Chapter 5
~~~Jared~~~
I'm sitting in the tent at the moment, reading the last Stephen King novel in his
collection that I haven't read yet, sad I know. I've always been the book worm
in my family, Troy, he was the brawns, me always the brains, the twins of course
are girls so.... yeah. Anyways, I pushed my reading glasses up the bridge of my nose,
it's always slipping down, a damn nuisance they are. Giving up on the novel for the
night, my frustration and fight, even though she forgave me, was still in my head.
I clicked off the light and snuggled into my sleeping bag. A few long and sort of cold
minutes later, I heard the scratchy noise of the zipper going down on the tent. Thinking
it was Herman or Gus or something popped the light on and said my usual hello.
It was Troy, and he looked heartbroken.
Quickly I got up and patted him on the shoulder and asked him what was up.
He gave me the story, it was not pleasant. May was infected. End. Of. Story.
He was sobbing, I held him in my arms, NO not in that way, but in a brotherly way.
He was so broken, he told me they would keep her with us till they could tell she would
start having a fetish for our flesh. I agreed and told him we shouldn't tell the others.
He agreed with me. He finally went into his sleeping bag and was out like a light. Me,
on the other hand, well, let's just say I was kind of scared. It was hard seeing my
brother in so much pain, being so weak. He was always my big ass brother who could
beat the crap out of any bully (which I had a lot of). So, I tried sleeping, but it wouldn't
come, then I decided I might as well go see if all the girls went to bed because the rest of
the guys had hit the sack earlier. I saw that the girls were not there so I checked in on
there tent. Everyone except Jenna was there. Shit. Not her, please not her, don't her
end up like May. I looked everywhere, eve asked the people on guard shift if they'd
see her pass. That was a negative. So I went to the cars and peeked into the windows.
Jenna was there, in her red jeep. Tapping on the window, I could see I extremely
startled her. I felt all sweaty and smelly all of a sudden, I don't know but I think I might
starting to like her a lot. She opened the door and scooted over for me. Her hand was on
the middle seat, so I covered it with mine and we laced fingers. She then leaned her head
on my shoulder, it felt really nice. So we just sat there in silence, until I felt it should be
broken.
"I heard about May, I just want you to know, I will never leave you by yourself anymore,
never again." I said in full honesty.
"My hero." she smiled, and looked into my eyes. I leaned forward and brushed my lips
against hers lightly.
