The Days After

[Dayna]

I just wanted to start a story, I don't think it will be as good as blue's or brightsides, but I'll try, hope you all like!


Jim woke with a start, breathing hard, what had woke him in the middle of the night? As though God wanted to give him an ammoniate answer, Jim heard footstep outside the room, outside the house in fact. Was it Selena, Hannah, or Frank making those footsteps, thought Jim. No, Frank was dead and the rest, they knew better than anyone what evil lay outside these walls.

"Selena! Hannah!" he whispered, nothing, where were they? Most of the time they stayed in the same room at night, but why not tonight? Did they go to have a “talk”, or did they leave him? No, they wouldn’t, they couldn’t. As Jim reassured himself, the footsteps, seemed to become heavy, whoever or whatever was coming, didn’t feel like being quite, it must be an infected.

He stood and pain shot through his entire body, it was unbearable, but he would have to deal with it. As his eyes adjusted to the darkness that surrounded, he looked for his baseball bat, where was it? He searched the room, still no baseball bat, where did he leave it? As the searching continued so did the footsteps, but they seemed to get fainter.

The only night that he didn’t have his bat was the first night in 2 weeks that an infected attack, how ironic. Jim tried not to panic, looking around, nothing. Nothing could remotely help him fight off an infected; he would just have to improvise. Suddenly, Jim jumped with a start as a loud thug echoed in his head. Screw the improvising, if one of his friends was in trouble, he would have to help, no matter the cost.

Jim ran out of the room, the noises must have come from the front porch, and luckily he was right at the door that leads to it. He grabbed the only thing that was in his path, an umbrella, and it was all that he needed. He held the umbrella, ready to strike. He felt the ice cold door knob as he swung it open and was ready to beat anything that wasn’t human. On the porch, Jim looked around, anxious, where was the bastard? It was to dark to see anything, the aluminous red of eyes would be showing, but Jim didn’t see any. His ice blue eyes scanned around for any signs of life, Jim took a few steps backwards toward the door, when he heard a moan of dispear.

“Awwww, please help me,” moaned the person. Jim looked hard as he saw that just three feet away lay the body of a person, sprawled across the stairs. And to think Jim was going to leave him high and dry.

“What’s your name? Are you alright?” said Jim, with a concerning voice. He knew that the person wasn’t alright, but at the moment a hallmark pick me up wasn’t in his mind. Jim didn’t drop the umbrella, just incase the person was about to turn, he would be ready. With his spare arm, he rolled the person over and saw that he was he was just a boy, 17 at the most. Jim knew with the arrival of this boy would be the arrival of many infected.

“My name is, Kyle, please stop them,” the person moaned. Jim didn’t turn around, he summoned all the will power he had and lifted Kyle into his arms, and ran. The screams filled his ears before he was on the top of the stairs, but he still ran. The ringing wouldn’t stop, so close to the door, but the stomping feet of the infected were racing upon the porch. Jim was at the door, but tripped over something laying on the ground, that sent Kyle and his umbrella into a tumble.

“SELENA! HELP!” screamed Jim. Jim now saw the fiery red eyes of the infected and swore it seemed, different from the rest. The infected was an older man, with wisps of brown hair sticking out of each direction and old wrinkles were sketched with blood.

The infected man ran toward him, arms in the air, screaming out ready to rip his skin off. The infected was just a few feet away, when Jim flared up his leg and kicked the infected with his leg, making him tumble down the steps. Jim cried out in pain, looking at his leg, Jim saw a pool of blood covering his right leg and that he tripped over his own baseball bat, why didn’t he see it before was a mystery.

He grabbed the bat and stood, wincing as he felt a shock of pain run up his leg, he must have cut himself on the fall. The infected ran toward him as Jim swung, hitting it on the neck causing it to fall. It looked at Jim with murderous eyes and snarled lips, then suddenly it through its head back and spewed blood. Jim jumped back, if the blood from the infected got into his leg wound, he would be turned. The infected stood, looking to spew more blood on Jim, why did it have to puke blood the moment Jim found out he was hurt, that was a question that would have to be answered later.

Jim was in the position to swing, this infected was old and with one shot he would be down. Just as he was about to step forward to strike, someone jumped on his back pulling him down, stopping the attack. Whoever it was, they made Jim lose his just-found bat. Jim knew that he was a goner, but he would fight to the end. The infected ran toward him with a blood thirsty scream and the force that had made Jim lose his bat made him fall backwards. His landing was cushioned, Jim knew who he had landed on and what was to come to his fate.

“Jim, get in the house!” It was Selena, Jim’s savor and lover. She hurtled over Jim and struck the infected in the head with her infamous machete. Blood covered the porch and much of Jim and Selena. The infected fell to ground…… dead.

Selena reached out her hand and pulled Jim up, only to find the mysterious Kyle lying underneath, more wounded than ever.

“What the hell were you trying to pull kid, you could have gotten Jim killed!” yelled Selena pointing her bloody machete at him.

“His name is Kyle and I don’t anything besides that,” said Jim, trying to calm Selena down.

“Why are you so f*ckin stupid!" yelled Selena, she must not have heard him in her rage, As Selena came closer, Kyle had a look of disbelief and terror in his eyes. Just as Selena was towering over him, Kyle fell to his side and threw up.

“Jim, he’s infected.” Selena said without a drop of pity. She raised her machete…………………………..

[blue]

Yay another 28 DL fic ;D Aww I hope Kyle isn't infected! I have a friend named Kyle and I was envisioning him in this story, so he better not be! Hehe. That was good. Hope it continues

[Dayna]

thanx so much!

[anasi]

dayna, I love the way you write and I hope you'll write more 28 Days Later fanfictions. I thought The Days After, though it was short, it showed a strong, sexy side of Cillian. I can't explain it, that's just the impression I got from your story. Keep writing, dayna. ;D

[(C)illian style pizza]

Yaaaay for Selena! ;D

[Dayna]

thanxs so much, heres chapter 2. hope you like


“Selena, stop it,” said Hannah as she grabbed her arm, she seemed to appear out of thin air just to save Kyle. Her ghostly white skin shone through the black night. The way she looked and the way she moved would have anyone believe she was a ghost.

“He might be infected, better safe than sorry,” Selena said staring onto the ground not looking into Hannah’s eyes. Hannah wasn’t going to fall for that, they both knew if he was infected he would have turned by now. Hannah held Selena’s arm until she lowered the machete.

“Thanks,” Kyle whispered to Hannah

“Lets just go inside before were attacked again, please,” said Jim in a calming, yet urgent voice. Selena nodded furiously and stomped into the house, leaving Jim and Hannah to help Kyle inside. Selena silently gave responsibility to Jim and Hannah to take of him. They grabbed his arms gently and dragged him inside, them layed him on the couch.

“Help him with his wounds,” said Selena, tossing a small flashlight and a emergency kit to Hannah

“Fine,” replied Hannah, with a trace of annoyance. Hannah and Selena seemed to be at each others throats and rising.

“So, what’s your story?” asked Selena

“Ok, um, where do you want me to start?” said Kyle

“The beginning,” said Jim, stepping in front of Selena making sure if he said anything that made her go off, then he would have a chance of stopping her.

“Um. Sure, like I said before, my name is Kyle. I was running from the infected with my granddad, he’s the one that’d laying dead as a doornail out there.”

“So that’s why you almost got me killed, you wanted you your good old granddad to live a few more days,” said Jim

“Yes, no. Yes he was infected, but no, he wouldn’t have hurt me, I just know it,” whispered Kyle, he looked into Jim eyes, “I’m sorry; it’s just with everything that has been happening the last few months. I didn’t have a clear head about what I should have done and what I wanted to do.”

“Ouch!” yelled Kyle, Hannah has begun to apply disinfectant on a wound that he had on his neck.

“How did you get so many cuts and burses?” asked Hannah as she shown the flashlight showing many blotches of blood on his shirt and pants. With the light on Kyle, his features stood out. He had dirty blonde hair that somewhat covered his hazel eyes, and a nasty cut at his right temple that made most of his right face a crimson red.

“I was in a car crash, me and my granddad were driving and. And…” Kyle stopped, rubbing his forehead. “Sorry it’s just, there are blank spots I just can‘t remember, right now.” “What I do remember is that I lived in Stonehenge, then the infected came, so most left, like my mum…” Kyle shivered at the bad memory. “She was a nurse and didn‘t bother to change out of her work clothes. Just left as fast as she could, a few days later to the remain people surprise they all came back infected. So that’s when me and my granddad left and we’ve been followed by them for like months…

“Infected don’t chase people around the nation, you dummy, they stop when they know there’s know way to catch there prey.” said Selena

“You seem to speak from experience, but I’m telling you, go about 10 miles west and you’ll find you have a welcoming party….”Kyle stopped, jumped up, “We have to leave, NOW!” Kyle ran to the door to make sure it was locked. “I remember now, one somehow was under the car, and attacked us. That’s why we were in the crash. That was last night; even with driving day and night they still were on our tail. So when the infected stopped us, we must have lost so much time...By nightfall, this place will be crawling with infected.”

“What!” yelled the trio at once

“Please, we have to leave.”

“Are you sure?” said Selena waving her machete at him

“Positive, there is one in those woods right now, he’s really quite. We have to leave,” whispered Kyle.

They all looked around, expecting the infected to pop in front of them.

“Well, I don’t believe you, so stop with the b*llsh*t story cause I don’t want to hear it!” Selena yelled. Jim grabbed Selena, with her anger she was capable of anything.

“Fine, but I’m getting the hell out of here, it’s your life.” Kyle stood, wincing in pain. “I’m not asking for much, but could I have some food and maybe knife, then I’ll leave your life forever, after that it’s your call. Either stay or go, whatever you do, I’m leaving now.”

Hannah grabbed Kyle’s arm “Where will you go, if you had a car and you still couldn’t out-run them, how will you do it on foot?”

“I don’t know, but at least I’ll try. And that makes a difference than just staying here and waiting to get killed.”

The trio looked at each other, in there minds the same question were asked: Should we believe him or not? Selena was first to reply. “Well, what are we waiting for, let’s get going. Know one goes outside without a killing device and a buddy… Jim with Hannah and Kyle with me.”



It was almost sunrise and most all of there material was packed up and loaded. No infected had come yet, but they were all on edge for this quite infected to come. Kyle got his strength back very quickly, and was tieing up bags to the taxi roof with Jim when Selena approached dragging her machete.

“Kyle can we talk, please.” she said looking at the taxi, not a Kyle.

“Sure” said Kyle as he jumped down from the taxi.

Jim smiled as Selena took Kyle to the back of the house, Selena was a puzzle rapped in a mystery. As they headed to the back off the house, Jim thought that she must want to apologize to him. If she did why couldn’t she do it in front of him? I’m just being paranoid thought Jim as he finished the knots he was making.

Selena took Kyle to the back of the house, time was crucial, but so was this. She looked around the house and into the forest, scooping for the quiet infected. Selena seemed on red alert all time, and she hated it, but couldn’t stop the feeling of uncertainty that grew in the pit of her stomach. It was straining her relationship with Jim, and that made what she was going even worse.

“There something I want to ask you” said Selena

“Don’t you mean you wanted to say something to me,” replied Kyle

“What?”

“You no, apologize, for last night.”

“O, yeah, sorry about going-of at you last night, but that’s not what I to talk to you about. You said your mom was a nurse, right?”

“Yes, but what does this have to do with anything?”

“It has to do with everything; did you have any of her medicine with you?”

“Yes, but it is in the car that my granddad and I drove.”

“Do you remember where you crashed at?”

“I think I do, but we would have to walk there, and with that one infected I don’t think you’d want to risk it.”

“It’s worth the risk.”

“Why?”

“It’s a long story, but……” Selena stopped, her eyes widened. An infected was standing on the edge of the forest with its red eyes gleaming and light wheezing breath almost unhearible.

“That’s the infected that attacked my car.” whispered Kyle

Selena grabbed her machete and slightly raised it, she had killed tons of infected before, but this one seemed different.

“Give me the machete, and you run to warn the others.” whispered Kyle

“No,” replied Selena

“Awwwragg!” screamed the infected as it ran toward them.

“Selena go!” yelled Kyle as he grabbed her machete, but wasn’t fast enough, the infected grabbed his shirt and threw him to into a tree and sent the machete flying.

“Jim, HELP!” Selena ran toward machete, the infected starred at her, then at unconscious Kyle. She stopped as the infected walked slowly to her, its wheezing breaths grew louder. She couldn’t get her machete in time, and then the infected ran towards her arms flailing. The infected grabbed her throat and lifted of the ground crushing her throat. Selena starred into the hell red eyes as tears poured down her own, she struggled to get free but it was impossible. She would die before she was able to tell Jim that she loved him and tell the truth of what was happening.

The infected grabbed Selena’s throat even tighter, and watched as she struggled for breath. Its wheezing breath mixed with Selena’s light wheezing, the infected brought her closer to his face, smiling a devilish smile.

Selena struggled for breath as her vision grew dim, where was Jim? Selena tried hard to keep herself conscious, with questions of why didn’t the infected try to kill her and why was it so strong, but her mind started to slip as the darkness closed in. Selena’s squinting eyes saw a figure wrapped in light appeared behind the infected. Selena looked at the figure and shook her head, and mouthed the word run, but the heroic figure stayed where it was. Selena closed her eyes for the bloody bath and hoped with all her might that the outcome would be different for what she thought would happen.

“Let go of her you bastard!” it was Jim with Selena’s machete in hand. Jim took the handle and knocked the infected in the head, making it drop Selena. Now that Selena was out of harms way, Jim could kill the infected.

The infected back away from Jim, its eyes narrowed on the machete that he held. It took more and more steps backward as Jim took steps forward.

“What, you’ll attack her but not me, why not?” Jim said as he came closer, he knew that he should stop wasting time and kill the damn thing, but it wasn’t letting him get the chance.

“Awwrgs!” The infected ran towards Jim, arms waving and eyes bulging from its sockets.

“Die” yelled Jim as he swung the machete toward the infected’s neck, Jim saw the infected’s head soaring across the yard. The body twitched and lay motionless as its blood poured from the neck.

Jim sighed with relief and remembered about Selena then ran towards her. She was unconscious, but still breathing, Jim shook her lightly, as coughs erupted from her throat, and her eyes opened to see Jim over her with his icy blue eyes filled with tears. Jim wrapped his arms around her, and buried his face into her hair, as tears of joy flowed down his face and down her face also.

“Jim, are you ok? Where’s the infected?”

“I killed him, don’t worry. Are you all right?”

“Yes, you are so stupid, you should have run, and you could have died.”

“If anything happened to you, then I would have.”

“O Jim”

“We have to go now, we can’t risk it.”

“I know, I love you Jim.”

“I love you too.”

[raine]

i love 28days stories.. good job

[Dayna]

Thanks! I try

[Pukkina]

Hehe...so I was bored and I felt like reading this ancient thread....

It's really good. I likey. Hm....I wonder....any Kyle/ Hannah going on there? Maybe? Sounds like Hannah's got a cruuuuuuuuuuuush!

[discoharvest]

this is really good, you should def write more

[Dayna]

These are a lot of chapters put into one: Also, there probably is a lot of spelling mistakes so I'll say I'm sorry ahead of time.


The ride in the taxi was deathly silent, know one wanted to talk about what happened. Jim was driving and both him and Kyle were trying their best to brighten the mood, but Selena’s dark cloud overrode it.

“Kyle, I thought you said we would have to walk to your car.” said Selena stairing at the woods searching for infected.

“I did, we have to get to the spot were we ran off the road, then walk there.” said Kyle turning his head towards Hannah and Selena. “Don’t worry, we’ll get all the stuff and leave and hopefully out run those infected bastards.”

“ Good thing your so optimistic about all of this.”

“Anything to brighten the mood sunshine.”

Jim stared at the review mirror into Selena’s dark brown eyes, they were blood shot, but Jim still thought they looked beautiful.

“What are we going to do now, we got no place to go, hardly any food, and tons of infected are after us.” Know one wanted to think about it, but where were they planning to go? They didn’t have any shelter, and soon the gas would run out, the future was looking grave for all four of them.

“I don’t know, but what I do know is that we’ll cope, we have always found a way to solve are problems and this time isn’t like any others.” said Jim staring out the road. Selena placed her hand upon Jim’s shoulder and started to run her hand down his back. Pulling part of his t-shirt down revealing a black and blue mark. The second it was seen, Selena pulled her hand away. Kyle was about to ask about it, but he stared at Hannah’s face and knew not to.

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“Stop,” said Kyle “I think this close to where we crashed.”

“You think,” mumbled Selena

“Positive,” Kyle said as the car slowed to a stop. Kyle pointed to the road and swerve marks covered the road.

“Kyle, there’s something I wanted to ask you: How do you and your granddad pass our house completely on the way here, yet you crash 10 miles away and backtrack all the way to our house. Without be killed by the freak-of-nature infected, what are the chances of that?

“Quite a few, lucky, I guess. Actually I don’t believe in luck. I believe in fate, destiny, you know, the things that make you worry less about what you’ll do in the future.” said Kyle changing the subject.

“What future?” replied Selena

“I’ll talk philosophy with you after I get my things.” said Kyle then added, “I’ll go get the supplies.”

“No! Know one goes alone!” snapped Selena

“I’ll go, if you guys see anything or think you see anything don’t do anything stupid. Just leave, got it?” said Jim

“O yes, nothing stupid, that being said from someone who runs straight into danger and not giving one damn thought about himself.” mumbled Selena.

“And you wouldn’t?” asked Jim, he hated bringing up that night over 3 months ago. That was the night Selena and Hannah were almost raped by those soldiers and Jim almost died of a gun shot wound. Selena tried to look Jim straight in the eyes but didn’t. Does she still feel responsible? Thought Jim, the second they were alone Jim would tell Selena for the millionth time it wasn’t her fault and hopefully she will believe it too.

“Bye girls” said Jim as he kissed Selena on the lips.;

“Bye boys.” said the girls as Selena got into the driver seat.

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Jim and Kyle left, Jim had his baseball bat and Kyle, an umbrella with a knife sticking out of his pocket.

“So, how far did you and your granddad run off the road?” asked Jim

“I dunno, but what I do know is that gravity is a b*tch.” laughed Kyle. They walked a little further in the woods when Kyle stopped and pointed.

“There it is! Lets get the stuff and leave, these woods give me the creeps.”

“All woods give people the creeps,” mumbled Jim as Kyle opened the front passenger door as Jim headed to the back door.

As Jim opened the back door of the car, he found 3 bags on the back seats and a backpack. As he picked them up, he found that the 3 bags were half empty. That was just perfect, he was hoping for bags filled with everything that they needed to get them through the next few months, but those hopes were fading. Jim took out a big bag and dumped everything in there, the bags mostly contained compasses, fireworks, and a couple of radios.

“Is this all?” asked Jim as he peered over the seat to see Kyle on the ground, his arm under the drivers seat. “What the bloody hell are you looking for?”

“My granddad had a bunch of guns, I‘m sure that he had a few under the seat. Look underneath your seats, you might find something……Yes, found them!“ yelled Kyle as he came up from the floor, with a pistol in his hand, and a giant grin on his face. “There’s more than one down here so this should be yours, its loaded. There should be a few more guns in the glove department.” said Kyle as he handed the gun to Jim. Jim found the box of amino under the back seat and put it into the bag.

Kyle reached into the glove department and pulled out an old revolver, and a handgun. He cheeked the guns chamber and frowned. “I wished there was more bullets, we’ll need them.”

“That’s something I want to talk to you about. How does it you have a car and you couldn’t get away from the infected. I mean, why couldn’t you lose them after a while? How fast did they run or are you lying about something?”

“I’m not lying Jim” said Kyle looking into Jim’s eyes. “I promise, that‘s the truth.”

“Ok, fine.”

Kyle went behind the wheel and tried to start the car. The car was dead, but that didn’t stop him from trying.

“I can’t believe this!” yelled Kyle. Jim looked into the front seat and looked at the odometer. He didn’t know much about cars, but from the crash with the tree, the car wasn’t going to be working anytime soon.

Kyle got out of the front seat and motioned for Jim to go the same, as he picked up everything they needed.

“This is where we kept most of our stuff.” said Kyle has he opened up the cars trunk. Jim saw a shotgun and a hunting rifle. Also, 1 semi-large bag that seemed to be full of food and 1 smaller bag that Kyle picked up with caution. But what interest Jim the most was that he had a large gas container, just what they needed.

“Medicine in the small bag and food in the other.” said Kyle began to grab the bigger bag. “The gas you can carry right Jim? When me and granddad were driving, we’d find grocery stories and gas stations and we took as much we could take. This is our last bag. Hope it last a while.”

As the boys took all the supplies, they began to walk up to the taxi. When the taxi came into view, but so did the passengers. Hannah and Selena were in a heated argument, and didn’t seem to see Jim and Kyle. Jim walked to the door and knocked on the window scaring Selena and Hannah.

“Hey Jim, did you find anything useful?”

“Yep, found food, guns, and medicine.”

“Medicine, really, good. I think I should drive” said Selena, not looking at Hannah. It was so unlike Hannah and Selena to fight.

Hannah got out of the passenger seat and got into the back. Kyle and Jim loaded the knew supplies onto the taxi and Jim got into the passenger seat with Selena. Kyle sat in the back seat with Hannah, he didn’t seem to mind.



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Its been 3 days since we left the cabin, and since Kyle has had become the 4th member of the group, a place that was once held by her father. Hannah stared at the family photo that she treasured so dearly. Kyle was driving and both Selena and Jim were asleep. She tried to pretend to be asleep, she wanted to look at the pictures without Kyle asking a bunch of questions. She didn‘t mind, but telling him what happened to her mum and dad was painful. She remembered the day when they took that family photo. Her dad, Frank, tried the camera on the tripod, but he was falling miserably. Her mum, Sophie, was playing with her hair telling her that it was so beautiful it was. Her dad was becoming frustrated that he couldn’t work the tripod, running his hands through is thinning hair, ruining it.

“Sweetie, do you need some help?” asked Hannah’s mum.

“No, I think I’ve got it.” said Frank, obviously lying.

“Let me see.” said Sophie has she walked to the tripod, Frank tried to tell her that he knew what he was doing, but she didn’t stop. “Lets see, don’t you press this button and ………… within a minute Sophie had the tripod up and working.

“Honey what would I do without you.” said Frank as he kissed his wife.

“Dad.”

“What?” asked Frank as he looked as his wife.

“Nothing dear, lets get this picture taken before the camera breaks.” said Sophie with a smile

“Ok, family, on 3. 1, 2, 3!” said Frank

“Cheese!” said everyone.

A tear rolled down Hannah’s cheek, less than a month later her mother was killed in a car accident. The picture was the only thing left of her family, and she would never let it go. This was her family now, Jim, Kyle and Selena. Hannah did love her knew family, but it wasn’t the same. If she every made it out of this alive and had a family, she would never leave them. More tears rolled down Hannah’s face as she placed her head on Jim’s shoulders to sleep. This was her family now, and only that mattered.

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It’s been 5 days since I’ve meet other survivors, Jim, Hannah, and Selena. We have been driving nonstop to get away from the infected. I don’t think they believe me a least that’s what I think , but I know I’m right and that’s the only thing that matters. Or at least I think I do. Jim’s nice and he’s funny, not as much as me, but close. Jim used to be a bike carrier, imagine having that job, know wonder he ended up in a coma. He told me about 3 months ago they met some soldiers who wanted to do bad things to the girls. I cannot image what they almost went through. But Jim, good old Jim. He almost gets killed by the soldiers and the first thing he does is goes back for them, that’s loyalty. Selena is the tough one, Jim told me that back when the infection first started, her mum got infected. So her infected mom tried to attack her baby brother, but Selena stopped her, only to find out that her baby brother was infected. Hannah, she told me that her mother died about a month before the infection started. Then her and her father Frank met Jim and Selena, and they left for what they thought was salvation. A little after they left Frank was infected and was killed, by the soldiers that they were looking for. I feel so bad for Hannah, she’s so young yet she’s been through so much and has no time what-so ever to deal with it. A couple of days ago I was driving and Hannah was pretending to be asleep, only she was looking at something. She then began to cry, all I wanted do was comfort her, but I know that the second I showed that I knew she was awake, she’d wipe away the tears and forget about what had happened. She shouldn’t forget the ones she’s lost. I tried when I was 9 (I’m 16 now) my father was murder because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. For years I tried to forget about him and it just tore me apart. That’s how I got so close to my granddad, he showed me that some stuff I should keep stuff to myself, but some stuff I need to tell the people that care about me. I’ll try to show her that, hopefully she’ll listen.

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It had been a week and a half since they left the cabin and the others were growing restless. Jim woke up every morning sore and he didn’t know why, probably because he’s been sleeping in a car for days. Where are we going to go, we’ll run out of gas sooner or later and then what. He tried to stay on the bright side but the light was growing dimmer. Kyle was driving and Hannah and Selena had patched up whatever fight they had.

“How much gas to we have left?” asked Selena, looking at the odometer.

“Not much, we need to find a gas station or we’ll run out.” said Kyle

“Perfect, when we run out of gas, where are we going to go?” said Selena, she was panicking.

“Well, I don’t know.” said Kyle

(An hour later)

“Damn” said Kyle as the car slowed to a stop, it ran out of gas. “End of the line.”
“Well, lets its almost night, so we should just sleep here tonight and start walking in the morning. Hopefully we’ll find a town to get supplies.” said Jim, the rest nodded in agreement.

[Dayna]

Here is another very short chapter.


Kyle was awake at dawn, he couldn’t sleep. Plans ran through his head, all useless. When the rest would wake up they would be fully rested and be able to walk the whole day. He wouldn’t, great, I was the one that made them leave there safe house, but I did save them from the infected, thought Kyle. Kyle turning to his friends and looked at them. Selena slept like a rock with the machete in her hand, Hannah looked so peaceful in her sleep, but Jim was different. He was perfectly still. From the days sleeping in the car, Jim almost never moved or made a sound. Kyle saw people like that at the hospital his mum worked at, the people were in chemical comas and would never wake up. I wonder if Jim knows that he sleeps like a vegetable. Kyle stood up to stretch, and walked to the base of their camp. He stared into the sky, the sunrise was very beautiful. But in the sunrise something didn’t fit, a black mist was in the colors of the sunrise. Black like smoke, smoke meant fire, and fire meant people!

“Holy crap! Wake up! Dear god wake up!” Kyle ran to Selena and shook her and she almost hit him with her machete.

“What!” she said still in a sleepy state.

“I see smoke! I see smoke!” Kyle’s hazel eyes were bright with excitement. He ran to Jim and shook him but he didn’t wake.

“Jim, Jim, JIM!” yelled Kyle, something was wrong, know one could sleep like this.

“JIM!” yelled Selena “I think Kyle’s found people!’

“What?” said Jim, finally waking up. Kyle ran to Hannah who was just beginning to wake up.

“Hannah look at the sky, smoke, people!” said Kyle

“O my gosh, that’s amazing! How do we get there attention?” said Hannah. Kyle thought for a moment and remember when he and his granddad were packing, his granddad took some fireworks to signal people, that’s what he’ll use. Kyle ran to the bags and pulled everything out, eventually finding the fireworks and some matches.

“Please work.” begged Kyle as he lit the fireworks. It flew in the air but didn’t explode. Kyle’s hopes faded yet he still tried, he used 5 fireworks into one flew into the air exploding beautiful lights.

“Light a fire and throw some alcohol in it, it will make dark smoke that they might see” said Kyle. Hannah looked for the alcohol and Jim and Selena started the fire. In know time the fire was blazing dark smoke and Kyle kept liking fireworks. They looked into the distances and the dark smoke got darker and darker.

“All in favor of going that way say “I”.” said Jim
“I” echoed all of them.

[Dayna]

Hope you like.

[Pukkina]

Yes! I did! Yaaaay you updated! Nice job! I hope they find people....

[Dayna]

Thanks!! ;D