Alive by Ashley Shannon

Author:Ashley Shannon [Shannon, Ashley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Publisher: Ashley Shannon Publishing
Published: 2018-01-08T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

One Month Before the Outbreak

The General was standing outside with a basketball in his hands when Drew pulled up to the curb in front of their house. Her hand rested on the ignition a few seconds longer than it should have. This wasn’t what she wanted to do after school. All Drew wanted was to go up into her room and call Kimber, ignoring her homework and other responsibilities, and most of all, her dad . She contemplated putting the car back in drive and not getting out at all. This day had been long enough without ending it with a good long lecture from the General.

Her dad wasn’t an actual general but with they way he acted at work and at home, he might as well have been. The General was just Drew’s nickname for her dad, though she never used it to anyone but her friends and Kimber. When kids at school complained about their strict parents, Drew couldn’t help but roll her eyes at them. Her fellow students complained about being grounded for a day or two for big offenses like stealing or skipping school. Drew missed curfew coming home from a football game her freshman year by four minutes and was grounded for the rest of the school year. No dances, parties, clubs, or events with her friends were options for her. If it wasn’t for a team she was on or a grade she was receiving, Drew wasn’t able to attend.

The worst part about it all was how silent the house was now. If the General wasn’t yelling at her for doing something wrong, most of the time he just didn’t talk to her at all. In the year since her mom had passed away, Drew and the General had barely had a civil conversation. Even on the day of the funeral they had yelled at each other instead of comforting and loving one another.

It had rained that day, turning the careful curls Kimber had put in her hair into drab, stringy waves. Her skin was clammy and pale, causing her fiery red hair to look even more vibrant. Dark circles hovered around her eyes, the side affect of every sleepless night she had tossed her way through since her mother’s accident.

It was raining that day too, the day her mother died. She had been jogging along the side of the road, something she did every day. Her loop around the edge of town and then through the cemetery was her favorite run. Five miles in all and Drew’s mom ran it everyday, no matter what the weather. An assumed drunk driver hit her on the side of the road. It was assumed that the driver was drunk because they had never found them. No one wanted to think a sober person would hit a woman and leave her to die on the side of the road alone. It was easier to think a drunk person who didn’t know what they were doing was responsible for it.

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