When August Ends

Jack

"We have to help him!" she screams. The two of us run to the barricade and rip it open. I toss Grace one my pistols and we run outside. She shoots at one and hits it in the shoulder. All attention is on her now and suddenly three more zomies charge into the scene. I aim and hit one in the leg and another in the face. Both drop but the injured one gets back up. "Jack!" Grace shouts to her brother.

"Grace get out of here!" he commands.

"No!" she snaps and shoots a zomie at his right. I am facing two zombies at close range. I take one out point blank and when I aim for the other and pull the trigger I realize I'm out of bullets. It lunges for me and I duck but trip. It leaps towards me as I fumble for my knife when all of a sudden a bullet whizzes through it's face. It drops ontop of me and I panic. I don't want any such thing on me and as i struggle to free myself it is suddenly lifted off of me. I see Morgan toss it violently aside and then he helps me up.

"Thanks," I mutter.

"Better watch yourself out here or you might get bit lil Mex." he says. I roll my eyes. I turn to find out where Grace and Jack are. Troy is slashing the last zombie with a machette. It's quite impressive how forcepully he decapitates it with his one hand. Jack is breathing heavily clutching the thick metal chain he has, but he drops it when Grace runs and hugs him. "Let's get back inside," Morgan says. We all walk back in and Morgan and I put the barricade inside back. Everyone has gathered around Jack and Rachel is putting some ointment on several gashes he's obtained.

"Looks like all of security is here," Jack comments. "Naturally that means Maya and Grace would be here too." he smirks.

"Don't make me regret saving you." Grace snaps.

"Maya where's Adam I need to talk to him about the situation we're in." Jack asks me ignoring Grace. I can't help but wince when he asks me.

"Why you askin' her where he is, we're security." Stevo chimes in.

"Because no one knows where Adam's at like Maya does." Jack chuckles.

"He's in the ground." I say coldly and Jacks grin vanishes.

"He's dead?" he asks in a low tone.

"Yes. He's gone." I say sadly. Jack puts his hands on his head.

"Well then I'm going to have to tell you guys where were at then." Jack sighs. We all look at him expectantly. "I got a computor system up and running in the tech lounge and I can't get a hold of anyone or anything except for one transmission that blares across the screen every five minutes. It just says world compromised and infected all around. That's it. No more no less. We don't have anywhere safe to go so we're just going to have to adapt. I did a lot of researching and a few news broadcasts survived and things are bad everywhere. We have to round any and all survivors up and start making plans on how to survive because this isnt just a state outreak it's worldwide. We don't have any help coming or anything like that. We're on our own." he says solemnly.

      We all soak this information in slowly and I have to take a seat. I immediately wonder about my family all over again. I hope they are alright. I hope that nothing has happened too them. But the sickening knowledge that they live 8 minutes away and would have tired to come get me by now is heavy in my heart and I don't know what to do. I hope that they are okay and that's all I can do. "We had better start finding other survivors then." Mace states.

"Girls can you put all the food in boxes that doesn't need to be refrigerated? We need to get ready to move. We're gonna need to find vehicles too and then we can go around to find others." Troy raps out. No one questions him. I go with the girls into the kitchen and we immediately begin packing dry items. We have to start looking out for more people than just our own little group, it's the bigger picture. What Adam wanted from day one. It took him dying for it to happen. So I guess it's time to listen to him.

Funny how when you're dead, people start listening.