THE DISTANCE

Chapter Twelve- WHO LET SIMON HAVE A GUN

Carson's pov-

We walked out hand in hand to see the last thing we were expecting. Simon was on the ground clutching his foot and whaling, there's blood everywhere. "What happened!!" Wylder shouts clearly panicking. Everyones talking at once and I just shout "Everyone shut up and answer the question!" Everything gets quiet and then Ryann finally says, "This fucking idiot decided to play cops in the backyard and grabbed the gun that was on the table not realizing the thing was fucking loaded. A little pew pew at the bad guys and boom there goes a bullet into his foot." she says quickly. Wylder turns to Sam, "Sam there are actually five rules. Rule number five is always unload the clip if you're not using it!" "NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR JOKES THERE IS A BULLET THROUGH MY BIG TOE!" Simon screams.

I rushed over to him and lifted the dish towel that was covering his foot and took a good look. Having a nurse for a mom comes in handy I guess. I notice it's a clean through and through in the centre of his foot, which is good. "Ryann go get the first aid kit and any meds you can find, now!" I said, she listens and takes off. "Damn babe, I know Simon is dying but this nurse act is kinda hot!" Wylder says smirking. "DUDE I AM DYING YOU THINK YOU COULD BACK OFF MY GIRL!" Simon screams in retaliation. "Only because you're on your deathbed bud." He says winking down at a now whaling Simon. I interrupt their dispute over me. "Wylder take Sam in, Jaxon help me bring Simon into the house." I demand, as me and Jaxon each take an arm and help him up. We walk with him inside the house. Simon is hopping and still crying as we get closer to the living room. He fumbles into a white cushion chair in the living room. Ryann comes rushing into the room with a huge tub of supplies. "NO! Not on the white!" She shouts. I rummage through and find the peroxide and look up at Simon "This is gonna hurt a little."

With that I poured the peroxide on his bloodied and purple bruising foot. Like I expected he started screaming. Jaxon quickly covered his mouth. He's still screaming as I take some paper towel and wipe away the blood and excess peroxide. I then grab some gauze and bandages and wrap his foot with precision, my mom would have been proud. After I'm done I notice Simon passed out from what I assume was shock so I tell Jaxon to put him on the couch and to let me know when he wakes up.

I get up and make my way over to the stairs and see Wylder sitting with his head in his hands, so I go and sit beside him. "He will be okay I promise." I say while I put my arm around his shoulder in comfort. "I know but still I hate seeing him in pain, he can be stupid sometimes but if anything ever happened to him I don't know what I would do." He says still with his head in his hands. We just stayed in that position for a minute until I said something that I hoped would make him smile. "Wanna go cuddle?" I whisper in his ear. His head instantly leaves his hands, which are now intertwined with mine. Even when he's in distress he never fails to make me smile, it just makes me laugh. "Is that even a question?" He says while standing up. He guides me upstairs to our room and before I can say anything he picks me up like nothing and gently tosses me onto our bed and climbs on top of me. Our room, Our bed.

Before he could plant his soft lips onto mine we got interrupted again by Ryann screaming "Hey fuckers come and eat!!" Wylder's head just drops as he lets out a deep sigh, "Well so much for cuddles." He says while sitting up. Genuinely, Ryann is becoming the world's largest cock block right. Wylder gets up and reaches for my hand and I take it without a second thought as we walk hand in hand down to the kitchen to meet everyone. We walk in and I make eye contact with Ryann and her jaw drops. "Hold the fuck up, is this happening? is this a ''thing''?" She questions in shock. This instantly makes me panic and let go of his hand, quickly taking a seat beside Sam. Why would she ask that I have known the guy for a couple days, I mean we did have a steamy moment earlier but I doubt he wants to date, it is the damn apocalypse after all.

I then realize neither of us have answered her question. "Hello earth to love birds!" Ryann kept going, I poured myself some orange juice and kept my head down.

Wylder's pov-

When Ryann asked if me and Carson were a "thing" I wanted to instantly say yes but when she let go of my hand and ran off to sit with Sam I knew we weren't there yet. I didn't want to say anything so I just stayed silent and grabbed myself some chicken and veggies that Jaxon cooked up. As the awkward silence continued Elena and Jaxon were going on about something when the lights started to flicker. "Well that's not good." Spencer said while shoving food into his mouth. "No shit you idiot!" Ryann responds causing everyone to let out a quiet laugh. "Well what are we gonna do if it stays off?" Elena said while attempting to turn on the water so she could wash her dishes.

"There's a home hardware store not that far into town, we can see if we can get a hold of some supplies or something for a possible repair to keep the power up." Ryann suggested to everyone. It wasn't a bad idea I thought to myself. We could get some supplies while we were there. "I'll go check it out and see what I can find." I volunteered. "You can't just go by yourself, so how about just the men go?" Spencer exclaims. Everyone looked around at each other. "I'm in!" a quiet voice says. When I turn in the direction of the voice, I see Carson and she looks directly at me.

Carson's pov-

I was tuning out everyone and enjoying my OJ when I heard Wylder volunteer to go on the run, and I knew I couldn't let him go alone. When I volunteered me and him made this eye contact that couldn't be described. He knew I was in it, and I wasn't about to back down. I just turned my face back down to the table and continued to drink my OJ when I felt someone tap my shoulder. It was just Ryann.

"Are you okay?" She asked while pulling a chair out beside me and taking a seat. I had to think for a second before I answered her. I set my spoon back into the bowl "Yeah I'm good, don't worry." In reality her comments and questions from minutes prior were running through my head. If I'm going to do anything on this town trip it will be one- not get eaten alive, and two-prove to Wylder that my cowardice response to Ryann's badgering can be redeemed. I mean business.