Life's Test

Chapter Twenty Two - One Good Day

Lachlans P.O.V
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     We drag the dead bodies into a pile behind the apartments and pour gasoline over the corpses. Whatever is left of us stands around and watches as the bodies go up in flames.

     Among the dead bodies lays Janet, Steven, Brandon, Donnie, and Grant, along with a few others from the community. The defenseless. 

     Only Me, Samantha, Alec, David, and Asher remain from our original group. We all mourn in different ways over the few weeks.

     Samantha joins the school and starts teaching kids, keeping herself busy, Alec goes on plenty of runs outside the walls, David spends all day with Asher cooped up inside. I on the other hand take up leadership and put programs in place to teach the people of Fall Creek about guns and knifes. I refuse to rob other groups and kill without reasoning, people accept me as leader. It all happened so fast and I helped this community get on it's feet again.

     "Hey Donna!" I smile as I walk past a mother planting flowers in a small flower bed in the road. Donna has two kids, one is nine and the other is going on sixteen.

     This world can be a nasty place. We know it. The people here know it now too. We make the nasty world seem no so nasty inside the walls, it looks like a normal town. Except for the side arms and knifes strapped to peoples sides, but that is just precaution. 

     We haven't had many Infected slip through the walls, but when we do the people of the town can take care of it now. We have had small herds build up on the gate but we take care of them without the people knowing, today we're supposed to reinforce the gate as we got word from Alec that there is a massive herd heading this way.

     Samantha has been getting sick lately and i'm starting to get worried, its not like the flu its just vomiting at random points, I go to check on her at the school, on my walk over I spot many people just trudging down the road probably heading to the canteen to get their weekly rations.

     Samantha smiles when she sees me through the window and heads out the door, wrapping her hands around me, I don't know if its just me but she seems worried; "Hey baby" She says while planting a kiss on my lips. "there's some things I need to tell you.." Sam says her smile fading.

     I think of the possibility's of what she has to tell me but decide to just let her tell me. "Go ahead, love." Sam pauses and looks at the sky and then at her feet before mumbling something under her breath that I cant hear; "What was that?" I say getting kind of worried myself.

     Samantha sighs and just blurts out; "I'm Pregnant" My face goes blank of expression and I take a few steps back. What if what happened to Emily Happens again? I can't put myself through that pain, not again. I go to speak but no words come out.

     BANG. BANG. BAHM. BRATTAKA. BANG. BHAM.

     Saved by the gunshots. Can't I just have one good day? "hold on sweetie, I need to check this out" I kiss Sam's forehead and take off in a sprint towards the never ending gunshots. They lead me to the gate, I go to ask what's happening but the moans on the other side of the gate tell me before anyone else; "Infected!" David screams from the top of the wall. "To many to count!" Frank screams down to me after David.

     "Get out of there!" I scream taking off towards the community center. I rush throughout the hallways towards my office and fumble with the keys to unlock the door, but when I get it unlocked I dash towards my desk and hold down on the button to speak over the community intercom; "Attention Citizens of Falls Creek! The herd is here and I don't think we can fend the main gate, please prepare yourselves for the worst and return to your homes!" I lift my finger from the button and run out of my office and down a few more halls towards the weapon storage room.

     I unlock the door and flick on the lights, grabbing a laundry container full of Automatic weapons and handguns, puling boxes of ammo on top of it. Alec almost runs past the room but turns into the room last minute and helps me guild the bin outside into the town square with a clear view of the gate.

     A few people who didn't return to their homes gather around and grab a automatic weapon and a pistol if they never already had one, but everyone has a melee weapon. We all load our pockets with full clips and prepare.

     I start thinking; why break the gate when we can just let them it. The gate isn't going to hold anyways, you can hear all of them surrounding the place. So why let the gate fall when we can open it..?

     I run to the gate and unlatch it, everyone screams at me to stop but I don't, I crack the gate open a little bit and I think the Infected will give me a little to run away but the gate pushes me and I fall over, the Infected start to pile in, I struggle to get up and the Infected are already getting close to me. I turn onto my back and cock the assault rifle, firing into the swarm of dead. "Cover me!" Alec screams, running to my aid.

     Alec hauls me up, just as an Infected lunges at him. David puts a bullet into the Infected's head, saving Alec.

     We sprint back to the strong formation; "Don't let them get close! Back up if they get to close!" I order the group. I'm unable to tell if they could hear me over the moans and gunshots but I hope they did.

     Blood is flying and Infected are dying, the gunshots seem to never stop, I practically zone out from the people surrounding me and focus on the threat. It has been about five minutes already of constant shooting and backing up but the Infected don't seem to stop piling into the community.

     Ammo is getting low and we're practically backed up against the back wall of the community, just preying for some kind of miracle. We can't move back any further and the Infected are getting to close, We have to run.

     "Get inside! It's to much!" I say firing the rest of my clip into the herd. I grab an extra assault rifle and handgun along with some ammo and run for my house which is only a little to my left. A group of Infected cut me off on my step and I drop everything, fumbling with my pistol in its holster. My front door swings open and slams against the siding, I look up to see Samantha with her pistol, he starts shooting at the group in front of me and they turn towards her.

     I grab the items I dropped and sprint to my door, I kick an Infected that stands in my way and send it tumbling to the ground.

     I enter my apartment and slam the door closed. I turn the dead bolt and drop my items on the couch, Sam grabs an end and I grab the other, we lift the couch and push it against the door. Samantha runs to the window to close the curtains and screams when an Infected slams against the window, she recovers from the mini-heart attack and closes the heavy curtains so we can't see out and they cant see in.

     The room falls silent and all I hear is the loud thumps of the Infected banging on my house when I realize..

     We're Trapped.