Fatal Reaction, The Beginning by M. A. Hollstein

Author:M. A. Hollstein [Hollstein, M. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781537150581
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-08-14T23:00:00+00:00

Day Two

Chapter 17

Amanda groaned. She reached back and rubbed at her sore neck. She’d slept in an odd position, curled up in a ball on the floor on the passenger side of the car. It took her a second to remember where she was. Her knees were pulled up to her chest and her face buried in her arms. She’d been too petrified to even breathe let alone move. The infected stopped pounding on the car long ago, yet she couldn’t get up the nerve to move. She was too afraid that they’d hear her and come back. At some point, in the wee hours of the morning, exhaustion had taken over and she’d passed out.

Morning sunlight drifted through the thick haze of fog coming in from the ocean. In San Diego they called it June Gloom, even though it was now early August. The sky reminded her of a typical June Gloom sort of morning. The haze would burn off by midday. Amanda was staring up out of the window from the floor. She couldn’t see much, except for the sky and some buildings. She was still too afraid to get up, but she needed to. Now she felt extreme pain in her back and legs, and her left buttock was numb. She needed to get up and stretch. And she also needed to find a restroom. Stupid bodily functions! she thought, frowning. The last thing she wanted to do was find a place to go to the bathroom.

Amanda stayed still and listened. She felt like her hearing was hypersensitive. Her ears tingled in response. If a pin dropped a block from there, she’d bet her bottom dollar that she’d hear it. The strange thing was, no matter how hard she listened, she wasn’t hearing anything. Just silence. She wasn’t hearing voices, vehicles, nothing. It was so bizarre. Wait… a bird. She suddenly heard chirping. At least she could hear something familiar. It was a little consoling, but not much. Where were all the people? She was downtown, close to the freeway. She should be hearing the everyday noise of traffic. There was nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Lifting herself up, Amanda slid as quietly as she could into the passenger seat of the cop car. Her body hurt like hell and she desperately wanted to scream out. Instead, she bit her tongue and rubbed again at the painful knots in her neck and shoulders while examining the damage done to the car.

Dried blood and saliva was smeared all over the driver’s side window. Amanda cringed. She then looked at the back window and sucked in a deep breath. She quickly turned around and scooted back as far away as she could until the middle of her back was pressed against the glove box. The rear window had been shattered and there was a man lying across the opening into the backseat. His legs were still sticking out the rear window. She watched him for a moment. He wasn’t moving.

Amanda tried to calm her heart.

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