p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';"If you travel 750 miles from Ohio to Georgia, it should take you roughly eleven hours without traffic. But your GPS doesn't take into account whether or not you're stuck in the middle of an apocalypse./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';"In my case, the journey took almost a month. Nights were spent on the side of the road, resting, never fully asleep... just in case. The days that weren't spent driving were spent avoiding the undead, searching for food, and trying to find a place to stay./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';"I was travelling with my brother Lukas, and my best friend Natalie. We were a good team and we considered ourselves lucky. We never came across large groups of the dead people, and we found a few cans of food and some supplies here and there. But we never did find a place to stay./span/span/p
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p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';"xXx/span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;" /p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""Katelynn? Katelynn wake up!"/span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';"I was asleep when Natalie woke me up, shaking my shoulder./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""What? What is it?"/span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""A group, five or ten, heading this way." She informed me./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';"I sat up, fully alert./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""Okay, we gotta go then." I said./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';"Lukas sighed and shook his head./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""No gas in the car."/span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""What do you mean there's no gas? We found some 'bout ten miles back!"/span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""Not enough apparently." /span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""What are we gonna do?" Natalie asked./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""We can't stay in the car." I told her./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""We can't go out there! Are you stupid?" /span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""Katie's right." Lukas said./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""So we're just gonna go into the woods? What if there's more?"/span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""Nat, breathe. We'll stick together. It's our only hope."/span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""What if there's more?" She repeated./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""Then we kill them, or we run."/span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';"She sighed, slowly giving in./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""They're about ten feet away now." Lukas told us./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""Okay. Straight into the woods, but we stick together."/span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';"They both nodded./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""Take what you can carry, let's go."/span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;" /p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';"I picked up my back pack and carried it on my shoulder. Natalie grabbed a flash light and Lukas grabbed some extra ammo, then we left./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';"I ran ahead with Natalie and Lukas following me. We ran for maybe ten minutes before we stopped in a small clearing./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""Where from here?" Lukas asked./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""We'll walk. Head South like we planned yesterday."/span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""Did anyone pick up the map?" /span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""I did." Lukas said, tapping his back pack./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';"I nodded./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""Can we go? I feel like something's gonna jump out and eat us."/span/span/p
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p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';"xXx/span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;" /p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';"We walked non-stop until the sun came up. We were all tired, but Natalie was really showing it./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""We'll stop soon, Nat." Lukas promised. "Just wanna see if we can find shelter - little house or somethin'"/span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';"Natalie nodded her head in response and continued to walk at her slow pace./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;" /p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""Over there!" Lukas said, pointing to a few trees./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';"It wasn't the trees he was pointing at though, it was past the trees at a house./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';"It wasn't much at all. One storey, pretty small - probably one or two bedrooms at most./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""Let's take a look..."br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 8pt;"1/spanbr style="line-height: 1.7em;" /br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /strong style="line-height: 1.7em; display: inline; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-top: 0.7em;"Word Count/strong: 568br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 13pt;"strong style="line-height: 1.7em; display: inline; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-top: 0.7em;"Note:/strong/spanbr style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Thank you for taking the time to read style="line-height: 1.7em;" /If you could post a quick comment with some feedback that would be much appreciated - it can be positive or negative or critical even!br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /I really hope you are enjoying this!br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /I wrote it pretty quickly so if there's any mistakes do point them out to style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Hopefully the next page will be up soon. br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Thanks again for reading!br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /-Rose./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';"In my case, the journey took almost a month. Nights were spent on the side of the road, resting, never fully asleep... just in case. The days that weren't spent driving were spent avoiding the undead, searching for food, and trying to find a place to stay./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';"I was travelling with my brother Lukas, and my best friend Natalie. We were a good team and we considered ourselves lucky. We never came across large groups of the dead people, and we found a few cans of food and some supplies here and there. But we never did find a place to stay./span/span/p
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p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';"xXx/span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;" /p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""Katelynn? Katelynn wake up!"/span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';"I was asleep when Natalie woke me up, shaking my shoulder./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""What? What is it?"/span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""A group, five or ten, heading this way." She informed me./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';"I sat up, fully alert./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""Okay, we gotta go then." I said./span/span/p
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p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""No gas in the car."/span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""What do you mean there's no gas? We found some 'bout ten miles back!"/span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""Not enough apparently." /span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""What are we gonna do?" Natalie asked./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""We can't stay in the car." I told her./span/span/p
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p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""So we're just gonna go into the woods? What if there's more?"/span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""Nat, breathe. We'll stick together. It's our only hope."/span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""What if there's more?" She repeated./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""Then we kill them, or we run."/span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';"She sighed, slowly giving in./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""They're about ten feet away now." Lukas told us./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""Okay. Straight into the woods, but we stick together."/span/span/p
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p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""Take what you can carry, let's go."/span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;" /p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';"I picked up my back pack and carried it on my shoulder. Natalie grabbed a flash light and Lukas grabbed some extra ammo, then we left./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';"I ran ahead with Natalie and Lukas following me. We ran for maybe ten minutes before we stopped in a small clearing./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""Where from here?" Lukas asked./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""We'll walk. Head South like we planned yesterday."/span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""Did anyone pick up the map?" /span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""I did." Lukas said, tapping his back pack./span/span/p
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p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""Can we go? I feel like something's gonna jump out and eat us."/span/span/p
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p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;" /p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';"We walked non-stop until the sun came up. We were all tired, but Natalie was really showing it./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""We'll stop soon, Nat." Lukas promised. "Just wanna see if we can find shelter - little house or somethin'"/span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';"Natalie nodded her head in response and continued to walk at her slow pace./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;" /p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""Over there!" Lukas said, pointing to a few trees./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';"It wasn't the trees he was pointing at though, it was past the trees at a house./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';"It wasn't much at all. One storey, pretty small - probably one or two bedrooms at most./span/span/p
p style="line-height: 24.4799995422363px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-align: center; background-color: #fefefe;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'times new roman';""Let's take a look..."br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 8pt;"1/spanbr style="line-height: 1.7em;" /br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /strong style="line-height: 1.7em; display: inline; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-top: 0.7em;"Word Count/strong: 568br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 13pt;"strong style="line-height: 1.7em; display: inline; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-top: 0.7em;"Note:/strong/spanbr style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Thank you for taking the time to read style="line-height: 1.7em;" /If you could post a quick comment with some feedback that would be much appreciated - it can be positive or negative or critical even!br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /I really hope you are enjoying this!br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /I wrote it pretty quickly so if there's any mistakes do point them out to style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Hopefully the next page will be up soon. br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Thanks again for reading!br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /-Rose./span/span/p