Into Darkness novel Chapter 16

"Do you happen to own any cars?" Lucky asked and Sandra nodded.

"Only five though, and we are over a hundred people, plus weapons and food" Caren chimed in and I sighed.

"But there's cars in the towns, maybe we can take one of those... I know how to Hotwire them" Lou said and I looked over at him and nodded hastily.

"That's true, maybe we can make this work after all" I was positive that we could make this work and I was feeling rather excited.

"We have to announce this, can you gather everyone?" She asked Colton and Caren and they nodded and walked away.

"So I want all of you on the first cars and the kids" She says as she takes out a paper ands starts to scribble on it.

"We're 109 people here and the cars can take 5 people... We can send 25 people to take the five cars we have and go get some more cars and maybe a truck if they can find one. Everyone else will start to get their stuff and move our weapons and food out to the reception..." She mumbled and scratched her neck.

Soon Colton came running in and waved his arms in the air.

"Everyone have gathered and are waiting"

Sandra nodded and quickly made her way out.

I made my way on the crutches, Lucky waited for me and I flashed him a grateful smile.

When we came out, all I could see was like 200 eyes staring at my mum and I swallowed.

How did she manage to become their leader?

"I've gathered you all to tell you something important. Earlier today, the news said that enforcement would come to our airport and would bring survivors to the United States. We only have three days to make it there so everyone must help"

She continued her speech and gave everyone different missions, since I was pretty helpless on my crutches, I only stood by the reception and took care of all the children.

About five hours later, everyone was gathered again and there was cars waiting.

"We're leaving straight away" Sandra spoke and I swallowed.

We managed to convince her to let me, Lou, Kylie, Tyson and Loren to go in the same car.

She had made Lucky, Oliver and Colton go with some others though, which made me kinda sad.

"I'll see you when we get there" Lucky said, hugging me tight.

I looked up at him and nodded.

"Of course" I smiled and kissed his cheek.

"See you later" I said as I jumped into the car, next to Lou in the drivers seat. Kylie, Loren and Tyson sat behind us.

Tyson and Loren still seemed to be mad at each other and I understood.

But they were siblings so I was sure that they'd work it out.

"Okay, off we go" I heard Lou mutter as he started the car.

We were currently sat in an all black Range Rover, as soon as Lou and Tyson had found this car thy had called dibs and immediately drove it back.

I certainly wasn't complaining.

It was around 4 P.M. right now, but since it was summer, the sun was still pretty high.

I held my gun in my knee.

Even though I had run out of bullets the day James got attacked by that Zombie, I still kept the gun. It was a part of me now, so I didn't want to leave it. And as soon as I had loaded it again, it was as good as new.

"I'm still jealous of that gun" Kylie muttered and I looked back over my shoulder and stuck my tongue out.

We had only driven for about half an hour when Lou hastily stopped the car, making my body jerk forward. Luckily I wore a belt, so the only harm done was my chest hurting a little bit from the belt.

I quickly looked around and saw that everyone seemed to be alright.

"Why the f*ck did you do that?" Kylie asked, pretty pissed off, it seemed.

"There was a rabbit on the road" Lou shrugged and I rolled my eyes.

"Aww" Loren cooed when she saw the fluffy little creature make its way to the woods.

"I basically died" I breathed and Lou glared at me.

"I couldn't just let the little rabbit die"

I shook my head in disbelief and took a deep breath as he started to drive again.

By stopping the car, there was at least two more cars behind us that had caught up.

I could glimpse Colton in the drivers seat and I waved, soon I saw him wave back and I giggled.

Lucky was sitting next to him and he also waved.

I grinned and them turned back in my seat.

"Is it Colton, Oliver and Luke?" Lou asked me, his eyes never leaving the road and I nodded.

I stared at his muscular arms on the wheel.

There was something sexy with boys driving.

STAPH IT RAVEN, YOU CRAZY OLD HAG.

There was different tattoos making their way down his arms and my eyes stopped at a picture of someone that looked very much like Spock from Star Trek.

"Is that Leonard Nimoy?" I asked him in a high pitched voice.

"It's Spock" He mumbled and I rolled my eyes at his obvious statement.

"No shit, but why Spock?" I then asked curiously.

"Since he uses his logic to survive and I admire that"

I gaped and looked at him with big eyes.

"That's pretty cool actually" I quietly added and I saw the sides of his lips lift.

"I know"

He looked over at me and winked, before turning his attention to the road again.

I heard someone snicker and turned my head.

It was Kylie in the backseat, she was looking at me with a knowing smile and I glared at her.

That made her smile widen and the mischievous glint in her eyes made me want to yell at her.

When I looked over at Loren, she shared Kylie's expression and so did Tyson.

They all had the look 'Oooh, I think you liiiike him'.

They were still all looking at me with mocking smirks and I turned around and crossed my arms, letting out an long annoyed breath.

"What's wrong, Rave?" Lou asked me, shooting me a quick concerned glance.

"Yeah what's wrong?" Kylie mocked from behind and I shot her a death glare that basically said 'I'll kill you'.

She snickered once again and I gave Lou an assuring smile.

"Nothing, I'm just tired, that's all" I covered it up, yawning a little to further prove my point.

I caught Kylie sharing a look with Loren and I 'humpfh'ed.

"Try to sleep a little" Lou suggested and I nodded, resting my head against the seat.

I had a hard time finding a comfortable position, but soon fell asleep.

•••

When I woke up, it was completely dark outside. The only light came from our car.

I groaned and turned around, Lou was still driving and he quickly glanced down at me and smiled.

"We're almost there now" He said quietly and I yawned.

When I looked back, I saw that both Kylie and Loren were sleeping, Tyson was looking out the window.

"You should've woken me up and made me drive a little bit, you need to sleep" I shook my head in disbelief, what if he fell asleep and killed us all?

"I'm fine" He said shortly and I glared at him.

"I can see the bags under your eyes, just stop the car real quick and I can take over" I pushed and he sighed.

He slowed the car down and pulled over and I gave him a small smile.

He then got out of the car and I jumped over to the drivers seat.

He then got in on the other side and closed the door.

I quickly fastened my seatbelt and started to drive again, Lucky, Oliver and Colton had driven past us and I let driving behind them.

"Now sleep, you freaking moron" I furrowed my brow and stuck my tongue out.

"Yeah yeah, whatever" He yawned, which made it hard for me to make out what he said, but when I asked him to repeat himself, he was already asleep.

I looked at the time and saw that we'd driven for over 6 hours.

And another half an hour later, Lucky, Oliver and Colton's car made a turn. And when I followed them I saw the airport and I grinned.

When we arrived I saw small tents that were lit up. There was cars everywhere and a few people sat around a bonfire.

There were more survivors.

When people realized that our cars were coming, hey stood up and pointed toward us.

I slowed down my car just behind Lucky and Colton's and parked it next to a big tent.

I gently shook Lou's shoulder and I saw his eyes flutter open, revealing his beautiful eyes.

When he saw me he smiled and it made me grin.

"We're here now" I whispered and he slowly sat up.

Tyson woke Kylie and Loren up and I grabbed my gun and crutches, before I slowly got out of the car.

I hid my gun behind my back and looked around.

I felt someone's hand on my shoulder and I immediately tensed, just to relax again when I realized it was Lou.

Before I had gotten the time to take this new place in I heard someone clear his throat and my attention was drawn to the new person.

"Well you're not zombies so I guess you can live" An arrogant looking blonde guy said, as he lowered his rifle gun.

"Why thank you" I sarcastically retorted and he smirked.

"A sassy one aren't ya" His blue eyes sparkled with amusement and I saw his eyes rake my body.

The guy looked like he was about Lucky's age and was rather handsome. Blonde hair, blue eyes, pretty tall, he looked Scandinavian.

"And your name is?" Lou asked, annoyance clear in his voice.

"I'm Tate" He was still wearing an arrogant smirk and I sighed.

"Lou"

"I'm Raven" I said, raising my brow, challenging him on his next move.

"This is Jake and Niall" He gestured, lazily pointing towards to the guys standing next to him.

"And they are incapable of speaking?" I ever so wickedly asked.

He ignored my comment and turned around to the slowly forming crowd behind him.

"They're clear" He yelled and then turned back to us.

"How many are you?"

The last of our cars was currently driving in here and I knew that Sandra was in it.

"109" Tyson who was leaning against our Range Rover answered, copying Tate's nonchalant look.

"And do you have a leader?" He continued asking and my eyes traveled to Sandra who was currently making her way towards us.

"Yes, me" Sandra said as she stopped in front of Tate.

Since he was leaning backwards against a tree, she was currently towering above him and I could see that he was intimidated.

"Uhm, nice to meet you, welcome?" He straightened up a little bit and brushed some imaginary dust of his shirt.

"Thank you, are you the leader?" Sandra asked professionally.

Tate nodded and flashed my mum a charming smile.

"How nice" My mum mumbled, forcing a smile in return.

They stared at each other for about 10 seconds before Tate pushed himself off the tree and gestured towards the tents and the small crowd of people that had formed.

"Well, make yourself at home... I don't know if we have any tents for you though, so if you didn't bring any, you'll just have to manage" He walked away with the two boys next to him, whose names I can't remember.

"We did bring tents right?" I heard Colton ask in panic and I laughed and nodded.

"Let's set it all up then"

•••

About an hour later, we had finished setting the tents up. We decided to keep all our food and other stuff in the truck, since it was safer there. So if you needed anything, you had to ask Sandra or Tyson for the key.

The tents that we had brought was pretty big, so there was space for 10 people in each tent.

So Kylie, Colton, Loren, Tyson, Oliver, the Lucas' and me were sharing a big tent.

We were currently lying around a small fire in the middle of the tent.

It was pretty late and it was completely dark outside.

I'd decided to go to sleep straight away, since I was so tired.

The others were still awake, taking about something random.

I fell asleep listening to their fading voices.