NOSEBLEED • rewrite

Chapter Fourteen

Close call

I hiss as soon as I'm down under the car, finally feeling the full effects of scraping my bloodied knees across the gravely road. I should have rolled under like Jungkook did, which now seems like the best idea we might have had throughout the whole 'let's try not to get infected' fiasco we are caught up in, But in my own defence, I was in too much of a rush to care

But now I'm laying here, chest rising and falling heavily while the warm wet feeling of blood drips to the back of my knee while coating every inch of the fabric that isn't torn. I lift my head up as far as the car will allow and cringe, though I'm not surprised at what I'm seeing. The scrapes aren't just scrapes, but a rather large piece of glass sticking out the side of the fleshy part of my knee-slash-lower thigh, the blood drips onto the floor beneath me, filling the sun cracks in the cement

The infected can't smell blood right? Because if they can, poor Jungkook and I are done for. I let out a short lived breath and reach down, clamping my eyes tightly as my healing palm wraps around the glass shard. I can feel the previous crescent shaped scabs re-opening but I block the stinging pain out, closing my eyes tighter and forcing myself to think of something else

In one swift motion, I jerk my hand up and pull the shard right from the skin, grunting as the blood seeps out much faster then it was before. Feeling my slight panic spike, I quickly place the glass on the floor and move my hand down to apply pressure. It doesn't help and the blood begins dripping through my fingers

I need a some fabric or bandages but I'm not sure if the camper has a first aid kit. If the wound isn't washed and dressed then I could get a nasty infection, walking around on that will not be fun and if I can avoid getting an infection in the first place then that would help massively

I look over at Jungkook again, he shuffles a little until he can reach into his pocket silently and pulls out a black and white bandana with a smile of relief. He then reaches over and takes ahold of my knee, that's right in front of his face, and wraps it around the wound, then proceeds to tying it tightly with a sympathetic look

Pain erupts through my knee and my thigh making me wince and almost let out a noise, I instantly clamp my hand over my mouth and close my eyes to prevent tears from welling up. We sit here like this for a while, silent and anxious as the infected moves around the very cars we hide beneath

We wait for what feels like a life time until the stomps, shrieks and groaning of the infected has disappeared and been replaced with the sound of my own heart thumping loudly in my ears. I look around to see the group are all safe and intact, no one being stupid enough to roll out from their hiding spots until they are sure the herd has passed. I sigh out a deep breath of relief and allow my head to hit the floor beneath me, my chest rising and falling evenly for what feels like the first time in years

"Hana look out!"

Before Seokjins words register in my mind I'm being grabbed by the ankle and being pulled by a force that doesn't feel human. Now fully alert, I bring my other foot up and kick the wrist of god knows who or what harshly yet it doesn't budge, still dragging me from under the car like I weigh next to nothing