It was late in the afternoon when I got the call. My dad had been shot and killed. He was shot at his job as a police officer and sent straight to the hospital. He had been there for a couple of weeks in a coma. The weird thing was the call was not from the hospital it was from my dad's best friend Shane. He said to have our stuff packed and that he was going to come pick us up. I knew why he was coming. It was all over the news. The virus that had killed so many people. At first if you were bit or scratched you would have only so many hours to live before you turned. And when you turned you would become a flesh-eating monster that only has one thought; eat. Shane picked me, my mom Lori, and my little brother Carl up from our house. He was going to take us somewhere safe
"Where are you taking us?" my mom asked.
"Where ever I need to, to keep you three, safe." He said. I could tell in his voice that he meant it. He was going to keep us safe no matter what. We drove for what felt like forever. Many things had happened. We ended up in the mountains with many other survivors.
"Hey Raelynn!" Carl yelled to me.
"Hey buddy!" I yelled back. Carl and the other kids were doing their school work at a little table by a tree.
"After my school work, can I come hang out with you?" He asked hope in his little blue eyes.
"Sure, little dude. I got nothing to do today so I guess we can hang." I told him.
I looked up from Carl to my mom. She always had this look on her face. It was a look of sadness. I'm not surprised. She lost her husband, the world we used to know is gone, and she has, to take care of two kids on her own. Even though I'm 21 and I can help, out with carl, I feel so bad with all the work put on her shoulders. On a different note, some of our team/group went on a run today. A Korean man named Glenn, a woman named Andrea, a man named t-dog (Theodore), a woman named Jacqui, a man named Morales, and man named Merle.
They haven't gotten back from the run yet and we are hopeful they will be back soon. I think back to the time when carl was first born. That was about nine or ten years ago. He was such a cute baby. I was one of the first people to hold him. First it was dad then mom then me.
Carl runs up to me pulling me from my thoughts. "Hey! Can we go play now?" he asks me with a cheery voice.
"Sure, little dude!" I say and we walk away together.
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A couple hours later we hear a car coming up the mountain. The dang thing is going off possibly drawing a bunch of walker's attention.
It gets up the mountain and Glenn gets out of it.
"Holy crap, turn that damn thing off!" Dale yells. Dale is a very nice old man who I go to talk to a lot.
Glenn throws his hands up in the air and yells "I don't know how?" back to Dale
Amy starts yelling at him asking him a million questions about her sister Andrea. He pops the hood and Jim pulls something out turning off the car. "Yes! She's fine. Every one's fine!" he yells at us. "Well, Merle…not so much." He says. Oh, crap Daryl is going to be so mad.
"You crazy driving this wailing bastard up here, you trying to draw every walker for miles?" Shane asks Glenn.
"I think we're okay." Dale tells Shane, as he looks around.
"You call being stupid okay?" Shane looks to Dale as he leans on the car.
"Well the alarm was echoing all over these hills, hard to pin point the source." Dale says. I agree. Maybe it was a bad idea driving this thing up here with it going off like that, but Dale is right.
"I'm not arguing, I'm just saying!" Dale continues. "It wouldn't hurt to think things through a little more carefully next time, would it?" he says to Glenn. Glenn immediately has an embarrassed look on his face.
"Sorry…." He says as he turns to the car. "Got a cool car…"
He had to point that out, seriously?
Suddenly a truck pulls up. Just then Andrea jumps out of the back.
"Amy?" she says. "Andrea!" Amy cries, and they both run to each other and hug.
Then Jacqui gets out of the back walking up to the rest of the group. Then Morales gets out of the passenger seat and runs to his kids. All this brings tears to my eyes. Then t-dog gets out of the back.
I look over to see mom and Carl walking a bit away from the group. I on the other hand stay where I am and watch everyone be reunited with their family's. I look beside me to see mom bent down to Carl's level telling him every things ok. He's crying which makes me cry. God, I hate it when he cries.
Dale says something but I'm kind of zoned out and don't pay attention. Then I hear Glenn say something about a new guy and my attention was soon regained.
"Yeah. Crazy Vato just got into town. Hey helicopter boy! Come say hello." Morales says.
Suddenly someone in a police uniform gets out of the truck. It takes a second for me to fully realize who it is but once Morales say's "the guys a cop, just like you." To Shane I realize who it is.
It's my dad.
Carl looks over and sees him, and I see him, and my mom sees him and we are all staring at each other for a second. Then Carl starts running to him, and I start running over to him. We fall to the ground in a hug. Then mom gets to us and we are all hugging. I can't believe it. We found each other. We are a family again. For once I feel happy!
Authors note
I hope you all liked it! I'm not the best writer because I'm kind of new to it and all and I'm a bit young but I tried my best. Make sure to leave a review because I would love to hear from you all. Thanks for reading!