𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘑𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘗𝘖𝘝 :

I swung my axe at a zombies head as it got stuck in the side of its head, out of breath I pushed my foot against the dead creature as I pulled the axe out and quickly stomped my foot on its head, completely destroying its head.

I pushed my hair back as I looked back at the dirty blonde haired girl that walked behind me with a red and white striped shirt and a pony tail that held her hair back in a high pony. " blue berry? " she offered sweetly with a smile.

" thank you Car " I smiled to my sister Carla Jones as she still had the sweetest personality for a 15 year old in an apocalypse still, " if it wasn't for your blue berry picking along the way we would have starved by now " I joked as Carla put the container that held the small blue fruits into her brown backpack that was strapped to her.

" we've been walking through the woods for days! Is there even anymore life on this planet! " Carla licked her lips as she walked next to me now that she fully caught up to me and stopped picking fruits along the way, " I don't know but we got to find somewhere to live " I wrapped my arm around my sister happily that we were alive.

It was starting to get dark as we walked through the streets of the city, we walked around a corner when a huge herd that was as long as the end of the street where all the buildings stood growled as they turned around staring at us. " run! " I screamed as I grabbed a hold of Carla's wrist running down the opposite street as we ran as fast as we could, " one of them is running! " Carla screamed as I turned around when indeed their was one of them running behind.

I let go of my sisters wrist as I picked up a stone and threw it at the zombies head knocking it to the ground, we quickly ran as fast as we could until we entered the building at the end of the city, a gas station with the words Speedway written in big red letters that still glowed.

We closed the door quickly behind us putting a lock on it when I turned around when I heard a gun clock as there was a pistol pointed directly at my face, I froze in fear as I stared at the blonde girl that stood in front of me with a firm face as she had her hair pulled up in a pony tail.

I gulped, " uh h-hello " I awkwardly waved as my sister stood next to me hiding behind me as the blonde girl finally spoke, " who are you? " she asked when I glanced at my sister before nodding, " Cally Jones and this is my sister Carla Jones " I nibbled at my bottom lip.

" who are you? " I questioned knowing it was fair if the girl who had me held at gun fire told me who her name was, " Layla Johnson " she spoke before lowering her gun slowly. " do you have any weapons? " she asked when all I did was just hold up an axe. " your not gonna try and hurt me with that or kill me for my stuff right? " she lifted her gun back up quickly when she saw my sister move to go next to me more.

" of course not! We just are looking for safety we would never hurt anyone " Carla finally spoke her sweet voice making the blonde girl form a smile on her face when she looked at my sister, " I'm looking for supply's for food, I'm sorry for the gun situation I was just startled " Layla apologized as I just put my hand out.

She raised an eyebrow before finally locking her hand with mine and shaking it, " it's okay, we understand this world can be dangerous who knows how people act now! " I explained when Layla chuckled. It felt nice knowing people were actually still alive, " do you have anyone else? " Carla asked when Layla nodded.

" my brother and my sister, and two friends of ours living in a house we found " Layla said when I looked at Carla surprised. " what? " the girl questioned when I sighed a bit, " nothing, just surprised that their are still people living around here " I turned to face the girl.

" you can join us if you want? " Layla offered as Carla looked at me as she begged without even using any words to me, I nodded my head when Layla started walking around the aisles looking for stuff, me and my sister joined her in finding stuff, we used our two back packs to help get stuff for her and us as well.

Layla explained how she was trying to create a bigger group, because the larger the group the bigger of a family we can create and the bigger the family keeps getting even if it's not blood related. The better it will be to keep everyone safe against this cruel world.

" perfect battery's " Layla spoke when she shoved a bunch of battery's and waki taki's into her backpack, it was smart knowing that we technically couldn't use cell phones anymore in this world. " how are we meant to get back, their are herds out there! " Carla pointed towards the door when Layla rummaged through her pocket pulling out a set of keys. " I've got my car in the back " Layla smirked.

After collecting a bunch of stuff we turned around to the sound of the front windows cracking, I walked around the corner as Layla got her gun out ready just as we saw a herd hitting against the glass of the windows. It was about to break so we quickly turned and ran to the back door as Carla ran out to the car just as Layla tossed the keys to her Carla quickly turned on the Car for the girl, before hopping into the back.

I hopped into the front gripping onto the backpack as I held it close to me, I blew my blonde hair out of my face as it flopped down in my eyes. Layla quickly drove down the street. " so what are their names? " Carla leaned her head over my seat to get a better look out the front.

" Dylan, Oakley, Nora and Lucas " she smiled, her smile was so pretty like she seemed like the sweetest person to be friends with. " we promise to try and keep things safe there " Carla smiled as I nodded my head agreeing with my younger sister, " so who's older? " Layla pointed back and forth at me and Carla.

" I'm a year older " I looked back at Carla who was to busy trying to fix the bracelet on her wrist to even care to continue with the conversation, " here it is, when we get out be quiet ok? " Layla told us as we watched out the window just as we drove up a hill towards a cabin like house.

She parked in front of it as we all got out grabbing everything we needed before walking in to two blondes and two brunettes sitting at the table, a blonde boy was making jokes to everyone before he suddenly stopped talking mid sentence when he realized they have company.

" we have guest " Layla spoke as the boy coughed a bit as he clearly choked on his own spit or something from being in mid sentence, " hello ladies " the boy put his hand out as we shook his hand, " Dylan Johnson " he smirked a bit. " Cally and this is Carla " I had a little smile.

" that's Oakley, Lucas and Nora " Layla pointed to the others who just sort of formed a little smile and awkwardly waved at us, " they will be staying with us from now on " Layla told them as they all kinda gave each other random looks. " so make them feel at home " Layla dropped her backpack down on the counter as me and Carla placed ours next to them. " holy shit- " Dylan spoke when Layla shot a glare at him.

" language " Layla snarled when she opened the backpacks, " they helped us get these things so we all can share them " she spoke as she placed each thing down onto the table. It felt so much safer here even if we were only getting close with just Layla, it felt good being in a house instead of in random cars we find on the streets.

I looked over at Carla who looked zoned out in confusion I looked over and saw what she was staring at, she was staring at the short brown haired girl. Nora, I've never seen Carla look at someone like that before it was almost like hearts filled in her eyes as if she's never felt like that before towards anyone she's ever met.

" Carla? " I spoke when the girl finally blinked back into reality and looked over at me, " yeah? " she mumbled slightly as I winked at her and then nodded my head at Nora, her jaw dropped when she realized what i was doing, she knew I was teasing her about the girl.

" don't even " she whispered to me when Lucas looked over at Carla and me, " what? " He spoke when Carla looked at him. " I was just saying to her about the city we were in before we met Layla, about how a herd chased us " Carla spoke when Lucas's jaw dropped a bit. " wait you guys know how bad the city is? " Lucas pointed.

" yeah it's terrible, we walked for a little while and then turned around a corner and then suddenly a herd saw us like a huge herd! It like was all the way down the end of the street that's how big it was, and then we started running and realized one of the zombies could run! " Carla explained to them, I looked at my sister a little happy seeing that she was getting more comfortable with talking to these people.

Carla was usually shy around people for the first time until she gets to know them, " then Cally threw a giant stone at it which caused the zombie to fall over, and then we ran into this gas station and that's when we locked the door behind us and then turned around to Layla pointing a gun at Cally's face and then we talked for a little while and yeah got these things! " Carla stood looking pretty proud of herself for saying all that.

" that sounded pretty intense " Nora spoke in a soft voice as Carla looked like her face was about to go all red, " yeah it was pretty intense actually " Carla stuttered a little bit as she had her hands on her hips, " but then we left because the herd found us and started hitting at the glass windows of the gas station, which caused the windows to start cracking so we got to the car and now we are here " I finished Carla's story for her.

" glad you guys made it out alive pretty well " Dylan was fooling around with some sun glasses on his face that he had taken out of Layla's back pack, I knew these people would definitely become family. We've only known them for what like 7 minutes and they already warm my heart up a lot.

But I also knew it would definitely take a little while to get used to being around these people to call them our proper family, but all I could say right now is. This is our new family, and we agreed to keeping each other safe in order to come here with Layla and them. And that's what I'm planning on doing.

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AUTHOR SPEAKS

1. A LITTLE LONGER CHAPTERRR sorta...

2. Anyways Cally and Carla >>>

3. Carla is honestly my comfort character, Cally is to tho! <3

4. Carla looking at Nora >>

5. See ya soon!