A/N I'm so it took me so long to update; I had my nephew and sister over. But I tried to get this out as fast as possible. And I want to give a big that you to my very first commenter . Thank you very much and I'm glad you enjoy it!

Chapter 2

Speeding down the dirt road Alyssa didn't care how fast she was going she just needed to get to town. In her mind if she could get to town everything would essentially be alright. The police would have things under control with an explanation of bad meat, or some kind of treatable virus, or even an unlikely case of a crazed group on bath salts, something anything that would explain all this. And hopefully her mother and older brother, Stephen, were there waiting. At the thought of them she felt a slight feeling of hurt and anger that they had left without her and her little brother.

"How could they just leave us like that?" she said to herself picturing her little brothers' poor little bloodied body. 'They were probably just scared.' She thought, feeling guilty for even thinking they would intentionally leave her and her brother behind.

Deep in her thoughts Alyssa barely noticed how she had picked up more speed and she didn't have any time to slow down for her sharp right turn causing her to slam on the breaks and jerk the wheel.

"Shit!" she yelled as the car began to fishtail on the loose gravel road causing her to over correct and land her front tires in the ditch while her back tires had locked up and skidded around the car to hit the ditch causing the car to flip on its' top. The whole time Alyssa gripped the wheel in both hands, causing her knuckles to turn bone white causing the cut on her hand to bleed more, and instead of shutting her eyes she just stared out at the spinning world watching as the trees blurred together causing her stomach to do little flips and her head to swim. Then as the car rolled her head snapped to the driver's window with a nasty crack as the window busted leaving a burning sensation as blood began to slowly pour from the wound. When everything finally stopped and silenced settled in Alyssa loosened her grip from the wheel and let out a long breath she didn't realize she was holding.

Thankfully she had been wearing her seatbelt so she was still strapped upside down, which really wasn't helping her excruciating head ache. Alyssa tried to unbuckle herself but her buckle seemed to have jammed against the door when the car rolled leaving her unable to reach it. Looking around the car for something sharp her vision began to get fuzzy and the urge to sleep pulled at her eyelids.

"Come on Alyssa, stay awake. You have to get down" trying to keep herself awake as she searched more frantically. Finding nothing she had resigned herself to trying to pick the biggest piece of glass she could find, but when her head had hit the window it shattered the glass. Alyssa's head began to throb from either the blood rushing to her head or the fact that she had a gash on her forehead either way she knew she only had a short amount of time until she passed out.

Fear started to set into Alyssa as her vision became worse and her breathing picked up causing her chest to start to constrict, she was starting to panic and worry she may die because hardly anyone used this road and now that this epidemic happened she knew there would be no one around to save her. Crying Alyssa couldn't control her mind as she saw her father and her little brothers faces again thinking of how she could at least find solace in the fact that she wouldn't have to become like them. Suddenly like a switch being flicked on Alyssa remembered that the day before she had argued with her father about keeping a knife on her at all times after an incident at her college, but she hadn't wanted to and ended up throwing it into her glove box to appease her father.

Leaning towards the glove box as far as her seat belt would allow Alyssa carefully opened it holding the lid stead so as to not spill all the contents. As she opened it further pieces of paper started to fall past her hand slowly emptying as she went. Finally the knife fell into her palm with a plop. She now silently thanked her father for taking the time to actually worry about her and provided her with it. She pulled the leather sheath off of the 4in quarter moon blade with a trigger grip and braced herself for the fall as she sliced the seat belt with ease.

Falling from her seat she lay prone for a moment letting the blood leave her head and let her body rest for a moment as she breathed slowly trying desperately to settle her stomach. Just as her stomach started to settled the quiet was suddenly interrupted by a familiar groan and shuffling causing her to tense her muscles and grip her knife harder. Bending her head towards the window she narrowed her eyes in the woods searching for the thing that made the noise, then out of nowhere she saw four pair of legs walking towards her.

Trying to control her breathing she turned onto her stomach trying to make as little noise as possible but the glass and paper was making this impossible. Still the gripping the knife tightly in her right hand she slowly reaching her hand to the back of her waistband for the gun she had placed there earlier she planned to fight her way out of the car if need be. But when her hand went to the spot she had placed it she only touched skin. It had fallen out sometime between the car crash and her falling from the seat. As the pairs of legs started to get closer Alyssa didn't chance wasting time looking for the gun she had to get out of there now. Getting up on her hands and knees she had to steady herself and stop from falling back down as a wave of nausea and pain came over her, 'I'm not going to be able to run anywhere.' She thought as she touched her hand to her aching head covered in blood.

Breathing slowly to try and keep from throwing up and crying at the same time Alyssa slowly crawled to her backseat where her seat folded down to the trunk knowing it wasn't the greatest idea but it was better than running into the woods with a head wound and four of those things chasing you. As she tried to shimmy her wide hips in between the front seat and passenger she pushed with her feet on the dented dashboard and steering wheel as she reached for the pull tab to open the secret hatch. Just as she pulled on the small tab her feet slipped and hit the horn making her jump and whip her head towards the things outside that were now focused on her car.

Wasting no time she scrambled into the small opening banging her head as she slipped inside and turned herself around to close the hatch. Just as she swung the seat closed she saw the dead face of one of those things as it crawled into the car looking at her. For a split second it was quiet and all Alyssa could her was the pounding of her heart in her ears, then she heard groaning and scratching through the seat she just went through. Clutching the only weapon she had Alyssa's breathing picked up again as she feared the monsters being able to get in there and harm her.

The pain in her head upgraded from the throbbing ache to an unbearable pulse as she felt blood slowly makes it way down her face. Knowing she needed to stop the bleeding she juggled the knife in her hands, not wanting to let it go, as she ripped of the bottom half of her shirt and rapped it around her head.

'I'm going to die inside my trunk with those things outside.' She thought to herself as the others started banging and moving the car creating a slight rocking motion making her will to sleep even stronger. The fact that those things were trying to get to her mixed with the head injury and the blood loss Alyssa knew she shouldn't fall asleep, but the rocking of the car and the adrenaline rush leaving her body causing her to feel more and more pain throughout her body she found it hard to resist.

'I hope I'm still unconscious when they get in here and start eating me' she thought as her eyes drooped lower and lower until finally her head lolled back and she fell into a deep sleep filled with horrific images of her family as those things and tearing her apart.

A/N Please leave a comment on what you think and thank you so much for reading!