*will be blood, swearing and violence*

I woke up early like I did every morning and dragged myself out of bed to take care of any corpses that had gathered either outside the gates to our house or any that had happened to get inside the gates overnight. It wasn’t a pleasant job but it needed done and I was one of the few who were willing to do it. I stole a quick glance at Alex and smiled at how soundly he was sleeping, he looked peaceful and happy and that made me smile. I don’t know what it was about Alex but I just felt this desire to care for him and to make him happy and that’s just what I planned to do. I quietly pulled on clothes and made my may downstairs to meet Zack and Ricky who were standing at the bottom of the stairs holding knives with their guns slung over their backs just in case

‘How many?’ I asked both of them.

‘About 20 or 30’ Ricky answered with a worried look.

‘There’s more and more everyday Jack. We need to do something to fix it and soon!’ Zack exclaimed looking at me for answers. That’s what I hated about this. Everyone relied on me to provide solutions.

‘What exactly do you suggest Zack? There’s nothing we can do apart from kill the groups that gather overnight and hope the numbers even out soon’ I said slightly frustrated.

‘We could move to a new place’ Ricky suggested. ‘One further away from the city and further away from the corpses.’

‘Who is to say the corpses wouldn’t end up finding us anyway?’ I asked him. ‘We have a good thing here and we need to keep it as long as possible’

‘If you say so’ Zack replied not convinced handing me one of the knives he was holding.

‘Take the ones within the gates first, Okay?’ Ricky ordered before yanking open the front door, allowing us out and then locking it behind him. Upon hearing the door close the corpses that were inside the gates started to lumber carelessly towards us. There was only about 10 corpses within the gates so we weren’t too worried about it.

‘Remember, no gun fire unless it’s the only option we have. Noise will only attract more’ I reminded the guys who had spread out slightly. They both just nodded at me before easily driving their knives into the skulls of the corpses closest to them. I did the same watching as the female corpse fell to my feet as rancid deep red blood splattered my shirt. We were finished with rest of the corpses in no time and all us were fairly covered in blood by the time we were finished.

‘You guys can go get cleaned, I’ll deal with all this’ I said gesturing to the copses that lay dead at our feet.

‘You sure man, I don’t mind helping’ Zack said and Ricky nodded in agreement.

‘Nah, it’s cool guys, it’ll only take a few minutes.’ I answered. ‘Can someone just go grab me the wheelbarrow though?’ I asked as I began to drag the bodies into a pile in front of the house. Ricky returned a few minutes later handing me a lighter and wheeling the wheelbarrow.

‘Thanks’ I muttered as I began to place the bodies into the wheel barrow to take them away to be burned. With a full wheelbarrow I began to make my way to the side of the house where we had a designated area to burn the bodies of corpses. A pile of ash had already formed from the few weeks in which we had been living here. I grabbed some wood from the pile we had collected and placed it on the ash before dumping the bodies on top. Pouring some fuel which Rian and Zak had collected a few days earlier on top of the bodies, I set the corpses on fire and watched as they burned.

‘JACK!’ A worried shout pulled me from watching the flames to turn around and see a corpse only a few feet away from me. Stumbling backwards I nearly landed in the fire but was stopped by the corpse’s hand grabbing hold of my shirt trying to pull me close to its snapping, growling jaws. I tried the best I could to get away from the monster trying to tear into my flesh but I couldn’t. I tried kicking and pushing and punching but it wouldn’t get off me. I could hear the sound of someone’s voice getting closer and closer, crying out for me but I just closed my eyes accepting that it was too late. The voice was closer now and I recognised it to be Alex’s, my eyes shot open just in time to see Alex pulling the monster away from me, causing me to fall to the ground and hit my head off of a rock that was just so conveniently there. From the ground I could see Alex hitting the corpse repeatedly over the head with a piece of wood he had picked up. Blood coated Alex’s shirt as he hit the corpse until it was no longer moving. Dropping the piece of wood he came running over to me, dropping next to me and grabbing my hand.

‘OH please god Jack, be okay’ He begged causing me to chuckle.

‘Alex, I just hit my head. I’m okay really’ I said squeezing his hand lightly.

‘Just hit your head?! Jack you nearly died!’ He exclaimed! ‘I can’t lose somebody else’ He whispered more to himself than to me as little tears dripped down his face. Slowly I sat up ignoring the fact my surroundings were spinning and wrapped my arms shakily around Alex and pulled him towards my chest in a tight hug.

‘You’re not going to lose me, Alex.’ I whispered gently. ‘I’m going to stick around forever, just to spite you’

‘Good, I need you’ He whispered into my chest before looking up at and staring at my face.

‘What? Do I have something on my face?’ I joked.

‘Yeah, blood. OH GOD! You’re bleeding Jack!’ He exclaimed, putting has hand on the side of my face putting pressure on the area that was bleeding causing me to flinch.

‘Sorry’ He murmured staring into my eyes, giving me an apologetic look.

‘Tis okay’ I muttered, placing my forehead against his in the hope of stopping the spinning. ‘Thank you for rescuing me’ I said looking into his eyes only to see him still staring back. He didn’t answer me; instead he gently placed his lips against mine in a light kiss pulling me even closer to him.

‘Alex?’ I whispered.

‘Jack?’ He responded, nervously as the pounding in my head got particularly bad.

‘I think I’m going to pass out’ I whispered before everything went black.

Notes

ooooooooo....is Jack okay?