Chapter Six: The Bus
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Jenny looked at the little orange bottle she held her hand. All that was happening was torturing her inside and out. She should've stayed home, play sick instead of going to work if knowing all this was going to happen. She'd lost everyone, her father, her mother and now this.
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So frighten that the dead might get her she took more of her medication then she was supposed to calm her nerves. Then stayed away from the others so she can be alone. Now she sat there in a corner of the automotive department right next to the window where she can hear the moaning and grunting noise of the dead as they tired to get in. It was another sleepless night for her, and it has been for the last four days.
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"Make sure you take one pill everyday" She remembered her mother telling her when she was younger.
"Was is it Mommy" she asked
"Is called Prozac and it will help you be normal" she said
"I thought I was normal, Mommy" she said "the voices in my head told me so"
"You don't have voices in your head now stop talking back to me and take it!" her mother said
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Jenny tightly gripped the bottle even more, "I'm not going to let this little empty bottle run my life" she said then threw it away, hearing it fall somewhere in the area. She pulled her legs to her chest and rested her head on her knees and started to shake again.
"Jenny"
She looked up and looked around "who's there"
"Jenny"
"Who's calling my name" she asked
She sat there waiting for an answer but got nothing.
(You're hearing things again) she thought
"No, I know I heard something but there no one here but me" she said then thought (unless . . . )
She stood up and pulls back the blanket that was covering up the window, showing her the dead that were looking straight into her eyes. They started banging on the shattered proof window, smearing whatever blood they had that wasn't dried up yet, trying to bite her as if there was no window blocking them.
(...they're the ones talking to me)
Sat stood there looking at them and feeling so . . .
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"Finally after four days we finally did it Matt" I said with a smile
"I never thought it would be possible but it is" Matt said
For the last four days, we were able to hook up all the TVs' sets we found in the electronics to all the stereos speakers then plugged in a PS2, game cube, and Xbox to it.
"Just think once we turn on all fifteen TVs, we'll be able to play videos games with high base sound thanks to these speakers." I said.
Matt was drooling "I'm so happy, now what do you want to play first, Doom 3, Tony Hawk Under Ground, or Super Smash Brothers Melee"
"Which one has better music" I asked
He tossed me the Super Smashed Brother game "alright, just don't cry when you lose" I said
"Who said I was going to lose" Matt said
I placed the game into the Gamecube and grabbed the controller "ok Matt, brace yourself, turn on the power.
Matt grabbed the remote and pressed the button.
Else where in the store, the others were in the food center trying to find something to eat. Sky was making a sandwich on the floor, Jason was trying figures out how to cook chicken since they didn't have a stove. Marc, who was able to walk again, was having cereal again and Eric was just about to take a sip of his favorite drink other than beer, red cherry kool-aid.
Jenny was hiding somewhere again. Richard and Steven were on the roof shooting at the dead with the rifles they found.
Eric sighs, for the first time he is able to relax since it didn't look like those things were going to get in to the store. He was about to take a sip of his red kool-aid when he heard a loud boom form the other side of the store. The kool-aid spilled all over his shirt while the others dropped what they were doing to cover their ears.
"What the hell is that" Sky shouted
"SUPER SMASHED BROTHERS MELEE" They all heard.
"Isn't that your little sister's favorite game" Marc said wiping of some of the cereal he spilled on his shirt.
"That would explain why they never left the electronics for the last four days" Eric said
"It can't get better then this Matt" I shouted.
The volume on the game was full blast that my hair was flowing in the air by the force, literally
"What, I can't hear you!" Matt said
We were playing the video and I was beating the crap out of Matt with Kirby against his Mario when all of a sudden the game was turned off.
"Huh, what happened" I said
"Ahem"
Matt and I turned around to see Eric, who was holding the plug, Marc, Jason and Sky looking at us.
"Whoa what happened to your shirt, Bro" I asked
"I spilled kool-aid on it thanks to you and your obsessiveness with those video games" Eric said
"Yeah, I'm surprise you haven't gotten deaf, because we can hear you guys playing from the other side of the store" Sky said
"We're use to it" Matt said
"Wow, you guys did a good job with all the connection, I'm impressed" Marc said
I turned away cause I felt like I was blushing.
"Ooh, can I play the winner" Jason asked
"Bianca, how many times do I have to tell you, we got to keep in on the news to see what if there away to get out of here" Eric said
"But Eric, the news hasn't been on in two days" I said
"Yay they even said so themselves that they were going off the air" Matt said
"Are you making sandwiches" I asked
"Hey Richard isn't that your girlfriend who dumped you last month" Richard said
Steven looked down from the roof and spotted a skinny little redhead with half a face and the inside of her neck being exposed. The blood on her chest was dried and already beginning to decompose.
"It is, good old Mary dumped me because I wasn't too good enough for her" Steven said
"That sucks" Richard said. They stood there quietly for a few minutes "well what are you waiting for, blow her brain out"
Steven raised his rifle and aimed it at the zombie Mary "so long Bitch"
"Wait, wait, let me get my binoculars" Richard said looking through them for a closer look. "Now"
Steven fired and Richard watch at the zombie's head blew up with blood spattering everywhere before falling to the floor.
"Nice shot" he said
"That what she gets for dumping me" Steven said "see anyone else"
"Let me see" Richard said looking through his binoculars when all of a sudden they heard a big explosion causing the whole store to shake. Steven nearly lost his balance and almost fell off the roof.
"What was that" Richard said
"It came from over there at the base" Steven pointed at the base
I watched my own brother, my twenty-year-old brother, whining because he spilled more kool-aid on his shirt. We were at the food section again so I can get me something to eat when the ground started to shake.
"Come on Eric, this store is full of red kool-aid powder, you can always make some more"
"I thought I unplugged that stupid game" he shouted
"You did" I said "do you want half of my sandwich"
"Then what was that big explosion"
"Guys come quit, The Base is on fire" Jason shouted
"Holy shit" Eric shouted
I was about to eat my sandwich when I dropped it when Eric grabbed me by the arm so we could see what was going on. I really wanted that sandwich. We ran upstairs, out of the door and ran to the edge of the roof where everybody was at expect for Jenny.
"What happened" I asked
"The zombies got through the gate and started to attack the people" Sky said
"Whoa, you can see everything through these" Richard said looking through the binoculars.
"Let me see" I said grabbing them from Richard
"Hey those are mine" Richard shouted
Eric got between us so he won't hurt me as I looked through the binoculars. I was shocked from what I saw. People running to get away from the zombies while the army tried to hold them back but were attacked because there were hundreds and hundreds of those things. Some of the buildings were on fire and we can hear the screams coming all the way over here.
"Hey look, the zombies are leaving" Marc said
We looked down to see some of the zombies running over to the base. The clear blue sky was covered in black oily smoke and the smell of blood.
"Too bad for them, at least we're safe in here" Richard said
"Um, there's a bus coming" Matt said
He was right, the next thing we saw was a school bus driving away from the base with the zombies chasing after them. And from the looks of it, it was heading this way.
"The bus is heading over here, what should we do" I asked Eric
"We're doing nothing" Richard said
"But if we don't help them they'll die" Sky said
"And how are we supposed to help them" Richard said "just open the back door and hopefully those things would just let them in"
"He has a point" Matt said
"Don't agree with them Matt" I said
"Well, we gotta do something they're getting closer" Marc said
"Will if they back up to one of the loading docks, we can let them in from there" Sky said
"That's a good plan" I said
While Sky was up on the roof with a sign to show them where to go, me and the others where at the loading dock waiting. Eric and Marc had the guns ready in case zombies got in. Matt and I were ready to lift up the door when the best comes and for some reason Richard and Steven were watching and snickering about something.
We heard the bus slamming against the door then we heard a girl banging on the door. "Help let us in and hurry"
"Ready Matt" I asked and he nodded. We tried to lift up the door but it wouldn't and that when Richard burst out laughing.
"You idiots, did you for get that all the doors in the store are lock and I only have the keys" he said
"Well, don't just stand there unlock it" I said
"And I said no, I am not going to let zombies into this store because I'm too young and handsome to die" he said
"Oh for the love of god" Eric said "do I have to give you another black eye for you to hand over those keys"
"Please hurry up, their smashing the window, please" the girl said
"Richard, give us those god damn keys" I shouted
"You want the keys" Richard took all the keys off the small ring key chain and tossed them in the air. "There you go, good luck finding them"
Richard and Steven started to laugh only to be shut up by Eric and Marc who punched them in the eyes then the stomach. While they were beating the crap out of the assholes, Matt and I were scrambling on the floor trying to find the right key out of dozens of them.
"Which key is it Bianca" Matt asked
"It's a green one, Matt, remembered when Mr. Newman told us the colors of the keys when he was showing us the store"
"I was only eight, I wasn't paying attention" Matt said "I found it"
"And stay down" Eric said to Richard "fuckers"
Matt quickly unlocks the door and we lifted it up as much as we can. We saw the side of the bus blocking the zombies from coming in.
"You fool" Steven shouted as he tried to get up while covering up his bloody nose. Richard's lips were busted open with blood running down his chin.
The bus door slide open and people started to run out of the bus and into the store. On the other side of the bus I saw dozens of zombies reaching into the windows and trying to grab some of the survivors. Once everyone was in, Matt, me and some of the people from the bus pulled the door down again and lock it up. I turned around and saw that we saved fifteen people.
I sigh a bit, all I wanted to do today was play some video games but I put on a smile.
"Welcome to Wal-Mart" . . .
Chapter Seven: Memories with a Bag of Chips: A few past memories about how Bianca and Matt met, their first trip to Wal-Mart and Bianca's first crush.