The Meeting Chapter Four

C.D. White

I woke up to someone pounding of the glass of the car I was sleeping in. It's not a "someone" it's a "something". A zombie is pound the glass in an attempt to get me. I take the revolver out of my belt, line a shot up and shoot. The bullet goes through the window and into the zombies head killing it instantly but it hits the car next to me and bounces off the metal. I open the car door and turn around to look at the tree line. Zombies are pouring out of the woods. I take the rifle from the car and start cracking off shots. Gunfire from a different gun lights up the zombies coming out of the forest. I turn around to see its Bill with his M-16. I turn back around and keep cracking off shots, bullets fly into the zombie mass from four weapons, my own, Bill's M-16, Louis SMG and Francis's SMG. I turn around to see who's not there and notice Zoey s in the back seat of the car behind me. She is looking around, shell shocked I think then her eyes meet mine. I open the door and she climbs out and stands next to me. SHAAAAAA! A scream fills the air as the last few zombies are killed off. I turn around just in time to see a man in leap through the air, his ark shows he gonna hit Zoey on the way down. Without thinking I step in front of her, in a moment I'm pushed to the ground as the man thing hits me, I land perfectly, my head in between Zoey's legs. Claws bury into my shoulders and then start ripping into my sides.

"GET THIS FUCKIN' THING OFF, AHHH" I yell, sad not to enjoy the view and because I was in pain worse than I ever thought possible. Zoey pulls her two pistols out and beats the thing off of me and unloads into it. I grab my revolver and finish the thing off. I drop the revolver and fall onto my back, my sides are bleeding more worst then a stuck pig. Zoey runs to me and I see Bill has already gotten up beside me. "Help me get him somewhere we can work on him" He says to Zoey and looks down to me. He pulls me up by the shoulders and Zoey grabs my legs and then they bring me out behind the cars and lay me down as I groan in pain. "Zoey, get that medkit over here" Bill says as he waves her over. She comes up beside me, her face red from carrying me over here. She unzips the med kit and gets a dressing out and looks me over. She then starts wrapping my sides in the bandages then goes to my shoulders. "Alright you gonna be okay" She keeps saying as she works. After the ordeal she puts a hand out. I grab it and she puts a hand on my back to help me to my feet. "You gotta help me your two times bigger than me" She says as helps me to stand. After getting to my feet I look down at her. I'm taller than her by a good 6 inches, I look at her then at my sides. "Thanks, hun" I say as I smile at her and look down. It looks like she's trying not to blush. "The time for thank yous will be later let's move!" Says Bill as he walks looks at me. "Can you walk?" He asks me, maybe it was the adrenalin or maybe it was me trying to impress Zoey. "I can run a marathon, right now" I say back and Bill gives a chuckle. "Alright lets get outta here!" He yells to everyone.

I collect my stuff and put my revolver back into my belt and put my rifle in my hands. Bill is already leading everyone on the trail we found yesterday. I walk over thinking 'Wow my sides hurt'. I walk next to Zoey and keep pace with her. I keep scanning my surroundings, every 30 seconds I check around me, like a clock. We run into a few scattered zombies but everyone is keeping good pace. The sun makes me think its about 7 AM. We get to the cop car where I shot the woman yesterday. She was still there. Eyes closed and her body laying on the hood. Everyone looks at her as we pass but no one says anything. We keep walking till in the we come across the rest stop. The blue and red building stands with zombies every where and burnt out cars in front of it. Everyone stops and Bill waves me over. "Yes, Sir?" I say as I walk over and next to him. "Alright, kid, what to you think we should do?" He asks looking over to me. "Me, Sir? Well I think we should have a team of three go in front, like you, Louis and Francis to take out zombies in front and a team two like me and Zoey to cover your back and sides." I say to him. He looks dumbstruck, I think I came up with a better or maybe the same plan as him. "Everyone over here" Bill says waving the rest of the group over. "Tell them your plan" He says pointing to everyone else. "Aye, Sir. Well I think we should have a team of three like Bill, Louis and Francis to take out zombies in front of us and a team of two like me and Zoey to take out ones in the back and sides of the front team." I say. Everyone starts nodding and it looks like they like the idea. "Heck Bill the kid can come up with better plans than you" Francis says to Bill as he chuckles. "We good with that plan" I ask. "Yah, I like it" Says Zoey as she looks at me and smiles. "I like it too, man" Louis says with his huge smile. "I'm for it" Says Francis looking at me and Bill. I turn around to look at Bill. "You alright if I take over with the plan, Sir?" I ask him. He nods back to me. "Thank you, Sir" I say and turn to face the group. " Okay Zoey on me, Francis take Bill's left flank Louis take Bill's right flank." Everyone does as I say. Louis walking up to Bill's right and Francis walks to Bill left. Zoey walks up next to me and smiles up to me. "Alright guys move as a unit. If we don't we might just be breakfast for a zombie mob. We ready? Move out!"

I say as the front team starts moving forward. When they are far enough I pat Zoey on the butt and wave for her to fall in next to me and walk. She jumps when my hand connects then smiles with blush when she see it me. She moves in next to me and we start walking about three feet behind Front Team. When we get to the building Bill lights up the zombies coming at us. A huge horde come flooding out of the building but are lit up by all of Front Team. Me and Zoey start picking off the stragglers and we keep moving behind Front Team. I pick off zombies on the left side and Zoey picks them off on the right. I keep my 30 second tick to check if any are coming in between us. A long thick tongue like the one that got me grabs Louis and he starts to be pulled away. The smoker the tongue belongs to is kill in a matter of seconds by Bill and Zoey and Louis escapes its grasp. "Come on Louis get back to your spot your doin' great, man!" I yell as I pick off some zombies Francis forgot to shoot and that are coming for him and me. Louis runs back next to Bill and lights up the zombies that are following him.

"Come one, kids we are almost to the building!" Bill says as we near the front door. I take care of some zombies coming from the gap between Zoey and I. Zoey kills as few on her side and we are about to get into the building. "Front Team clear and sweep the first floor, Back Team will cover you!" I yell over the gunfire. Front Team goes inside led by Bill and start shooting. When Zoey and I get next to the door I pat her on the butt and point forward. She turns around and looks down at her butt to see my hand move away from it and point forward. "You just like doing that don't you?' She says when she looks at me and points her gun forward, "Keep fire in front of us" I say. We both start shooting at the zombies running at us. They all fall and we hear Bill from inside yell "Clear!". Once again I pat Zoey's butt and point for her to go inside. She nods and runs in, I could see blush on her face. I kill the last few zombies they were coming and run in myself. When I get in I close the doors. "Get me something to block these doors with!" I yell and Louis hands me a metal pipe he found and I put it in the handles, I turn around smiling. "Good job Front Team" I say looking at Bill, Louis and Francis. "Zoey, good job" I say looking over to her. "Okay get back in formation and we all check the second level.

We all walk to the base of the stairs and everyone gets in formation. Bill, Louis and Francis in front and Zoey next to me. "Alright Front Team move, Zoey with me on my command". I say and Front Team starts, when they are three feet away I give Zoey a pat on the butt and she starts moving with me. Walking around upstairs they were only a few zombies some we were done fast. "I saw the safe room guys" Zoey says pointing to a red door. "Alright everyone in" I say and open the door. Everyone files in and for fun this time when Zoey when past last I gave her a pat on the butt. She jumped when my hand connect and kept walking when I got in I saw blush and a smile on her face. The door was barricaded and I sat in a chair. Louis, Bill and Francis checked around. "I gotta rest guys, I hurt" I said rubbing the bandages that were around me. Everyone nodded and went back to what they were doing. I got up and went to the back room and laid down on the carpet. I was sleepy and hurting. After a while I fell asleep.

After what I guessed was a three hours I woke up. When I stepped into the main room of the safe room I saw that everyone had taken after me and fallen asleep. Bill was snoring in a corner and Louis was asleep across from him. Francis had taken up rest in a chair. I couldn't see Zoey anywhere, I don't know why but I guessed she was downstairs. Walking very quietly I moved to the red door, the barricade had been taken off and that made me sure she was out of the room. I took my revolver out of my belt and opened the door. I stepped out of it and closed behind me, the sun had the building for the most part lit up. I walked down to the lobby and looked around. "Zoey?" I said in a hushed voice. No one called back, I walked over to the little concession stand that use to serve food before the outbreak. I walked over to a service room where I was hoping a breaker box was. I opened the service room door, the room was pitch black. I felt thought the darkness and found the breaker box. I opened the door for the box and flicked on and off some random switches, nothing turned on. "No power how surprising" I said aloud to myself. I fumbled around till I heard something clunk to the ground. It rolled into the sunlight. It was a little flashlight. I turned the flashlight's handle a few times and it came on. I looked around the room with the light to see nothing else.

I walked out of the room and walked to the back of the building to where the bathrooms were. Zoey stepped out of the woman's room as she zipped up her fly. "Oh, hey Zoe" I said looking at her, she jumped when I talked. "Geez, Alec you're as quiet as a spook" she said looking up to me. "Feel better?" She asks. "Hm? Oh ya, I'm better, the rest of the group is asleep" I said pointing up to the safe room. "Hey take a seat with me" She said walking over to one of the old tables and picking up a chair. I walked over and did the same, sitting across from her. "Good idea with the formation today, three in the front and two in the back" She said looking over to me. "Yah, see I was thinking with my wounds that the three able bodied people go in front and someone in the back with me, also it just made sense." I said back. "Well I was able bodied, why did you want me with you?" She asked. "Well I trusted you most, and I wanted some female company" I said grinning to her. "Oh really? Was the female company part the biggest decider?" He asked chuckling at my motives. "Well it was a big reason" I say back, smiling. She chuckled. She looked up at me and smiled "Did I tell you that you have a real interesting way of getting a girl's attention?" She said looking at me. "What are you talking about?" I ask. "The touching my butt" She said with a little bit of blush in her cheeks. "Oh, see if you were a guy I would tap your shoulder, but you're a girl with a nice butt so." I said with a shrug of my shoulders. She laughed, a light pretty laugh. "What first it's my eyes now it's my butt, what's next?" She said with more blush in her cheeks. "On the battlefield you don't think about what's next" I said. She got up and moved her chair next to mine and sat down. "So where are you from?" She asked. "Tulsa, Oklahoma, moved up to Pleasant Mount a few years ago." I said putting my head back. "I've been there!" She said. "I went to the Wayne County Fair last year" She said. "Really? I was there last year too, I remember me and my friends were betting each other how many time someone could slap a girl on the butt and get away with it. I had four, friend who won had 6" I said. She chuckled. "I slapped a guy there when he came up and slipped his hand down my pants" She said looking at me. "That was Steven, he's an asshole, good you slapped him." I said and I put an arm around her and hand my hand dangle next to her neck and above her chest. She moved a little closer to me and smiled. "What is a pretty girl like you, snuggling up to a guy like me for?" I asked her looking down to her. "Because you're the bravest guy I've met in a long time, besides the Steven guy, but he was to fresh, you're a good amount, fresh so I have to keep on my toes but respectful. That's why I'm being friendlier" She said and smiled up at me. "It's not that I wish this couldn't go further but we should probably get back to the group." I say looking over to her. She chuckles. "Alright, Alec, follow my lead" She says getting up and holding my hand, as she walks with me she sticks her butt on to me. We head up the stairs and her butt is in full view. "Like the view?" She says giggling. "You know it, Zoe" I say my eyes on her fantastic ass. We walk to the safe room and I open the door for her, as she steps thought I give her butt a little squeeze and then follow her inside.