Survivors

Chapter 5

"You're on!" I make my way over to the bar. "A round of Jack Daniels for me and this sore loser." I point at Carter as he walks up and he glares. "Aww don't be a baby. I'm just very good at what I do."

"And where'd you learn to drink like that?"

"Dude. Its the apocalypse. There's nothing else to do, you might as well drink." I pick up my shot and hand him his. "Cheers, loser." I laugh and clink my glass into his. The liquid burns the back of my throat as I gulp it down in a single go.

When our 7th shot comes around, it turns into a neither-win situation. "I think I'd better stick to beer." I gulp down the last shot and go get a cup of beer from the keg.

The room sways and the music buzzes in my ears as the alcohol takes its toll. Carter grabs a cup of beer and sips on it, watching the people dance on the floor. Their bodies grinding and closing all space between one another.

Setting my beer down at the bar, I walk straight out to the floor.

"Wanna dance?" I turn around to see an unfamiliar face. "I'm Derek."

"I'm Katrina. Sure, I'll dance." I smile and he leads me further into the crowd. My body sways along to the music and his body moves behind mine. His hips move in sync with mine but every once in awhile he's a little off.

"So where are you from?" He leans down into my ear so that I can hear him.

"Italy." I don't like small talk, especially when I'm lying about who I am here. But the boy continues asking things like how long have you been here? Why'd you leave? What's it like in Italy? Its beginning to get on my nerves.

The song plays out and I turn to face him. "Can you do me a favor and get me my drink from the bar over there?"

"Anything for you, cutie." He walks off through the crowd. Finally. I look around to try and get out but there's people everywhere in the way. I almost find and opening when a tap on my shoulder causes me to turn around. Derek smiles and holds up my drink. "Bottoms up." I'm gonna need it if I have to keep dancing with you. I smile but its fake, as I take the drink and chug the rest.

"Mind if I cut in?" Adam, a boy from my team, intercepts me. Thank God. Derek backs off and I start dancing with Adam. "You seemed a bit annoyed."

"очень."

"Uh, what?"

I laugh and cover my mouth with my hand. I didn't even know I was talking in Russian, its almost an instinct especially when I'm irritated. "Sorry, I didn't even know I wasn't speaking in english. It happens sometimes. I said, very."

He laughs and we finish out the dance. And then I start to feel a little uncomfortable. With every guy I dance with. Its like I don't even wan't to dance with them.

But then something shocking happens. And he was the only one that made it feel right.

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-Carter

When I saw her in that dress my heart stopped and froze me in my place. My throat felt tight and I could hardly speak. I've never seen something so beautiful. But I quickly had to snap out of it.

The bite marks on her neck have healed to 2 small scars. The claw marks haven't yet tho, but her stitches don't look bad and its still small. Only about 2 inches per claw and it wasn't deep, thank God.

And then I can't believe she beat me at chugging beer. Can I not just win with this woman??

We both had to call a quits from the shots as it started to hit us both real quickly.