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neighborhood, perhaps a little too quiet. As we started backing out of the drive-way I soon understood why, the end of the street that was the only road in and out of the neighborhood had been barricaded by the police.
                  “They’re not going to let us out of the neighborhood,” I said and instantly regretting it knowing it would probably freak out the kids.
                  “They hell they’re not, diseased zombie people or whatever, the last I checked this was still America and we still have rights as citizens. We haven’t done anything wrong, we haven’t been bitten, we should be able to drive wherever we want,” Cain said seriously.
                  “Ok,” I said knowing now was not the time to have a disagreement with him but deep down in the pit of my stomach I knew we were going to be sent back home to wait to die. I fought back tears as we slowly drove away from the house we had called home for so long and drove up the once beautiful road trying not to notice the smashed windows and dead bodies lying on the perfectly maintained yards. We drove around several car crashes and I even saw a whole family of burnt skeletons that must have been stuck in the car as it burst into flames.
                  “Oh my God, dad. We have to get out of here,” Maddie said in a small voice.
                  “Don’t you worry, honey,” Cain said glancing back at her and smiling slightly. She sat back in her seat calming down a bit. As we finally pulled up to the barricade a cop put his hand up to signify for us to stop. Cain slowed but didn’t stop completely until he was right up to the barricade. He rolled his window down as the cop walked up to speak with him.
                  “I’m going to have to ask you to turn around and go back to your home and wait for help,” the cop said firmly.
                  “Wait for help? Aren’t you guys supposed to be our help?” Cain asked sarcastically.
                  “We are waiting for back-up sir. Now if you would simply go back to your house and wait”-
                  “Wait for what? Until one of those things gets in my house and kills us all or wait until we run out of food and starve to death? I’m not going back there to wait for help that isn’t coming. Just let us pass. We are headed to a family member’s farm in Geneva. Don’t hand us a death sentence sir, let us at least try and survive,” Cain pleaded. The cop looked over at me and I gave him a hopeful grin. Then he looked back at the kids and my mother and I could see him wrestling with his conscious.
                  “Have any of you been bitten?” he asked.
                  “No,” Cain answered. The cop looked around the neighborhood and then sighed heavily.
                  “All right, I’ll let you pass but you are on your own out there. I hope you guys make it to Geneva. If I were you I’d take as many back roads as I could many of the main roads have barricades just like this one and no one else is going to let you through,” he said.
                  “Thank you, officer. I appreciate it,” Cain said as the officer made several hand signals to the other officers to move the barricade so we could pass.
                  “Good luck,” the officer said as he took off his sunglasses and looked Cain dead in his eyes, “you’re going to need it.”

Chapter 10
     
                  “Do you know how to get there by the back roads?” I asked Cain. I wasn’t real sure if he did but I was hoping he would. I usually took the highway and I knew there would be no way we would ever make it on the main roads, let alone to the highway.
                  “I think I might, Edie. I was only a delivery driver around this area for a couple years,” he answered sarcastically.