2 days earlier
Lesi
"I'm gonna go to Pahrump Lesi. I won't be gone long because we are gonna keep moving. I want you to help my dad watch over the community while I'm gone" I looked at Rico as he was preparing everything and putting on his mask. He looks at me and puts the tape recorder on the table. I smiled as this was one of the best things that he has done for a while. Finally, his voice is back. "How long until the baby is ready to give life." He grabs his flamethrower.
"Well. It's a boy. And Lelia said a few more weeks." Rico scratches his arm. "Are you ready?" He shrugs and looks at the kids running around.
"Never want to bring a child into the world. Even before all of this." I looked down considering that before this the world was hella bad before. I walk towards Rico and I wrap my arms around him.
"We got this. I can see it already. You go to Pahrump, find some food, and help your people." I kiss his cheek and he walks out the door.
"Also, my dad isn't the only one able to make decisions, it's up to you to keep our people safe." I began to follow him to the gate. He looked at me, caressed my cheek, and kissed me for 10 seconds.
Then leaves...
Now
Lesi
Thai climbs onto my lap and snuggles into me.
"Hey to you to Thai." I pet him looking at the kids playing by the front gate and I look over the gate to see a person walking towards the entrance. I stood up and grabbed the gun from the side of me. I dashed out of the room and to the ground. I climbed up the ladder and pointed my gun at him.
"Who the hell are you?" I asked, aiming the gun between his eyeballs.
"I'm just looking for a place to settle...Until I heal that is." I looked at his wound and looked at him again. I sighed.
"He can stay in one of the hotels." Rico's dad replies as I look at him crazy. I pull him to the side and look at him.
"Um listen. I understand you want to be this man of God and do what the lord would want you to do but I'm not so sure that God wants us to let him stay here." I look at his wound again. It doesn't look like it was a bite. But, I'm still skeptical about whether he should even settle inside.
"Is this your daughter?" The man asks Rico's dad as I look at him and raise my eyebrow. I don't think he can be my father. I was lowkey shocked. I mean he has been my pastor since I was a little toddler but damn. My father. I nodded no. "Oh I'm sorry. Didn't mean to assume." I shrugged.
"It's okay, I never got told that before. But..." I look around at the kids playing. "You can stay. But you can't explore too much. Your food will be brought to you and you will have a window and air conditioner." I look at him.
"You make me seem like a prisoner." He chuckles as I look at him with a straight face. "You're serious?"
"Does it look like I'm joking?" I grab handcuffs, and cuff his hands. I pick my gun up, urging him to move forward towards the police station.
As we got closer to the police station, my heart began to pound. I might be leading Rico's people into danger. I'm trying everything in my power to keep everyone safe. I walked in and saw a 6 foot infected walking closer to the man.
"Hey girl, can you kill this for me?" I rolled my eyes and walked over to the infected and stabbed him right in his eye. "You did it like you did this before."
"I did, numerous times." I put my knife back in my pocket and walked forward. We finally made it and I tossed him in the cell.
"Your food would be brought to you. You will not leave this cell for anything. If you see any dead, just yell." I uncuff him and walk away.
"What am I supposed to do?" I turn back.
"Wait. My doctor will be here before that wound kills you." I shut the door.
I began walking down the street and saw Rico's dad talking to Lelia. I tilt my head thinking what he is doing. I saw that he had roses behind his back.
No. Way. I smile while eavesdropping on their conversation. This is one of the cutest things I have seen all day.
"But what about your boyfriend?"
"I...still love him. I'm sorry Bubba." Wow, he's been masking that nickname forever. "But I love you too. I'm still confused." I shake my head knowing that this is an entanglement.
"Did you tell him about..."
"No, I didn't." Lelia notices me and she jumps. "Hi, Lesi." Rico's dad turns around and looks at me as I do a simple wiggly finger.
"I need you to go check on his wound." She nods and walks away.
"Lesi, this isn't what it looks like. I was just-"
"I know what you were doing." I interrupted. "And I'm happy. A man your age, still deserves to love just like anyone else."
"Just don't tell Rico, I don't know how he will react."
"Why not?" I asked. "If it wasn't for you, he wouldn't be here."
"He's still not over his mother. Just like I still love her. But I can't get over the fact of the way I feel towards Lelia. It's like she's a reflection of her." I look at Lelia walking towards the police station. "Rico, hasn't been the same. I don't even remember the last time my son actually sat down and played like he used to." I looked at him.
"Really!?"
"Yeah. I'm slowly losing my son. I want him to be his normal self again." I looked at Rico's dad and I gave him a hug.
"I hope I can find something to give him to make him happy again." I replied, as he smiled.
"There's a music store not far from here. He might like that."
"Okay." I smile. "Thanks, dad." I say jokingly and laugh
Rico
"What are you thinking Rico?" Cam asked as I shrugged.
"I don't think we should stay here anymore. We should move back South."
"What about going back to New Orleans?" I scratch my neck knowing that New Orleans is big but not so easy anymore.
"It's blown to shit...I don't think that's an option anymore." I look around to see a resturaunt. "Hey, you think they have food?"
"Yeah, but it's probably spoiled. But I say we should check it out." Me and Cam walked in slowly and saw someone breaking in the deep freezer.
"Hey! There's food in here boys." I see a guy.
"But why are you so quiet? Infected?"
"Nah, she's worse..."
"She?" Cam asks as I feel myself slip on what appears to be vomit. Yuck.
"Hey! Who the hell is that?" We heard a woman's voice. I saw her on a scooter. But not any type of scooter. She was sitting eating a chicken leg. "Get away from my food!!" I raise my eyebrow.
"There's plenty for everyone..." I reply
"I see the way you look at me. But I'm tired of low carbs. I'm tired of celery. I'm hungry!" She eats the chicken leg in our face.
"It's not like you can eat all of it." Cam walks over to the food as he was interrupted by her going towards the table
"Hey! Just watch me." She begins stuffing her face with lasagna and chicken as if this was an eating contest. All of a sudden, she throws up on the floor causing me to move away knocking a few plates down.
"Nooo!" She gets upset thinking that I was trying to touch her food. She kept eating while the guy ran over to another batch of food and she turned around and threw plates at the guy.
"It's not that serious." Cam said.
"Hey stop it, I'm starving."
"Get away from my food!!!" She purges towards the guy and begins stabbing him with a spork.
"No! Stop!" I yelled to watch the man we just met brutalized to death.
"You skinny dudes just think you can take whatever the hell you want, don't you? World on a platter."
"Jesus lady, he was just hungry!" Cam replied
"Well so am I, asshole!"
"I think you had plenty already..." I said.
"Are you calling me...FAT!!!!" She exclaimed and pulls out her giant spork.
"Oh shit." I pull out Lesi's deagle.
Lesi
Fatigued, but I finally made it to the music store. I walked in and I saw different instruments. Currently, I'm looking for a keyboard or a piano. I didn't see any, but I saw vinyls of different artists. I saw a Lil' Kim section. I searched up for a Notorious K.I.M vinyl and I finally found one.
I mean I think they wouldn't mind if I kill a bit of time bumping this album.
Rico
The woman, Darlene was seriously injured from all of the pain me and Cam put her through.
"I feel really bad." She cries. "Oh my god...like super bad gas." I backed away slowly. "You boys...you gave me indigestion. Time to PURGE!!!" She tries to charge at me and fails by slipping on her own puke.
Yes, she was puking on us this entire time.
She fell down and she began puking. Choking on her own vomit, she falls out and dies.
"Ew..." Cam said as we walked away.
"I kinda feel bad." I look down
"You think we should take this food home?" Cam asks as I try some lasagna.
"I mean yeah we can-" I was going to say yes but I felt myself getting nauseous and I ended up puking on the floor. "No we can't take this spoiled shit home." I walk out of the restaurant.
"Well. Have you been talking to Arianna lately?" Cam asks.
"No, she's become more distant towards me ever since Lesi got back."
"I mean she has liked you since forever. You can't really blame her right?" I shrugged. "You did break up with her for Lesi before all of this."
"That's a lie. I didn't break up with her, she broke up with me!" Cam tilts his head.
"Well thank you that you did because she is hot as hell. I'm mad you let her go."
"You must think I look for the body." I facepalmed.
"I didn't mean it like that bro. I just think that Arianna is hot. Why did you leave her for Lesi?"
"She didn't tell you the full story huh?"
"Well no..."
"See-" I was cut off by an abandoned auto shop but there was a car that was zombie proof.
"You think we can use this?" Cam asked.
"How many questions are you gonna ask? Of course we are using this. We just have to find a key." I heard a thud and saw Cam on the floor. "Shit man!" I felt a hit on the back of my head.
"Bring them inside." I heard a woman say.
Lesi
"Pressure Down Below. Fire In Da Hole. Lose Control. Got Nowhere To Go." I began singing and dancing to Lil' Kim's song 'Revolution. I was searching around for something to give Rico here.
I saw a trombone and I picked it up.
I haven't played in years, I say to myself. But I put the trombone to the side. I looked around and saw a guitar. I crawled over to the guitar and strummed it a little. Then I heard an unfamiliar sound coming from the back of the music store. I slowly pulled out my knife and walked slowly to the back.
I walked in the back and saw an office. I opened the door and aimed my gun and my knife. I didn't see anyone inside. But I saw a grand piano that was just right for Rico. I smiled as I pictured him playing over again. I heard a gun cock back and I turned around to see a family.
"Stay away from us! You're not taking us again!"
"Huh?" Suddenly a bullet ricocheted past my hair.
Rico
"What are they doing here? I don't want to see them again." I saw a woman who looks close to my age. I saw Cam on the other side of me tied to a chair.
"What are we supposed to do then? We can't kill them." A big guy walks in.
"Kill them on sight." I heard a petite girl. She walks over to Cam and aims her gun at him. I ran past all of them and disarmed her. She takes off my mask and looks at me and she stops struggling.
"Oh my god." She looks at me. "Rico?"
"How do you know my name?"
"It's me...Serena."
Lesi
"You missed her!" The older woman replied to her child I assume. She takes the gun and aims it at me.
"Whoa Whoa lower the gun. I'm not a threat."
"Pick one...Beano...Jacket...or Adam?"
"Not Beano." She lowered her gun.
"Good..you won't kill us. We are waiting for Jacket."
"Who is Jacket?"
"He's a psychopath. But, he is reasonable. He wears a mask over his head, he carries a flamethrower, and he uses a tape recorder to talk. He runs Vegas."
"That's where I'm from." Her facial expression changes.
"Can you take us there. Please! He wouldn't take us in because I need treatment for my sickness." I raise my eyebrow.
"Right now, Ri-" I clear my throat "Jacket will be with you shortly."
"Please, I don't have much time left." She begs. "I might turn...I don't want to."
"I can't do that, I'm sorry." I grabbed the piano and began pushing it. The woman scratches my face leading to 3 scars being visible.
"If you won't help us, you can't take our piano." I look at the boy and at the woman.
"Okay, but I can't take the risk to put you out there with everyone else."
"I'll take that. Just please give me enough treatment. And watch my son..."
"Okay..." I tie the piano around something and began dragging it down the street.
Rico
Silence filled the entire room as they realized that I was alive.
"Rico...Is Lesi alive at least?" Serena asked.
"Yeah she's alive. She's in Vegas." Serena smiles as she looks at Kenya and her friends. "We were heading to Pahrump to see if we could settle there."
"No you shouldn't." Kenya said "That place is long gone. Filled with crazy amounts of infected."
"Well that's a no!" Cam exclaimed.
"Well I guess we are going back home." I stood up.
"Wait, Rico." I turn around to Serena. "Can we come? I want to see Lesi again..."
"We are not going there so we can run into that maniac Beano." Another guy walks in from the shadows.
"Adam...I want to see my best friend." That name rang a bell.
"Adam is right. We can't risk that." A skinny boy walks over and wraps her arm around Kenya.
"But actually. I'm tired of being cooped up here. I want to see Lesi as well. And eat real food." She rubs her stomach. I look down knowing that they won't have enough room.
"I'm sorry...there isn't enough room for everyone."
"There isn't?" A spare apartment room crossed my mind.
"I mean. Not for every individual. You guys have to share."
"Oh thank you I can finally get to see Lesi!"
"Well I guess we can go back now..." I sigh "Get y'all shit packed so we can leave. You might not be able to see Lesi right away because she's watching our baby in-"
"You guys are having a kid? I knew your pullout game was weak." Serena looks at me and squeals...
"Well, yeah but not naturally. He's in a chamber."
"It's a boy." Serena squeals as I look at Adam and he sighs.
"Serena. Get your shit packed!" Adam says aggressively.
I walked outside and saw a few corpses and one stood out to me. A katana was attached to it. But a realistic sword.
"Katana sword to love here." I picked it up and I had a flashback
"Mmmph" Lesi grunts, slicing an infected head. "Oh poo!" I turn around to see Lesi's hand made Katana broken.
"Oh no..." I grabbed the broken Katana and tried to put it back together.
"It's no use Rico...It's broken. Just drop it." Her face makes a frown as she walks away with her head down.
"Hey it's okay. We can make another one." I try to be optimistic.
"Rico, just leave it alone. It's no use okay. I want another one, a real one. But it's hard to find Katanas these days. Come on, let's go back to the colony because I'm pretty sure your dad thinks we are making another baby right now." She chuckles.
Don't worry Lesi. I got your Katana right here.
Lesi
"Lesi, I saw Rico walk in the colony." Lance tells me.
"Already? I didn't even put everything on the Piano yet" I whine.
"Want me to keep him outside a little longer?"
"Yes please." I smile and push the piano to the middle of the floor.
Should I make food?
I look out the window to see him eating already made food. The woman walked out there with her son and Rico looked at her. He looked very unhappy. The woman looked like she was saying thank you. Rico looked up towards the building and he headed upstairs.
Rico
I did not want Cookie here. She is infected, but not that kind of infected...
A little backstory. She was a stripper in Vegas before all of this went to shit. So now to keep her and her son safe. She uses her body to have a place to stay. Then she went to far, had sex with one of Beano's men, and and bam. HIV.
"Jacket, I just want to thank you for letting us stay here." I tilt my head. "And your girlfriend Arianna...she's very sweet but the other girl you left in charge. She is a life saver. I looked up at the building and I rushed upstairs to Lesi.
I knocked on the door, walked in, and I saw a black grand piano. I walked closer to the piano and saw a letter.
Rico,
The last time I saw you play it put me in a state of peace. I appreciate that. I haven't seen you be yourself lately ever since I came here. You love music but you hardly try to play anything. So, I searched high and low to find a piano and I dragged it across town to bring it here because I love you. I hope you can play again and finally be the Rico that I remember.
xoxo Lesi
I smiled and sat down and played a melody that I haven't played ever since the world went to shit.
"Rico...you know I love when you play." I looked at her and smiled.
"Thank you so much Lesi."
"Anything to make you happy." I continued playing. "You know I had to let that woman and her son in for the piano...right?" I stopped playing.
"What?" I look at her.
"Rico. I wanted to get you that piano."
"No. She's leaving tomorrow."
"Why? She cause no harm"
"SHE'S INFECTED!" I get up and yell at her
"She's not infected! No bites on her!"
"She basically has HIV written all over her!" Lesi gasps.
"Rico. That is not nice. It's not like anyone would try to have sex with her raw. We are in a fucking apocalypse. Just because you did doesn't mean anyone else can!"
"She is leaving tomorrow." I walk closer to Lesi. "You might ran this colony while I was gone, but you will not make the fucking decisions here!" She pushes me to the ground.
"I'm taking a shower." She walks away. I sigh as I look back at the piano.
I began playing for a while. And I just thought to myself. I shouldn't have lashed out on Lesi like that. I get up and I walk toward the shower and strip. I walk in the shower quietly to see Lesi washing herself off. I walk behind her and kiss her neck and feel her breasts. She obviously wanted me seeing that she let me kiss her neck.
"I'm sorry baby." I grind against her as she moans. She turns around and looks at me.
"I forgive you." She smiled as I got even close to her pinning her to the wall and deeply kissing her grabbing on her neck as our bodies got closer and closer.
"I love you so much Rico."
"I love you too." She gets out of the shower but I grab her hand.
"Stay with me." I kiss her while pulling her closer to my wet body. "Don't leave." I utter while still kissing her while her hands were running up my hair.
"I need this...I want this.." She kneels down until she is leveled with my dick. She looks up at me as I blush. "I don't want you to be embarrassed babe, I just want you to relax." She closes her eyes as she begins to push herself farther against my dick. My head goes back as I had a feeling I haven't had in a long time not even with Arianna. She gets up and she begins kissing me again. "I want you..." I look at her startled
"No, we should rest." I denied, knowing that I wanted this so much. She presses against me and whispers.
"Please, I want you so bad." She pleads.
"It's..." I look at her and grab her hand.
"Look at us Rico. We are risky, we are obviously in the mood, and we are alone." I looked around the room and with no hesitation, I bent her over and began penetrating her. She put her hands on the wall for support but I grabbed her hands.
"Do you want me to stop?" She turns around.
"No, don't stop.."She moans as I look at her.
"That's good, baby take it." I began thrusting into her roughly as I grabbed her neck and french kissed her. The water splashed everywhere from our bodies clapping against it.
I heard a knock on the door.
Wow...what a turn off...
"Rico?" I heard Arianna's voice. I pull out instantly.
"Yeah?"
"Um...Are you?"
"No, I'm not doing anything." Lesi looks at me furious.
"Well I-"
"We are busy Arianna! Talk to Cam" Lesi interrupts as I look at her.
"Oh...okay." She walks out."
"What did you say that for?"
"First off, she busted in the entire penthouse. Then, she wants to act like this...something about her is off."
"We can trust her." She looks away. "Hey" I grab her cheek. "You trust me. I promise. I lost you once I'm not losing you again." She smiles at me and turns off the shower water.
"Well, I'm pooped. We should rest."