We were all almost done at that second as this tragedy taking place seemed to paralyze us. Phoebe was crying, Freddie hadn’t moved and the sight of another death in such a short span of time almost knocked me down. I didn’t know Jamie that well but she was a nice person and so young. I would wonder after if she hadn’t done herself in with her belief that she didn’t stand a chance.
The only thing that saved us was Robert hadn’t lost his focus. He had killed several zombies on his own before he yelled out.
“We’ve got to keep fighting.”
I turned around just in time to stop the zombie behind me, with another one only a few steps behind it.
Daniel hadn’t moved from Jamie’s dead body. He was crying next to her. Freddie was no longer frozen. He was fighting along with Phoebe, Robert, and me. When I was able to look though, I did see that he was crying.
We were not out of our bad fortune. Daniel composed himself and joined our fight. The five of us were fighting so hard that none of us saw it coming.
Robert didn’t scream, he didn’t make a noise at all. It wasn’t until I heard a zombie growls more animated behind me that I even noticed. I turned and saw a zombie chewing on Robert’s right shoulder.
“Damn it,” I said.
I ran over and stabbed the zombie in the head. Robert fell to the ground, his eyes glazed over. The zombie had gotten his throat first and pulled out a huge chunk of it.
The others finished off the remaining group of the undead killers before they noticed.
“Oh my God,” Phoebe said. “Not Robert. Not him, please.”
Daniel went over and hugged Phoebe.
I watched Freddie walk over and kneel next to Jamie’s body. He stroked Jamie’s arm.
“This is all your fault,” he spat out.
Daniel let go of Phoebe. She wiped her eyes. I walked over and put my arm around her because she didn’t look like she could stand without support.
“What?” Daniel asked.
“You heard me,” Freddie said. “You know I’m right. This is your fault.”
“I just lost my sister and best friend. I’d watch it if I were you.”
“This was your stupid idea. If it wasn’t for you, they might still be alive.”
“It wasn’t safe there. Everyone but you understood that,” Daniel yelled.
“It was safer than this and now Jamie and Robert are dead because of your stupidity.”
Daniel punched Freddie in the mouth. Freddie tried to hit back but Daniel ducked. Daniel then took Freddie down and they were fighting on the ground.
“Stop it,” I said letting go of Phoebe. “You’re going to attract more of those undead things and then we’ll all be dead.”
The scuffle continued for another minute before they broke apart.
Freddie was bleeding heavily from his nose and mouth. Daniel, being the clear winner, only had a busted lip.
“I’m not continuing on this pointless journey,” Freddie barked.
“Then go,” Daniel said back.
“He’ll never make it by himself,” I stated.
“If he wants to go, I’m not going to stop him.”
Freddie shook his head and backed away from us. He grabbed his bag off the ground. He then turned and headed of in the other direction.
I was shocked at the turn of events and knowing he wouldn’t make it made me want to vomit. I understood the raw emotions that Daniel was feeling to let him just leave especially being told his sister’s death was his fault but I just couldn’t believe it. We had started out as six barely 3 hours prior and now our group was cut in half. We weren’t much better off than Freddie.
“We need to go,” Daniel said.
It was true that we couldn’t stay there but we couldn’t get Phoebe to leave. She was sitting down next to Roberts’s body. She picked some wild flowers next to her and placed them around his body. She began humming to herself.
Daniel didn’t say anything though I could see the panic on his face. He was keeping his eyes peeled around the surrounding area. We couldn’t just stay and wait for an attack.
Then the weather gave us the push. It started to rain, hard and fast. It wasn’t like the everyday rain we were used to. We all knew too well what it was the start of. Robert and I had been right to be concerned but it felt like another damn blow to an already fragile system.
“Come on, Phoebe, we’ve got to find shelter.” Daniel said.
“No, I can’t leave him,” she replied. “I can’t. I won’t.”
“Phoebe,” Daniel pleaded.
“Go,” she said. “Leave me here.”
Determined not to lose a fourth person today, I went over to her, “Phoebe, I know how you feel, everything inside of you feels ripped out and dead but it’s not. We have to go, there’s a typhoon approaching. We need you if we have any hope to survive, please. You have more to live for than I do, I know you’re strong enough to make it.”
She let out a small whimper and nodded. “Okay.”
She kissed the side of Robert’s cheek and got up.
We began running with no real direction, just trying to find somewhere, anywhere that we might be safe.
It wasn’t going to be easy; the area we were in was mostly jungle. The rain was pouring down on us and was making visibility almost nonexistent. I could really only make out the green foliage to the side of me and Phoebe running just a foot ahead of me.
It was bad and I was running out of breath after the fight we had just encountered and now running. I wanted to throw in the towel, just lie down and let the rain wash over my body.
“Over there,” Daniel yelled.
I assumed
