• "Where are they?" the tall girl with blood red tipped blonde hair asked.

    "They went over to the other side of town. So we should move out soon, if you want to?" the tall short black haired man said. He moved back from the window and looked at the girl that crouched before him. Her long blonde hair was dyed on the tips with a blood red color, even the tips of the bangs that fell in her eyes looked like she had dipped them in blood. She was one of the bravest out of the whole group. She had gone with him on every food trip and on every survivor sweep.

    Standing up she said "Alright. We leave in ten. The sooner the better, the others are getting hungry and to be truthful...so am I"

    "Five. I want to get this over and done with so we don't have to leave again for awhile."

    "Fine." she walked away from him. She made her way to Jake. He sat in the corner of the room and was curled up into a little ball to keep warm.

    "Hey." she said as she sat down beside him, pulling her legs close to her chest and letting out a shallow breath.

    Jake smiled "Hey" He looked at her with large eyes, he still couldn't get over the fact of how brave she was.

    "******** it's cold." she shivered. Moving slowly, she cudled herself up to Jake. She could feel his body freeze in suprise and then melt back as he realized that she was trying to get him warm.

    He wrapped his arms around her "Could be worse. What are they?" She was so cold that he shivered. 'Wasn't she cold?' he thought.

    "If I knew I would tell you. They remind me of vampires."

    "Vampires aren't real Anja." the tall short black haired man said as he moved toward the two teenagers.

    "How can you be so sure? What are they then?" she glarred at him. She could feel Jake stiffen as his older brother looked at him sitting so close to her.

    He answered in frustration "Vampires don't excist. They aren't real. These are probably just some escapees from a jail or something."

    "Out here? In the middle of nowhere? Nobody in there right minds would come out here just to go and show that they escaped from prison and that now they can kill people. I'm sorry Eben but no." she shook her head.

    "She's right Eben." Jake said in a small voice.

    "Jake..." Eben frowned. "Why does he have to love her?" Eben thought to himself.

    "We better get going." Eben reached out his hand to Anja.

    She answered him angrily "Ya." She used Jakes knee to push herself up. She pushed past Eben and made her way to the fold down stairs.

    "I don't know how you can love her." Eben said as he leaned down towards his brother. He grabbed hold of his hand and squezzed it.

    "I just do." Jake squezzed back. He watched his brother walk away. Anja waved at him before she disapearred down the stairs. He waved back.

    *****

    The air was freazing cold. The deep dark night spread out infront of them. Eben moved quickly and without much noise infront of her, his axe was raised and ready. Anja moved swiftly but fearfully. Even though the people that she called 'vampires', had moved to the other side of town she was stil afraid of turning a corner and finding herself face to face with one of them. And what made her even more afraid was the fact that she had no weapon to use against them. Eben was her only protection.
    They made there way through the dead town. Many pools of blood lay in the snow, frozen from the cold. Anja had always had a fear of large amounts of blood but now after what had happened to her over the last two days, she was no longer afraid. She remember the first time that she had seen the pools of frozen blood. She had thrown herself into Jake's arms and hid from the world. But now after two other raids she did not need the comfort of someone else's arms.

    "I want to get this over with as soon as possible. We go in, we get what we need, we get out." Eben whispered as he moved forward.

    Anja whispered back "Okay." She was scared. But she would never let Eben know. He thought that she was one of the bravest girls he had ever met and she wanted him to keep believing that, even if it wasn't true. Ever since she had left her home and her friends, she had promised herself that she would be strong, that she wouldn't care what people thought of her, and that she would be brave. "No more crying" she whispered to herself, so quiet that Eben would not hear.
    Eben made his way to the front door. He peeked into the small window on the door. Anja stood a few steps behind him. She listened to the world around her, but all she could hear was the wind, and the faint cries of the vampire's calls on the other side of town.