Infected

Chapter 22

*Neyomi's POV*
I decide to start checking in all of the buildings first. Erica wasn't very brave so I'm sure she didn't go far out of a safe place in one of the buildings. I know my sister well. It seemed that we literally cleared the whole town of infected. Well, at least the boys did. I didn't kill any of them. The closest building to the hotel was a gas station. She wasn't there. Then I just started checking the houses because she wasn't in any of the stores. By the time I got to the first house there was enough light out to not have to use the flashlight. I was thankful, as it's really hard to search with a flashlight. The house was a neat one, even though it hasn't been tended to in about 6 months. I'm not really sure exactly how long this has actually been going on, to be honest. It may even be longer. "Erica?" I call out through the house. This first house made me emotional. There was a master bedroom, at one time, I'm sure it was tidy and even high-class looking. But everything in the room had been torn apart as someone was in a hurry to find something. The whole house was like this. There was also a little boy's room. Themed Star Wars. There was blood smeared on the gray carpet in there. I didn't want to imagine what happened there. The door had also been torn off the hinges and lie on the floor. I found a crumpled up paper laying on the unmade bed on top of a Yoda blanket. Out of curiosity, I opened it up. It read:
Mommy is not tryin to hurt me I know. She is sick. She can not help it. May be she can get better and be mommy again. I love her any way.
I was tearing up by the end. Now I can assume that this boy was eaten by his own mother. I couldn't imagine...
I have to remember why I'm here. Erica.
"Neyomi!" Someone calls. I whip my head around.
*Charlie's POV*
Oh, thank God, I found her.
"How do I know to trust you, if you're with Neyomi, why isn't she here with you now?" Erica asks me.
"She left in middle of the night looking for you. Now I'm out here looking for her." I explain.
"How do you know I'm her sister, I could be anybody." She questions further. She's a lot like Neyomi, scary.
"She said you have a "Born To Fly" tattoo on your collarbone." I further explain.
"I have to see her before I can believe you." She says shaking her head. "You could be some crazy person just trying to rape me or something." Maybe not so much like Neyomi...
"Okay, well do you want to come with us to help look for her, or do you want to stay here?" I ask her.
She looks conflicted, "I don't like being alone... I'll come with y'all."
I nod my head, "let's go find her then."
* Janet's POV*
Kian has gotten so much better, I thought he would never stop crying through the night. There were so many infected that we had to start dragging the bodies out into the woods and burning them. Very hard to lift bodies with only two women.
They have been gone for a week now. I would give anything to have a phone or something to get into contact with James so he could tell me if everyone was okay.
Emma comes inside out of breath. I'm sitting on the couch the Penny playing I Spy.
"What's wrong?" I ask standing up.
She shakes her head, " I was out in the woods and there was an infected but I chased it into the trench, it's okay."
We hear a screech come from behind her and she turns around and screams. The infected got out of the trench. Penny screams and I put her in the bedroom with Kian and close the door. The infected is chasing after Emma in the yard, on the inside of the trench. It was almost comical until it started getting uncomfortably close to getting her. I get my knife out and get behind it. It was so focused on getting Emma it didn't notice me. I aim for the back of its head. I miss my knife goes into the back of it's neck. I can't pull the knife out before it turns around. Emma notices what's going on and runs up behind it and starts pulling on the knife, she finally dislodges it and gets it where it counts. It stops mashing it teeth in my face and dropped. We were both out of breath now. We push it's body into the trench for now. Too tired to take it out and burn it. We go in the house and tell Penny and Kian that everything's okay. They have some kickass moms to defend them.