Chapter 11

                                    

                                          
Chapter 11

                          
"Fuck," Dominic hissed, kicking the air. 
                          
They were all freaking out, and mad.
                          
Was I the only calm one?
                          
"I can't believe they did this!" Jeremy said.
                          
"They won't get far," I said, crossing my arms. 
                          
They all turned to me.
                          
"Why?" Alyssa asked, raising her eyebrows.
                          
"I emptied out half of the gas tank," I smirked.
                          
Alyssa laughed, while Dominic and Jeremy both dropped their jaw.
                          
"Come on, it's late and I'm tired," I said, spinning on my heels. 
                          
I did not know if I was hallucinating, but I was pretty sure I heard Jeremy say, "Damn, she's amazing."
                          
Smiling, I went back to my room.
                          
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We didn't even do very much the next day.
                          
It started snowing, it was the first day of December.
                          
And it snowed hard. Like, really hard. Like, I wouldn't want to be driving, hard.
                          
I wonder how Alison and Emma are doing driving in this blizzard?
                          
I laughed to myself. Like I cared.
                          
I walked into the kitchen with the popcorn.
                          
"Took you long enough," Dominic joked, grabbing a handful of it.
                          
"Yeah, you go try to use a million year old microwave," I said, sitting next to Jeremy in the couch. 
                          
They laughed as Alyssa bent in front of the T.V.
                          
"What movie? Fast Five or Eagle Eye?" she asked, looking through the DVDs.
                          
"Fast Five," Jeremy and I said at the same time. 
                          
We looked at eachother then looked away quickly, blushing. The memory of what had happened at the store suddenly came back to me, making me blush even more.
                          
Dominic laughed.
                          
"Fine, but next time I'm picking," he said as Alyssa popped in the movie and sat next to him on the floor.
                          
I was smiling the whole time we were watching the movie.
                          
Because I was happy.
                          
For the first time, we weren't worrying about some freaking Zombies coming out of nowhere to kill us. We weren't in a hurry to go anywhere.
                          
We were just...teens.
                          
And I was happy because Jeremy put his arm around me, and pulled me closer to him as I rested my head on his chest.
                          
But not only was I happy at that.
                          
Dominic had also wrapped his arm around Alyssa's waist as she rested her head on his shoulder.
                          
Maybe he'd taken my advice?
                          
Overall, today was a good day.
                          
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I woke at exactly midnight. Quietly, I made my way downstairs, and I sighed.
                          
Today was December the second.
                          
I sat on the windowsill, looking out at the white streets. I exhaled onto the window, fogging it up.
                          
Then I drew a little cake on it, writing the number eighteen in the middle of it.