Turning Events

Chapter 11

Linda jumps up in the truck shaking. 

Tina, "are you okay baby?"

Linda, "Yeah....just a nightmare."

Tina puts her arm around a very shaky Linda.

Tina, "I love you"

Linda, "I love you"

The sun shining like any normal day. Sueann calls Linda.

Sueann, "We need to stop for gas soon."

Tina, "Yeah, other wise i will be running on fums"

Sueann, "okay, following you and waiting on directions."

Tina, "Okay is Travis awake?"

Travis, "Yep, I'm up sis and ready for anything!"

Tina, "Okay, Linda baby wake up Nick please."

Linda taps Nicks arm.

Linda, "Nick wakey wakey"

Nick moves a little  and grumbles.

Nick, "MMM magic bananas"

Everyone starts laughing and Nick jumps up.

Nick, "Huh!!...What's wrong!?"

Tina and everyone giggles.

Tina, "Nothing, magic banana boy"

Nick looks confused.

Nick, "Ummm...Okay..so what's up?"

Tina, "both cars need gas so we have to stop and someone has to run in and push the buttons while the other two need to hurry and fill up the cars."

Nick, "Okay... so we need to find a gas station."

Travis, "Just following you until you stop.'

Tina, "Okay, sounds good."

About twenty minutes later they pull up to a gas station. Tina calls the other car.

Tina, "That's where we will stop, I will run in. Nick, you and Travis will pump okay?"

They all agreed and slowly pull up to the pumps.

Tina, "I will run in fast and start the pumps and run back out, when i run back out you guys jump out and start pumping."

Tina grabs her bat and gets out of the car then heads inside. She breaks open the glass door and slowly steps in being awear of her surroundings. She steps over the glass and looks around each corner. She spots a zombie and quickly uses her bat to kill it. She goes behind the counter to the register and hears a shot gun being pumped behind her head. she hears a strange mans voice behind her.

Man, "Don't move or I will shoot"

Tina stands perfectly still.

Tina, "I didn't mean any harm sir, we needed more gas to keep moving."

Man, "There are more of you? Turn around slowly."

Tina turns around to find a man in his late 40's.

Man, "My name is Vick. How many of you are there?"

Tina, "Me, my brother Nick, Nick's daughter Kristy, my brother travis, Travis' wife Lisa, My pregnant wife Linda, and her mother Sueann. There was more but they didn't make it. Is it just you or are there more?"

Vick, "There is me and my two daughters Kelly and Sara."

Tina, "Can we have some gas please mister?"

Vick, "You know I love my daughters more then anything, take a look at my arm."

Vick rolls up his shirt sleeve showing a zombie bite mark.

Vick, "I know you know what this means, I can feel the poison running threw my viens. Thank God for the luck that you and your family came by."

Tina, "Your going to change soon?"

Vick, "Yeah, I'll give you gas on one condition....You take my girls.....if you have room."

Tina, "Can they hold weapons?"

Vick, "I've been teaching them to shoot since they were 10"

Tina, "Okay deal...we can take them."

Vick calls  his girls in, Kelly is 28 Sara is 20.

Vick, "You're going to go with this nice lady and her family.... I have been bitten and we know what that means. Be strong my daughters."

Kelly, "Okay dad. I will take car of Sara"

Vick, "I know you will you're a good daughter and big sister, I love you."

Kelly, "I love you dad."

Vick, "Don't think I forgot you my little Sara. I love you Baby Girl."

Sara, "I love you daddy."

Vick, "Okay, I will turn on the pump. Hurry!

Tina, "Okay, you two are getting into the car so just run and get in it, I will take your bags."

The three girls run outside Kelly and Sara jump into the car and Tina threw their bags into the bed of the truck. Travis and Nick jump out and start pumping the gas.

Travis, "Who are they?"

Tina, "Long story short, their dad was bitten, he wanted what was best for them and asked me to take them and he would give me the gas."

Travis, "Great more people to take care of. We already have a disabled person, a pregnant woman, a baby, and a person who can't fight there is only three of us!"

Tina, "Their dad said they have been shooting since they were ten, I believe they will be assets to our team."

Nick, "We need to believe what is being done is for the best of our group, I do."

They start putting the pumps away as Vick comes out of the building growling and running towards them.