Nate pulled the car out of the drive and drove it down the barren street, heading towards the M25. He looked over to see Ross in the passenger seat with the crinkled map open over his lap and the dashboard, his eyes narrowed as he traveled along all the different lines with his index finger.
"So where is this eh...Army reserve?" Nate asked, turning his head back to the motorway they were now turning onto. The car started to jolt as they went over remains. They glided along at quite a slow pace in order to keep the car intact.
"Redhill," Ross stated, following a line on the map with his finger, his face twisted in confusion.
"Is that far?" Nate's eyes moved from the road to the trees on his right. They looked empty and dead even though they were bold green and full of life, waving and swaying in the light breeze.
"Just a couple of miles, give or take," Ross replied, looking up too, his eyes followed the trees as they passed by too. "Why is it that everything feels dead even when it looks alive?" Ross asked rhetorically, not expecting an answer but not surprised when Nate gave him one.
"Maybe it's cause the world has died and everything in it seems to have died too," Nate mumbled sadly, moving his attention off the trees and onto the bleak road ahead. He slowed the car down when they approached the wide sea of bones, both Nate and Ross were tossed from side to side as they rolled over the bones. Nate sighed in aggravation and unclipped his seatbelt tired of it digging into his neck every time the car jostled.
Soon they made it halfway down the motorway and the bones were filling out, less and less until there were only a few scattered around. There were fewer cars on the sides and soon the road started to widen out a little more.
"Okay take a right up here, onto the M23," Ross directed, pointing out to the opening on the right a little ways ahead. Nate nodded and moved the wheel slowly, drifting in the direction that Ross's finger was pointed in. They moved onto the M23 which was brought them back to more rows of cars and another sea of bones.
The car was silent as they moved through the remains. Ross's eyes were scanning the empty, abandoned cars as they moved past and Nate was tapping his finger on the wheel.
He sighed in frustration and snatched the box of cigarettes from the cup holder beside the gear stick. He let go of the wheel for a moment, pulling out a cigarette, placing it between his lips and setting it alight. He inhaled and closed his eyes, letting his hands find the wheel again. He relished the feel of smoke in his lungs and opened his eyes, breathing out as he felt a little calmer.
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They were off the motorway now, weaving through lesser known streets and avoiding the cluttered ones. It seemed like every place they went was clean of anything alive. Ross started to wonder why the guy at the house, the one who slashed Drew was still around.
Ross sighed, he was tired of driving round in circles. He knew where the reserve was, the only problem was getting there. "Okay. Just pull over here." He said as Nate was about to drive down the same street for the third time. "We can walk to it." Nate stopped the car at the side of the road and pulled the keys from the ignition, jumping out with Ross and slamming the door shut. They started walking down the middle of the road, looking at the houses lined up on either side of them.
There were a few cars turned on their sides and as Nate walked past a crash between three, he saw through the window a dead body hunched over the wheel. Blood had been dripping through the bottom of the closed door and onto the concrete ground, but most of it had washed away in the rain. It was stained to the rusted metal of the car. The body was obviously female and her blonde hair was matted with blood. Nate groaned and pulled his eyes away, willing himself not to puke. Ross was up ahead, striding forward as if it didn't bother him but he wasn't looking around, he kept his eyes forward, above everything.
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The Rain (Book 1 - The Unprotected)
Action**DISCONTINUED** Rain in the UK is common, an everyday thing. So, when it rains one afternoon, no one is shocked or surprised. But when that rain burns the skin off peoples bones and causes their flesh to dissolve, it's no longer looked at the same...
