Dead Outside

Chapter 2

   I woke to the sound of a car outside. Peeking out the crack, under the door I could see peoples feet. I stayed still hoping they wouldn't hear me. "Hey Mike, when was the last time you had a cold one?" The freezer door swung open screaming. "Or a not so cold one", said a man. I couldn't tell how many people there were but I couldn't hear any one infected.

  The bath room was musty smelling, and all kinds of dirty. I took a quick look at the knob making sure it was locked. There was a poster on the door, but it was so dirty I couldn't tell what it said. I could hear the men outside the bathroom talking about home? Like it was their camp or something. One said something about Dr. Nicole inventing a cure.

   My eyes widened, the thought of having a cure hadn't crossed my mind. I figured the infected would eat everyone and then slowly starve and the earth would be another forgotten planet. The knob twisted slightly.

   "Hey, the doors locked?" I jumped up bumping my head on the sink. "Did you hear that?" I stood up slowly, holding my kitchen knife tightly. "Come help me kick it in", One man said. That idea would not turn out good for me. "Wait!" I yelled. "I'll come out, you don't need to kick the door in." I unlocked the door, and twisted the knob slightly.

   "Well, hello little girl", said one of the men. I stepped forward still holding my kitchen knife. It was just the two men there. "How long have you been in there?", the other man asked. I looked outside, it looked ten-ish. "Only the night", I muttered. "Are you all alone?", for a minute I was scared. "Yeah, why?" I stared into his eyes showing him I wasn't scared. "Well a girl your age shouldn't be alone, especially now." A walkie-talkie went off,  it was clipped to one of their pants. "Time to come back boys." It was a woman speaking. "Okay, we've got a present for you."

   "Well if you don't want to die come with us to our camp, you'll be safe, and someone will look after you." I thought about it for a moment. "Okay, I'll come." They lead me to their truck and open the back door. It was a rusted up red four door F150.

   They were fully loaded with guns. AR15, AK47, Semi automatic, and a glock. There were more but I didn't know what they were called. As we started moving I could see someone behind the truck, they looked infected. The man driving saw it and switched into reverse and ran over the infected person. I gasped, wondering if it really was infected.

   But it didn't matter, they would've died sooner or later. I could see the sun glaze over the town, abandoned town. I felt my eyes shut, I was still tired, so I decided to waste the ride sleeping.