The Roses

Chapter 2

Storm's P.O.V-

It's been six months since the infection made it's way to the United States. Six months since our first encounter with the infected. After the incident with Jessie, Matty, Jill, and set out on the five hour drive to the safe zone. We made it about half way there when we ran out of gas. That five hour drive turned into a two day walk. We had reached this small town only a few hours away from the safe zone. We were tired and hungry. We wanted to ration the food that we had brought with us. It was only three back packs full of supplies that we thought we could use, plus a radio.

We had a few news reports come in, and basically what they thought caused the infection was the roses. Scientists came up with this new chemical that was supposed to just make the roses more vibrant and smell better, but something went wrong with it. It released this toxin into the air and it basically would make you really sick and eventually you would die.. but you wouldn't stay dead. It mutated human DNA like it was supposed to do with the roses but it just turned you into a brain dead cannibal. Now why did only some people get infected and not everyone if it was an airborne virus? Well some of us were immune to it. It had something to do with the flu shots. I guess it could make us immune to the airborne virus but not the bite. If you get bitten by one of the infected, you're fucked. The flu shot won't cure the virus. It just makes you immune to it. So Matty, Jill, and I had our flu shots. Jessie didn't. That's why he was like that. If you thought our world was fucked then, you should see it now. I used to love the quote, "I see humans, but no humanity," well now you don't see either. A few days after those news reports, we completely lost contact with the rest of the world. No t.v., no Wi-Fi, no phone service, no radio. Nothing. We had our music and that's about it. We made our way through the town and we finally got to the safe zone only to find that it was crawling with the infected. Good thing we had picked up a few weapons and ammunition from a small shop in the little city we passed through. We weren't fucking retarded. We were horror nuts and we loved watching zombie movies. We were gonna be prepared. After that we had jumped in one of the trucks in front of the safe zone. It was in good shape and I knew how to hot wire a car so we were out of there in no time. A few days later we were walking along the empty streets of an abandoned city because the fucking truck ran out of gas in the middle of no where and it was pretty fucking depressing, so what did I do to lighten to mood?

*flashback*

"I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's home to me and I walk alone" I sang.

Jill and Matty looked at me and smiled. Matty pulled out his acoustic guitar and started playing along. We may be in the middle of a zombie apocalypse but we are still musicians. Jill joined in.

"I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk alone-" Jill and I sang together.

"-with two other people beside me," Matty sang causing us to laugh.

*end of flashback*

I smile at the thought of that memory. Six months later and Jill, Matty, and I are still together with two extras. We were walking through a Target somewhere in Northern Cali gathering canned food, batteries, flashlights, etc.

"What are you smiling at?" asked Hannah, one of the new recruits.

"Oh nothing just a memory of the first days of the apocalypse with Jill and Matty. We were walking on an empty road of an abandoned town, so we decided to sing "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day," I said, still smiling.

"Of course. You would turn a depressing situation into a song reference," Hannah said laughing.

"I love my song references," I said back.

"Yeah no shit, Sherlock,"

Just then, Abby, the other recruit, came running around the corner scaring the shit out of Hannah and causing me to pull my dagger on her. She stopped when she saw the sharp blade.

"Shit Dude! Chill it's just me," she said holding her hands up in surrender.

"Fuck Abby! You almost gave me a fucking heart attack!" Hannah yelled.

"Shit, both of you be quiet before you attract those undead bastards!" I whisper yelled.

"Alright, alright, sorry. It's just I was in the back were they store a whole bunch of shit and I found a whole bunch of Pierce the Veil and Sleeping with Sirens and a lot more band albums! Oh and I found Monster!" Abby said practically vibrating where she stood.

"Seriously??!" Hannah yelled.

"Hell Yeah!" Abby said calming down another but not much, "Come on I'll show you."

"Fuck yes! Finally some music!" I said.

We had all of our music on our phones but with no power our phones went dead making them useless and leaving us stuck with only the memory of all the songs we came to love. There is one thing good about the apocalypse. We can steal all we want. Matty, Jill, Abby, and I all got new guitars and amps that we keep in our truck while Hannah got a drum set. The truck had a little trailer attached to it so we keep some of our weapons and our instruments. We weren't about to let this apocalypse take away our music.

"You guys go ahead. I'm gonna go get Jill and Matty. They are going to want to see this," I said.

"Kay. Bye!" Hannah said running off with Abby.

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Ten minutes later, all five of us were sitting on the floor going through all of the CDs in the storage room. We were all fan girling off our asses. A while back I had found a portable CD player with head phones. I'm glad I kept it. I can finally use it.

"Guys!! I found 'Collide with the Sky'!!" I yelled jumping up and down fan girling.

"YAY!" Hannah said jumping up and down with me.

"I found 'We Stitch These Wounds'!!" Jill yelled fan girling with us.

The others looked at us and laughed. When you're in an apocalypse, to avoid getting seriously depressed, you gotta enjoy the little things.
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Hello people. Okay so I know I said that Pierce the Veil and Sleeping with Sirens would either come in, in this chapter or the next one but there's been a change of plans. They'll for sure be coming in, in chapter 4 or 5. I promise. Comment if you want to see what Jill, Storm and, Matty, look like. Thanks for the reads!