The Great Solar Storm | Book 1 | Absolute Darkness by Greene Kellee L

Author:Greene, Kellee L. [Greene, Kellee L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | CME
Published: 2021-05-15T22:00:00+00:00

17

We didn’t need to be told twice. I pulled on Sam’s arm, taking ten steps backward before bolting back on the same path.

Our knife and gun wouldn’t have done us any good. I glanced back several times to make sure we weren’t being followed.

My vision started to close around me as my breaths quickened. I couldn’t get enough oxygen.

“Sam,” I said in a gasp.

“No, Mel. You can’t,” Sam said, her words begging me to hold on to whatever I could just to make it into the trees and out of sight. “You can do it, okay? I know you can.”

My breath pinched my lungs. “Sam. I. Can’t.”

“You can. It’s not much further,” Sam encouraged.

She slowed her pace slightly to run beside me. Sam had always been faster. A faster walker, a faster runner, a faster typer, everything was faster with Sam.

“We’ll get back, and we’ll go to Erik’s. He’ll know what to do,” Sam said. “We’re almost there. Just keep going a little more.”

I glanced back again. The top of my head was completely numb from the lack of oxygen I was taking in. Panic was trying to encapsulate me.

They weren’t chasing after us. The group was small dots as we sprinted to put distance between us.

It was foolish. The peninsula wasn’t large. If the group wanted to find us, it likely wouldn’t take them long.

“Okay,” Sam said, slowing her pace to a jog. “I think we’re okay for now.” She turned to me and studied me. “Are you okay?”

I nodded, but my breaths were still too fast. The numbness was spreading down my neck. If it went any further, I’d collapse.

“Take a deep breath,” Sam said, noticing my frantic breaths. “In and out as slow as you can. It’s okay. Nothing happened. They just wanted to scare us.”

“They. Did. A. Really. Good…,” I said, my exhale slowing, “job.”

“I wonder if they killed all those people,” Sam said. “And if they did, why did they let us go?”

I pulled in a slow breath as my vision widened. My shoulders tingled as the numbing in my head subsided.

Sam gasped. “Maybe they were the ones snooping around that night.” Her eyes popped out. “Maybe they took your medicine!”

“Why would they take only my medicine?” I asked rhetorically. “They’d leave the water and food but take the medicine and lock up after they left?”

“Perhaps they were just messing with us,” Sam said with a shrug.

“I guess it’s possible, but they didn’t really seem like they were the type to just go around messing with people.” I pressed my hand hard against my forehead in an attempt to push what had happened further away. “Did you see how they were all dressed? Like a uniform.”

Sam nodded. “And with guns. Like, do you think that’s necessary?”

“I don’t know. What if they know something we don’t? What if things are even worse than we know?”

“Maybe Erik will know,” Sam said.

“I’m sure he told us everything he knows,” I said, gripping the bat tighter.

“And maybe he didn’t,” Sam said.

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