Hope

Chapter 7: Home at last

I never thought anything can change so suddenly. "You saw something in your dream didn't you? About Andrew?" Collin asked. I shook my head yes, not saying anything else. "This is our safe home now." I told him not to tell him about Andrew. He hugged me as Andrew came to find where I went. I looked at him as I hugged Collin and passed out for no reason. I woke up in bed a day later when I saw Collin sleeping beside me and Andrew leaning over me. He replaced the wet rag on my forehead with a new one. "You've only been out for a day." Andrew told me with something I couldn't tell in his eyes. I got up out of bed quietly and stood up and Andrew was right there, our noses almost touching. We stayed there for a minute when he backed up. "Do you have a diary or notebook I can use?" I asked him. He took me by the hand and led me to a room. I saw it was his room and he said, "Pick anyone you like." I looked at a specific one and saw it was the one I saw in my dream so I can write things down in it. I pulled it out and saw it was all brown, but with a little design on it with a tree. I rubbed my hand across it and said to Andrew, " Thanks." I walked out and turned my head back to see him lying in bed. I got back to my room with a pencil and sat down on the bed writing everything from my dream. I saw a little girl with eyes like Andrews and Collins, but I don't know why. I also saw a boy with both their eyes too. They looked about the same so maybe twins. For the girl brown hair the length to her shoulder with a green teal in her hair and her eyes look blue like Collins. She wore light blue shorts and a black v-neck. The boy had brown hair that is short on the sides, but in the middle long and combed back. He wore a black v-neck with black skinny jeans that looked torn up like Andrews. His eyes were like Andrews, a chocolate brown.

Collin leaned up looking at what I'm writing because he's curious, but I hid it because I didn't know what it meant yet. It was dinner and everyone was down stairs eating, but I sneaked outside to explore the woods. I turn toward the white two story house with a porch and porch swing. I start running towards the woods. I looked around because it's beautiful and I tripped on a large branch not knowing and fell to the ground. I looked at my leg with a deep cut from a sharp stick and could barely move. I look up to see a zombie. I backed away slowly so he didn't know, but a twig snapped. The zombie looked like the jaw was hanging down with cuts on his face. He wore a jock jacket blue and yellow with a white shirt and light blue skinny jeans. I saw it was Brandon and I started crying with tears filling my face. I walk slowly towards him and right before I get to him an arrow goes through his head. I drop to my knee now knowing my arm has a big deep scrape as well. I start crying even harder not realizing Andrew is pulling the arrow out of the zombies head. Andrew helps me up and I grab him and pull him into a hug crying, burying my face into the crease where his shoulder and neck come together. I stop crying and sniffle as I pull away. I look to see it wasn't Collin it was Andrew, but I thought it was Collin.

"Can you help me carry Brandon back to the house please?" I asked. Andrew shakes his head and puts his crossbow around his body and helps me carry him all the way to the front of the house. As we lay him down I cry even more and drop to my knees again. Andrew drops with me and I lean into him crying not even caring. Everyone rushed outside seeing Brandon laying there dead. Collin sees me and Andrew hugging and then comes over by me and Andrew hugging me as I cry into Andrew. We all gave him a proper burial and went inside. Collin and everyone except for Andrew notice your cut. Andrew and Collin help me over to the couch while everyone heads to their rooms. I sit there just staring as they both take a rag and clean me off. Collin cleaned my leg and Andrew got my arm. Andrew moves my hair out of the way and sees rips on the back of my shirt with scrapes. Andrew starts lifting my shirt and I don't even flinch, but Collin does. Collin goes and gets a tank top for me to put on and then they start cleaning me up again. I have on my black spaghetti strap and then I fall asleep. Collin goes up to our room and falls asleep while Andrew sits by me. I woke up scared and I saw Andrew sitting on the chair next to you sleeping. I grabbed my diary off the coffee table and started writing what I saw in my dream again. I saw both Andrew and Collin being best of friends and Collin has the little girl on his lap. And Andrew has the little boy on his lap and they both laugh and have fun. "OMG!" I screamed on accident. Andrew is the only one that wakes up. "Are you okay?!" He asked me. I nodded my head and Andrew came over to me seeing what I'm writing and I didn't hide it from him for some reason. Andrew looks at me and asks, "What does this mean?" I raised my shoulders and closed my diary.

Collin comes downstairs to see how I'm not even caring that Andrew is here with me. They both start laughing and being best pals. I move to the chair so they have room and I fall right asleep. I woke up with people chattering and a baby whining. I jump up, grab my diary off the table with my pencil and head outside. I sit down on the swing and start writing and that it's about the children they cut themselves in the hand combining hands with the blood and start chanting some random words. And all the zombies around them fall to the ground dead. I look up seeing Collin standing there watching you write in the diary. I close it and go over to kiss him and he kisses me back, but then goes inside to fix breakfast. Andrew asks if I would like to go on a run as he calls it to get stuff for the baby, food, and medicine. I nod my head and he goes to get his only horse.

I leave a note for everyone that I'm going to get things with Andrew. We go down the road and make it to town. As soon as we stop Andrew helps me off and I run to a tree and throw up. He rushes over to me to help me. I finally stopped and we headed inside, I grabbed some baby formula, and some other stuff and I started screaming because a zombie almost got me in the store. Andrew rushes over and stabs it in the head. I drop the basket and give Andrew a shaky, scared hug. I lean out of the hug and Andrew kisses me. I deepen the kiss and things get heated. After we are done doing it we get the baskets and get on the horse. "Wait! I forgot to get something." I hop off to get a pregnancy test and put it in my pocket and grab vitamins like that's what I forgot. Andrew helps me and kisses me. As we ride on our way back I think to myself why did I do that? Is it hormones? When we get home and Andrew helps me off the horse I rush to a tree and throw up again. Andrew and Collin rushed over to me in concern and I stood up ignoring them both and headed inside to my bathroom. I locked the bathroom door and took the test out of my pocket and used it. I looked at it and it said...