Chapter 5 : Gladys

POV : Gladys {Unknown}

[Klamath, California 19 December 2020]

"Alright, take care guys." Says daughter of Mister Charlemonth, Emma.

Me and Gabriel nod almost at the same time, and then Gabriel twist the doorknob and let two of us out. And outside.. is really different with Charlemonth family's house. There's many blood drop almost everywhere. So quite but indeed give everyones goosebump. We're not sure if theres zombies around here or no.. but one thing we do know.. that both of us wanna vomit.

"This way, right?" Gabriel pointing to one pedestrian road, while his other hand try to cover his mouth. I answer nothing but nod approvingly. Gabriel half running to that direction as soon as I do that, but I can't get the same pace with him. "Gabriel, calm down." I shout but trying to keep it low.

Gabriel turn his back to me but keep walking backward. "Come.. on! be fast!"

I roll my eyes. "I'm fucking injured, dummy!" I shout back while gesturing to my left lower leg. I'm about to say something else, when there's a series of groan. I turn to my right and see two zombie notice our appearance. Two of them moving slow.. but surely to our direction.

I can draw my Aunt's handgun and shoot them all.. but my head keep saying "run" over and over again. They start to move faster.. but I can't move my muscle.. stuck like a statue inside of Museums. Every single sounds from the world is blur in my ear.. untill Gabriel shout. "Run!".

Gabriel waving his hands and expect me to follow him up.. and I do, I do follow him with terrified feelings in my heart. He give me directions.. lead me where to go, and I try to stay on his back and doesn't lag behind even when my body got so weak. We keep running and running like there's no tomorrow.

"Keep running! We need to cross the street soon enough." Says Gabriel.. and he's right. We need to move across the street right at the T-junction. I look to our back, only to find the very same zombies, and they're pretty far behind us, but I just wanna keep running. My leg start to sore.. but there's no time to stop even if I want to. And some seconds later, Gabriel move across the street first.. right when I see something on my left vision.

I'm about to shout 'watch out'.. but there's nothing came out of my mouth. But he seems notice it by himself. He quickly jump back, and make a gap between he and somethings. He's safe, and somethings that came out as a police armored van or something like that, move swiftly across the street.

Gabriel looks panicked after that.. but there's still no time to stop. The zombie still tagging along with us. And because of that, he run even faster. I follow him close.. but my leg says other things, they want to rest. But in the end, I follow him without minding my pain.

We only need to take one more turn.. and then we got home. My leg somehow got so freaking hurt. But eventually, we reach the last turn.. and we can see it.. Aunty's house, but it doesn't look like a house for us.. it's our heaven after all of this suffer. Colour of the house is red.. but for us.. it's bright gold.. just like an hidden treasure in a forbidden forest.

I take a look at our back.. but there's no more zombies chasing us. I look forward again, and see Gabriel keep running. "Gabriel..." I call his name, but he seems don't or just won't hear me. "Gabriel, they've gone." I use all of my energy left to say that sentence, and thankfully he notice me.

He turn to me and looks so relieved, untill he notice something on my leg. "Whoa.. careful, you're bleeding again." I don't know what he meant at least untill I see blood dripping again from my bandage. It's really messed up. The white bandage now slowly turn to be a red bandage. "Does it hurt?"

As soon as he said 'hurt', my leg start to be really hurt. There's so many numb around the wound, and I can't walk normally again. "Well.. I think you know the answer." I say while I try to hold back the hurt.

"Lemme help you." I'm about to say 'no' but he help me anyway. He sling my right arm across his back, and his another hand support my left shoulder. He keep doing that as we walk towards Aunty's house. And soon, we arrive.

Gabriel open the door for me. "Aunty, we're home." Shout Gabriel as he lean his back to the nearest wall, while I slump to the front door. It's really strange when Aunt Rachel don't answer our call. Gabriel seems notice my confused mind, and he also frowned at me. I give him a shrug and make him looks worried.

Gabriel get away from wall he was leaning on, and start to walk. "Aunt Rachel? Uncle Norman?" Gabriel tries to call her name for the second time as walking way more far. I, in other hand, gather my energy to get up by myself and tag along with him. He move to our room on our left while I stride to the kitchen on our right. I see nothing but a pan full of boiled water and pasta... which make things way more weird.

Gabriel meet me again after a while. "No Norman nor Rachel." He said blatantly.

I point to the pan I found. "She leaves her food, it's really unusual." I say in worried tones.

Gabriel look at the pan, and leave a heavy breath. "Is there's a possibilities they having a sex in the kitchen, then goes to their bedroom.. yet again?" He says in a annoyed tones, but it's a fact tho.. they may do that again when we're gone. It makes my mind relieved but feel ambigous instead. And as if knowing we were talking about them, there's a muffled and moan sounds from the second floor.

"Do we need to check them up?" Ask Gabriel, and I can't say no cause there's nothing wrong with cross check.. right?

and without any other word, we start climbing the stair that lead straight to Aunty and Uncle's bedroom. The moan and groaning gets even more clear. But then, the door is opened.. which may gonna be awkward.. yet again.

Gabriel who's on my front stop his walk and freeze in that position. I wonder why he suddenly stop, it's either they see us or- "My fucking god.." Says Gabriel before he slump to kneeling position. It makes me way more curious, and I make a step forward so I can see the exact same things as he saw. And I regret it.

There's a woman with blonde hair.. which is Aunty Rachel.. and there's a guy with his back on us.. eat her flesh slowly. Driping blood from his mouth just like a waterfall. I can't do nothing but stands there like a statue.. again.

And for some reason.. the guy notices our appereances.. and he came out as one and only Uncle Norman. The very same brown hair and stubble.. but with yellow eyes and hungriness on his face.. make him nothing but a monster.

POV : Gabriel {unknown}

[Klamath, California 20 December 2020]

It's our first day without both, Rachel and Norman... and it feels so fucking different. It's so quite, not like the normal days.. well, there's no longer normal things around here tho. And after yesterday incident, Gladys was really fucked up. She can't say or do anything when that horrible things happen. Not even shot Norman when I almost die because of him. But it was yesterday. Even if that's not the first time I almost die because of him, but still, it was yesterday. Nothing can change. Well.. maybe there's a way to change that really unfortunate things.

Uncle went sick right after he got bitten by the infected two days ago.. but he won't listen to the news who said that it's how they spread.. how the virus or things like that spread. HE WON'T. *chuckles* it's so funny when Rachel dies because of her dumbness too.

In other hand, Gladys keep silence since that things happened. Talk way more less than she usually did. Well.. it's normal for her since her heart is pretty broken. She can't stand a chances when she's tired, surprised and overthinking. And thinking about his heart, I got something in my mind.

"Hey... what if we visit Mister Charlemonth now? We can't survive with only two of us.. the more merrier."

She looks at my eyes.. as if trying to told me that she's really tired. But it almost surprised me when She actually answer my suggestion. "Let's do it."