Chapter 14

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"We've dealt with them." Glenn informed Jacqui, Andrea and Amy, who had been waiting for them to finish. "The others are resting a bit ahead of us, let's catch up to them." They nodded, before following him.

They ran past the first corpse, finding a mangled bloody mess of flesh lying in a pool of its own blood, his head completely unrecognizable, making their guts churn with disgust. They did their best to ignore it, hoping they'd be able to keep their breakfast inside their bellies. Glenn noticed their discomfort.

"Trust me, there is worst out there…" Glenn commented. "Some walkers are spilling their guts as they walk, so better get used to it now." It seems the image was the straw that broke the camel's back, as Amy starting vomiting right then and there.

"Amy!" Andrea said worriedly, holding hear sister steadily. "You just had to say that…" she pointed at Glenn accusingly, while the latter just scratched the back of his head awkward, unaware of the social etiquette for when someone is vomiting.

"Are you alright?" She asked worriedly, giving her a tower to wipe her mouth.

"Yeah. I'll be fine." Amy said, sounding dizzy. "I'm sorry you had to see that."

"It's alright dear." Jacqui comforted her.

"Drink some water." Amy accepted the bottle from her sister, taking a few gulps. "Can you still walk?" Andrea asked. She was a bit overprotective of her sister, and didn't want anything bad happening to her.

"I'm alright, really. I just wasn't expecting this. We can move on." And so they resumed their running until they reached the others resting against the cars.

"You guys want some water?" Andrea said, holding two bottle in her hands. Which they accepted.

"Was it manageable? No wounded, I hope?" Jacqui said in a worried tone.

"No one got hurt." Jim said. "Kid was right, he took three of them, finished them in seconds." He gave credits where credit was due. "I don't know what we're doing wrong, to be honest. Mind tell us your secret, Xenon?" he joked.

"Good equipment." Xenon shrugged. "This little beauty gets the job done wonderfully." He pointed at his metal bat. "Though now that I think of it, we should get you guys an upgrade, maybe an axe, you know, a firefighter's axe? You could finish them with one hit to to the brains. Those wooden bats are holding you down." He remarked.

"We could check if there are any emergency glass cases." Glenn proposed.

"Good idea."

"We should get moving." It's been five minutes since they sat down, so Xenon had to remind them. "We're vulnerable here in the open. Better wait till we are in a safe zone to rest." And so, they took off again.

- Xenon -

The rest of the trip was uneventful until we reached our destination: a store they hadn't hit before, as the previous one almost ran out of supplies. People bought a lot of things apparently just before the outbreak, as the news were concerning at the time, so it was understandable. I asked why we didn't loot the houses instead of the store, as it would be a lot safer, they told me it takes a lot of time to break into houses, you can make a lot of noises, and if you find a zombie might jump you at any moments if there are any. And since they still had the convenience stores, where all the resources were gathered, there was no need to loot the houses just yet.

Glenn and Theodore used Dayle's tools to break the two locks blocking entry. We were lucky the front door wasn't locked; the owner probably thought the metal curtain was enough, lived nearby, or just didn't give a shit at the time. We're not complaining, it works in our favor. We didn't bring back down the metal curtain even though it would've been safer that way, the power was down, so we didn't have any light except for our flashlights, and we'd rather not use those.

The store was pretty big, though I doubt it would last us long. Not everything here was very useful to us. We weren't gonna get full on ships and sweets and that took a lot of space in the store. We checked it for walkers, and when we didn't find any, everybody got to work. We packed everything we might need, the older ones pointing us to what's most useful in our case. Bread, canned food, pasta…