22 Chapter Twenty-two

(Daniel's POV)

I stirred in my sleep being awakened by a bump in the road. Once I was fully awake I looked around at where we were.

It was night, Tom and Dipper were both asleep while Dennis and I were awake. We traveled along a dark slightly bumpy path and I was surprised those two didn't wake up already.

"Hey buddy, did the bumps wake you up?" Dennis asked me looking in the overhead. I met his brown eyes and felt less uncomfortable in this car. "Yeah but it's fine, I think I got enough rest anyways" I told him.

He nodded into the mirror and we continued in a comfortable silence just riding along peacefully. My mind began wondering to how and why this apocalypse started, I know dennis is connected to it somehow but I dont know if I should ask him.

"Got something on your mind?" he asked quietly. I looked up confused, can he read minds too? "You look troubled, and your brows are furrowed like you're thinking hard about something" he chuckled.

I gently slapped my face in realization, obviously he would be able to tell. "Yeah there is something on my mind, but I don't know if you'd be comfortable talking about it" I said trying not to make him angry.

"I don't mind" I perked my head up at his words. "Oh, ok awesome! Well I'm just wondering about how this whole thing started you know? Like I know and asteroid hit the earth but obviously scientists identified what type of disease it is trying to combat it like they did" I said.

Dennis nodded, "and you want to know what I know huh?" Dennis said looking me dead in the eyes. I gulped, suddenly feeling extremely intimidated by his intense stare.

"I don't have anything to do with this apocalypse, besides them using me like a Guinea pig, I know as much as you know" he said lowly. I was finally able to rip my eyes away from his seemingly entrancing ones.

"I'm sorry, I didnt mean it like that Dennis. I was just wondering if you knew anything extensive, I mean I know you were criminal and all but it's the apocalypse now, we'll all do what we have to in order to survive."

He sighed but nodded his head, "I'm sorry you're right, I shouldn't have came at you like that but I'm kinda tired of being made the bad guy after doing nothing but good this entire time you know? I understand what you mean tho" he finished with a smile.

I felt a breath that I didnt know I had release from my body. I was internally happy that he wasnt angry, the last thing I want to do is make bloodlust Dennis surface somehow.

The car fell back into a deep silence, nothing but the slight wind from the acceleration of the vehicle was heard.

A few more bumps woke the other two up finally, they lingered their looks on me before gazing around at the area we currently traveled. I watched them for a moment, wondering how I was gonna gain their trust like I gained Dennis's.

Dipper turned and looked at me with a weak smile, "how did you sleep?" he asked surprisingly. I lowered my eyebrows then went up in response and told him I slept fine.

He nodded and gazed back out the window watching the few shrubs pass by. Tom was stink eyeballing me any chance he could, I shrunk back in my seat feeling a little intimidated by the tall man.

Why did he dislike me so much? It seems like both Dipper and Dennis have already forgiven or began their way to forgive me, why not him?

I watched the way he looked at Dennis whenever they'd converse about some distant memory they had before this apocalypse started. Tom looked at Dennis with a lot of admiration.

Does Tom like Dennis? Maybe hes jealous of Dennis being around me, or maybe I'm reaching and he just hate me for the same reason everyone else in this car does.

I was ripped out of the thoughts consuming me when Dennis suddenly stopped the car at an a road pathway.

It was very odd and irregular, and most noticeably it split into two directions. We all looked at Dennis, him being the leader and waited for him to say something.

"Well, I guess we can choose which way we go hm?" he said looking back at us.

"So which way? Left, or right?" We all looked at each other, silently debating where we should go through looks.

Tom and Dipper wanted to go left, while Dennis and I wanted to go right.

"Ok, so now we have to look at the pros and cons before a final decision, just looking at both of those roads we can tell what might be at the end of it" Dennis said pointing to them.

Down the right, its road only got worse from as far as we can see, and it could be a bumpy and dangerous ride against lord knows what is down there. The left road looked the opposite, but it had an eerie feel to it, like something weird might happen.

"So?" Tom said.

"Soo, the right looks dangerous while the left looks peacefully dangerous" Dennis replied. They bickered back and forth for a moment and I thought silently to myself, the left looks like it would be way less od a problem for us so we should logically go that way.

"Let's go left, we dont need anymore possible problems like the right presents, so lets just go left" I spoke up.

Tom had a surprised look on his face, like he didn't expect me to agree with him and honestly, neither did I but here we are.

"Alright, left it is" Dennis says as he steps on the gass and began driving down the left side.

I let myself drift back into a nice sleep after the road got better. We had a few zombie scares but nothing serious, I felt comfortable in the car now that most of the tension is gone, sleep had no problem taking me into it's dark pits this time.

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