CHAPTER-3 (THE BETRAYAL)

PREVIOUSLY:

Aron and his friends got out of the school in a bus, they soon had to change routes because of highway being blocked by cars. They found a group of people and decided to help them. They all agreed to go with the plan that Aron and his friends had made. As they were moving on the new route they saw that the bridges connecting the city with where they are were being blown up. The leader of the new group told them about a hidden bridge that they could take, but it was too far and they had to reach their parents as soon as possible, so they decided to drive all night, the new group agreed to change shifts as only Tim knew how to drive from Aron's group. Aron and his friends went to sleep on the last seats.

PART 3:-

We were sleeping peacefully when a sudden break almost threw us off our seats, we all woke up, still tired and barely awake.

Me, Tim and Jack got up to see what happened.

"Go back to sleep, we'll see what's going on", Tim told the girls, who were also awake.

We went ahead towards the driver's cabin by walking past the sleeping members of the group we had with us.

The leader was already standing next to the guy driving the bus, they were discussing something.

"What's going on?", I asked.

"We stopped for fuel, but there is a problem, the dead walkers , there aren't many, but we don't have any weapons to defend ourselves", the leader said.

"We have a few things, let us handle it", Jack said.

"Oh we can't possibly put you kids in danger", the man said.

"It's fine", Tim said, looking out of the bus. " There aren't many of them, it won't be difficult", he said.

"It's settled then, we'll go get the fuel",I said.

"We'll go too", Jean's sound startled all of us.

She and Rem were standing on the cabin door.

"Ya, we want to go too", Rem said.

"It's not a picnic, it's dangerous outside, stay inside you'll be safe", Tim said while he left the cabin to get our stuff.

"We want to go, we are a team now, we will have your back", Rem said.

"I don't want to agree to that but for some reason I don't felt like leaving the girls on the bus", Jack said.

"Alright, you can come, but be careful", I said as I went towards Tim.

We got our stuff and got ready to get off the bus.

"We'll be waiting for you all at this spot, it's dark here, so they won't be able to see us", the leader of the other group said.

"That'll be good", I said, as I prepared to open the door.

"Alright everyone,time to go, be safe" I said as I opened the door of the bus and we all rushed out. "Hey boss man, close the door behind us",Tim told the leader of that group as we all came out,  the group leader started closing the door , "and by the way, my name is Shane Wolfurd, best of luck out there", the group leader said as he closed the door behind us.

As soon as he said his name Jean froze for some reason.

"Hey, don't space out." Jack said to Jean, she came to her senses and we all started moving.

We went on towards the gas station, trying our best not to attract unnecessary attention.

We reached the gas station without getting spotted, Jack and Jean started filling the containers while me and Tim and Rem were on the look out.

"Go check for supplies inside the station shop,I can handle it here",Tim said.

I went towards the shop, looked for food and water, there wasn't much left, maybe other survivors had already cleaned it up, I went to the cash counter and broke open the cash register with a crow bar lying nearby, I didn't expect to find anything useful there as money was no good now, as soon as I opened the cash box I found a revolver lying there with about 9-10 rounds. I picked it up with shaking hands and kept it with me, and went on to scout the shop.

As I was looking Rem came up to me.

"Any luck?", She asked.

"Not really, I only found a bottle of water", I said, I Didn't want to startle her with the revolver, so I decided to keep quiet about it for the time being.

"Let's check the storage room", she said.

We went to the back side of the shop, the door was locked, there was a chance that it hadn't been looted. I broke it open with the crow bar and we went inside, it was dark inside, we couldn't see anything, Rem turned on the flash light in her phone. JACKPOT! there was a lot of stuff we could use,water and food, we found a big bag lying around and a smaller one, we started filling the bags with all we could.

We stuffed all the food and water in the bags and as we were about to leave we saw a key holder with a bunch of keys in it.

"We should take them, maybe they'll Come in handy." Rem said.

I took the keys and we started walking.

I noticed one of the keys were of a vehicle, maybe a car.

We walked out of the shop and went back to Tim and the others, they were already done and waiting for us to come.

"Did you find anything?" Jack asked me.

I waved the bags at them "A lot actually".

"Wow man we hit the jackpot", Jack said.

" Is there any water?" Jean asked.

"Here, we got some water", I said as i tossed a bottle to jean and one to Jack.

We started moving towards the bus with the fuel and the bags.

Rem carried the smaller bag, I carried the bigger bag while Tim and Jack had the fuel.

I was walking behind everyone else thinking about everything that has happened to us and if we'd be able to find our families.

We reached the bus, Shane was standing outside the door with the others.

"Hey man you all shouldn't be standing outside it's not safe." Jack said as we approached them.

"Oh it's fine we can handle ourselves", Shane said, something wasn't right there was some tension there.

As i was thinking all that two of Shane's men grabbed Rem and Tim.

.....TO BE CONTINUED.