Surviving The Virus (Book 1): Outbreak by Casey Ryan

Author:Casey, Ryan [Casey, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | Pandemic
Publisher: Higher Bank Books
Published: 2020-03-11T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

Noah kind of hoped him and Kelly could take this journey back to his flat with as few words as possible. Much to his irritation, Kelly seemed to pick up on this and was using everything in her power to make dammed sure the pair of them had as awkward a conversation as possible.

“So you don’t drive yet?” Kelly asked.

Noah turned to the passenger window, his cheeks flushing. They manoeuvred past abandoned cars. They drove around people rushing across the streets. It was surreal scene after surreal scene. And the more Noah saw of it, the more he started to fear that the authorities weren’t going to be able to do a thing to manage whatever this was.

If they were, surely they’d have started managing it already.

“I mean, you’re twenty-seven, right?” Kelly said.

“Twenty-six.”

Kelly shrugged. “Whatever. You should be driving by now. Does it not bother you that my baby sister has more independence and freedom than you?”

“It hasn’t exactly been keeping me awake at night, no.”

“I just think it’s strange, is all.”

“Yeah, well, what you’ve spent on running a car, I’ve saved for other things.”

“Like video games?”

“I haven’t played video games in years.”

Kelly looked at him with a doubtful expression. “You know, I used to think you were alright when you and Jasmine were together.”

Noah couldn’t suppress his laugh.

“What’s so funny?”

“The fact that you can sit there and claim you actually liked me.”

“Trust me,” Kelly said. “If I didn’t like you, you would’ve known about it.”

Noah puffed his lips out. He didn’t want to imagine what Kelly not liking him was like if the treatment he’d got was generous.

“Yeah, well, it looks like whatever we both thought of each other, we both got swallowed up and spat out by Jasmine.”

“Bit graphic,” Kelly said, cringing.

Noah blushed. “You know what I mean.”

Kelly slowed down the car. A few cars were lined up, right up ahead. The lights were on green. Horns honking. The road, totally gridlocked.

“It’s gonna be like this all the way back to yours,” she said.

Noah nodded. “Yeah, well, I’d run if I could, but this frigging stab wound in my leg might have a thing or two to say about it.”

“Still feeling okay?”

Noah shrugged. “Not started bleeding from my ears yet. I guess that’s something. You?”

Kelly tilted her head either side. “Bit of a sore neck.”

Noah felt himself recoil.

“But that could be from yoga. Went a bit hard.”

She glanced at him. Smirked. Like she knew she was toying with his emotions. Like she was getting a kick out of this.

“I’m starting to wish I’d got in the boot after all.”

“There’s still time,” Kelly said.

She looked at Noah. Smirked again.

Noah couldn’t resist smirking back.

And then he jolted forward in his seat.

“Shit,” Kelly said.

“What the hell?”

“This jam. It’s not...”

She stopped speaking, then.

Noah didn’t realise why. Not at first.

Not until he saw the woman.

She walked alongside the cars. Walked amidst the traffic. Intertwined between the cars that honked at her, urged her to get out of the way.

She held on to a baby.

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