Know Where (A Walking Dead Game Contintuation)

Disappointment

That morning, Willy, AJ, and Tenn left the picnic table and entered the school building. They went their separate ways to find scraps of wood falling off the old building. Before the hour was over, they finished scrapping the first floor. Willy carried the collected scraps to the front gate while Tenn and AJ searched the second floor. The second floor didn't have much, but they cleared out what was left. After they were done collecting wood from the school, they ended up with a big pile of wood that was taller than AJ himself.

"This outta keep those fuckers out," Willy said.

"There's no way that they'll get in here now," AJ agreed. "We should keep looking for more wood though, there's a lot more wall than we think."

The boys walked to the deteriorated bell tower. They entered on the ground floor and saw what was left of the stairs after it collapsed. The stones were crumbled and the sun shone through in spots.

"You know this used to be my favorite place to go alone before it happened," Willy said. "I used to make my own slingshots and fire stones past the wall."

"I remember," Tenn said. "I used to see the stones fire out of nowhere. I was confused, but I felt like it was either you or Mitch who did that."

Willy started to frown when Tenn mentioned Mitch, it's been a while since he thought of him, but it made him more determined to protect the school.

"You know, we cleared out the school scraps pretty fast," Willy mentioned. "I could do this on my own, I feel like it doesn't need all three of us to just pick up some wood."

"Are you sure?" AJ asked. "We can stay here and help you."

Willy shook his head, "No! I'm okay, go ahead and ask Louis or Aasim if they need any help, I should be done clearing this place out in the next couple hours."

"Okay," Tenn said. "If you say so, we'll still be here if you need us."

AJ and Tenn left Willy in the bell tower to finish with the wood. They looked around and saw Clem, Louis, and Omar working on the nails at the far right. They were all too focused on adjusting the nails for reuse.

"I guess we should go check on them," Tenn said as he started walking over to the picnic table.

"No!" AJ got his attention as he grabbed his shoulder. He had a mischievous look on his face, "We could do something else."

"Like what?"

"You said you wanted to practice on some walkers," AJ said. "And the whole reason why we're doing this is so that they can't get in. I could teach you how to stun and kill walkers close by. We'd be helping a lot! Killing them will clear out the walkers in the area so we're safer."

"Are you sure?" Tenn asks, "We shouldn't really go out there alone."

AJ thought for a moment to himself then answered, "It's the best way to practice, there'll be no one out there to save us but each other, just like it really would be."

Tenn softly nodded his head in agreement. With the plan in mind, they passed by Clem, Louis, and Omar undetected. When they were outside, they made sure to avoid Violet and them by going the opposite way that they were walking towards. Tenn heard Aasim and Ruby's voice to their left, so they traveled to the right.

"We won't go too far, but we do have to go out of the safe zone," AJ whispered.

Tenn shuddered at the thought of going outside of it, but he knew there were no more walkers in the safe zone anymore. He didn't want to seem like a chicken next to AJ, so he looked at him with eyes of determination. The boys continued walking straight to the right as much as they could, marking trees with their knives so they could find their way back. They knew they were out of the safe zone when they were in an area they didn't recognize. There were no more traps Aasim set up at the area they were in.