Love & Decay (Season 1): Episode 9 by Higginson Rachel

Author:Higginson, Rachel [Higginson, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: young adult, love, apocalypse, dystopian, end of the world, paranormal, rachel higginson, romance, suspense, adventure, zombies, action, new adult
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Three

“What the hell?” Harrison ground out. “What happened here?”

“Rush hour?” Haley thought she was so funny.

“What are we going to do, Vaughan?” Page asked with the appropriate amount of fear.

“We’re going to turn around, Pagey,” Nelson explained gently and then with more authority and obviously directed at Vaughan he said, “Right now.”

“Right now,” Vaughan mumbled.

The bodies kept moving toward us, faster than ever. Their shoulders bounced unevenly and they didn’t seem to care if they ran into the immovable cars parked at every angle.

Feeders.

Definitely Feeders.

I clenched the seat in front of me, digging my fingernails into the soft fabric. I watched their belabored approach with anxious horror. It hadn’t even been two hours since my last near-death-by-Zombie experience. Couldn’t I just have a day? Just one freaking day in which there were no Zombies, no killing, no death?

“Holy shit, did they make this?” Harrison exclaimed when the Zombies became clear to everyone.

“No way,” King argued. But he didn’t sound all that convinced.

“Look, they’re coming from everywhere!” Haley screeched.

And sure enough Feeders filtered toward us from every direction.

We had somehow driven into a U-shaped stadium made from discarded cars. The longer I watched the Feeders approach, the more the scene in front of me came into focus. Cars weren’t just spread out on the highway, they wrapped around to the shoulders on both sides of us. The front line had been smashed and rammed until it was a solid barrier of crumpled, solid metal and beyond that, the vehicles of all shapes and sizes were parked at every angle, barely leaving walking space in between. This cluster of machinery stretched on as far as I could see.

And now, so did the Feeders.

What. The. F.

This wasn’t an accidental hazard of the road. This was designed.

By Feeders or humans though? Was this another Matthias Allen using Zombies as his own personal army to control humans? Or was this the culmination of the signs we’d been seeing since Missouri?

Zombies evolving into creatures capable of organizing themselves…. of waging war.

“Vaughan, turn the van around now!” I heard myself yell, but I barely recognized the panic in my voice. This was a death trap.

The mid-morning sun hid behind a haze of gray, stormy clouds. Sprinkles of rain plopped onto the windshield and roof of the van, but the worst of the rain was holding off. The lines of approaching bodies faded into the gloomy backdrop to our latest expedition into Zombieland. The weather pressed down on us as ominous as the rallying troops of Feeders.

We sat tensed and quiet as Vaughan desperately maneuvered the van in a three-point turn. Our bodies swayed with the sharp movement of the van, but for the most part we were silent, patiently waiting the first strike. By the time Vaughan had the car in “drive” again the front line of Zombies had broken through the metal barricade and watched us with drooling fascination.

I whirled around and stared horrified as a Feeder reached out for the van just as Vaughan stepped on the gas.

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