miracle's pov
"DANIEL BEHIND YOU!" i yelled and he managed to swing his bat right at the 'grown ups' face. it stumbled to the floor and fell flat, it didn't get up again.
"that's the last of them" he looked around. "come one, lets go back and check on the kids" i said. "GUYS HELP!" we turned around immediately to see zach huddled up by some 'grown ups'. both of us ran as fast as we could to get him but failed. they took him away before we could get to him.
"he's gone"
"DANIEL HE'S GONE! WHAT WILL GRAYSON THINK OF ME?! I'M SUPPOSED TO BE TAKING CARE OF THE KIDS AN I'VE ONLY GONE AND LOST ONE!" i yelled. "calm down" daniel tried to calm me. "i can't! grayson is going to to hate me after this!" i put my face in my hands.
"let's just go and check on the rest" daniel says in a calming voice. "ok" i sigh and went back into the target with daniel making sure the steel shutters were sealed closed.
"MIRACLE! i can't find zach. he's not in here and i'm scared" reese said while tugging on the bottom of my skirt.
what am i supposed to do?
"he's umm...." i think of what to say.
"the 'grown ups' took him" daniel says.
"what the heck dani, why would you say that?!" i glare at him. "and lie to her? she was going to find out one way or another" he says.
"he's not gone. zach is my big brother, he's not gone, he's strong..." she said crying.
i felt bad for her, but everyone lost someone. she's just a 5 year old girl, what am i supposed to do?
"CORBYN!" i yell. "yes?!" he responds. "take care of reese" i said and he nods. "ok. reese come with me" she held his hand and he took her to his usual spot. he's always there.
"i'm going to check on the rest" daniel says and i nod. "ok"
oh, my bad. sorry, i haven't even introduced myself.
i'm miracle. just miracle my last name doesn't matter right now. or ever anymore. i'm just plain old miracle. i practically live in target with with people i don't really know. well, i have been living with them for a year. i think? time doesn't matter, nothing matters. only thing that matters right now is just, water, food, energy, sticking together, and most of all, surviving.
if you don't know what's going on, you most likely don't, well so there is this disease that makes people over 24, into zombies. yeh zombies don't really sound scary or real, but now they exist and they are really scary. they aren't the stupid ones you see on tv. well, they do look disgusting and dangerous and hungry. we all call them 'grown ups' because you know they are grown ups. so now we need to survive so they don't eat us like zach.
i was scared, scared about how grayson was going to think about me. loosing zach. he was only 15. i sat down in a lonely corner and dug my face in my knees and cried.
"miracle?"
i looked up and quickly wiped my tears away. i have to be and look strong after all i am second in command.
"you ok?" corbyn asked kneeing down. "yes, why?" i got up and tried to look strong. i looked right into his eyes which seemed go have a spark. "you were crying" he says. "aren't you supposed to be taking care of reese?" i ask, avoiding what he had just said. "yes but-" he starts to say but i interrupted him. "go on, who knows how she's feeling right now" i say. "we all know how she's feeling, we all lost someone we love. zach is, was, i don't know a member of our band, our best friend friend, we miss him a lot as well" i looked down, knowing he's right.
corbyn is probably the second strongest out of everyone in the 'waitrose group'. first its jonah, he's kinda annoying. jonah is those guys you see standing around, cat calling you after school when you're walking home. the 'jocks'.
he was in a band though, called 'why don't we'. daniel, corbyn, zach, and jonah. they were all a member of that band.
(a/n: no, i didn't forget jack. he comes later in the story)
"i'll take care of ree-" corbyn starts to say but suddenly we heard the steel shutters open. we got out weapons ready for whoever or whatever it was.
"put your weapons down, its just us" grayson says. i quickly put my weapon down and looked down.
grayson's pov
the amount of people i lost. i'm the leader and i can't do stuff right.
jonah, jake, me, and the rest, went back with barely any food for all of us.
all i want to do is go back home, my warm home, lying on my bed under the covers on my phone, my mom doing whatever she does, ethan annoying me, cameron shouting at us for always fighting, but now its like i'm the father of the waitrose kids and miracle is like the 'mother' of them.
miracle's pov
"find any food?" corbyn asks. "barely any" jonah says. "fk..." corbyn says. "there are kids in here you know?" grayson looks at him. "i dont think that matters anymore" corbyn looks at grayson. "got a point" grayson says and i look down, trying to avoid contact.
"anyways, jonah, we need to go" jake says. both if them went, leaving grayson and i alone.
"we lost zach. i'm sorry, i didn't mean to lose him, its just i tried killing the other 'grown ups' and got dis-"
"not hour fault"
"w-what do you mean?" i look at him. "i said, its not your fault, we both lost people. i'm the leader here and i cant even do one job right" i looked at him and he looked at me.
i had feeling for him. strong feelings. i'm probably just his second in command to him anyways. nothing else.
grayson's pov
i have feeling for her. strong feelings, but i'm scared she doesn't like me back. i'm probably just a leader to her. nothing else.
anyways, its not like i'm going to survive. who knows? i'm probably gonna turn into one of them soon. i mmean i am 16 and so is she.how we going to survive all these years? that's impossible.
i walked away to check on the other kids. i didnt want to loose anymore after everything that happened today. just because it happened doesn't mean it's not going to happen again.
miracle's pov
he walked away. just like that. it's obvious he doesnt have any feelings for me.
ugh, i need to stop thinking about that. it's weird and crazy. i'm being selfish.
corbyn's pov
"we lost him"
"the youngest member, our best friend, our brother" daniel says. "he's gone" jonah looks down. "he's strong. he'll make it" i say. "you're crazy to believe that" jonah looks at me.
"no, its called faith" i stormed away and went to reese and ryan.
zach is strong, he'll make it.
no. i was hella crazy thinking he will, no one makes it, there's too many of them.