about what was happening. He sighed and headed upstairs feeling a headache enter his head, he looked around seeing two door's open but one was shut, the closest to the stairs, he went over and opened the door seeing Mike lower his gun then ran over to him hugging him, Evin froze a bit before hugging him back, Mike then grabbed his hand and pulled him over to the window ''Is that big enough? It's the only boat down there?'' Evin looked out the window and saw the small row boat tied to a log sticking out of the ground.

Evin nodded ''Yeah, that's perfect.'' he said thinking about how it could hold Mike alone just fine ''Mike, do you know how to row a boat?'' he asked looking down at him curious, Mike nodded ''Yeah, my dad use to take us out on the boat, while him and.... Andrew, were um... Fishing I was rowing us.'' Evin watched as Mike moved away from the window and took off his bag sitting down. Evin felt like he was gonna throw up again and looked to the bedroom door, his thought's were right, this whole thing was catching up to him, he should've been more careful, he left the room and walked down the hall before entering the bathroom and moved the toilet seat up throwing up, and he moved back seeing a bit of blood, he sat down against the wall and shut his eye's whipping his mouth again.