AN: Tenth chapter? Woah I'm surprised satan didn't pop up from the ground and start an end of the world riot o.o this is just…damn I didn't think I'd make it past 1 chapter!

P.s: Being a senior isn't fun at all…T-T the brochures lied to me…grrr

Oh and Thank you so much for the reviews :D I hope you ppls keep reading x3

….StAy ALiVe…

Chapter ten-Seven nation Army

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"I'm going to Wichita
Far from this opera for evermore
I'm gonna work the straw
Make the sweat drip out of every pore
And I'm bleeding, and I'm bleeding, and I'm bleeding
Right before the lord
All the words are gonna bleed from me
And I will sing no more
And the stains coming from my blood
Tell me go back home"

-Seven Nation Army by White Stripes

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My throat was sore, sore from screaming in pain as hundreds of bloodied hands clutched and clawed at me with murderous intent while my back lied on the cold hard ground.

I didn't know where the hell the others were and these countless infected were reaching at me like I was a damn all you can eat buffet.

To be honest, this was not the worst part of my whole day, no of course it isn't in fact I think I would rather have this done to me over and over than ever have to go through what happened earlier ever again.

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Screen shot! Plushie Nick hugging a wad of cash, the tag on the Nick plushie says "Bewilderment"

Rewind

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"Lexi?" Ellis asked me once more, this time he didn't cut my name to Lex, and he was staring at me, waiting for my response.

It'd be really bitchy of me to keep anything from Ellis, especially when he's been nothing but kind to me.

But I don't know what I should say…it should come naturally to me no?

As soon as I took my own advice I could feel my breath hitch, he was a lot closer than I thought he would ever be with me.

"You can tell me anything, you're like the lil' sister I never had" He said.

No words came to me, none at all.

Lil' sister?

I didn't know whether to be angry or expect it, especially since I've always had the worst luck when it came to such matters.

The grip I held on my chrome shotgun only went tighter as I was once again left speechless.

Immediate harsh bangs against the safe doors made me jump.

"What the-" Coach groaned, getting up from the couch, poor man didn't even get to drift off to sleep.

"Tits" Nick muttered getting off the table before readying himself with a weapon.

Before Rochelle could even get up, the two doors burst open with a sea of infected.

I've never seen so many before, and how they must've found us is the puzzling part of it.

"Everyone go up the stairs!" Coach hollered.

I managed to shoot my way out of the broken in safe room.

The sad thing is, I didn't even get to scurry atop the stairs before I was tackled to the ground by some Hunter who was already trying to claw at me.

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Fast forward!

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"Hey!" Rochelle yelped in pain.

"Stay still" Coach said trying to patch her arm again.

We all managed to escape the rooftop of a building, now all we had to do was find a nice escape route to get to our destination without being spotted.

"Might as well thin them out" Nick said hurling a pipe bomb off the roof and down into the mass of infected.

The desired effect was too great, limbs were scattered on the pavement, not to mention some boomers that popped up in red mist like bubbles.

"Save those boy, we'll need them for when we get to the other side of the bridge" Coach said stating as a matter of fact.

"Where's this Under water tour anyway?" Ellis asked.

Nick in response just snorted and continued to look out onto the streets.

"Not too far" Coach answered.

Once Rochelle was patched up I felt a shot of pain hit my shoulder.

Okay maybe that Jockey didn't use its claws to dig into me.

Did it bite me?

I was too much of a coward to even look under my bandages; I didn't want to find out that I was bitten; besides I feel fine.

As we went through various apartments Nick had to hold me back from the back of my jacket.

A few steps more and I would've been a goner, a huge gaping wall was cracked open, and it seemed to be connected to a different building by a simple wooden plank.

"I guess that means we gotta go through it" Coach said demanding we all go on the plank.

Seeing as there was no alternative, we decided that we should all pass one at a time, easy right?

Wrong.

We didn't necessarily know how much weight the plank could take so Coach figured that the smallest should take one for the team right? Make sure its stable then the next smallest and so on.

As I walked slowly across the plank I could feel the plank silently begin to creek as I pressed took cautious steps.

Telling myself not to look down, I got halfway there.

"Earthquake" I heard Nick say before shaking the end of the plank beneath my feet.

Who knows how high up in the air I am, and this asshole is shaking the damn plank?

"You son of a bitch!" I yelled in a hushed tone.

That's when I fell, luckily for me I managed to hop forward and cling on the open window sill of the next building before I fell down with the plank.

"What the hells wrong with you boy!" Coach yelled angrily.

"You okay Lexi?" I heard Rochelle yell.

I knew I couldn't stay dangling from there for long, so I hurled my shotgun into the window and pulled myself up.

"Yup, besides almost plummeting to my death?" I asked.

"We're gonna go around" Coach said aloud.

"We can't leave her" Ellis said.

"True but we don't have a choice, this moron decided to do an earthquake drill on her" Rochelle gestured toward Nick.

I think they were too busy arguing to see what Ellis was doing, he fucking jumped.

There he was one second strapping his shotgun over his shoulder then, getting enough running space to get a good spring at me.

If I hadn't almost jumped out of the window to grab his hand in time he would've been a goner.

"Are you crazy?" I yelled.

I had to pull really hard to help him get a good grip on the window sill.

As soon as he pulled up himself he just gave me a big grin.

"Was that a Keith move or what?" He said proud at himself.

"Don't do that again" I yelled, I felt angry.

What if he fell, what if he was gone forever?

He seemed taken aback by what I said.

"What if something happened to you?" I asked.

He picked up my chrome shotgun and handed it to me before answering me.

"I should be worrying about you, not the other way around" he told me.

I could feel my face turn red and my heart skip a couple beats…but he doesn't mean it that way…I know he doesn't…and it hurts.

Crest-fallen, that's how I felt and all I wanted to do right now was leave.

"Let's go catch up with the others" I said before leading the way downstairs.

We stopped before a broken stairway, it looked like a long way down and we didn't know where to go next.

"Five bucks for this? Well played Rayford, well played" I heard Nicks voice from far away.

"Guys! We're down here" Ellis called out.

Moments later we were reunited, then I hollered, "REVENGE" before shoving Nick into the abyss before us.

There was a splash, oh yes I dropped him into a sewage tunnel.

I just love revenge…

"You stupid bitch, now my suits ruined!" Nick yelled before almost puking from having his hair soggy from the sewer.

We all followed after him but without being submerged in shit water.

Before Nick could get his hands on me Ellis blocked his way.

"Now you two are even, lets keep it that way" He said before following Coach deeper into the tunnel.

Nick gave me a nasty scowl, so I trudged quickly to catch up with the others before he could shove me head first into the water.

I quickly climbed a ladder and saw a closed gate with a red switch on the side.

"Hey Coach is this a way out?" I asked.

Coach simply got on the ladder too and told me to press it.

Once I did a screeching sound came as the door slowly opened.

Rochelle hollered something about having to jump back into the water, and she was right, before me there was a gaping space.

I really didn't want to jump back in and decided to place my bet on catching the next bridge that was about a meter from me.

Bad mistake

I must've miscalculated because next thing I knew I was sliding down and back in the water I went.

Shoving a whole lot of infected and giving them a face full of my shotgun I managed to find another ladder that hopefully led to another exit.

As soon as we got to the next safe room, Rochelle was laughing her ass off saying that Ellis found a candy bar.

"How'd you like your bath Nick?" I asked giving him a face breaking smile.

He cringed at me before heading out to the next door.

"Damn let us rest" Rochelle said annoyed.

Coach got injured and Rochelle was now fixing him up.

We didn't have enough time so we headed out and ran up a flight of stairs, panting like crazy.

It was almost dark now, but that Zoey girl was there along with her own group of fellow survivors.

"We lost a man, so we can't help you, but we can help you from up here" Said Zoey.

"I'm Louis, and that's Francis" Said the formal wearing man.

I wanted to ask why he was wearing such proper clothing in an apocalypse but I figured it wouldn't be important.

"Nice car" Francis said looking out into the distance watching Jimmy Gibbs.

"Yeah, it used to belong to a little person named Jimmy Gibbs Jr. Maybe you heard of him?" Ellis asked.

"Really? You mean that car used to belong to the Taco Dog?" Francis asked.

"I know,... Wait, what? Jimmy Gibbs Jr. was a legend."

"Yup, you got that right. That dog made some damn good tacos, I hope he's alright" Francis said.

"Can we not talk about dogs?" Ellis said peeved that his hero was just insulted.

"Ellis sweetie, lets just focus on getting that generator up okay?" Rochelle said.

"Dee-Pec Mode'. Classy. Nice shirt, Rochelle." Francis said.

"Thanks, Francis. Nice vest." Rochelle said giving him a provocative smile.

Woah look at Rochelle go she is definitely not gonna have any trouble finding a man I thought

"Francis? Really? Tell me you're joking." Zoey said raising an eyebrow.

"What? Obviously she's a woman of taste." Francis added.

"Yeah. Thanks, but in the meantime, we should get to work on that generator..." Rochelle said motioning for us to go to the elevator.

"Uh, okay. You guys go down to the generator and get it working. I'm going to stay here and vomit." Zoey said in disdain.

We had to get ten cans of gasoline into the generator to get it working, so as soon as we got downstairs though the outdoorsy elevator we got ready for the upcoming attack.

I looked around for some sort of gun since my chrome shotgun wouldn't be good if I'm trying to act quick, so I ventured into a building but what I found only horrified me and I fell to my knees.

The body of their fallen comrade lied bloodied against an earthy green contraption.

I could feel my lips go numb as the following word escaped my lips.

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"Grandpa?"

AN: Hopes you liked it x3 sorry for the delay D=