2. Open House

Riley stares at his younger brother while sounds of his father wrestling with the infected are heard from the hallway. Riley found it hard to decide whether or not he should help his father. He had so much hatred for the man.

Before Riley could make a decision, a single gunshot goes off in the hallway and everything goes quiet.
Riley and Caleb look at each other, scared of what the noise might indicate. Riley slowly approaches the door and pulls it open enough to look into the hallway.

Suddenly Phil throws himself into the room, slinging the door open and knocking Riley backwards.
After shutting the door behind him, the boys notice that their dad was covered in blood, holding a smoking pistol.

"We've got to get out of here! Get your mom up." Phil says trying to catch his breath. The large man stood keeping his weight against the door as moans and grunts started to fill the rest of the house.

Riley and Caleb stare at their father unsure of what was going on.

Phil looks at the two, "NOW!"

As the boys tried to wake their mother, Phil struggled trying to keep the door shut and keep the infected out.

"Barb! Get your ass up! We gotta go!" Phil rants impatiently

Riley shakes at his mothers shoulders, "Mom! Get up, Mom!"

Finally Barbara's eyes slightly crack open. As the sounds of moaning and banging sank into her head, her eyes opened widely and she scurried to lean up. "What's going on?!"

Phil continues trying to keep the motivated walkers out, "THEY'RE HERE! GET UP DAMNIT!"

Riley and Caleb help their mom to her feet. Once standing they all look to Phil for further instruction.

"I can't believe this is happening!? Why couldn't we have left last week like I told you, you idiot!" Barbara screams out to Phil.

"This ain't the time to start running your mouth! Riley! Check the window. See if we'll be able to get out of here!"

Riley quickly jumps on the bed to separate the blinds and look out the window."

Caleb sits quietly by his mom, his eyes filling with tears. Barbara wraps an arm around him.

Riley turns back, "There's a few out there , but they're heading towards the front!"

Phil glances around the room, "Riley, you and Caleb bring that bed over here"

The boys rush to the bed to move stuff out of the way of the bed.

"Hurry the fuck up! I bet the whole god damn house is full of them sons'a bitches."

Riley and Caleb get the bed away from the wall and ready to push infront of the door whenever their father moved out of the way.

"Alright. On three I'm gonna move and we need to get that bed against this door as soon as possible, boys." Phil states.

Barbara walks up and pushes Caleb out of the way. "Move, baby. Stay away from the door. I'll handle this."

Phil begins counting. "One. . . . . . . Two. . . . . THREE!"

Phil quicky steps away from the door, only for the door to begin opening from the infected on the other side. Riley and barbara instantly push the bed against the door, slamming it shut with a walker's hand in the jam. The wrist preventing the door from closing, Barbara and Riley kept the applying force to keep the door as closed as possible.

Barbara looks at the hand hanging in the door jam and cringes, "Oh my god!"

Riley and Caleb glance and quickly look away.

Phil, now at the window has the blinds open and begins opening the window up. He looks back to his family and points his finger at the three of them. "Ya'll stay quiet. We don't want them to hear us. And Riley, make sure that door stays shut!" he says in a quiet tone.

Riley nods as his large father attempted to squeeze through the window first. Phil stuffs his upper half through the window first, then raising his legs to allow him to fall out of the window. The window was a tight fit around the large man's body, but he was able to make it through.

"Phil you're a piece of shit." Barbara whispers through the window outside to Phil. She then turns to Caleb. "Come on, honey. We've got to go."

Caleb, scared and horrified by the whole situation, just shivers up. "I don't want to! There are more of them out there! Why can't we just stay here!"

Phil looks in the window from the outside where he tries to stay low and avoid the sight of walkers. "What the fuck is going on in there!? We gotta fucking go now!"

Riley keeps his weight against the bed that was keeping the shut. "Come on, Caleb! We don't have time for this!" Riley says to his brother.

Barbara brings her hand to rest on Caleb's back as she leads him to the window. "Don't be scared. Everything is going to be alright."

Caleb wipes away his tears and crawls through the window to meet his father on the otherside.

Barbara looks back to Riley. "It's your turn, honey. Come on."

Riley looks to his mom shaking his head. "You go first mom. Then I can just jump out the window."

Barbara shakes her head. "Riley, I said come on. This isn't a negotiation."

Riley cringes his teeth and moves away from the door and towards the window. Barbara moves past him to hold the bed against the door as walkers continue to try and get through.

Riley hops into the window ceil and glances back to his mom one last time before hopping onto the ground outside.

Phil, constantly looking in all directions, looks back into the window. "Barbara! Move your ass!"

Riley and Caleb stay next to each other in crouched positions, looking towards the front of the house where walker's were entering.

Barbara moves away from the bed and heads towards the window. As soon as she turns her back to the door, it barges open, plunging the headboard into her back. She hit the ground instantly having the breath knocked out of her. Her legs were numb and as soon as she tried to get up, she realized she couldn't. She was instantly paralyzed. The walkers begin filling the room and getting closer to her disabled body. She was in such pain and shock she couldn't even speak. She lied there, staring into the ceiling through cold eyes. Too numb to do anything but let a single tear run down her cheek as the infected swarmed over her body

. . . . . TO BE CONTINUED