Leola and Ozzie vs. The World

Chapter 48

The sun was setting. Ozzie and I were in the car car looking for a way out of Jacksonville. The signs and stuff were still covered up so I couldn't tell where I was going. Every road that looked like it lead out of Jacksonville, had zombie's roaming the streets. There had to be some road out there that could get us out of here.

Ozzie was still taking Hailey's death roughly. She hasn't said a word sense she got in the car. Ozzie was in the backseat hugging her knees and crying silently. There was nothing I could say to make her feel any better. She'd scream, stomp, and cry Hailey's name feeling the burn of false guilt of killing her bestfriend.

Each time she'd cry, I'd try to ignore it. What happened to Hailey wasn't my fault and I'm not lying to Ozzie. I should slap myself for thinking that. What happened to Hailey is my fault and this is lying. Here I am trying to shrug it off and put all the guilt on my baby sister's shoulders. What type of sister am I? I'm not letting Ozzie suffer any longer. I'm coming clean.

"Ozzie". I called. She kept crying and didn't look up from her knees. Then, a thought popped in my head.

She'll hate you

I stopped and let her cry. I just...couldn't say it. I was too scared. I don't get to be scared, I deserve her to be mad at me. But, I just can't bring myself up to tell her.

I turned my attention back to the road. The car was about to crash into a giant hoard of zombies that were feeding on dead cows.

"Hang on!" I yelled. I slammed on the breaks but the road was still wet so the car was sliding. I tried to slow the sliding car down by turning the car sideways and it worked. Now we were in the middle of the giant hoard and the car wouldn't start.

All the zombie's I had hit weren't dead. They're probably mad and are headed over right now. Sense we're in the middle of this whole hoard, all of them would be coming for us.

But they weren't. Every zombie was occupied with the dead cows they were eating. There were thousands of cows for each zombie. Where did all these cows even come from? They were all plump and big, probably the mutated ones but how did all the mutated cows get in one spot.

Cow eating zombies surrounded the car. I could barely  see anything pass them because there were so many. Only thing I could see was the giant building not very far.

The building was the size of a large factory. The giant doors were busted down and cows poured out of it. Above the doors were big letters on a sign that read

Jacksonville Florida Genetic Facility.

So this is where it all happened. Every scientist who worked her were probably the first ever zombies.

"Leola", Ozzie wimpered looking at the window "there's so many".

There were too many. There was no way we could get out the car without being spotted. We were trapped.

I sat in the back with Ozzie for half a hour. She lied her head on my lap and I sat back in the seat.

I'm really claustrophobic. I can only stay in the same tight space so for so long before freaking out. I can't freak out, Ozzie's life depended on it.

Ozzie noticed all my cringing. "Are getting claustrophobic?" She asked sounding mopey.

"Y-y-yes". I answered trying to stop my hands shaking.

"Hailey gets claustrophobic". She murmured. I couldn't reply to that.

"Leo?"

"Huh?"