Charlie's P.O.V

We arrived to the hospital about a solid hour later. I rode on the top the whole time. The view is amazing up here, the smell, not so much. It wrieked of dead people and old guts.

Oh wait, that might've been because WE'RE SURROUNDED BY THEM.

There were so many. Too many hanging around the hospital, let along inside it.

I opened the door of the roof and hopped into the RV, nearly scaring everyone to death.

"The hell we gonna do?" I jarred.

"We're thinking, we're thinking." Kimmy shook her head.

"Hmm.." Bella mumbled "Montana, you say the medicine and saline bags and all the good stuff are in the basement, yes?"

"Yeah," Montana nodded "there's a back door to every hospital that leads to the basement. That's where they unload the trucks and stuff -- if we're lucky maybe there's a full stocked truck back there."

"Damn, that'd be jackpot." Tyrone nodded.

"Yes. That includes a ton of medicine, food and other supplies we'll need to stay alive."

"Shit. What we waiting for?" Tyrone boasted.

"Confidence," Tyler bit his nails anxiously "we can't all go back there at once. One of USN won't make it if we do our tactics like that."

"That's why you'll stay here and I'm going to help fight off the herd." Jose bit his lip unsurely and glanced at Reese.

"Tyler you stay back with Bella and Max." She commanded.

"Reese I wanna g--"

"Max, not now." Reese mumbled.

"Why do I have it be treated like a child?" Max jarred.

"Because you are." Tyrone bursted "that's how it gotta be sometime lil bruh. We doing this for you."

A small smile formed on Max's face and he glanced at me.

"If it makes it any better, you can stand on the roof and look out for us but swear not to leave." I smiled.

I rarely ever smile.

"A chance to be like you?" He nodded "hell yeah."

Everyone burst out into laughter. Light humor before a death note.

"We need to get moving." Ryan sighed "we're attracting em."

"Okay here's the plan," Reese started, "I'll run as fast as I can to the west side of the hospital. I won't get bit or scratched or anything. I know how to finesses out of situations. Once I'm there, I'll fire off 2 shots.. which mean, they'll follow me.. giving you all a chance to go."

"What then?" I queried.

"Well.. then y'all haul ass until you get to the back door of that hospital."

"You know it's filled with tons of wanderers?"  Jose mumbled.

"Thats when you light the firecracker inside the building. Gather the in a circle and gun em down. Montana and --- Park will be grabbing the supplies that's needed. While that's happening, Tyler will drive the RV to the back of the hospital and I will still be running for my precious life."

"Reese --"  Ryan started, but was immediately cut off by Reese shhsing him.

"Columbia commando on three." Kimmy placed her hand in a circle and everyone started placing theirs in too.

"One.. two.. three."

"Columbia commando!" We shouted. We were ready as hell.

Abruptly, Reese ran past me, grabbed her automatic from the kitchen table and cocked it back.

"Ryan I love you." She smiled "I love all of you. Be safe out there."

And with that, leaving no time for anyone to say anything back, she busted through the back door of the RV and ran like her life depended on it. And she was noticed in no time.

Wanderers lost their attention of the RV and their eyes were all on Reese. They followed her and she began to air off shots when she was far enough.

That was the que.

I tossed a gun to everyone and all at once, we cocked it back. I was the first one off the RV.

I jumped out the RV, everyone following closely behind, guards up --- we ran like hell while none of the dead were watching. It was like we were in an actual video game.

We had almost made it to the back, but there was trouble blocking us.

"Knives!" I exclaimed.

We needed the bullets and we couldn't make that much noise so everyone took out their knife and began jabbing these sons of bitches in the head.

Once the tier was clear, we reached the back door.

"We did it." Montana sighed.

Across the hospital, more gunshots went off. My heart began to beat a little faster as I watched a tear fall from Ryan's eye.

"She's okay." Cody whispered.

Ryan glanced at him and smiled faintly.

"Get ready." I signaled. "One!" I kicked at the door "two.." I kicked even harder "three!" Finally it bust open and AHHHHHH THE SMELL.

It was so bad I gagged and threw up right there on the spot. I couldn't move and I felt a little dizzy as I watched them all come at me.

Kimmy yanked me by my bookbag, grabbed the spark, lit it with the lighter and threw it as far as the can. Once it started going off, we lost the crowd and we could all move in.

The smell was horrid and the gunshots from the others were even worse. It made my head bang, my ears screech, and my vision blur.

They were shooting off the wanderers handling their jobs, but I was standing there as clueless as hell until I heard a familiar name.

"Victoria!" Park exclaimed. He dropped his gun and stared at the wanderers coming at them. We were about to get overrun and the only thing I could do was stare.

"Pick up your gun park!" Tyrone yelled.

But he couldn't, and I couldn't seem to find the trigger on mine when we locked eyes with the walking corpse of Victoria.

Park jumped forward and everything slowed down. He lost his mind and now, his life.

As his arms wrapped around Victoria's rotten body, her rotten teeth dug into his neck.

Tyrone grabbed at Park's shirt to pull him back but that didn't do him any good.

A wanderer latched onto him and chomped down on his arm like Little league bubble gum.

"No!" Montana yelled. She cried with her hands filled with more than enough bags of medical supplies and other supplies.

Unanticipatedly, the horn of the RV honked and the guns got louder, time sped up again and my finger wrapped around the trigger.

I gunned them down. Victoria... Park.. Tyrone... And  all the other dead that walked among them.

Inside, my heart was burning, twisting, shaking -- breaking. My friends. They're gone. The ones that have been with me since the beginning-- they're fucking gone.

"We won't make it out!" Cody yelled "they're coming from all directions!"

We all huddled into a circle and shot in every direction. Montana began to move the bags outside the hospital and into the RV.

"If we try to go they'll get us!" Jose yelled.

He was right. This is it. This is the end. This is how we die, this is how my friends died tryin to save a little girl we've only know for a few weeks.

"We're packed up!" Montana yelled, through sniffles  and sobs.

"Go!" Kimmy yelled. "Without me."

"Kimmy, no!" Jose snapped.

"Just do it! I'm saving you guys. I'm saving the girl. Let me be the hero." She stopped firing her gun and walked toward the herd.

"KIMMY!" I yelled.

Not her. Not another one.

"Tell Kai I'm sorry and... I love you all. Till next ti--"

And that was all until she was pulled back and devoured into shreds.

"Fuck!" I shouted "move out!" I pushed everyone along until we all made it out and onto the RV. There. I fell to the ground. I couldn't stand I couldn't breathe.

"Charlie?" Tyler gasped "What's wrong?"

"Tyrone.. park.."

"No." He nodded his head "it can't be."

"Kimmy too." Ryan punched the wall.

"Kimmy's dead?!" Max hollered,

he clutched his shirt and nodded his head no.

Ryan ran his hands through his hair and stormed off. Cody, Jose, and Bella sat in shock and misbelief.

"We need to find Reese." Jose hopped up and jumped into the driver's seat of the RV, and with that.. he sped off. And that's all I remember before I blacked out.