Dead Outside (Book 1) by Oliver Nick

Author:Oliver, Nick [Oliver, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: zombies
Publisher: Nick Oliver
Published: 2014-01-21T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen: Reunions

11:45 PM, July 5

It was almost midnight by the time we got back. Luckily my luring trick had worked. Rather than a crowd of two dozen, there were only two in the front yard. I stopped the four-wheeler and shut it down so the noise wouldn’t attract anything else, and got off. Sarah got off and pulled out her pistol.

“Hold on,” I said, “Let’s keep this quiet.”

“Are you sure?” she asked. “We’re pretty far out here, there can’t be many of those things close enough to hear it.”

“No sense in wasting the ammo either,” I added. “Not when we can do it by hand.”

“Good point.” She shrugged and put the pistol away and waited by the four-wheeler.

I left the bow in favor of my baseball bat. They were spaced well enough to safely smash their skulls without being overwhelmed.

I could see light in the upstairs windows, so they were awake at least. Sarah helped me push the four-wheeler back to the shed, before we went back to the house.

I only knocked twice before the door swung open. Nick was holding my shotgun, aimed at me, but dropped it as soon as he saw it was me. “You stupid son of a bitch,” he whispered, “Why the fuck did you come back at night?”

“First of all we got lost,” I said half sarcastically, finding the dirt driveway wasn’t exactly easy in the dark. “Second of all, don’t use my shotgun, you’ve got your own, and third, let us in, it isn’t exactly comfortable out here.”

“We?” he asked. Sarah was standing behind me a bit, and it was so dark he hadn’t noticed her until I walked through the door and he saw her follow me. I didn’t blame him for not recognizing her right away. Her hair was frizzy, clothes stained, worn, torn, and splattered with blood. Her skin was dirty, had a few bruises and cuts. All in all she looked like shit. “Sarah?” he finally asked after a moment of shock.

She walked right up and hugged him. “Nick, insightful as always.”

“Sarah?” I heard a high pitch screech come from across the room, and Roxie pretty much knocked me over on her way to hug Sarah. There were a lot of emotions radiating from those two, crying, laughing, and sobbing.

I’d been through a lot over the last few weeks wondering if they would all be alive, and seeing us all together again, even under the circumstances, it gave me hope.

Even though everyone had tears flowing, including Nick who was wiping his face, it was a happy moment.

Sarah and Roxie were still hugging, but Sarah looked me in the eyes. I gave her a reassuring smile. I couldn’t see her mouth, but her eyes said she was returning the smile.

The whole reunion lasted about twenty minutes. Hugs went in circles, Sarah hugged me again, then Nick, then Roxie. Roxie bandaged up my shoulder while talking to Sarah, after a while Sarah and Roxie started their sob talking.

Nick and I

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