Kenopsia - Chapter 14: Chapter 14

I stepped out of the apartment with the bat lifted.
"Hey?! HEY!!" What idiot is screaming like that?! "HEY!!"
I cursed and ran down the stairs as fast as I could.
I jumped down the last set of stairs, slipping on the last stair at unneeded familiarity with seeing a gun aimed at my head, I slipped because of how hard I tried to stop and fell on my ass but the trigger was not pulled.
"Oh there is someone!" The boy I faced said casually, I already don't like him.
"You idiot don't yell! You'll draw them in."
"Whatever, so you live here? I am looking for a place to stay for a while and a partner."
"Yeah.... I live up there." I pointed up, still sitting on the stairs. "I just ran out of supplies."
"Oh don't worry I have some, get up lets go." He walked passed me, I really don't like him...
I sat in my piano chair and looked at him lounging on the couch like he owned the place.
"Well? Name?" He said, eating from his can of raviolis while he had given me a small packet of biscuits, he had many more cans but couldn't spare one... I am not blind.... He is bad news.
"Yours first." I said, bat leaned up between my legs and resting against my thigh.
"I said name, if you want to be friends you speak first." I narrowed my eyes as I chewed the stale biscuit and swallowed, staring at him in silence.
"Jessica." I said.
"Well I am Adam, no need to worry you'll be safe with me.... How did someone like you survive?"
"I made do with what I had." I nodded my head at the corpse still in the room from that day.
"Oh fiery girl you are!"
"You could say that."
"Come on it is getting late, lets go to bed." He said, waving us both towards the door too my room.
"You take it, I'll sleep here."
"I said, to bed." I felt something poke my stomach and looked down at the gun.
"Don't you dare..."
"Oh Jessica.... You need to pay me somehow to keep you safe and you have nothing of use." He kicked my bag, I heard the plastic pot of the plant crack under the kick, a bit of dirt kicked out the top. "So you can survive with me."
"I think I'll be lea--" I took a step back but I heard the security come off.
"I am not giving you a choice, now drop the weapons, slowly."
"I knew you were trouble." I hissed and dropped the bat and ladle.
"Aren't we all? Human nature my pretty." He was still aiming his gun as he patted me down to check for more weapons, I need to find a way out of this and quick. "Now move too the room."
I did, looking around my room again as this time a barrel pressed in my back, looking for something.
"Off with it."
"Please." I turned to him. "This can still be looked over, just stop..."
"I said off with it!" he yelled, hitting the gun on my face.
I fell back on the bed, reaching for my face, seeing the red on my fingers, he split the skin with the hit.
I took a deep breath and pulled off my newest beanie and dropped it, he needs to get closer.
"Come oooon pretty I don't have all night!"
"You disgust me." I said, glancing at the tent in his pants with a frown. "You could have asked nicely." I mocked as I shrugged the jacket off.
"And promise you the moon? Fuck that! I have needs woman and you are here to fulfill your fate, you will build humanity up again with the rest of the lucky few woman to have survived."
"Sicko." I pulled my shirt off.
Before I could pull it off my head a hand grabbed on my face and shoved me down on my back.
"Hey!" I felt his weight on my hips as he sat on me and shifted his hand to grab one of my wrists.
"Like this I won't have to see your stupid face!" I yanked my other arms out and punched where I thought his face was. "You bitch!"
I gasped in pain as I got a punch back in the ribs before I felt metal but it was not the roundness of the end of the gun... But a sharp edge.
I froze, a knife.
"There we go, all calm." The point of the knife was pulled up my ribs and straight up my front, please be careful, god don't cut me on accident.
I heard a wet cough from him which only made my worry for my life even worst... Is he infected or just sick?!
I grabbed his wrist with my free hand but he was stronger then me.
He yanked my held arm down and kneeled on my forearm, it fucking hurt but it pulled my shirt down and let me see again.
"That won't do." He switched hands and trapped my other, you fucker!! How disgusting your face looks!
He took the knife and just cut the shirts fabric as if it was paper.
He turned his knife so the blade was facing upwards and not towards me as he slid it up my bra to prepare to cut the front.
NOW!
I threw my knee up and hit him in the lower back.
I yanked my head up and gave him a headbutt as he was knocked forwards, the knife's back pressing against me but it wouldn't cut me like if I did something before.
"BITCH!!" He grabbed his face.
I pulled my legs on the bed and just pushed my hip up in the air with all my force, making his body fall on top of mine but freeing up a part of me.
My upper arms were now held down but not my forearms.
I grabbed at the dropped knife with one hand and his belt with the other and just stabbed him in the ass before I yanked it out and the second hit his lower back.
His screams were a delight and for once guilt didn't come with thinking about killing someone alive.
He kicked my arms and pulled himself away.
I stumbled off the bed, leaning against the wall as I pointed the knife at him before putting a foot on the gun he had left behind on the ground.
He kept screaming but I only stabbed him three times: Ass, lower back and thigh.
"You bastard." I hissed, tears back in my eyes, feeling so vulnerable despite it being me that had the weapons now. "Is this really what humanity is to become?! A lawless wasteland of rape and macho-men?! If that's the case!! I believe humanity has no right to survive!!" I said, choking back tears that wanted to spill, he barely touched me but where he did, even if just by sitting on that part, burnt, my skin itched from his touch and all I wanted is to wash it off.
He looked at me in fear as I picked the gun up and stabbed the knife through my back-pocket.
"Humanity has no right of living for bastards like you!!" I yelled at him.
"Jess--" "The name's Andie!!" I cut him off with a tear escaping from my eyes. "Die!!"
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Click. Click. Click.
I dropped the gun when there were no more bullets and I collapsed against the wall, sliding down on my ass and looking at the ground.
I took a deep breath, hugging myself and closing my eyes.
"Dammit..." I breathed out, standing up but my legs felt weak as I left after grabbing my weapons and discarding his knife and gun in the room.
I tore the rest of the shirt off me with a scream, feeling trapped in it, I was just left in my bras up-top and honestly.... I was just thinking of getting rid of it too when the wind blew in the room and I chose against it.
I grabbed my weapons tightly and put my bag on, leaving, not taking any of his things.
I walked through the town in tears, cold, half undressed, just unable to spend a minute more there to put something over my bras, I preferred risking the cold.
"GODDAMN YOU FUCKERS!!!" I yelled at the husks drawn in by my previous screaming, hitting the nearest one on the head.