You, Me, And The Apocalypse

Gerard's P.O.V

The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and you can literally smell death. It was about 11 in the morning by now and I had washed and got dressed ready to start the day.
"Mikes we need to go down and see if the kitchen has any food" I still had high hope that the motel would have some tinned soup that wouldn't have gone out of date, we barely eat properly anymore.
"Yep okay, I'll just get my gun" You couldn't go anywhere without a gun now the apocalypse had begun, you weren't safe even behind locked doors.

Mikey got his gun from the bedside and we went to open the lock on our rooms door. We looked like we had been pulled out of a spy movie or something. I carefully undid and not wasting anymore time as we were flung the door open. To our surprise there wasn't anything there. We drew our guns in by the side and walked down the corridor to the stairs then down into a kitchen. I heard an all too familiar sound of a zombie and pulled Mikey close to me. I knew he could use a gun and very well actually but I still felt responsible as his older brother. The zombie hadn't seen us and carried on to wherever it was going. I advanced behind it and shot it directly in the head 5 times. It was nothing I hadn't done before, it was a familiar occurrence of everyday living for us.

"Come on" I hissed at Mikey as we found our way to the kitchen. After checking all the corners we split up to find food. Nothing but a tin of old soup.
"Brilliant" I whispered to myself.
"Well it looks like we're going to be on the move again Mikes, there's no point in hanging around here if there isn't any food."
"I saw on the map that a few miles up ahead there's another motel, should be able to walk there within an hour if we're lucky" My little brother everyone, always full of good idea.
"Well lets get walking" I put on my mask, I never went outside without it on anymore, it made me feel like a different person, no one knew who I was with it on. Just the boy with flaming red hair.

We started walking down the dusty roads, it was the middle of the day so the sun was at its highest point beating down on us.
All of a sudden Mikey nudged me in my dream like mind.
"Over there" He nodded towards some bins that some rustling was coming from. he problem with the apocalypse that as well as having zombies to deal with you get people who are just as worse, looking for anything they can take from you. We approached slightly leaving a good distance between us and the other person.

"Put your weapon down and stand up" I felt so badass saying things like that, I got it from as the movies I used to watch when I was 15. The rather tall man stood up grinning like a mad man pointing his gun towards us.
"Who says so?" Shit, he looked like the type to cause trouble, it was a bit hypocritical coming from me but I'm a lot nicer than half the people out here.
"I do" I felt Mikey tense at my side, we honestly weren't the outgoing kind of people, this is another reason to wear my mask.
The man launched at us and I pushed Mikey back lunging towards him as well pushing him into a wall banging his head and then pointing my gun upwards into his head.
"Don't try me" The man looked at me with revenge, what was the point in even letting him go? He would just end up killing me instead and I couldn't leave Mikey here on his own. The man spat in my face trying to kick out but I just dug my spare hand into his pressure point. I pulled the trigger letting the man fall to the ground. I wiped my face then spat at his dead corpse as I walked off.
Mikey ran to me and hugged me, he always got worried in situations like this.
"Mikes I'm okay"
"But you fucking scared the shit out of me" We released each other and I ruffled his hair.
"Come on, lets get going and we might make it there before the evening starts.




After a longer walk than we expected we came to a very large and posh building.
"This is he motel? It looks like a fucking mansion" Mikey just grinned at me.
"So? I might have been lying a little, but it's awesome right?!" I had to agree, it was awesome, the people who lived here are most likely dead now anyway so it's like they left it here for a reason. I rattled the gates that were unlocked to get it before opening the huge ass door to it and switching the first lights on I could see, Mikey locking everything he could behind us. We strolled through the house cautiously but it looked like it hadn't had any dead flesh walking through it. I found a packet of biscuits and was satisfied with my discovery I didn't continue searching for food and dragged Mikey into the first bedroom we could find which conveniently had a triple lock on the door. We sat in the huge bed together in front of a TV that actually worked and put the cartoon network on! This reminded me of what old times were like before any of this as we nibbled on biscuits and laughed at whatever dumb shit was on. It almost made me forget what we were up against.
We went to bed and I just hoped that the next day would be more peaceful.

Notes

Maybe this was a good chapter, maybe not?