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Francis got into his seat and shut the car door.She gave Jake a sad smile and said, weakly, "Well, let's go."Jake did not challenge.Lucas remained stationary as the vehicle drove off.Rob would need a long time to grieve before he would be willing to go anywhere, so there was little chance that they would survive. He was aware that Ryan had passed away.Which, for some reason, Lucas found to be of no concern at all.He calmly knelt, picked up his aviators, and put them back on his forehead where they belonged.He ignored the thought that this was the end as he raised his shotgun and pointed it at the creature that was closest to him.Jake had already reached fifty miles per hour when he reached Main Street, which was only a few dozen or so feet from his apartment complex's exit.He barely slowed as he turned and moved into the farthest left lane because there was really no need to worry about traffic.Even when he would go out at two or three in the morning, he had never seen the world so e
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Jake gave a jerky nod, clearly shaken and disoriented.He didn't like what reality was telling him, and it was clear that the world as it was now was settling on him.Not that he had ever found reality to be particularly appealing.He had initially been hiding in his room for that reason.He had been playing video games and listening to music throughout the end of the world.He asked, hoping his voice was not clearly shaken by his fear, "So, how are we going to do this?"Should we separate or...?He gave the colossal room another quick glance as his voice trailed off in uncertainty.“If you get more than ten feet from me, I’ll rip your nuts off,” Francis said with a wicked smile.Jake looked at her with a narrowed eye.Have you ever been told that you are a sweet, lovable person?”Her smile only got bigger.Everyone,” she replied plainly.After giving each aisle a quick glance, she motioned for him to follow her.“Come,” she commanded.They quickly left, first heading to the camping area.They cou
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Jake put all of his focus back on the road.Buildings that were unoccupied and lifeless parking lots rushed by to their left and right.The view didn't seem right to me.This simply cannot be the world in which he grew up;not in the absence of bustling crowds everywhere;not without life, which is omnipresent and overwhelming, barging in from all directions, making him want to hide in his room."How did the world end up in the hellish pit?"He mostly spoke to himself, and he didn't really care who heard him.No one responded.He had no response from anyone.By the time they reached the abandoned hotel, Nancy was beginning to look much better, with new bandages covering her wound and painkillers in her system.She was able to speak coherently and her head had cleared enough that color had returned to her face.Not that there were a lot of words spoken among the group members.They were all exhausted, beaten, and possibly even scared or terrified.Just a few weeks ago, they would have only been in
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He yelled, "Fine," removing Francis's hand from his shoulder.He struggled to shake the bubbling rage that had developed within him.He turned and stomped off to the opposite side of the lobby, grinning.He collapsed into a chair he found.He looked up and saw Francis comforting Marshall, which turned his stomach to Lucash.He got up, threw himself back on his chair, angled it in a new direction away from the couple.A young couple sat next to him in two identical armchairs, holding hands and staring at him with amused expressions.What?”When Jake saw them, he snapped.Leaning forward, the male chuckled.Poor day?He asked, his amusement reflected in his own voice.After clenching his jaw, Jake gave a sluggish head nod.He couldn't deny it:This was a truly awful day.There isn't a bad day like this one.He heard the growl of his StoLucash and realized he was starving.Despite the fact that on a typical day, he would have eaten at least three meals and perhaps a few snacks, he had eaten virtually
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Oh, that's right, and anyone who talks to someone a lot must obviously be dating that person.I mean,” he said in a slur as he looked around for an illustration.Skyler and the elderly man she was eating next to caught his attention.I mean, it's obvious that they're also a couple, right?Jake shrugged and gave the two people a thoughtful look.Hey, the end of the world has arrived.Who should I judge?The comment caused Jay's eyes to widen, and despite himself, he laughed.Yeah, he said absently, as if he were still thinking about the comment.He said, "Fair point," then quickly turned and headed back in the same direction he had come from before they interrupted him.After a brief chuckle, Daniel shook his head.I guess you got him there, then.”He turned to look at Jake again to continue their conversation, but when he saw the young man, he abruptly stopped.Jake now looked distant, his eyes pointing down toward the ground but giving the impression of staring into space, in contrast to how he
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Daniel said, getting up from his seat, "Well, he has a point."I'm exhausted, and it's late.Jake sighed.It couldn't have been so late.At this point, he probably hadn't been up in half a day.He wasn't sure he could sleep.Despite this, he was pretty worn out from the extremely unusual amount of exercise he'd done that day, so getting into a nice, comfy bed did sound pretty appealing.Additionally, it sounded pretty good to be alone after an awkward day spent with a large group of unfamiliar individuals.He stood up and shook his head.He said, "I suppose going to bed wouldn't be the worst idea right now," and agreed loudly.Daniel let out a brief laugh, surprising him.Sorry, the older man said, dismissively waving his hand in the air in response to Jake's curious glance.It's simply more evidence of how little you've experienced this nightmare.When it gets dark and you know what horrors are waiting around every corner, sleeping seems like the last thing you want to do.He shrugged after givin
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As they rushed by him, someone said, "Good, you're here."That accommodates everyone.We need to get out of here!Jake observed that everyone seemed to be using a side exit as he followed the motion.He tried to think of a small map of the area, which showed that this exit was closer to their cars than the front exit, so he trusted the group and went behind them.Francis had vanished from his view, but he had no idea if she was still at the car or somewhere else.Realizing that his group would have to wait outside until he could get to them, he pushed his way through the crowd of people heading out the door.When he burst through the door, he saw that a group was waiting by his car.He pressed the keychain's unlock button until the appropriate lights flashed.He was so focused that he almost missed the fact that a woman had stopped directly in front of him before almost running into her."Who are you?!"He demanded, but when he saw where she was looking, he stopped."Someone is up there!"She ye
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Rico grumbled, "Yeah, well, it sure seemed like an attack."I mean, there were at least some.One hundred?Lisa countered, "A couple dozen at most.""Man, there were many more.They swept through the station.They were all over.Well, it's not much of a station.Additionally, we were almost the only ones present at the time.“So you guys battled your way through the creatures and eventually met up with the rest of the group?”In an effort to end the argument before it got too out of hand, Jake mumbled.Rico responded, "Nah man, we didn't meet the rest of these people until a few days ago."In the beginning, the surviving pigs decided that no matter what, they couldn't let people like us roam free.They were going to try to take us to a different, less crowded station.However, we never made it.Rico's voice suddenly stopped, and he stopped speaking.He turned to his right and looked out the window to the countryside passing by outside the car.The young man caught Jake's curious eye.He appeared t
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After some time, Daniel asked, with a look of complete ignominy on his face, "You mean to tell us that you’re keeping us alive only so that you can put us in pens with other humans?"As slaves? As what?“Slaves?”The creature's eyebrows raised in surprise as it echoed.No way, God.Why on earth would we require your assistance?Once more, silence as this most recent revelation was taken in.What do you mean, we won't have to do anything but eat, screw, and be slaughtered for lunch?"Ah, yes.Except for the slaughter, of course.He paused and waved his hand in the air as he searched for the right word, "...fresh." "We like our meat..." he said.Despite Daniel's wide eyes, he did not appear to be afraid or even disgusted; rather, he appeared simply irate.He made a sudden lurch forward and strained and pulled at his bindings, but they refused to move even an inch, and all he got out of it was exhaustion.He was worn out and slumped back against the chair, his rage still visible on his features.
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There were explosions of light and pain, dismal but blinding flashes of color in what seemed like an eternity of blackness. Everything seemed to be spinning, even though it seemed as if there was nothing there to be spinning. It was sickening, and it made him want to vomit, but he could not be sure for even a split second that he actually had a stomach with contents to lose. Then suddenly the spinning stopped, the flashes stopped, everything stopped.It seemed like another lifetime came and went, and a dull ache began to settle inside his head and amhum one long, unbroken note without end. Slowly, he began to grow aware that he could open his eyes. This he managed, but not without great effort. Even once he had done it, all that could be seen was a blur, a shapeless void of colors and light that did not seem to make any sense. With a fortitude that would shame even Hercules, he managed to blink a few times, and in doing so cleared away some of the blurriness.When formless blobs final
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Moving along his hands and knees, he was surprised to find the table a lot steadier than he had expected. Most likely this was the benefit of going in the middle, when there was someone holding each of the four corners. Even still, the gap between the buildings seemed like an endless one as he crawled inch by inch across the table top. He tried to not look anywhere but at the board beneath him, but no matter what he tried, out of the very corners of his eyes he could see the alleyway below. It was filled shoulder to shoulder with zombies. Their inhuman groans and the rancid stench of their decay filled the air around him, threatening to overwhelm him and knock him from his perch.Then suddenly the far roof came into view, and Jake leaped the remaining distance and crashed down gratefully onto the unyielding rooftop. He rolled a few feet and then came to a stop on his back. He wanted to just lie there forever, never moving again, but as Richard was already making his way down the table
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Without another word they changed direction and headed for the station. The front doors were unlocked, and so they burst through them, slamming them shut behind them.“The desks!” Richard said, indicating the nearest two work stations.Devin and Jake grabbed either side of one, while Daniel and Matthew did the same to the other, and they moved the desks in front of the doors. Richard was hunting for the keys before they even finished. Near the back door on the wall was a plaque covered in key rings. Richard frantically looked over the labels above each ring.“This must be it!” he called to the others. They hurried over as Richard pulled down three keys. He kept one and tossed the others to Daniel and Jake. “Probably gonna need to take three cars, since we don’t want anybody locked into the back.”“Hey, check this out!”They all turned to see Devin pulling open a door and reaching inside a room. He pulled out a shot gun, and held it up in the air triumphantly. “Weaponry,” he said, smil
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Both men had never seen anything like it before.The organized readiness of an approaching army was completely different from this.Even more so, it was not the chaotic wave of a protest march.The undead were stumbling and collapsing, only to be overrun by the next uncaring zombie in line, making it more like a river that boiled and boiled with the tide.Side streets were filled with vast undead tributaries that somehow made their way into the main current without halting it in any way.Overall, they were still the stumbling, slow-moving wrecks they were accustomed to seeing, but the sheer number of them and the unstoppable force of their movement made them particularly horrifying to see."We are gone."Jake didn't intend to say the words.They were not representative of what he was thinking because, aside from the image of the incoming horde, his mind was completely blank.It seemed more like someone had taken control of his body and said those two words through it.It would appear that Ma
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When they got to the main road, they went south.They were on their way to the base without a zombie in sight, as they had been for days.Even when driving cautiously and with a high level of alertness, 25 miles was not a lot of distance to cover in a car.In this region of the country, almost no cars were on the road.This might have been suspicious if they were going to a bigger town, but cars had never been as important here in the middle of nowhere.Tractors instead of cars would have been seen driving down the highway in this area frequently.In point of fact, they did pass one tractor that had veered off the road in the wrong direction and had its engine casing open, indicating that someone had been working on it.Everyone in the car tightened their muscles and prepared their weapons as the first houses and small businesses crawled past the windows.The passing world was being watched intently, waiting for any movement to appear.Every storefront was dark, and every vehicle was either s
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She gave him a long, passionate kiss without stopping or letting go.They fell to the ground and let the night consume them.The room was flooded with pure, white light as the early morning sun broke through the window panes.The room became increasingly illuminated as the sun rose higher and higher.In time, even Jake's sleeping spot just below the windows had been freed from shadow.He finally got up, opening one eye and quickly closing the other.He had a look of annoyance on his face.He rolled over in an effort to move away from the light and reached out to wrap Skyler in his arms, but all he found was an empty floor.He sat up as he opened both eyes now.He turned and looked around the room, but there was still no sign of her. She was not there.He wondered when she had left during the night.It could have happened at any time because he must have fallen asleep almost immediately following their encounter.He noticed that he was mostly naked when he looked down at himself.His pants were s
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He thought to himself that this was insane.I've thrown myself at huge hordes of zombies numerous times, but I'm afraid to face a petite blonde woman in this world of zombies.He stopped pacing, only realizing once he did so that he had still been doing it, and took a deep breath. If he procrastinated any longer, he would probably just spend the rest of the night procrastinating. It was now or never, he decided. Time to cowboy up or wuss out, and he sure as Hell was not going to wuss out. With quick, determined steps he crossed the room and entered through the doorway into Francis ’s room. She was standing at the window, staring out at the fading twilight. In the dim, purple pink glow of the late evening, she seemed even more beautiful. She seemed radiant, refulgent even, as though she was the one glowing and not the sun and moon outside. He opened his mouth to greet her, but no sounds came out, and after several seconds he realized that he was, in fact, going to wuss out.He turned
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He was silent for quite some time."My family is dead," he finally declared."He saw that she was worried when he turned to look at Francis.He was holding his phone in his hands and absently twirling it, which she first noticed.Obviously, I don't have any proof.However, I'm confident that someone I knew would have checked on me once it became clear what was going on.After pressing a button, he lightly waved the phone, and the screen lit up.However, there is nothing.Absolutely no message.a phone call, not an SMS.As a result, it's likely that they were all too young to worry about me when they passed away.This suggests that I am the only person alive who is connected to our small group of survivors.If there weren't zombies and we weren't fighting for our lives, I wouldn't be friends with any of you if I had the choice.I probably would have tried to avoid each and every one of you as much as possible.Still, I'm here.All of us are here.He stopped, put his head in his hands, and Francis gave
