Tom hurriedly unlocked the doors and shoved Hailey in the car. Katie took her eyes off of the zombies, then jumped inside the car, fumbling with the lock on the inside. Hailey crawled into the backseat from the front, and when something jumped on the top of the car, Hailey slunk back in her seat. She forced herself not to scream. Tom started the car and hurriedly backed it up.
"Where are we going to go?" Katie asked.
"Gun shop," Tom quickly replied.
"Are you crazy? You're going to go outside with those things out there?" Katie asked, shocked. Tom looked at her in the rearview mirror, frowning.
"Why? You want to go down with me, too?" he asked. Hailey shook her head.
"I'll stay in here," Hailey peeped. Katie sighed.
"Where's the shop?" she asked. Tom shook his head.
"Across town."
"There it is!" Tom cried. Hailey looked out the window, and noticed that some kids were still outside.
"Why aren't these kids running away? Why are they still trick or treating?" she asked, confused. "We have to tell them that those thingies are coming! They're all going to get hurt!"
"Hey, hey, hey," Tom said. "No one notified us, and right now the only important thing right now, is us. So I'll be back. If you see those 'things', go on the floor of the car. Hopefully they won't see you."
"Just go!" Katie cried. Tom nodded. "And hurry back! I don't like being alone!... Well, I'm not alone, but - just go!"
Without hesitation, Tom got out of the car and locked the doors. He disappeared into the gun store. Hailey took slow, deep breaths next to Katie. Confused, Katie turned to face her. Hailey's face was drained of color still, and she looked worse than ever.
"Hailey?" Katie said. "What's the matter?"
"M-M-My inhaler... I left it at your house...," she said, breathing in deep breaths between every other word. Katie's eyes widened. She could have an asthma attack easily under circumstances like this, Katie thought suddenly. She had to tell Tom... but how?
"You left your inhaler at my house?" Katie asked. "You don't have an extra one?" Hailey shook her head. "Oh my God."
"Are there inhalers in the store?" Hailey asked, sitting up right. Katie nodded reluctantly. She didn't like what Hailey was implying...
"I need to get you one in the store," Katie said hesitantly. "I'll be right b-"
"No!" Hailey cried, gasping. "I-I wanna come, too. I don't want to be alone."
"Okay, okay," Katie said. "I don't want to come back out here with those things out here, too. So hurry up and get out of the car." Katie and Hailey hurriedly rushed out of the car and ran to the entrance. Tom looked at them, startled, when he heard the door bell ring. He had a confused expression on.
"What-?" Tom said. He couldn't even finish his question, for he was speechless.
"I-It's Hailey," Katie stammered. "She has, uh - she needs an inhaler."
"What?" Tom cried. He put a hand through his hair, frustrated. "Then pray to God that there'll be one in here. C'mon, let's go see." Then he mumbled, "Like there would be an inhaler in a gun store."
Tom walked to the counter. The man who was standing there was gone. He opened his mouth to say something, but he closed it, after realizing he had nothing to say. He knew what was going on already. He broke the glass containers where the guns were placed, and took all he could carry, with ammo.
"Get in the car!" Tom cried. Then he turned to Katie and Hailey, who were already making there way outside. He ran out the doors after them, and realized that it was quiet. A little too quiet, perhaps. Katie and Hailey got inside and locked their doors behind them. Katie looked at Hailey worriedly.
"Inhale deep, big breaths," Katie instructed. She had learned this in the fourth grade when a boy in her class forgot his inhaler at his house. "Big breaths, Hailey. Don't look anywhere, but at me. Okay? Don't look anywhere but me..." Katie chanted it over and over to Hailey, and got her breathing normally in no time. Hailey smiled at Katie gratefully. Then Katie remembered Tom. Where in the world was he? Katie reluctantly looked out the window and screamed. A zombie was on top of Tom. Her eyes widened.
" H-Hailey! Don't look out the w-window! Look down, Hailey, look down!" Katie cried. She couldn't take her eyes off of what was outside the window. Katie bit her lower lip hard. She witnessed Tom shooting the zombie in the head. Katie gasped.
"What's going on?" Hailey asked innocently. Katie turned to her and noticed she was still looking at the ground.
"S-Something you don't want to-" Katie started to say. But she was interrupted when something banged against the car, making it shake roughly. Hailey and Katie screamed, getting Tom's attention. He withdrew himself from under the bloody figure and shot the zombie who had hit the car. He climbed in reluctantly.
"A-Are you hurt, Tom?" Katie asked. Tom shook his head slowly.
"N-No," he stammered. "I, uh... didn't."
"You didn't what?" Katie asked suspiciously. "What are you talking about, Tom?"
"Where are we going now?" Hailey asked, crying. "Please say that they aren't going to be wherever we're going."
"I wish that, too," Tom said, sighing. He turned left on the street hurriedly and ended up in the middle of many buildings. He looked around, not knowing what to do or where to go. Then he noticed that one of the buildings had paint on the side that read, 'ALIVE INSIDE'.