Chapter 7 - Peter
We drove out of the garage, Foxx keeping full attention to the outdoors. She swerved past the fires, destroyed cars, dead bodies, and any other large or dangerous object. She constantly switched gears, and readjusting her seating.
"You need a new car. A nice one." I looked over, amazed at the calm words leaving her mouth. How can she so plainly speak with such a tone? She should be panicked!
"What are you talking about? I mean is this the best time to talk about this stuff?" She kept her eyes on the road, but I could tell she was thinking over her answer.
"Well obviously. But I mean, this car sucks. Not to mention it really..." a loud thud interrupting her answer. I looked back and noticed a body laying on the road. "You're right, we'll talk later." I spent this time to look around outisde...
If only I could describe the pain in my surroundings. Buildings painted in black, the sky a pure canvas of red. Amongst the black buildings white covered areas of pain, windows white, sidewalks, with blotches of white. I could only think of the people I knew...and cared for, I need to know if the rest of my family is okay. What about my friends? Did they make it? Are we going to make it?
That's when I worried. Will we make it? Or will we end up the way as all the others we have passed by? Where are we even headed? What's happening? "Fox, where are we going right now?"
She looked over, and looked back, shaking her head, as to get the hair out of her face. "My firing range, it's safe, there's a supermarket right next door, and we have weapons from **** people have left behind or were confiscated, not to mention, it's a firing range. We have ammunition." She seemed to know what she was talking about, I left my life in her hands, and driving. I looked back outside, noticing we were on the palisades bridge. I looked over the Hudson, seeing a still blue sea...the innocence of this all is in the waters.
I thought of some more the people I had to leave behind...Justin, and Sarah. Justin, I know he can hold up well for himself, I remember one time, he was dating this one girl, and started ******** around with another, and was able to get out of it, still dating the first one. Sarah...she was always a bit screwy...I can't say she'd be doing well in this scenario...
The car stopped in front of a blocked off/barricaded building. I looked around, many dead corpses littered the grounds, alongside empty shells, and bullet cartridges. Fox looked over to me, and just said quietly "We're here, but it seems someone else got here before us..." I looked around, just blood flooded the parking lot, the smell was unbearable. "We might as well go in, maybe the survivor is still in there."
We exited the car, both holding our guns to our sides, aiming up. We didn't want to have any misfire. We reached the door, locked from the inside, I looked over to Foxx, now reaching into her pocket. "I've got they key, one minute." She fiddled in her back pack, grabbing the key, and inserting it, "get ready to fire." She kicked open the door, to a perfectly clean building, with one man now aiming a rifle directly at us. A click now shattering our ears.
"I will kill you, if you do not breathe true life." He now leaned his head into the scope. "You have just to reply, in a easy sentence, I will believe you are alive." Both Foxx and I were scared I gulped down my fear. "We are just coming here for safety, Foxx, here, is the owner." I looked over to Foxx, and nudged her. "Yes, I am the owner" The man now lowered the gun.
"Close the door, lock it, and don't get in my way." Fox turned around mumbling curse words and locked the door. I looked around the perfectly clean building, was there none of those things in here? Is that even possible? "You own this place hm? You need a better security. There was a door in back that was unlocked." The man now walked to behind the counter and sat in the chair, put his feet on the desk and leaned back. He reached down, and lit up a cigarette.
I looked at him. "Mind if I ask your name?" He looked back and then looked away, staring at the ceiling, "Names Peter. Nothing more, nothing less. No more questions, i'd rather not speak with you." I looked away, what a bitter *******.
I muttered to Fox. "Where's the ammo stored?" She walked with direction, so I followed behind her. WE walked in back, the back room dark. She turned the lights on, to see the back room littered with dead. The stench from outside, filling our minds back up, intoxicated we grabbed the ammo we needed, and left quickly.
Fox looked over to Peter, "You did close the back door right?"
Peter scoffed and took another puff of his cigarette, "More than that, I rebuilt it, not amazingly, but at the moment, it will last 100's of those monsters."
"Why did you rebuild it?"
Peter looked over and grinned "The door wasn't sturdy, I destroyed it, gathered some spare supplies, and built it a bit sturdier."
Fox walked away ****** and sat down on the couch in the lobby, she immediately turned the television on, to find all the channels were empty..."What the ****?"
"It's been like that for an hour, the noise irritated me, so I shut it off. So please, shut if the **** off." Fox then turned it off, and began reloading her gun, and took out another of the same model out of her pants.
"How long did you have that?" I looked at her, now loading the second gun.
"There was in back, I prefer to have a back up" She now cleaned out her gun.
I sighed and sat down next to her, and started loading up my gun, and filled up some extra cartridges. Banging now interrupting the silence. Peter stood up, disturbed, and slightly ******, he then ran over to the main door, and looked out the window. "They are back...there's more this time...." He promptly ran back to his desk, grabbed a long black, what seemed to be casing, and attached it to his belt, and put the rifle strap around his shoulder. "They followed you two"