Surviving The Aftermath (Book 1): The Dead Linger Read Online Free PDF

only mere scratches on their arms and legs, but it was still enough. It was on Jill’s top ten list of the hardest things she’s ever had to do to date, and she promised herself no more attachments/friends. She’d try it all alone. Now here she was with Jack, her new friend, sitting a block away from an elementary school. And guess what, a sign was taped on the door, Jill could only imagine what it said. “I’m gonna go check it out you stay here.” Jack said and started getting out of the car.
    “Wait, are you nuts?!” She said grabbing his shirt to yank him back in the car.
    “We have to see if it’s safe.” He replied, and booked it across the black top of the school. Jill didn’t like this at all. She saw Jack run close enough to read the sign, he stopped turned and came sprinting back just as fast. “Well how was your trip?”
    “Informative. The sign says: Do not enter, quarantined inside. It’s signed FEMA. Do you really think FEMA reps would put a sign like that up?” He asked.
    “No, like others, I think they were the last to survive escaping the building and are trying to warn Us to stay away, which is why We should go.” Jill, still on edge with being this close to the school, asked the most important question. “Were there chains on the door or something to that affect?”
    “Yeah, there are strands upon strands of bungee cord wrapped around the handles.”
    Closing her eyes tight, with a sarcastic tone Jill said “Yeaaaah, that’s not good. We need to go before they burst out of there and come kill us.”
    “Hey, you said we had to help those people, the guns are still firing sporadically so that means they are alive. This is the only idea I have to attract a whole mess of zombies from miles around.” He told her reminding her that this was her dumbass plan to begin with.
    “Fine let’s go, but do go around the school first so we can get a look at the other doors, and the classroom we need to get at.” Jill finally conceded to Jack’s stupid idea. The school was a complete square, and the block on which it was on was a square also. It was surrounded by what appeared to be old homes, but nice. You could tell kids lived around the area, with swings in the back yards, bikes and toys strewn everywhere, yeah they may have been rusted and dirty, but once upon a time kids roamed these areas. There were different sets of playground equipment on all sides of the school, a couple areas what looked like basic baseball fields with the fence back stops and the black top play grounds seemed nice and vast.  If this worked, she would be ever so grateful. Slowly they drove around the school looking, a total of six main doors, you could look through one door and see all the way down the hallway to the other side of the building, unfortunately for the windows they all had that mirror affect and couldn’t really been seen through and only one other door was bungee corded off. Not the most comforting.
    “That class room there.” Jack pointed while stopping the car.
    “Oh you mean the one closest to the door that is unsecured? Of course that would be where we have to go.”
    “Hey what’s with the sarcasm?” Jack asked honestly.
    “This is just a dangerous idea, you have no idea what’s in there.” She replied. “I say we drive the car up on the playground and park close in case we have to flee quickly.”
    “Cool with me.” He said as he drove the car around the drive way of the parking lot where teachers parked and then up and around to the opposite side, he edged his way closer to the school. As they drove up slow, they looked down the hallways through the doors, completely empty. That was hopeful, maybe they were all inside a gym, or a windowless cafeteria and they could get in and out without dying. They backed the car in towards the building facing out so they could make a quick getaway.
    “Ok let’s do this shit.” Jill said out loud, more to pump herself up, it was one of her