America Falls (Book 1): Hell Week by Medbury Scott

Author:Medbury, Scott [Medbury, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | Dystopian
Published: 2018-03-31T04:00:00+00:00

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The bare, dead branches of the deciduous trees, the most common in that area, didn’t provide much cover, but luckily we had found a copse of spruce trees to crouch under as we watched. Thankfully, the helicopters didn’t land and after ten or so minutes, they finished circling and departed.

“Great idea to set the house alight, Luke,” said Ben. “I think maybe it worked as a decoy. I’m pretty sure if we’d only left the chimney burning, they would have landed and searched the area. We’d have been toast.”

“Yeah, good thinking on your feet, Luke,” I said, and patted his shoulder awkwardly.

“Well, it wasn’t really about creating a decoy. I just didn’t want to leave Sarah like that,” he said.

Ben and I nodded somberly, but Brooke, still upset at the loss of the little girl, went to Luke and kissed him on the cheek. I heard her whisper, “Thank you.”

Luke’s eyes widened and I’m sure I saw a tinge of pink in his cheeks that hadn’t been there a few moments ago.

“Shame about the supplies,” he said awkwardly, bending over and picking up a backpack to distract us (or himself) from the moment.

We’d been forced to leave most of the supplies that we’d brought from Walmart; basically, all we had now was what we were wearing and what we had in our backpacks. I had gathered what I could from the baskets that the dogs had scattered, but it amounted to no more than some canned food and two sleeping bags.

“We should keep moving,” I said, when the sound of the choppers had faded completely.

“Should we go back and gather up more supplies?” Ben asked.

“I don’t think so,” I replied. “They’ve scanned the area from the air but we have to assume they might send a patrol to search the area.”

“I’ll bet they do,” Luke said. “And they’ll probably be here sooner rather than later.”

“Onward it is, then,” Brooke said, looking sadly back in the direction of the house.

“We should stay off the road for a while,” I said. “Luke, do you think you can guide us with the atlas and the compass you grabbed from Walmart?”

“Does a bear shit in the woods?”

His smile faded as his attempt to be light-hearted tanked; the death of Sarah was still too raw for all of us.

“Let’s go, maybe we can find someplace closer to Worcester to hole up,” I said quickly to cover the awkward silence.

After consulting his compass, Luke pointed us in a direction and we started our hike. The terrain rose slightly in that direction and the forest got thicker as we went on, despite the bare trees providing less cover than we would have liked.

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