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    “ And knowing is half the battle!” Nick quickly replied, and everyone shook with laughter as he struck a rigid military salute.
    Nick was right , and everything made perfect sense. I actually understood why they felt compelled to kill the infected. There was little else they could do since there was no cure, and now I couldn’t blame them.
    As we made our way around the store to get back to our Jeep, a deep, throaty growl snapped me back into reality. Zombies in tattered flesh and ripped clothing lumbered toward us. I turned and was greeted by more of the shuffling ghouls from behind. With the barn to the left of us and the store to the right, the zombies had us pinned in from both sides. Everything had happened so fast that I could barely take one breath.
    Claire clutched at my arm. “Where did they all come from?”
    I didn’t know the answer to that question. What I did know was that we had to get back to Val and drive to safety. I aimed and began pulling the trigger again and again. The recoil sent shuddering vibrations through my arm, and with each wave of force, another zombie fell to the ground in a bloody, slimy heap. In total, four zombies fell, but more still came.
    “ Dean!” my brother yelled. “Get any coming from the right! Girls, cover the left! Lucas and I will take center stage.”
    Bullets started flying, and within a flurry of seconds that felt like hours, I’d already emptied an entire clip. Like true battle-hardened warriors, Jackie and Claire fired again and again, dropping the undead one by one.
    I looked over to the cornfield and saw dozens more of the decomposing bodies pushing through the dried stalks of corn, immediately joining the mob surrounding us. There were too many of them. It was a growing army, worse than any horror film I’d ever seen. Some had missing arms, some no faces, and one zombie had been impaled right through the midsection with a giant sword that jiggled when he walked and stumbled.
    An endless wave of bullets sprayed into the zombies from all of us, but still, they just kept coming.
    “ We’re gonna be out of ammo in no time!” I yelled.
    “ Yeah, t hat’s a given!” my brother shouted.
    But none of us knew what to do but keep firing.
     
     
     
     

Chapter 6
     
    The grunts, hisses, and moans of the oncoming horde sent chills down my spine as they moved ever closer. I scanned my surroundings. I thought maybe we could break into the store or the barn, but we didn’t want to get trapped inside like we had at the glass house.
    Lucas yelled my name and dragged over a ladder. He propped it up against the store by a second-floor window. As he clambered up, he shouted, “I’ll go first so I can secure the area.”
    Nick fired at a shirtless man with nearly no skin remaining over his now-broken and exposed ribcage. The monster’s head exploded like a melon, spattering a fine mist of blood and bits of brain matter just inches from my brother’s face. Nick wiped his sleeve across his face, then motioned toward the ladder. “Go, Dean!”
    I tucked my gun into the waistband of my pants and started to climb after Claire and Jackie. Shots echoed from above, and I knew Lucas was taking down any zombies who’d managed to find their way inside. He suddenly peered his head out the window, frantically helping Claire into the room.
    Once I tumbled inside, I jumped to my feet and looked for Nick. He climbed up the ladder as zombies began to shake it. I put down a few more, but there were just too many of them. “Hurry, Nick!” I yelled to the others for help, then tried to hold onto the ladder as it teetered.
    Claire and Jackie rushed to try and help steady it, but Nick was almost up when the ladder wobbled too far to the right, sliding out from under him and falling to the ground. I grabbed my brother’s hands, squeezing them tightly. For such a macho guy, his eyes were wide with fear as his legs swung in the air. Zombies reached out, dozens of bloody,