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Chapter 11 + Extra

The phone box rang and we all looked at it, then at each other. No one made a move so I answered it, worried that the noise might attract the wrong crowd.

"H—hello?" I gulped.

"Hi, thank heavens someone answered. This is Citizen Z . It is imperative that I speak to Operation Bite Mark. Whom am I speaking to?"

"Lyn Parker and uh, I don't know anything about a bite mark," I said, confused and still a hundred percent convinced that it was a ghost on the other line.

"Oh, hello Lyn, do you know someone named Sargent Charles Garnett?"

I nodded, then smacked my forehead, feeling like a complete numbskull because the other person couldn't see me. I motioned for Garnett to come over, handing him the telephone. "Some ghost wants to talk to you about bite marks."

He looked confused but answered the call nonetheless. Not wanting to intrude on Garnett and the ghost, I made my way back to the motorbike, sitting in front of Tommy. I'd be dead ten times over if I let him drive the thing. He pouted and I bit the inside of my cheek, trying not to smile at his adorkable expression.

"I didn't think those things would still be working, but who called?" Doc leaned beside the bike, not taking his eyes away from Garnett's frustrated form and I shrugged. "Casper, the not so friendly ghost."

"Really?" Doc swivelled his head to look at me like I grew another head. I nodded at him. "Lyn, that ain't funny."

"I wasn't trying to be Doc."

Garnett stormed back to the jeep, racking his hand through his hair. "We need to get our communications back up and get out of here."

No need to be told twice. I started the motorbike, driving behind the jeep with Tommy squeezing my waist and thighs. I groaned, he's sitting inside the jeep next time.

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I slowed down, stopping right next to the jeep and whistled, admiring the massive bell tied to the back of a truck.

"Is that really the Liberty Bell?" Mack asked, perched on the side of the jeep's bed.

"Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land and unto all the inhabitants thereof," Garnett said. "Yeah, that's it."

"Two years into the zombie apocalypse and you think you'd seen everything." Doc walked closer to it and I followed suit, caressing the metal.

Murphy huffed. "Let's just go already."

"Hold on, if this thing still has fuel," Warren said, putting in a tube inside the gas tank, "and it does we can get this thing started and the others wouldn't have to ride out in the open like that."

"I wish I could meet whoever did this." I pointed to the graffiti, smiling at Doc. "so I can kick the jackass who ruined dad's fifth favourite landmark."

"Yeah, well God bless the human race. Ninety-nine percent of them dead, but there's still one jackass alive with a spray can," Doc tapped my back. "What was your dad's first favourite landmark?"

"The Great Wall of China, that's where he met my mom. Old man said he fell in love at first sight when he saw her. So in love that he even went so far as to follow her till she went home." I giggled, remembering the horrified look of my mother when she recalled the event, "Mom was so terrified when she realized someone followed her home."

"A stalker. Well, it sounds like someone I know," Doc said, grinning and gesturing his head to Tommy. "You're both together yeah? Because if you aren't then it's just plain weird how the kid's been glued to your hip."