They Bite

Chapter 10- Corpses Aren't The Only Ones To Fear

All I knew was we were running away from the danger. The adrenaline pumping through my veins was letting me run faster, but I didn't notice. The corpses were the threat and I needed to get away, that was all I needed to know, I didn't need to know who attracted them, who started the car horn right next to us, I would worry about that later. The corpses kept shuffling out from dark alley ways and from behind cars drawn to the noise of our shoes smacking against the road. The girl was with us, we barely knew her but being a fellow human being we brought her with us, well she followed us when we started running from the corpses and we didn't object. We didn't have time for introductions before the corpses started jumping out at us. She was so much shorter than me but she ran fast her dark brown curly hair flew behind her. We ran all the way back to the cars even though all the corpses were so slow they could only walk. We got into the cars in the same seats as before except the new girl was in the back of the 4WD with Niki and I.

"Where are we going?" Jenna said into a walkie talkie, it was the first time we had to use them.

"We'll go a bit out of town until we lose them then come back in because we haven't got enough stuff," Jason said through the walkie talkie.

"whats your name?" I asked the new girl.

"Willow," she replied to me as if we had been friends for years.

"How old are you?" Niki asked.

"I'm six, but its my birthday soon," she answered

"How did you survive so long," I asked,

"The monsters stayed away from me but if i got too close to me they noticed me," She said.

"Are you bitten?" Jenna said harshly,

"No, they didn't get me," she said, But we didn't continue the conversation because we had reached the petrol station.

"We'll stay the night here so we can be sure they aren't still out, then we will go back into the town," Jason said

"But they'll still be there," said Jenna, "if we go back they will jump out at us again."

"But we need more supplies, we have no choice." Jason argued.

Sensing this was the start of another argument Rose pulled us away into the small shop.

"We need to do something about your hair if we don't want you to be grabbed again," Rose said to me, "you too Niki, and you, if you want Willow,"

"What??? No!!," I said holding my hair, it was past the middle of my back and took me forever to grow, "don't cut it,"

"Well i could braid it and it would be harder to grab-" Rose was cut off by a gun shot from outside.

We all turned out heads to where Jason and rose were arguing and we saw twenty or so kids led by one adult holding a gun, Jason bent over, blood dripping from his thigh and Jenna with both hands up.