I was completely exhausted even my bones were tired. I was out almost as soon as I laid my body down. However, my sleep was not the most restful. I never woke up but I had strange dreams involving being attacked at a drive thru by Jackie. Then it lead into seeing Adam and Julie together before they both became Zombies and tried to attack me, then it formed into a dream involving Daniel that had absolutely nothing to do with zombies.
I woke up feeling scared and uneasy. I took a long drink of water for my mouth was completely dry.
I unzipped and exited the tent. Everyone else was awake and eating sandwiches for breakfast, since they wouldn’t keep very long.
“Good morning,” Phoebe and Jamie said at the same time then erupted in a fit of giggles.
“Morning,” I said sitting down and fixing myself a sandwich.
“How’d you sleep?” Robert asked.
“I slept alright. Did those kids ever appear again?” I asked.
“Not during our watch,” Phoebe replied.
“We heard some noise coming from down the hall but we never saw anyone,” Freddie said. “They might have headed out the other way though.”
I was surprised he spoke of his and Jamie’s watch instead of Jamie. He almost sounded like a human.
“Not to rush you but we need to get going and make up time.” Daniel stated.
Phoebe said, “We’ll be alright. We can walk fast.”
“It’s alright, we can get ready.” I agreed. I ate my sandwich as we got everything together. I wanted to get to the Navy Base.
It didn’t take long to get our stuff together since we didn’t need to set up our own tents.
Phoebe unlocked the gate and lifted it. We headed out cautiously but it appeared that no one else was in the building anymore.
Though we decided to go back the way we came. The food court was trashed. There was food and condiments everywhere. I doubted Daniel, Robert, and Phoebe had left it like that.
Phoebe shook her head, “That’s what I probably would’ve done if I was a teenager in the zombie apocalypse.”
“I’m surprised you didn’t do it now,” Daniel teased.
Phoebe smacked his stomach before descending down the stairs.
We made it to the locked front doors. We wanted to see what we were heading out into before we took the emergency exit. There were no signs of any zombies but the sky looked angry. It looked very odd for Guam. I knew then that what Phoebe had said about the typhoon was probably true. If we got caught in a huge storm, would we be able to find shelter in time?
Since no one else made any fuss about it I decided not to worry. There was enough to worry about without worrying about a storm that probably wouldn’t hit anyway.
We walked out of the exit. The air was heavy and extremely humid. I felt the sweat form around my hairline and almost all over my body immediately. I drank a lot of water. Probably more than I should have since I was supposed to be conserving my water.
We were all quiet as we made our way. I could tell I wasn’t the only one affected by the humidity but no one was complaining.
“Does the weather seem odd to anyone else?” I asked.
“Are you overheated?” Freddie asked.
“No, something is off.”
“I’m telling you that typhoon they reported is going to hit us,” said Robert.
Daniel stopped, “I don’t think so. We’re probably getting an effect from it but I don’t think it will hit us full on.”
“I think you’re being unrealistic.” Robert said, “those things have a mind of their own it could easily change course again.”
“Let’s just focus on not getting eaten by zombies and cross the typhoon bridge if and when we come to it.” Daniel said.
Nobody said anything else about a possible typhoon and we continued on. We weren’t making great time though. We were trying to stay on the main road but the deserted cars seemed to span the rest of the Island. Who knows what people were thinking, there were only so many places to go. Perhaps it was just a state of panic or fear. After all, fear was what seemed to be keeping me running.
Then it happened. It seemed to go so damn fast. A zombie appeared out of the jungle to our right. Daniel caught sight of it and managed to stab it in the head without any problem but the zombie wasn’t alone. I was learning fast that they often traveled in packs.
The next zombie, Phoebe took out. I got my own to deal with. In no time we were outnumbered by this mass wave of zombies intent on eating our insides. Yet we managed to hold strong it seemed. Everyone was stabbing and dodging their way through. We were going to make it, I could feel it. We were going to be alright.
That’s when Jamie’s voice filled the air. A loud high pitched piercing sound that sent chills through the bone. I couldn’t stop what I was doing to look because a zombie had grabbed on to my shirt and was biting at me but I knew it couldn’t be good.
I finally managed to get the upper hand in my dark dance with the undead and got my hunting knife through the temple of the zombie.
I looked over just as Daniel yelled “Jamie,” and rushed over to her.
She was covered in her own blood from a neck wound and fell to the ground. Phoebe stabbed the zombie that got her in back of the skull.
Freddie seemed to be frozen in shock. She was done. She would be one of them in only a little bit of time.
Daniel was kneeling next to her.
“Jamie,” he said. “You’re going to be alright.”
She choked out, “ I love you guys.” She was having hard time breathing and closed her eyes.
“No, no, no! Jamie, please no.”
