Shore Haven by Reynolds Jennifer

Author:Reynolds, Jennifer [Reynolds, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror | Dystopian | Zombies
Published: 2019-02-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

~~~Jason~~~

Tera, Russ, and I stopped at the entrance of the bridge to take in our surroundings. Once we started across the bridge, there was no turning back. I didn’t know about the others, but I was seriously contemplating giving up on the plan. The one thing that stopped me was thinking that the only way I’d let Samantha go after her parents or even out of Shore Haven was if we had a vaccine.

That was caveman logic and something she’d probably laugh in my face at before storming out of my life for if I ever said as much, but it was what made me take that step forward onto the bridge. Tera and Russ followed.

“It’s weird to see the bridge so empty. Before the outbreak, it was teeming with vehicles, then once someone lowered it, it was covered in zombies. I think it’s creepier now than it was with the zombies. Why do you think that’s so?” Russ asked.

“Because the emptiness is more of a sign of the apocalypse than the other. The zombies were once human, and, even though they were out to kill us, they were a sign of life, an indication that there were still people out there to save if we can find a cure. This,” I answered with a wave of my hand, “is a sign that the human race, in this country at least, is nearly extinct.”

My statement quieted us for a long time. We crossed the bridge without incident. The other side was just as Tera had said it would be. We explored the small farming community turned commune, that had been her home for a short time, at length to be sure no one had survived and was planning to pick up where her captor had left off once they were able. I made a mental note that at some point in the future, we’d need to clean up the town, especially the debris at the mouth of the bridge.

There were no signs of life in Edge Borrow or in Concord, the two largest towns on the other side of the bridge.

To our amazement, we went the entire day without seeing a single zombie or living being. The fact that we were traveling through farmland was the biggest reason for that. Vast areas with no people meant that most of the zombies had probably moved on or died. I prayed that the rest of the journey would be just as uneventful.

We stayed that first night in the basement of a bed and breakfast.

The next morning, we started out early, hoping to cover as much ground as possible. The first hour or so was quiet, but as we neared the next bridge we’d have to cross, we started seeing the random straggler eating a captured animal or a fallen friend. We picked off the zombies easily enough with knives, daggers, swords, and anything else that didn’t make a loud noise. We would need to save our guns and bullets for when we were out of options.

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