Patient Zero (Zombie Apocalypse Book 1) by Thomas Hall

Author:Thomas Hall [Hall, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Teajam Publishing
Published: 2017-02-06T00:00:00+00:00

The door at the back was locked. Dale banged against it until his hand hurt. Then he started to kick.

‘Dale calm down,’ Beth said. She touched his arm.

He turned to look at her. His face felt red.

Beth reached into her pocket and took out a key. She unlocked the door and Dale followed her inside.

It was dark and cold and he couldn’t hear anybody. The corridor smelled mouldy.

They walked in silence. Dale watched Beth but she didn’t look back at him. He thought she was still angry. He wanted to say something. To explain. But everything that he thought to say seemed wrong.

At the end of the corridor, he began to hear a murmur. At first, it sounded like zombies moaning and he was momentarily convinced that they would open the door and find that everyone he knew in the village had been turned. He went so far as to stop Beth opening the door. Pushed in front of her and opened it himself.

The large hall was full of people. There were so many of them and the space so small that they couldn’t stand in separate groups. They huddled together and spoke so quietly that Dale could still hear the zombies outside.

‘I don’t see her,’ Beth said.

Dale looked around. He scanned faces and the backs of heads but he couldn’t see Dawn either.

‘What if she’s not here Dale? What if she’s still at the school?’

‘She wouldn’t have stayed at the school when everyone else was coming here,’ Dale said. He didn’t think she would, but a far more worrying thought had occurred to him: what if she had never been to school at all? Beth might not have been aware of it but Dawn made a habit of bunking off with her friends.

‘Is that her?’ Beth said.

Dale looked across the room. He couldn’t see.

‘Dawn?’ Beth shouted. Her voice caused several people to turn around and one of them was Dawn.

Beth pushed through the crowd. Dale followed. They did their best to move out of the way but the room was small and there was furniture and a lot of people. It took them a long time to get across to Dawn who was standing amongst a group of other children. Most of whom looked a lot younger.

‘Dawn,’ Beth said. She threw her arms around her sister. ‘I was so worried.’

Dawn looked uncomfortable and embarrassed. Beth either didn’t notice or didn’t care.

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