CH 11 - Supply run

Next day I woke up with Karla still in my arms. I smiled it felt good to have her in my arms. I looked at her sleeping face until I enjoyed it enough and then I kissed her forehead. What followed was series of cute sounds as she wrinkled her nose like a cute bunny and kept on sleeping.

"Being this cute should be illegal."

"Who is cute?" Karla spoke with a very sleepy voice.

"You are. You looked like small bunny as you were waking up. I think I just discovered my new favorite thing to watch that's how cute you were."

She blushed and buried her face in my chest. "Okay I get it. Good morning, Vic."

"Good morning, Karla."

A few seconds after that we heard both of our stomachs to greet us with a rumbling. We looked at each other and laughed. After that I spoke.

"I have some snacks in the bag, we should eat and then go to hunt for some supplies. People in here would be needing some also."

She nodded. We quickly dressed up. Ate some snacks I had in my bag and went out of the room. Karla locked the room behind us and grabbed the key. We looked for teachers to speak to.

We found two teachers looking worried so we went up to them and asked.

"Hello, what is going on?"

Teacher looked at me. After moment of pondering, he spoke. "I am glad, you look much better than yesterday. And as for what is going on we need supplies but we don't have enough man power to scout and deliver the supplies here."

"We were about to go scout for some, you just try to put together team of people to carry stuff we will find the place and we will provide protection for extraction. How does that sound?"

"Team for just carrying shit? Not fighting?"

I nodded. "We will do the fighting, but we can't do the carrying."

"OK that should work. Thanks."

"It's fine."

"By the way do you have people with cooking skill here?"

"Not sure. Why?"

"With cooking skill comes also knowledge how to prepare monster meat. That would help a lot with food."

He nodded. "I am on it, cooks and carriers. Should not be so big of a deal. We are about to have leaders meeting do you want to attend?"

"We are not the leader's material, think of us more like freelancers paying the rent if that is fine with you."

He nodded. "That's fine. I understand."

"If you have willing students, I am also willing to help them level up and get their first kills."

"Perfect, I will let the leaders know Vic."

After that we left the cafeteria and started to look around for places that have supplies and not very many ghouls.

"Why did you offer so much help?" Karla asked.

"Honestly, I am planning to leave this place as soon as possible. You must be worried sick about your family and I would like to sometime see mine. Mobile phones are dead since the beginning for some reason so the only way is travel there somehow. So, I just want to help so that they have a way to live once we leave."

"All I have is older sister."

"Where does she live?"

"On the other side of LA."

"Sweet we prepare, and we will head to grab your sister. Then I would love to take you both on journey across America towards my family."

"Where is your family?"

"New York."

"That far? That is going to be one heck of long road. We are going to need a sound proof tent and a normal tent then."

I chuckled. "I can always stick a tongue in your mouth."

She giggled. "That actually does not sound bad."

Being with Karla, chatting with her and feeling her warmth was like a medicine for my broken heart. She was for me like a light at the end the dark nasty tunnel, I just have to go towards it and I will get out of shitty tunnel. And that was exactly what I was planning to do.

As we were chatting, we started to move towards nearby supermarket. It had a lot of food, utility supplies like some clothes, underwear, and so on, and there was even small pharmacy connected to it so we could grab some medicine supplies to boot.

As we came closer to our target, we saw a group of ghouls lingering around and in the supermarket. It was not extremely large group but it was not small. By estimation it looked like there was 50-60 ghouls.

We didn't saw any special ghouls, so we decided to clear them out and then go pickup the others that will carry stuff from here.

Cleaning the place took about 20 minutes. It was just normal ghouls and a bunch of zombies that they managed to turn. After that we went to pick up some resources for ourselves and went back. We first dropped off our supplies in our room and then went to the teachers to pick up the carry squad.

"Hello Teach, we are ready to go for supply run. Do you have carriers?"

"One moment I will bring them here."

After about a minute a group of about thirty students came out. It was mixture of men and women. To my surprise Brook was among them. She was giving me a weird look, but I ignored her.

"Are you ready?" I asked.

Group nodded.

"Okay, we will go to nearby supermarket, we were just there and cleared all the ghouls and we will protect you while we go for a run. I have two simple rules.

1.No speaking or any other unnecessary noise. It lures ghouls to our position so be as silent as you can

2.Keep up the pace. This is not a walk in a park. Longer you are out more dangerous it will be. So, stick together and keep up the pace. "

As I was about to explain formation and stuff, I overheard something that pissed me off. One of those meatheads started to speak something about Karla being nice piece of meat, I was about to open my mouth and say something when I felt her grabbing my hand. I turned to her and she smiled mischievously. I had a feeling that I knew what she wanted, so I pulled her into a hug and she kissed me. It was niece meaty deep kiss that lasted about a minute. When we separated there was a bridge of saliva binding us. She just giggled.

Somehow this silenced all that crap I was hearing about Karla without even saying anything, plus by the looks of it, it also shocked Brook to the bone. She was standing there with her mouth open unable to compute what just happened.

After that I explained the formation and rest of the stuff. We embarked on a short journey towards supermarket. I was at the front; Karla was at the back and Sheela was running from left to right making sure sides are safe.