Chapter 4 Close Calls

-(4 days later {Night}) Cain Pov

"there isn't much food left, maybe enough for the 3 more days, but ... we'll have to go on a supply run, and soon too." I said grimly as I stared into the table. I'll admit it I was scared, over the past few days we've seen zombies climb buildings, destroy cars, and quite literally jump 3 stories high, we were lucky we even have this shelter.

Rick, and Morgan stared at me both with equally grim expressions. "ya want us to go out there? For what? supplies that might not even be there? Besides we could make the food last longer if we ration can't we?" Morgan said afraid of going outside. "Listen Morgan you don't have to go out there ok. I understand that you have to take care of Duane, but at the very least me and Rick have to go get more food, besides if Rick isn't lying about being a police officer we could get guns" Rick nodded as he waited for Morgans response. We've been having this conversation since yesterday. Morgans afraid we'll draw them to his house when we leave, we already had to take of some stragglers banging on the windows. "Fine, but if you draw them here I won't let you back in understand" Morgan looked at both of us seriously as he relented.

-(15 Mins Later)

"Ok so you're sure this going to work Cain. Because I don't wanna die covered in zombie guts" "Eh, not really but if it works it'll make it easier on us." "Right, right, so lets run through this again, the first place we'll go to is my house to get keys for the police station to get guns, then we'll go to the convenience store across the street to get supplies right?" Rick asked nervously as we brought in a zombie corpse through the window, I brought my knife out "you do know if the store is locked or has an alarm we'd both be fucked right" he said as I brought my knife down to the mans stomach releasing his blood all over my hands. "I know but what else can we do? Foods gonna run out eventually and we don't know if over people had the same idea as us, this is the best thing I could come up with now." "alright" Rick sighed as we both started covering ourselves in zombie guts. I wore the intestines as a necklace on the black shirt I was wearing, he looked at me weirdly for a second but continued.

After we were done we both grabbed a knife from the table nearby, and wore backpacks to store our spoils "Alright Morgan We're ready to leave now." "Just go, make sure not to draw them here you hear me." "Loud, and clear" I replied as I opened the door exposing a scene of carnage, I closed the door behind me and started moving like the zombies to Ricks house, "remember move like them and try not to bump into them." I whisper to him as we both started the short journey to his home.

-(Ricks Home)

Thank god there weren't zombies here, Rick looked around and went to the kitchen cabinet taking out a key ring. "Got'em" he whispered as he started moving to the door, … but then he suddenly stopped staring at a large drawer in the kitchen. "Cain wait here a minute i-i gotta check something real quick" Rick said as he started opening some drawers and cabinets in his home, he looked like a madman. "did somebody take the key to the police station?" I asked nervously as Rick stopped, "No those are the keys" he seemed relieved like a weight had been taken off his shoulder "I think my family's alive Cain" I could tell he was holding back tears as he those words to me, "How do you know that?" "There aren't any pictures" "huh?" "think about what would a thief do with our photo album, hell some of Carls clothes were gone not just mine and loris, they're alive Cain they're out there somewhere." Rick started speaking without breathing as started shaking, "OK Rick Listen to me this isn't the time of you start crying they'll hear you." I whispered panicked as Rick started to cry. "y-you're right I'm just so happy-" suddenly outside there was a moaning sound.

Rick shut up as he stood up and walked towards the window, outside there she was, Morgans wife Jenny, we knew it was her as he'd (Morgan) shown us pictures of her. Her nails seemed long, real long, her skin paler, and her pupils were red. But that couldn't be her right? After all Morgan said she was dead. Rick stared at the crying woman- wait a minute crying zombie? "Shit" I whispered as I came closer to ricks ear "listen Rick that one's a witch remember what I told you about those alright, don't get close, and you'll be fine." I whispered into his ear as he looked at me, "we can't just leave her like-like that." he said as he pointed at her. "Rick we're not strong enough to deal with her." I said pleadingly but I already knew what we were going to do, "Do you want Morgan to do it., do you want Duane seeing his mother die again?" he said as he looked me in the eyes. "You know what fine." I grabbed my knife and went to the door. She was in-front of the convenience store now.

I slowly approached jenny as she was crying, she had her back to me, SWISH! Surprisingly one stab to the side of the head killed her, it was then I remembered something, this wasn't a video game. The zombies wouldn't be sturdier they'd be rotting, weak. THUD! Jenny body hit the pavement as many zombies turned to look at me 'shit' I looked back to see Rick standing to my right preparing for a fight. "let's shuffle into the store ok?" I whispered into his ear as some zombies started approaching, as we went through the thankfully open door- DING! … no, no, no no no NO! 4 Zombies were running toward us now, I dashed inside behind the counter pulling Rick along, Better not to risk if they can't sense us while on high alert.

DING!, DING! Two dings and three pairs of footsteps walked in seem like the fourth lost interest. I peeked over the counter to look at the zombies 2 had their back to us while third was staring at the doorbell trying to reach it. I looked at Rick and motioned with my hands and knife for him to kill the one reaching for the doorbell. He nodded as we stood up Swish! Swish! , two down one to-

The third zombie tackled me to the wall and opened its mouth to bite me as- Swish! Rick placed a knife into its skull THUD! It hit the ground with a large thud as I panted for breath "You ok there?" Rick looked at me with worry in his eyes as he helped me up, "y-yeah just feel shaken up, thought I'd have been able to take care of both of them" I stared at the corpse of the zombie for a minute and shook my head "C'mon lets check for supplies."

It was a relatively small store, but its food section was almost all non-perishables. Chips, noodles and canned food were common, there was also a lot of water. "I think this'll be enough to last us for the rest of the month, C'mon lets check the back too." I said as I made my way to the employees only room, opening it-

THUD! Suddenly a zombie rushed through the backroom door and tackled me to the ground as it started tearing through my chest. SWISH! Rick killed but the damage had been done "Holy shit, Cain, Cain C'mon man there's a first aid kit inside Get up" Rick took my hand and brought me up as I started making my way to the couch in the small room too in pain to trust I'll talk and not scream.

Rick opened the first aid kit as he gave me a bit of bandage to bite on "Listen this is going to hurt like hell but don't scream ok? He went to go close the door and came back, took off my shirt and started pouring disinfectant on a bit of bandage. "HMMMMM!" I tired to hold back my screams as he disinfected the wound and started dressing, it. I looked down before he did though wish I had't the wound was an ugly purple, with deep and wide scratches all over my chest.

Rick finished bandaging the wound in a couple of minutes placing the remainder of the first aid kit into his bag. "Listen we rest here for 15 minutes" he pointed at the clocks he said this. "then we leave alright?" I nodded tiredly as I sat up and looked around.

Noticing a radio on the table I held it, and turned the volume way down before I turned it on. "to all civilians hearing this please evacuate into Atlanta city we have shelter there I repeat Atlanta city is safe-" the message started repeating over and over as both me and Rick stared at each other "so, uh do you think your family went to Atlanta?" I said awkwardly trying to start a conversation.