Consumed [Zombie Apocalypse] (Boyxboy)

12.) Black Box

~Joe's POV~

"Well, this is just great." I retort as I lean against the driver's side of my car. I look over to see Anthony and Kiyana sitting on the back of my car talking about something or another.

"I can't get any signal," Camila says as she puts her phone back into her pocket and walks over towards me. She leans next to me and I put my arm around her shoulder. "We could start walking and hope that someone finds us." She suggests.

I let out a sigh and looked over to Anthony and Kiyana. "Sure babe, just let me ask them first." I give her a kiss on the forehead before raising my voice to ask them if they thought it was a good idea. "Hey Anthony, since we ran out of gas we were thinking about walking and maybe finding a gas station or hitching a ride or something."

Anthony and Kiyana look at each other and Kiyana shrugs at him. He looks back over at me "Yeah, sure bro."

"Cool." I feel a little relieved that they feel comfortable with the plan. Honestly, I just want to get back home as soon as possible and see my family. "Everyone grab one backpack with what you need and we'll leave the rest here and come back for it later."

They all nodded their heads in agreement and I popped open the trunk so that we could start sorting through the things that we wanted to take with us and leave behind. I just decided to bring what was already in my backpack since the only things that were in my suitcase were clothes and shoes. Camila must have packed the same way because she already had her book bag on and was ready to go.

Anthony, however, packed at the last minute, so he and Kiyana went through his stuff to try and figure out what he needed and what he could live without for a short amount of time. Kiyana didn't have anything to bring, considering how we picked her up in all of the chaos that was happening on campus.

Speaking of, I wonder how things are back there. After all of that violence and pandemonium, it's hard to imagine things going back to normal anytime soon.

"Ok bro I'm ready," Anthony said as he approached me, with Kiyana at his side.

"Ok then," I voice, "Let's go." We all head off down the road towards the rising sun in the orange and yellow sky.

~*~

After about an hour of walking, we reach a large pileup of cars. There has to be at least twenty of them. All of them different sizes, colors and models. Normally I would have been concerned about a large pile of this magnitude, but the eerie thing about it was that there was not a single person around.

We all come to a halt just a few feet in front of the first car. "This looks unsafe." Said Kiyana.

"Yeah bro, I'm getting some pretty wack vibes." Anthony concurred.

I looked over to Camila who looked back at me with an unsettling look in her eyes. "They're right, Joe." She agreed "Something happened here... something bad." She looked out at the pile up of vehicles. "There can't be this many vehicles in one spot without a single person being around to claim them."

"Yeah, I guess you're right." I agree with her, not wanting to put her or anyone else in danger. I start to walk towards the side of the road so that we can just go around, but Anthony speaks up.

"Actually, since there is no one around to claim them, we could always just take one," He suggests.

"And just how exactly do you plan on doing that?" Camila responds with skepticism in her voice. "We don't have the keys to any of them, and even if we do manage to get lucky enough to find one with keys in it, how the hell are we gonna maneuver it through the twenty other cars that are blocking it." She crosses her arms and stars at him as if to challenge him.