After Armageddon (Finished)

Ch 7 - Happy?

For the next few days, we were all happy. We had enough food and water, even if El couldn't catch any fish. Mojo always found food for himself here or there when Lane or Tad let him out, and Crystal and I became really good friends. Nina? Well she was never not happy to begin with. Me and Tad became better friends too, and Lane still held the fact that he saved me over my head. I guess everyone was totally and completely happy for a few days. Until we started running out of food again.

We all sat around in the living room.

"Let's just go back to your guys old base. It had plenty of everything right?" Lane suggested.

"That might be to far to go. Besides, weren't they run over by a bunch of zombies?" Crystal argued.

"Not too many for a small team of us to handle, me and Lei know the way, we could bring four of us and Crystal can stay after to watch Nina." Most of us nodded, except Tad and Crystal.

"Why do I have to watch Nina?!" Complained Crystal.

"Your the second best with her, but we need Lei, she knows the way there and back." Lane said quieting her.

"Are we sure Lei should go..?" Tad asked slowly. "Not that I don't think she can, but it won't be safe." He said, trying not to offend me.

"She'll be fine, she took care of her and Nina by herself for five days and it's gotten easier to take them out and stay out of their way since then." El defended. "We're going with my plan. We'll head out tomorrow." El stood and stormed up the steps, claiming the last words as his own.

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The next day, me and Crystal sat on the pile of rocks El had turned over. We waited for the boys to get ready to head out. El said we had to be ready at first light, now here he was taking about an extra hour.

"I used to have a boyfriend you know." Crystal said abruptly. "He disappeared when it all happened. Hasn't answered his texts... I think... I think he... You know?" I looked over at her. She was starring at a piece of grass she twiddled between her thumbs. Her pretty frizzy brown hair blew in the wind from her ponytail. Her long lashes covered her gray-blue eyes.

"I don't know. Maybe his phone is down. Or your texts never sent. Everything has been down in the city for a while." I tried to reassure her. She shook her head.

"It's easier if you think the worst straight off." She mumbled to the grass.

Before I got a chance to say anything else, El called out to us from the porch, saying it was time to go. We got up and jogged back. Leaving Crystal and Nina inside, El, Tad, Lane and I set out to our hope for survival.