16.HAPPY EVER AFTER
THIRD POV.
They were all quiet as Riley drove. There wasn't much to be said. Most of them were just scared.
Scared that something bad would happen to the people that they had left at the camp. They had no way of protecting themselves.
"So how did you know about this place ", asked Laura the young girl who was there when she had been saved.
She really couldn't say that they had saved her because she would still have managed to survive.
"My sister worked there ", Riley said without taking her eyes off the road.
The truck that they had, had everything that they needed. A place to sleep and food for the night In case they didn't manage to get back till night.
They were all scared of the night. It wasn't any different from the days given the fact that the zombies walked around even during the day.
It was the fear of being attacked without noticing that scared them. Riley had lost count of the number of times that she had almost been bit.
Glen was sitting in the passenger seat next to Riley. She looked lol st in her thoughts. Her hand went to her neck and she held the locket around her.
You could see the sadness on her face. A sadness that of someone who had lost someone. She had lost people that she had never thought she would.
Sometimes she wondered why she tried so much to survive when she had no one. What was the point of surviving?
That was a question she had never gotten an answer to and was still looking.
"Hey you okay ?", Riley asked her once she noticed how quiet Gwen was.
"Yeah is fine just remembered something ", Glen said and tried to force a smile that did not reach the end of her lips.
"Mind sharing I need to talk to someone or I'll lose my mind ", said Riley.
Glen looked at her and wondered what she was gonna tell her. She had lost her wife during the first weeks.
Sometimes she thought that maybe if she hadn't left her then she maybe she would still be alive with him.
She remembered her laughter that morning when they sat around the table taking breakfast. She had the most enchanting smile.
"I lost someone important when all this started", said Glen as she looked right ahead trying not to hold eye contact with Riley.
"Am sorry, I know how you feel ", Riley said but immediately regretted it.
She had no idea what it felt like for her because they were completely two different people.
"Am sorry I didn't mean that am so sorry for your loss ", she corrected herself.
" Thank you ", said Glen, and they fell into silence again.
"So where did you stay before all this ?", Riley asked her.
"I had just got back home and I had a wedding ", said Glen as she smiled.
" I was so happy because I had been looking forward to it for so long, it was the only thing I was thinking about. The world went to shit the following morning but I didn't know because my phone was off ", Glen said.
" I was an orphan so I didn't have anyone who I had lost then. At first, I thought it was something small that would end in a week or so. The second week came along and things had gotten worse instead of better ", Glen said chuckling.
" There were broadcasts that were telling people to go to shelters that had been set aside by the government", Glen said as she let out a sigh that she didn't know she was holding in.
" Did you try to go to those shelters ?", Riley asked her.
" Yeah, I did but not immediately when they had started broadcasting it. Things got tough as the days went by and the shelters were our only option, my wife wasn't doing so well and we needed a doctor ", Glen said as her voice started to break.
"I tried to make sure she was okay. I had some training on being a nurse so I did all that I could. She was suffering from lung cancer, it's really funny because I used to hate it when she smoked cigarettes didn't know they would be the death of her ", Glen said chuckling.
Riley didn't say anything. She just sat there and waited for her to continue talking. She couldn't tell her that she was sorry for her loss, that would give her nothing.
*She was a real charmer, you would have loved her ", Glen said as she smiled.
From. the way that she was talking about her Riley knew that Gwen had loved her and she still loved her.
Gwen hated when she talked about Rue. The memories were painful and sometimes they were good.
If only she could be able to freeze time she could have done that so that she would get to spend the rest of her life with her.
She had loved her. She was the reason she was happy and when she died that happiness went away with her.
She could see buildings ahead and she assumed that they were entering the city.
The tall buildings that looked like a good site back in the day now we're left in ruins. The streets were littered with both bodies and dirt.
It was dead quiet they could hear the engine of their vehicle as it drove by.
"We are almost there everybody gear up, I think we will park the car somewhere discreet to hide it Incase someone tries to steal it ", said Riley.
The city was dead quiet and they hoped that there weren't any other people there. They just wanted to grab what they needed and leave without confronting anybody.
Every day it was getting hard to know who was the enemy and who wasn't. From. their experience human beings had started behaving like animals.
It was probably because there were no rules anymore.
Riley parked the car under a bridge and turned it off as she took her guns and looked at the others.
"Time to go people ", she said as she alighted the vehicle closing the door behind her.