"U-uhm Ashton...you might want to take a look at this." I say. Ash leans forward a little bit, enough to see the tooth. He gasps and his eyes grow wide with shock.
"Oh my god."
He whispers so quiety I barely heard him, but Luke did.
"Holy shit." Michael gasps.
"What? What? What's going on? What's wrong? W-"
"Luke shut the hell up!" Michael cuts him off.
"Luke I need you to try your best to muffle your screams. Ashton hold the towel over his mouth."
Ashton nodded and Luke looked at me with confused, wide eyes but reluctantly noddded anyways. I grabbed the tweezers and looked at Luke who had his eyes closed and taking deep breaths. I then slowly put the tweezers in his wound and tried to grab the tooth. The entire time, Luke's muffled screams turned into agonizing wails. I tried my hardest not to cry as I saw the tears stream out of his eyes. I finally got a grip on the tooth and pulled it out. Then I quickly poured the disinfectant on it and he screamed even louder.
"Ashton get another towel, he's screaming to loud!"
"I'll grab more." Michael says.
"Okay, just hurry before those things hear it too."
It was hard to talk over Luke's screams but I knew he heard me. It was even harder to hear Michael's response as he ran off to grab more towels. He came back and handed the towels to Ash who piled them over Luke's mouth. But when I started threading the needle he kicked it out of my hand. I forgot he was petrified of needles! It ended up going through the palm of Michael's hand.
"SHIT!" He screamed.
"Shhhh!"
I quickly got up and looked out the window. He didnt attract any attention to us. Phew.
"Are we good?" Ashton asks in a whisper.
"Yea." I respond.
"Ahh it fucking hurts! So fucking bad!"
"Okay Mike I'll patch up your hand and get that needle out."
I went over to him and slowly pulled it out. It wasn't in too deep so he'll be okay. I put the needle on the bed side table, grabbed some gauze, and patched his hand up.
"You could be a nurse." Ash says.
"Ha! Yeah right! I just know what im doing because my mom is...uhm...was a nurse."
He gave me sympathetic eyes. I just looked away. I didn't need his pity. I know something happened to his family too so I don't need him, or anyone for that matter, to pity me.
"Luke I need to stich up your arm."
More tears streamed down his face at my words and he slowly nodded. I stich up his arm as quickly as I could and put some gauze over it.
"There all done. Now that wasn't so bad was it?"
"It was horrible!"
"Luke, why are you so afraid of needles?" Michael asked.
"Yeah, you never told us the story." Ashton continued. He looked at them, frozen for a moment about the question, then sat up with his back against the wall.
"Well, it all started when I was 10...."
Flashback...
I was walking over to my uncle's house. He was the best uncle ever. Always taking me places and buying me stuff. He loved me and treated my like his own son.
"Luke? I uh have to go to the uh store. I'll be back soon."
"Can I come with?"
"Not this time buddy. It's a different store than the ones we usually go to."
"Oh."
"Just stay here and play or watch t.v."
"Okay."
He left for about an hour. When he came back he had a needle in his hand with some clear liquid inside it that looked like water.
"Uncle Nate? What's that?"
He put it in his arm and shot it up. He never responded to my question. Instead we just stayed in silence with the t.v. playing quietly in the background. About 10 minutes later, he started freaking out. And when I tried to calm him down, he lunged at me with the needle still in his hand and started stabbing me several times with the empty syringe."
End Flashback...
"Luke, I-im so sorry... I-I didn't know.."
I was lost for words. No wonder he was freaking out, he was petrified. And if I had a past like that I would've done the same thing.
"Maybe we should get some rest. Today has been exhausting." Ashton says and we all agreed.
"Shouldn't there be a lookout or something if a zombie comes?"
"You're right Michael." I said as we all looked at each other.
"I'll take first shift." Michael said.
"No it's okay I can." I responded.
"You've had a long day. We all have. Plus im not even tired so just get some rest."
"Okay fine. But when you're tired wake me up. I'll take second shift."
"Deal." He said.
" I can take third shift so you can sleep Ky." Luke said using my nickname.
"No Luke. You're not taking any shifts your arm needs to heal."
"But I want to help."
"Too bad. Ashton will take third. Is that okay Ash?" I said looking at Ashton. He nodded. Luke mumbled something about me being bossy and turned over in his sheets. Me and Ash then made our beds and fell asleep.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Kylie." I heard someone whisper, and then felt them shaking my shoulder.
"Kylie....wake up." My eyes fluttered open. There stood Michael.
"I'm tired." He said.
"Okay."
I yawn getting up and stretching.
"Get some rest."
He nodded and layed down where I was just sleeping. He fell asleep the second his head hit the pillow.
I was staring out the window for a couple of hours when I felt something touch my shoulder. I jumped and quickly turned around. It was Ashton. Without a shirt.... Oh my jesus. I snapped out of my trance and looked up to see him with a smirk on his face.
"I didn't mean to scare you." He chuckled. I glared at him that was not funny. I almost died.
"You were dozing off so I thought I should take my shift now."
"Do you uhm....do you wanna put a shirt on?" I stuttered.
"No it's pretty warm in here."
"Uh...okay."
I quickly hugged him and went to the bed he was previously sleeping which was the top bunk.
I woke up to the sun shining in my eyes. I slowly opened them to see a huge gap in the ceiling. Whoa......how'd that get there? I just let it go (let it go, let it go, can't hold it back anymore lol) and sat up rubbing my tired eyes. Everyone was already awake and smiling at me.
"What?"
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!"
They all said in sync. Birthday? It's my birthday? How'd they know. How would they know in the first place? Ashton must've sensed my confusion. "There's a calander in here that had been marked up until 2 days ago. And that's when we got here. This cabin had just became vacant. Plus you told me your birthday was August 22nd and that's the date today sooo......happy birthday Kylie." Ash explained.
I looked at the calender he pointed to,Holy shit....it really is my birthday.....