"Don't you dare stop the bus!" She screamed at him, pulling everyone's attention toward them again. KR stood up and came to them. "What is going on?" He asked them. "He is going to stop the bus because the zombies are on the way." She explained to him about Sam's intentions making KR speechless and lost thinking about what they are going to do. "Listen, You can't stop the bus. Speed it up and just keep driving! Don't think that they are going to give us a way to go ahead like normal people because they aren't there to cross the d*mn road but to eat us!" Tiara said just in one breath trying to stop him before he stop the bus. 'Woah, She should be a rapper.' KR thought and complimented her freaking out state before opening his mouth.
"Are you suggesting to run the bus over th-" KR was shocked as he asked for confirmation if she knew what she was saying but got cut off by Tiara "Yes! That's what I am saying!" Tiara burst out on him but Sam didn't listen to her and kept the bus slow. She couldn't imagine being stuck between the zombies who could break the bus gates with their unity power. She didn't waste any second and pushed the escalator by her foot and Sam looked at her in shock and horror. "I'm sorry but it's for all of us." She apologized.
KR closed his eyes to avoid everything that was happening in front of his eyes, Tiara was looking at Sam because her feet were on the escalator which made her close to Sam, and Sam was the only one looking straight facing the zombies hit by the bus one by one and Bus vibrated by the bodies hit. "Hey, Don't look." She was concerned about Sam because his eyes told her he was terrified by the view outside.
He slowly moved his eyes to her after a few seconds, and his heart started beating faster after he realized how close they were. He was about to cry but when he looked at Tiara's eyes and the worry in them, He calmed down but his heartbeats were even faster than before just by the little gap between them. Within a few minutes, the bus stopped shivering letting Tiara know that the way is clear now. She let go of the escalator and stood straight, KR opened his eyes again and looked at her.
"It was dangerous." KR shook his head to throw the horror out of his head. "Not more than if the bus was stopped and got surrounded by the zombies." Tiara shrugged and then looked at Sam who was traumatized by the recent scene. "It's okay, Relax." She patted his shoulder and then she heard her navigator. "Turn right." a robotic female voice came from her phone. "Right." She told Sam innocently.
Sam gulped down and turned the bus while KR went to his seat again and tried to relax everyone there but Tiara just stood there looking at Sam to make sure he don't have the same thought again and slowed the bus again.
Just when they were about to reach the mall, Tiara's phone's battery went dead. 'Ahh, At least, We are close now and I remember only one turn and then we will reach there.' She thought and sighed at her luck. Soon they reached the mall. Sam stopped the bus and zombies around that area came toward the bus after they heard its sound. "What now?" Nolan asked. "We will wait to let them go away." Tiara said looking at the bus gate being a little worried that they could break the gate and come inside. "What if they break the gate down?" Jose spoke out her worry. "We will fight and stop them from doing so." She said and showed them no fear while she was herself scared.
All of them stared at the gate and the zombies outside. It didn't take long for Joy to start recording again and saying stuff that only his Korean fellows could understand. He recorded everything. the bus gate, everyone scared faces, and the zombies outside. Tiara was pissed off by his thing of recording everything and turned her face around when he moved the camera to her not wanting him to record her.
"God, Tell them to go away quickly. I can't control anymore." Nolan said in a low voice that could only be heard by the people inside the bus which made everyone laugh and the mood was a bit lighter than before. Everyone relaxed a bit and their brain started to work rather than freaking out about the situation. "They can't see, right?" Tiara asked while she examined the zombies on the gate. "We can't say for sure…" Jose said with doubt. "Yes, Remember last night when we were going silently but they still attacked us." KR reminded Tiara about last night's incident when they were going to Velvet Brother's room. "Geez, Just look at their eyes, grey orbs with red veins on their white area part… I don't think they see anything properly." Tiara pointed to a zombie whose eyes were larger than others.
"Th-They smell." Vin jumped into their conversation using his little English. Everyone looked at him with shock because no one thought of this possibility especially didn't expect him to jump into their conversation. Tiara noticed that the zombies were about to open the gates. She took her rod and put it under the gate's handles to stop it from opening while she examined their gazes and their movements closely. "I think you are right.' She turned around and walked toward Vin. "I saw into their eyes and they weren't looking at me at all meaning they can't see but smell or maybe they can see but not properly like half blinds." She told everyone about her conclusion.
"Okay, Everyone get away from the windows and-" She was going to say something but her eyes fell on the bodies of zombies in the middle way of the bus that they k*lled when they come inside. "Nevermind." She sighed. "Just don't sit on the window seat and bend down a little while sitting. So, They can't either smell us or see us properly." She ordered them and KR translated for his Korean fellows. They all closed the windows properly and tried to stay away from it.
Soon, They noticed the screams outside were fading away letting them know that their hunters are leaving one by one. Their prey waited for them to leave patiently until the way out of the bus was clear. Joy noticed it first because he was waiting to turn on the recording again. "Gone." One word came out of his mouth and the rest of the people peeked outside. "Let's go then." Nolan quickly stood up from his seat and took his rod before everyone else.
KR pushed the button he found earlier to open the gate and Tiara stepped down from the bus and started looking around while others are coming out as well. The place was still filled with their hunters but they had to go inside the mall which was in front of them. They moved at a normal speed toward the main gate of the mall trying not to make any sound after they all were out of the bus they entered the mall area successfully without any complications but then 3 zombies that were standing outside of the parking lot attacked them running toward, screaming that made every zombie around the area alert about their presence.
They ran inside for their lives together not letting anyone stay behind but as usual Joy and Tiara were behind everyone. Joy's attention was on his phone to record everything that he didn't see a stone on the way and fell down, Tiara stopped for helping him stand and protect him. She k*lled the first zombie who approached them first and shoved it to others making time for themselves to run away. Joy stood up and touched Tiara to let her know to run with him and then they ran the fastest they could for their own lives even if Tiara's legs were shorter than his, she could run as fast as he could with his long legs. Luckily, Only some of their hunters could run through the mall's entrance gate because the gate's way was smaller according to the large number of zombies.
When they reached the center of the mall's hall, They made a circle again and wondered where they should run now as the hunters presented in the mall attacked them. "There should be a guards' room. I searched that Aglos have-" She fought with her attackers and tried to tell her plan on where they would go. "Aglos's malls have a guard room on the ground floor which is the most secured room with a-" She struggled to k*ll them again while she said. "With a thick metal door." She finished her sentences and k*lled another zombie while Joy was hiding behind her recording everyone k*lling their attackers.
"But, How does it look like?" KR asked her when he kicked a zombie away from Mrs. Kang, His mother. "It's a black metal door." She replied shortly when she saw a guard's zombie who had a gun hanging on his belt. She k*lled the guard zombie while she approached for the gun at the same time. "What you do with gun?" Joy asked her shockingly, He tried to ask her what will she do with a gun. "What does a gun do? Of course, Shooting!" She yelled while she struggled to attack the other zombies because there was a pool of dead bodies on her feet already. "Do you even know how to use it?" Ezra asked when he heard what they were talking about. "Uhm, Well… I will search for it on the web. It can't be that hard." She hesitated to answer him and then he said nothing because he was struggling to protect himself. "I see black door. There!" JJ was the first one who noticed the guard's room Tiara talked about a few minutes ago. The door was on Tiara's left side and she looked at it making it her goal to reach there. There were only a few zombies left that they could just shove away and run there. "Shove and run!" Nolan commanded because it was too much for him.
The English fellows started to shove them away which made the Korean fellows understand what they are supposed to do. They all started to shove the hunters away to run from them but then Tiara saw that one of them was about to bite Jose, She didn't have any time to run there and k*ll it with her rod. So, She pulled out the pistol from her pocket she got just a minute ago and shoot the bullet directly to Jose's attacker's head. "Omo, When did you get a chance to search it on the web?" KR said while struggling to shove them away. "Uhmm… I-I… I have seen it in movies. Not a big deal." She was doubting how she did it while staring at the pistol she just used. "Can you-" JJ couldn't find any words to get her out of her own world because he was the one who was protecting her when she turned to protect Jose. She realized and started to k*ll them all like a k*lling machine to make a way out through them and everyone just followed her shoving them away one by one with the help of their rods.
Within just a minute they reached the door and KR opened it for everyone to get inside because the door opened to the outside of the room, He had to hold the handle just so he could close it once everyone gets inside safely. They all struggled a lot to make their way inside the room but they all got in safely and KR closed the door while Tiara made sure that no one attacked KR.
They all fell on the floor in relief once the door closed. It was quite a dark and large room because the lights weren't on and the only source of light and air was the little window which was upper the wall. It seems more like a store room but empty other than some table and stuff here and there. "Don't you need to use the washroom now?" Ezra teased Nolan. "No bro, I think my pee is gone back." Nolan said sarcastically and Tiara rubbed her nose to hold her laugh. "Everyone is fine, right?" KR asked everyone after he made sure that his parents are okay. Everyone else nodded in response because they were recovering their breaths.
After they recovered from their breaths and their brain calmed again. "Now… what?" Sam asked with concern which made Tiara think and pressure her brain. "Yes, We can't stay in this room, right?" Ian nodded and looked at his other Velvet Brothers. "Right, Or else what will be different here and from where we came from." Jose agreed with his brother and looked around before his eyes fell on Tiara who was in deep thought and unluckily her eyes were focused on his chest. He blushed a bit before asking "What are you looking at?" Jose asked Tiara softly but she thought that he is still talking to others. JJ shook her a bit with his one finger as he was sitting beside her. "Huh?" She came into reality and looked at JJ. "What?" She asked him for a reason that he shook her like that. "You were staring at me." Jose accused her cutely more like teasing her. "No no! I was in my thoughts… I didn't realize where I was looking." She waved both hands in denial filled with nervousness.
"Okay okay, Calm down there. It was obvious that you were thinking something. Relax." Jose calmed her down and she didn't have anything to reply with. "So, What are we going to do now?" Nolan asked without looking at anyone. "Do you have any plans now?" KR asked directly to Tiara. "I-" She stopped before she could accept that she had none. "I think I have an idea but I don't know if it will work or not." She looked at her bag on her lap.