stomach while grunting with effort. Zander led the way into the warzone of zombies and guys. Zander drew his gun and Forres noticed it looked like Austin’s gun. She would know. The thing was basically pointed at her the whole time she was with his group. Zander shot and Forres also noticed that his bullets hit the zombies in their head. She could see a bit of war side in his past.
“Forres!” She heard a familiar voice and she smiled a bit but then a bullet wisped past her ear. She covered her head as she heard a person drop behind her. “Are you okay?” Ben softly grabbed her arm from her head. “Did I hurt you?” She looked at Ben and felt warm inside, once again.
She couldn’t help but to smile. “I’m fine.”
“Alright let’s get out of here,” Ben said, looking at Zander next to Forres but his hand never moved from her arm. Forres smiled running side by side with Ben.
Chapter Fourteen
Day One: March 27 th , 2020; 3:23 pm
Out of breath, Forres looked back.
No one was following them but Forres wanted to make sure. The three of them jogged into a walk, all breathing hard. “Where’s everyone? The humans? The dead? Anyone?” Ben yelled out of breath.
Zander nudged Ben to the side, making Ben’s hip bump Forres’. “Shut up,” Zander said as he does it.
Ben looked over at Forres before saying, “No one’s around. God,” he started. He shook out his hands. “I’m hyped on adrenaline. That was fun,” Forres gave him a side glare as Zander gives him a glare. “Well it was fun for me… What was in the case?”
“Don’t know,” Zander lied. He seemed like a pro at lying because Forres believed him too. She then realized he was lying.
“Oh…,” Ben scowled. “So you left it?”
“Hmm,” Zander nodded.
“Why? I thought she could open it,” Ben asked. Zander gave him a look that told him to drop it. They all faced forward as they walked into the city of lost souls or New York.
Forres reached up and touched her necklaces out of habit. She played with the four triangle necklace for a second before letting go of it and putting her hands at her side. She felt something warm and wet on her clothing. Forres didn’t want to look down because she knew she’s just freak out. Trying to breathe normally, she entered the first clothing store she saw. The boys followed without questioning. As soon as Forres got in, she bended over breathing harder than normal. She caught a glance of her bloody clothing.
“Are you okay?” Ben asks, going to put his hand on her shoulder but stopped noticing it was her bad shoulder. The shoulder he had shot her.
“I-I’m f-fine,” Forres stuttered. Groans came, making Forres stood up.
Two zombies stood on the other side of the room: one a woman in a pink suit, and the other was a teen in punk clothing. The woman’s face was half off, making her skull be exposed. The teen just had a tear off of its neck.
Ben raised his rifle at them.
Zander pushed the tip of the rifle down to the ground, mentally telling Ben not to shoot.
The zombies started staggering to them after noticing they were humans with warm and pumping blood.
Forres noticed Ben holds the rifle like he knew what he was doing with it like Zander had. Forres wondered with unsettled thoughts of Zander and Ben working together.
Zander saw a metal pole rack. He goes over and grabbed it off, making clothing fall to the floor. He threw the pole to Ben.
Ben dropped his rifle but it only went so far because he had it on a belt that was wrapped around his shoulder. He caught the pole. Forres stood back as he swung it around like in those action movies, only Ben ended up dropping it. “Ben!” Zander barked at him.
“Sorry!” Ben exclaimed and picked it up quickly. Ben swung at the women and hit her on the head.
Brains and blood flew from her skull onto Forres. She closed her eyes trying not to get blood in them. She felt the urge to lick her bloody lips but
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