Z is for Zombie

4

A few days later

They all run their feet slapping the pavement. B came across the yard and entered the house slamming the door behind her, the boys are all running toward the backdoor their work abandoned. Not one of them stopped until they were in the house. B locks the front door and peers out the cracks of the plywood that is freshly hammered to the windows. How is this happening? She thinks to herself looking out at the mess that was now covering the yard.

"what the hell is going on?" Mike yelled from across the house. He must have been in the home the whole time. Chaos breaking among the group who was in the house. Dead bodies covered the yard making it impossible to even step outside. Moans and groans filled the area with sound making it hard to even hear what the person next to you was saying.

"How did this even happen?" Mason's voice boomed from the top of the stairs then followed by the sound of his feet smacking each step on his way down. Once he reaches the bottom, everyone looks at him in guidance of what to do. He peers out the same window B was just at to see everyone's worst nightmare.

"there's no way out," Philip muttered at his dad while he was covering a wound on his hand from where he smashed it, while trying to hammer the nails into the board to cover the windows. Looking around at everybody, B could tell this would only end in two ways.

"we're in some deep shit man!" Mike sits down near the window that Philip just finished sealing up.

"I will ask this one more time. How did this happen?" Mason was past mad he was furious! He looks around noticing at the group. Noticing that not all are there. " Where Marty and Ethan?" He continues to look around the look around the look of pure panic stretched his face. This was the first time B has ever seen him anything but calm or mad.

"They're stuck in the shed." B answered his question as she walked over to the kitchen she herself was also terrified at the thought of the virus filled dead where covering the yard. In only a moment they could tear through the house ripping everyone into shreds.

Sitting down at the table B thoughts about all the horrible things that could happen to them out there. At least in the house they had food and clean water. Marty and Ethan have nothing. From in the living room B heard the argument start up again about how they got in.

"Mike and I thought we could drive the rest of them away so we could go back out for supply, So we got into the truck and opened the gates. I thought we'd be fast enough, then the truck broke down. We had tried to get the gates closed before they got in, but we couldn't." Philip stops talking for a moment giving B enough time to walk back into the living room and see what was going on.

She honestly thought that when she walked back in, That she would see Mason choking out his son. The pair, looking at each other gave B an uneasy feeling. What's was going to happen to everyone? How was this all gonna play out? B head ran in circles at the thoughts of how they were going to survive and get out of this.

Philips voice piped back up again "Only two or three got in at first, but then when we tried to close the gates back the wires snapped on one door, now it won't close."

"you thought you would do this while I'm asleep? What if one of us where to be eaten by those things?"Masons voice rose in anger as he sat down next to mike" now look what you've done. Two of our men are locked in a shed." The dead outside banged on the house making all the widow shake. Mike and Philip both look at the ground their head hanging low in shame.

"B, go up stairs and grab weapons," Mason orders. His finger pinched the bridge of his nose in annoyance and frustration.

B runs up as fast as she can, her fear for Ethan was growing by the minute. She would be lost if he got killed. To B he was the closet thing to her old life she could think of. B unlocks the weapons closet and take out the most dangerous looking gun she could find and then looks for the ammo to go with it. All the weapons in the house were military, so whatever she grabs would be good enough. After wrapping the gun around her by the strap she rummages through the rest only taking the sharpest looking knifes and biggest baddest guns.