End Of Everything (Book 1)

13: I Know I'm Not The Only One

*Olivia's Pov*

*A few days later*

*Nurses room*

Still no sightings of Phoenix yet. Some people are starting to believe they aren't real, and some think they died. Nonetheless, I did learn so much in the past few days from Matthew. My suturing skills are getting way better.
I learned how to do a appendectomy on a stray deer that Johnny found while on lookout.

I decided to start working more on my suturing. I grabbed one of the bananas and cut into it to start. The door opens revealing Matthew. He enters wearing a sky blue button up shirt, his glasses, and some black jeans.

"Hi." He groaned as he sits at his desk putting his head down.

"Hey, you okay?" I asked.

"Yeah, just a little exaughsted from last night. I didn't get much sleep after our class."

"What kept you up?"

"Just some late night thinking that's all. I'll just sleep later."

"If you say so." He turns in his chair with his back towards me, while looking to the ceiling. "So how's my stitch work looking?"

"Oh looks pretty good, keep up the good work." He answered while not even looking.

"So was it about me?" I sighed.

"W-What?"

"You haven't looked at me since you came in the room. And you didn't even look at my stitch work that I'm working on now. So I assume whatever you were thinking about last night must of been about me." I explained. He sighs while still starring at the ceiling.

"You're really smart and beautiful. I hope you know that."

"T-Thank you?" I stopped stitching and sat back in my chair. "W-What are you getting at Matt?" He turns around and faces me.

"As you know we've been in this room together since we found this place. You know me and I know you. We've gotten close and I know I've taught you well. You're caring, funny, you have a awesome personality. You have a true passion, a fire that burns for this job. And I love that about you. When I walked in on you and Dylan that day, I..I couldn't stop thinking about you. I know it's wrong to feel this way because I'm your teacher and all, but I can't help it. Olivia I'm in love with you and I want you." He admitted. I laughed after a pause.

"You're joking right?" I asked. He looks at me with hurt in his eyes. "Oh shit you're not joking. Look I'm sorry Matt, but I don't share the same feelings. I only see you as a friend and a teacher nothing more. I'm with Dylan and I love him. My heart belongs to him and him only. Plus I'm 18 and you're 38, that's all types of wrong Matt." He takes his glasses off, breathes on them, and wipes them with his shirt.

"I..I know, the age difference is a little drastic. But that doesn't matter when it's the end of the world. We have something special, you know it and I definitely know it." He snatches my hand and holds it in his. "See I can feel it, that heat from your palms, your nervous sweats, the way your eyes light up when I'm in the room. Deep down you want me, you have feelings for me, and you know I'm the man for you. Being with him is suicide, his parents want to kill us all. I can protect you, I can keep you safe! Now kiss me." I try to pull away from him, but he squeezes my arm and yanks me back to him.

"Let go of me!!" I tugged back and he squeezes even harder. He puts his hand on my chin and starts to bring his face closer to mine. Before he could even try, I scratch his face and knee him in his balls, causing him to release me. I run straight out of the room and down to the courtyard in tears. I look around and spot Dylan and Sam fixing up the wall. I run straight for Dylan, he truns around seeing me head his way he drops everything.

"What's wrong?" He asked catching me in his arms.

I quickly tell him what had happened. He clinches his fists and tells me "get behind me." I do as I'm told and see Matthew storming out of the school into the courtyard. He has a band-aid on his cheek from when I scratched him. He starts making his way towards us but Dylan starts heading towards him.

Matt grins, putting his hands in the air, and starts to speak, but was cut off by Dylan giving him a nice right hook to the jaw dropping him. Dylan gets on top of him and countines beating him. Blood splattering on the ground with every punch.

Johnny, Simon, and Claire all come running out of the school. Simon and Johnny manages to pull Dylan off of Matthew as Claire comes over to me.

"What the hell is going on?" Claire asked me. I explained what happened loud enough for everyone, including Johnny and Simon to hear me. Matthew's face was a mess. His right eye is puffy, bloody, and can barely stay open. His lips and cheeks are swollen terribly. His nose is broken. Blood starts dripping from his mouth and eye as he tries to stand up. Troy gets up from the bench and helps him up. Matt spits blood towards Dylan.

"Y..You...h..hit...l..like a bitch. Y..You f..fucking pussy." Matt chuckled while snapping his nose back in place. Dylan tries to break free from Simon and Johnny's clutches. They start to bring Dylan back over to me and Claire. Matt begins taunting Dylan even more as they walk. Dylan ignores Matt as he stands in front of me. I instantly wrap my arms around his waist hugging him. His arms automatically go around my neck.

"T..Thank you." I sniffed into his chest. I pull away to take a look at his bloody hand. "Y..You hurt your hand." He looks at his shakey hand.

"I'm not worried about it. He's lucky they showed up." I never seen him like this before. It's scary but we're all going to change in this new world.

Sam orders Tyler and Robert to take Matt to the nursing room. The both of them do as they're told and went to take him from Troy. They start to head to the school, but stopped as Nicole burst out of the doors. Her black long hair covering half her face full of tears, as she is covered in someone elses blood.

"SCOTT'S DEAD!!" She cried out. Scott is the south exit lookout, apart of Johnny's team. "H-His t-throat w-was slit." Johnny looks around, as everyone stares at him not knowing what to do.

Suddenly a growler bangs on the gate startling Simon. Finn the head gate growler killer, pulls his knife out and drives it through its skull killing it. He puts his knife back and makes eye contact with Johnny. Blood splatters on the ground as a bullet, goes straight through Finn's head killing him. Dylan takes me by the hand with his non injured one, and we make a beeline to the school.

"SNIPERS, EVERYBODY INSIDE NOW!!" Johnny yelled at everyone as, more bullets come flying in killing  more of us, as we all head inside the school. This is it, the fight that we all been training for, Phoenix is here and now we have to fight for lives.