The Life and Times in the Zombie Apocalypse: Part 3: Homecoming

HOME.

It'd been months since the world had come to a supposed end, nobody really knew how many people were really left, nobody knew if any branch of the government was still up and running, nobody knew if it was all of the United States, or if the virus had reached Mexico or Canada... Nobody knew if the virus reached over seas... Everything that was once certain in the world, wasn't anymore.

It was late in the afternoon by the time Noah, Edgar, and Kaitlyn, and Aryan had rolled into Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. They had come down from a mountain town known as Bear Creek, passing an Elementary school Edgar had once attended.

"This is where you guys are from?" Noah asked as he turned off of the highway and onto a side road which contained of a hospital and an orthopedic center across the street.

"Well, we're from down the mountain some, in towards the city." Edgar told him.

"Well, you're from a small quiet area, I'm near the city." Said Kaitlyn.

"Same difference." Edgar told her.

Kaitlyn smiled.

"Noah, go down this road and at the gas station take a left, we'll go to Katty's house first, yeah?" Edgar said as he looked to her.

"Okay." She smiled.

As they were driving down the road Edgar noticed a truck outside of a house, a house which was his Aunt's. The truck that had been sitting outside of the house was of his father's, the truck was big and red with one of the windows on the driver's side smashed in, most likely from a night his father had been drunk, however the truck didn't look deserted. In fact, the house didn't look that deserted. In the first not yard, which was elegant yet tiny stood a flag pole sprouting the American Flag, what struck Edgar heavily was that the fence around the front not yard was different than it had once been, as if they remodeled it to be more efficient... with zombies.

"Noah, stop the car." Edgar said lowly.

"What why?" Noah asked looking back.

"Please just stop." Edgar told him promptly.

So Noah stopped the truck in the middle of the road, which looked more deserted than ever before, there wasn't a zombie in sight. Edgar opened his door and got out of the truck, the crisp cool air made Edgar faintly smile, it was Autumn in Pennsylvania and that meant cooler days and even cooler nights, what most people called "hoodie weather" from where he'd lived.

"Ed, what's wrong?" Kaitlyn asked from inside the truck.

"Nothing, I've just... I wanted to check that house out." Edgar told her.

"Why?" She asked him concerned.

"This is my Aunt's house, she had two kids, I just wanted to see if they were in there, you know... As zombies, I don't want them suffering." Edgar looked around the truck to the house again and back to Kaitlyn. "Stay here. I'll be right back." Then he shuffled his way towards the small front yard, he stared at the fencing, which at one point didn't stand at four and a half feet tall and especially didn't have barbed wire on the top.

He walked down along the side of the house which was on a hill, along the driveway which made it's way right into the backyard. He reached the corner of the house when he heard something above him. He looked around the corner and saw more barbed wire fence. Then Edgar realized what he had heard after he hears the noise again. It was the back door opening and then slamming shut!

Edgar stood against the wall as still as could be, trying to not even breath. He wasn't sure who the hell was at the house but whoever it was was not screwing around. They wanted nothing and nobody coming in without permission.