Incurable

Chapter 4

Chapter 4

We all sat in the den after the mess was cleaned, Taylor sprayed plenty of airfreshener, so much that I was almost choking on it.

"Im not sure if I will be able to sleep after that." Jalie quietly stated.

"Yeah well im scared I will choke in my sleep from all that airfreshener." Taylor gave out a chuckled,

"it smelled horrible!"

"It still smells horrible!!" Brandon interupted our fake quarrel.

"I was watching something on the tv for the past hour, its a loop that the government put on when the infection first broke out."

He flipped to it, the background was black and white old timey circles, there were two meters on the sides and an indian with the chief feathers. In the middle it read, 'please stand by.' After a few moments, words scrolled across the screen, they read, 'Do not panic, leave EVERYTHING. There are safe havens in every three states, it gave out a list. As it scrolled I read off some of the names, Los Angeles CA, Columbus OH, Fort Worth TX. I stopped there.

"Do you guys think it would be worth it?"

"Worth what?" They all gave me puzzled looks.

"Fort Worth, they say theres protection up there."

"We have protection here too.

"I know, but eventually, we are going to run out of food, and eventually, the zombies are going to find us."

"Well, honestly, we should deal with that when the time comes, but for now we are pretty dang safe."

Brandon opened the tv guide to look through more channels. After 500 channels, we finally found something, a news studio broadcasting live footage. There was a man, he looked tired.

"Today will be the last day for us to be on the air." He paused.

"It is unknown how the virus got here, or what it is even, but approximately eighty percent of the United States has been infected in only 56 hours." He choked on the words. "Here are charts of how quickly the virus spread." A picture of the U.S. popped up on the screen, it was mostly white at twelve hours with very few splotches of red.

24 hours, about half of the white was red. 36 hours, there was almost no white showing, and at 56 hours there was so little white, I would have had to get closer to search for it.

We all sat there, staring at the screen in disbelief. They then went on to show a helicopters view of the roof of a mall in Dallas Texas, there were eight people jumping around, flailing their arms about. The door to the roof burst open, and zombie after zombie poured out. There had to be atleast fifty of them in seconds. They all turned and started shooting, a mounted light machine gun began to fire on the horde from the helicopter, but it was no use. Some of the survivors jumped off the side, one blew his own brains out, and two of them fought until the zed overtook them. The sight made my stomach twist.

Then I heard a faint noise, it was a noise I didnt want to hear, a niose I had been dreading and hoping not to hear, it was a zombie moaning outside the wall of the house. I looked over to brandon, he got up and walked to the room that led to the front door and placed his ear to the wall. I followed him and did the same. It sounded like forty or fifty zombies screaming and moaning just outside the wall. If there were a wall into hell, and I put my ear up to it, this is what it would sound like.

"How the hell did they know we were here?"

Taylor went to the front door and turned on the screen that displayed footage from a camera on the front porch. He took a step back, his eyes were wide. I looked at the small screen, I was wrong, there hadnt been only forty or fifty, but hundreds of them. I pressed one of the black buttons and it changed the view to the camera on top of the house, there was something prying open the bars on the front gate.