Book 1 - Slit My Wrist, Hope to Die

Chapter 38 - End Game: Escape - End of Book 1 - Part 2

       Still dazed, Jordan gets up slowly, realizing that a girl is hanging onto him. He shakes his head, his eyeballs readjusting and head throbbing. Looking over his shoulder, he notices that Fran is looking at him with tear filled eyes. The look on her face worried him, though he realized it must be the reason why his head was burning hot and pounding. "What happened?" His voice sounded tired.

       "They took them," Fran said quietly. Her tears rolled down her eyes and she trembled onto Jordan. "This guy and his men, they took them! Alex, Tate and Conner! What do we do?" She began to sob again, clenching onto Jordan. He noticed that there were more people outside now and that they were causing a scene. He shushed her, putting his finger on her lip. The tanned man got up from the cold floor and grabbed her arm, leading her to the car.

      "Shut up," Jordan ordered. "Let me think." He tapped his foot and bit his nails. "Did they say anything?"

         "Take them back to the house."

         "Fucking fantasic." Jordan tapped the hood of the car and got inside. "Get in."

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"Oh fuck." Conner exclaimed. His voice couldn't overcome the chaos.

"Shit." Alex muttered. Her head got moist.

"Amazing." Tate commented. "This shit again." He held on to Conner and Alex, digging his biceps into their shoulders. "I'm not going to be as fast as I was before," He gulped. "I'll tell you guy what to do and you follow, okay?"

"Okay." They both said.

"Let's go... Down that street, where there are less people. Go!"

        They both gripped onto Tate and started going as fast as they can down the street. They hopped over limps and pools of blood running down the path that will possibly save them. Running down a little further, Tate said, "Turn, in this alley!" They followed his orders and ran into the empty alley. It had no blood, no zombies nor any limbs. It was clean compared to the rest.

           Making their way through, they peeked out and noticed that down the hill there were more of the undead walking about and up hill there were dead everywhere, slowly coming back to life. Though, there was a house across from them that had a fence. "Go, there!" Tate lifted his sore arm and pointed across the street. "Into that house! We might be able to go out through the back." Without any doubt, they followed his orders.

         They limped across undetected and quietly shut the door. The soles of their shoes were covered in blood, making a squish noise everytime they walked. Alex frowned, looking at her precious vans ruined. Tate was placed in a chair in the kitchen and was taking a breather. Conner was looking for any kind of weapons they could use to help fight their way out of the city. Alex was relaxing upstairs, looking for anything that could help. She picked up a bag in one of the rooms, a teenager's room, and placed it on her back for storage. After checking the room and bathroom connected to the room, Alexandra made her way to a window in the bedroom and looked out.

            The city from her looked so peaceful and wonderful. The musuem's structure had a gothic look to it, making it look so massive and beautiful. Though, Alex is betting that inside it's either full of the undead, dead people with the exhibits thrown all over the place or closed. She's not sure what day it is. The schools that Alex can see looked like shit because school is shit. Education system is a joke. The houses and apartments she can see looked perfectly normal, nothing out of place. Although, the few streets below her she can see abandoned cars and dead-cars!

             Alex quickly ran downstairs with the bag on her back carrying a few medicine bottles, bandages from their bathroom and a army knife. Must've been a gift. As she made it to the kitchen, she saw Tate drinking some bottled water and Conner placing two knifes, a screw driver and a couple cans of food on the counter. "Let me," Alex said. "I found a bag." They both looked at her and nodded. As she placed the items in the black leather bag, she said "Guys, we need to find a car. There's a bunch of cars left in the streets, in driveways. Let's just steal one."