Apocalypse of Blood

New Arrivals

Chapter 2 (Katie)

I smiled when we were in the truck. I thought Tim had died along with everyone else that was dear to me, but here he was driving the truck holding my hand. Right then and there I knew he wasn't going anywhere.

We pulled out onto the highway and after driving a few minutes I noticed something moving in our lane, in our direction. As it moved closer I noticed it grew bigger the closer we got. After a minute the object split into two pieces and started taking shape. They were two cars coming toward us.

"Tim, what is that?" I asked frantic, and squeezing his hand.

"I don't know, but take a breath and calm down some ok." He said soothingly. "I don't know what it is. It looks like a small caravan moving toward us. Like two or three cars."

"Well they aren't slowing down. Maybe we should..." I trailed off leaning forward in my seat so I could see.

"Yeah Signal the others to pull over." Tim said. I stuck my head out the window and motioned them to pull over. Patrick got the message and pulled off to the side of the road. Tim drove a little more up the road and got out heading to the caravan that had also stopped. I jogged up to Tim and grabbed his hand. He gave me a reassuring squeeze. Two women approached us holding hands and smirked at us. The one leading the two was tall, with pitch black, straight hair, with swarthy skin, and a pleasant face. She was very thin, but she had curves.

The second woman was about 5'6'', and had black wavy hair and purple streaks. She had endless curves that would make any man drool. She had dark skin but not as dark as the other woman.

"Hello, my name is Bo, and this is my partner, Violet." The first woman said holding out her hand. Tim grabbed it and shook.

"I'm Tim and this is Katie, my fiancée'." Tim replied with a smile. "The rest of us are in that mustang down the road. The one driving is Patrick, Mariah is in the passenger seat, and that lunatic hanging his head out the window is Josh."

"Ha ha, that's funny. Well the guy that's driving who looks like he has a stick up his butt is Dwayne. The idiot beside him is Austin. And the girl in the back is Leanne." Violet replied pointing behind her.

"Nice to meet you all, where you all going?" I asked.

"We're headed to some school out towards Hertford. Austin has friends out there that need help." Violet replied solemnly.

"Wait what is his last name?" Tim asked eyebrows scrunching together.

"Uh... Fox or something I think." Bo replied raising her eyebrows. "Why you know him?"

"Yes, the idiot left our school and started going somewhere else. Guy is a real dimwit." Tim replied straight faced. This caused the two women to laugh loudly.

"Yes, you explained his personality perfectly." Violet said still giggling.

"Well, can I talk to him?" he asked.

"Sure, AUSTIN, GET YOU'RE ASS OUT HERE NOW!" Bo yelled at the truck.

They heard a squeak and a thunk as the truck door opened and closed. Then they saw a young kid with dirty blonde hair covering his eyebrows. He was kind of chubby but not too much and in his hand he held a machete.

"Yeah?" he said coming closer.

"You remember Tim?" Bo asked pointing to him.

"Tim... Tim... Uh...." He said scrunching his eyebrows in concentration.