sight.
Slamming the door shut, she sat down at the table, burying her head in her hands.
“What are they? What are they?”
With a firm resolve, she tipped up the rucksacks and emptied the contents of both on the kitchen table. A photograph fell out.
A picture of Jenny with her parents on a holiday.
“Oh Jen, at least you're with them now. Rest in peace with your Mom and Dad.”
Megan looked around and tried to think. The radio started to crackle. Sprinting over to it, she turned the knob until coming to a voice.
“We repeat, there has been a deadly viral outbreak in rural areas, affecting birds and wildlife and spreading to humans. This virus is lethal in humans. If you are affected stay indoors and lock all windows until help arrives-”
“No,” Megan stared open-mouthed at the radio. “No, I can't stay here-those things will be back, they'll come and get me.”
Megan rushed out of the kitchen up the stairs and through to a bedroom where she started to throw clothes into a rucksack.
“What am I thinking of-I need weapons....”
Megan sprinted back downstairs and went through all of the drawers.
She wanted a knife.
But all she found were plastic kitchen utensils.
“Why did I come here?” she said, feeling helpless.
A loud bang shook the kitchen rear door.
Megan jumped and screamed.
The surfer zombie had arrived.
“Where did you come from, you mutant freak?”
The zombie lunged toward Megan. She reached over and grabbed the sun cream she had discarded earlier and squirted it into the zombie's eyes.
He groaned then Megan smacked him across the head with a chair.
The zombie reeled backward.
“Never go out in the sun without cream, you freakin' weirdo!”
Megan sprinted out of the house. “The road-the road-which way?” She ran and stopped for a moment, bent over, breathless as she tried to find her bearings.
Nothing but silence.
Until she looked to her right.
“It can't be,” Megan said.
Megan's face flooded with relief. Jenny, standing with her back to her, swaying as if trying to stay upright. Her head tilted oddly to one side.
“Jenny,” Megan cried. “I thought you were dead. Thank God! Jenny!”
Megan ran over to her friend as fast as she could.
“Jen, oh thank God, I'm sorry I didn't mean to leave you, I thought you were dead. I'll help you. We can make it to the road and then get help.”
Megan put her arms out to give her friend a hug. Until Jenny slowly turned around.
Her head tilted to one side, Jenny came at Megan like something out of deepest pit of hell, her mouth gaped open, uttering an incoherent growl. Megan scrambled back but her back foot tripped over a rock.
She fell and her head bounced off the ground.
Looking up, she saw flies buzzing around the head of Jenny. Painfully, Megan pushed herself up to her feet. Needles of pain shot up her elbow where she had landed during her fall. She put out her hands in a defensive posture.
“Jenny, what's happened to you-Jenny-No!!”
Jenny walked unsteadily
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