The awakening

Chapter 1

As I woke up in the hospital bed, still shaken up from the accident, I looked around and saw that the room looked a little to empty. I felt a chill down my spine as I stood up and started looking around the floor. For some reason, no one was around and half the lights were off

"Of course one of the cliches, what's next, a big smoke monster comes out of the roof or something?" I sarcastically said to myself. But, a second later, I heard a little rattling from a closet at the end of the hall. I slowly walked towards the door and grabbed a broom nearby, ready to defend myself against anyone or anything that could be behind that door. I swing the door open and swung the broom but stopped to see staring back at me was a tall girl with blonde hair and a wound on her knee.

"W...who are you," she asked nervously.

I could see her hands shaking and the fear in her eyes

"I'm Dimitri Johnson, and you?"

"Daniela Rose, but...just call me dan"

"Ok, what are you doing here?" I asked.

"I caught my knee on a barbed wire fence"

"wow," I said, surprised as I glared down at her knee, "why did you come across bar-"

she cut me off quickly with:

"you don't need to know"

I shrugged it off and changed the subject. We talked about whatever we could think of until she asked

"Wait, why are YOU here?"

"I...I think I was in a car crash, but I can remember, its kind of blurry."

"Huh, that's tough, are you ok?" she wondered while looking for scars or marks on my body

"yeah I'm fine, but why are there no doctors or patients here? we have been walking around for like half an hour or something."

she looked around quickly, then looked at me and said,

"Yeah, I didn't notice that until now."

we then decided to leave the hospital, but not before grabbing some supplies such as bandages, alcohol for the cuts we could imagine us having in the near future, some water bottles and whatever food we could find. we ended up walking past a group of people that seemed nice enough.

"Hey, you"

one of them exclaimed. Daniela and I both looked over to see about 4 or 5 people looking back at us. I was the one who decided to reply nervously with,

"Are you talking to us?"

At that moment, I thought they were going to threaten us and take our stuff...or, whatever we could grab from the hospital.

"Yes, you, come here, we need to talk."

I looked at Daniela who, at this point, was as pale as a ghost, and I'm guessing I was as well. I whispered into her ear,

"What do we do?'

she glanced back at them and thought for a second before replying with,

"I say we take the chance, I mean, we don't have much to lose at this point, and if we do lose anything, we will probably get more supplies on our journey."

I nodded and signaled at her to go to them, so she started walking as I reluctantly followed close behind ready for the worst that could come our way.

"so," one of them said, "I can see by the gown that you have come from the hospital."

"Yeah, we just left there, who are you guys by the way?"

"I'm Eldon, he's Phillip" he hand gestured to us to say that he was a bit on the crazy side. "She's Pheona and him over there that's Jean, but just call him Jay, and who are you?"

"I'm Dimitri, and she's Daniela."

he looked at both of us for about thirty seconds before saying,

"Well, Dimitri, Daniela, make yourselves at home, we have plenty of supplies. and don't hesitate to ask if you need anything."

I said thank you and dan and I went to sit down on an old, dirty couch at the corner of the room. the fear I saw in Daniela has goten worse at this point as she looks around the room, scanning the group that seemed to be too kind. But we just accepted the hospitality...poor choose of words?