The Day Before Yesterday

Part 8

    We were about five days past Arizona. We were now in Colorado. Green pines and fresh air.

  I had my window down. I breathed in the fresh pine scent. Everyone one was asleep, it was only about 7:30.

  I looked in my rear view mirror and saw Wren sleeping on Steve's shoulder. In the back Marie was laying on Cheyanne's shoulder and Dawn was sleeping on the window.

  I yawned.

  "You tired?"

  I jumped and looked over to see David waking up.

  I let out a deep breath. "Ya. But, I'm fine."

  "You sure?"

  "Mhm. Thanks though." I politely smiled.

  Mrs. Green pulled over.

  I pulled our van over and woke everyone up.

  Dawn was snoring louder than a freaking Hippo.

  Cheyanne slapped her face, "Get up!"

  Dawn jumped and opened her eyes.

"What's going on?" She said sleeply.

  "We are stopping for a break and we will be filling up the cars with gas." I told her.

  "Where are we?" Steve asked.

  "The middle of Colorado." I explained.

  "Wow, Ann. Your really driving alot." Dawn stated.

  "Ya." I sighed, "But, in the end it will be rewarding. The group will be safe."

  We all got out and gathered around Mrs. Greene's truck.

  "Wait.  Where's the gas station?" Marie asked.

  "When we stopped at the gas station in Colorado last night, we found a bucket and put extra gas in it, because the next gas station wouldn't be intill a few hours." I explained.

  "I'll fill up the cars. You guys stretch and whatever rise you teens do." Mrs. Greene yawned and slugged over to our van. 

  "I have to pee." Rose complained.

  "Me too." Zachary said.

  "I do, also." Dawn smiled.

  I went to the back of the truck, got toilet paper, and something else that Rose needed.

  She used sign language to ask me.

  I was still was mad at her. I mean what the hell did I do to deserve almost getting hit with a shovel. That's not even what pissed me off. What pissed me off us that she hit David with the shovel.

  "Here." I threw Dawn a roll of toilet paper.

  "Oh! Here's your tampon Rose." I threw it to her.

  She blushed, "Thanks."

  Her and Dawn walked off west into the forest.

  "Um, I have to pee too." Zachary slowly started walking after them. 

  "I'm going to follow him and make sure he's not being a creeper." David told us.

He walked off after Zachary.

  Wren, Steve, and Marie stretched. Mrs. Green was filling up the gas tanks. 

  "I'm going to go look around and see if I can find anything." I said. 

I went North West into the forest.

  I had my gun with me. No one knew I had guns except for David.

  I kept hearing foot steps, but I saw no one.

  I came to the forest ending. I saw a house. An old country lookin' home.

  "Huh." I said to myself. "Maybe, I'll go and see waits left in there."

   The walking sounded louder. Then, it stopped. Something jumped on my back, I fell face first into the ground.  I let out a scream.

  I turned over to see a boy about my age. He had tackled me.

  He was pretty cute. He had longer brown hair and  his blue green eyes stared into mine.

  He had a sturn look on his face, but then faded a bit.

   He got off of me and put it hand out to help me up.

  "I'm sorry. I-I'm sorry. I was just watching out for my group. I was going to shoot you, then I thought I heard you talk, but I didn't know for sure." He tryed to explain.

  "It's fine.  I understand." I dusted the dirt off of me.

  He smiled at me. I'm pretty sure I blushed and turned bright red.

  "I'm Chandler."

  "I'm Ann." I said shyly.

  He put his hand out to me, I took it and we shook hands.

  "Is that where your staying?" I pointed to the white house.

  "Ya. Where are you staying?"

  "Well, I'm from California. We've been driving." I explained.

  "Oh wow. Cali huh? How many are in your group?"

  "One adult and ten teens. We have two cars to hold us and our supplies." I explained.

  "Wait, one adult two cars? Who's driving the other?" He questioned.

 "Me." I giggled.

 "Wow, your pretty awesome." He smiled and holstered his gun. 

  "Ann?!" I heard David.

  "I'm over here." I shouted.

  He walked over to see me and this random guy he's never seen before.

  "Who's this?" David asked.

  "This is Chandler." I said dreamly.

  "Do you think that we could stay with you?" I asked Chandler.

  "I have to talk to my dad. I'll tell him that as I was walking around and saw a group out on the road. So, just stay there."

  "Thank you." I said soflty.

  I watched him while he walked off, then turned to see David staring at me.

  "What?"

  "Nothing. Just come on we better go back to the cars."

  We walked back, everyone was there except Rose and Zachary.

  Dawn had huge eyes. She was hiding something.

  "What's wrong?" David asked her.

She signaled him to come over to her.  She whispered in his ear. He had a disgusted look.

  "What?" I asked.

   David came over and whispered in my ear.

  "Ew. That's disgusting!" I suddenly felt really sick.

  Rose and Zachary were... I better not say. 

  We heard a screech come from the forest. It wasn't a girl that's for sure.

  I ran of in the direction of the screech. Mrs. Greene stayed with the vans, but the rest of us ran twords the screech.

       Blood.

  It was a big blood puddle...

   *** Sorry for the cliff hanger!!! Who do you ship in this story?? Who screamed?? Please leave me a comment!!***