Silver Horizons (Silver Horizons #1)

Silver Horizons | 6

"Nothing is impossible to kill. It's just that sometimes after you kill something you have to keep shooting it until it stops moving." – Mira Grant, Feed

 

Forest was happy that we were close to a quarantine, but Kyle thought that it wasn’t worth it.

            “Seriously, Elijah,” he tried to reason with me. “Ivan and Paula told us to go to the New York quarantine since it’s the biggest. Why should we waste our time going to the Indiana one?”

            “Shut up,” Forest snapped. “Those are my parents, you know. It’s not like they’re never wrong or something. Knowing their sources, the New York quarantine is probably shut down already.”

            I sighed. I’d been putting up with Kyle and Forest’s bickering since Forest was forced upon us, and I’d tried to let it go on multiple accounts. But it was becoming too much. Every time there was a new idea or Kyle had to say something or I had to say something, Forest was there to contradict what we had said. He was plain rude, and I found myself wishing more than once that a zombie would come and eat him.

            Then on the other hand, he saved my life. That zombie would’ve eaten me if he wasn’t there to shoot him. For that, I owe him.

            “You know, Forest is kind of right,” I said to Kyle. “What if the New York one was infiltrated? What if we just drive past the Indiana one, hmm? How about that? It’s kind of on the way, and if we do that, then we can see if that quarantine is still out there. If it’s not, then we keep on driving to the New York quarantine.”

            Kyle looked at me as if I were crazy. I was siding with Forest after all. When I didn’t change my opinion on what we should do, he gave in. “Alright, alright. Whatever. But if we get killed in the process, I’m blaming him.” He jabbed his finger toward the backseat to where Forest was.

Just like earlier, when I glanced in the rearview mirror at Forest, I saw that he was poking and prodding Annie, trying to get her to talk. We’d finally found a station that played some decent music, and so I couldn’t hear what Forest was saying to her. If I turned the radio off, he would most likely stop talking. And by the looks of it, Annie didn’t seem to want him to stop. That tiny smile was still playing on her lips.

            “When do we get to eat and stuff?” Forest asked.

            “Tonight,” I replied. I flicked the radio off since he didn’t seem to be talking to Annie anymore. “I guess we can stop tonight.”

            “Right,” he said, pursing his lips. “So I got sleeping bags at Target. Think we could get out of this stuffy car and camp outside for a change?”

            Without answering, I weighed the pros and cons. Pros: we would get fresh air and not be stuck inside the car with three other people, which wasn’t a whole lot of fun. Cons: there were animals that could eat us, zombies that could eat us, and there was a possibility that it would start raining on us.

            “Zombies,” I reminded Forest. “There are still zombies.”

            He grinned and said, “Yeah, we could take turns keeping watch. That could work, right?”

            To be honest, I still didn’t think that it was a good idea. I thought that it put us at too much of a risk. What if one of us was to be attacked? Sure, Forest said that we could take turns keeping watch, but what if the person on guard fell asleep? What then?