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and playing Trivial Pursuit with Daisy.
    “Morning.” I said as I sat next
to Axel on the floor.
    “Hey.” Axel responded first.
    “Back at ya.” Daisy responded,
“You must be Ashlyn.” 
    “That would be me.” I told her,
“How’d you guess?”
    “Axel said you had brown hair.
Want to play?” Daisy asked me even though it looked like they had already been
playing for a while. “We can restart or you could just jump in.”
    I wasn’t comfortable sitting on
the floor playing a game while the world outside was going to hell in a hand
basket.
    Sam came and sat on the couch,
silent for a few moments.
    “We are going to make a stop
for supplies.” Sam told us.
    “A stop where?” Daisy asked.
    “A gas station to fuel up then
a department store for anything the gas station doesn’t have.” Sam responded, “We’ll
stop at whatever one we see first to load up on any necessities we need.”
    “How is a gas station going to
have anything we need?” Daisy asked again. It seemed like the idea of stopping
freaked her out. Sam seemed to pick up on the same thing.
    “It’ll be a quick stop and you
won’t have to get off the bus if you don’t want to.” Sam told her as he knelt
in front of her with his hand on her shoulder.
    “Promise it’ll be quick?” Daisy
asked.
    “I promise.” Sam agreed.
    “Then I’m coming in too.” Daisy
said, she held her head up and rolled her shoulders back.

Chapter
Four
     
     
    Tone pulled the bus up to the pumps.
Sydney and Sam were checking their guns. Sawyer and Axel didn’t want to go into
the station. Jenny came and sat on the couch. She looked disoriented and her
hair was all over her face.
    “Sam, you know how to turn the
pumps on?” Tone called from the driver’s seat.
    “Yeah, you pump while we grab
what supplies we can.” Sam called back.
    “Okay, could you check out the
RV parked on the other pump too?” Tone asked.
    “Yeah we got it.” Sydney
responded as she loaded her gun into its holster on her hip.
    Daisy pulled her long green
hair into a ponytail and followed Sam to the store. I went with Sydney to check
out the RV.
    The sky was gathering clouds
and the breeze smelt of rain. I remembered it was called petrichor from
some Greek mythology teachers thought we needed to know.
    I stood next to Sydney looking
at the campsite picture on the RV and couldn’t figure out how knowing Greek
mythology helped me now.
    “Stay behind me when we get inside.”
Sydney told me as we got closer to the huge unnecessary vehicle people
pretended to camp in.
    “Okay. What are we going to do
if we find people?” I asked as she took the lead so I was looking at her black
hair in its ponytail.
    “I don’t know.” Sydney answered
as she reached up to try the door.
    Surprisingly it was unlocked
and opened easily.
    The place was empty. There were
no dishes scattered around or clothes. Nothing to show that someone had been
here.
    “This is pointless.” I said as
I picked at the hem of my shirt.
    “Shhh.” Sydney hushed me, “Did
you hear that?”
    “Hear what?” I asked.
    She was already moving to the
closed door in the back. She signaled me to stay where I was, but I followed
her anyway.
    Tilting my head towards the
door I could hear the faint crying on the other side.
    “You don’t have to be afraid.
My name is Sydney and I am a cop. Are you hurt?” Sydney called softly through
the door.
    There was no response for a
while.
    “Are the other people gone?”
Finally came through the door.
    “What other people?” Sydney
called back.
    “The ones who attacked us. They
were everywhere and they were biting and eating people.” The response came.
    “There’s no one here except for
the group I am traveling with. You can come out we won’t hurt you.” Sydney
called, her hand resting on the door.
    The door opened slowly
revealing a girl with short brown hair. She looked to be about fourteen and she
was holding the hand of a little boy. Both their eyes were