mile post 22

Trent pulled up the four way stop sign. He was now lost. He sat there for a moment and turned right... he drove down and right into a neighborhood...he sighed... forty five minutes he had wasted trying to get back to the highway. He came up to another stop sign and stopped the engine rumbled loudly over the sounds of screaming and sirens. He watched a lady get chased down her driveway before being ambushed by a small group of what they were calling zombies.

Bam!! Some one was pulling at the passenger door banging on it. He jumped. He looked over he couldn’t really tell what it was only that it wasn’t human. He pushed the accelerator down on his 73 ford. The motor gave out a loud growl and a loud squeal came from the tires as the car shot out and down the road. The engine roared to life as he went flying down the road. He could hear people scream as he went flying by cars and houses looked like blurs.

He hit the brakes the locked tires let out a squeal. The engine rumbled once again and died. Trent looked at the sign in front of him. Dead End it said he shook his head and laughed to him self. Turning the ignition the engine came back to life. He backed the car up and was about to pull away when he say a girl running down the road screaming. He watched her run down the street to the left as she was being fallowed by three what they were calling zombies. He chose not to believe that they were zombies because there was no such thing as zombies. She ran into a van and they followed. Banging on the doors and glass as she screamed help me. Trent saw people watching from there houses and at a distance doing nothing as well. He saw a guy out on his lawn shooting anything that got near him weather it be human or not. She was still screaming. He sat there holding the steering wheel. The engine rumbling, the people yelling all around, the gun shots and of course the girl screaming. He sighed. Shit! He said putting the car in drive the engine growled and went down the road towards the van.

He stopped and popped the trunk. Taken out his twelve gauge and cocking it with a round. Walking up to the first one he swung the gun knocking it down and then shooting it in the head. By now the others were on to his game they came at him. Once again cocking the gun and firing. Another cock. Bam. It was dead. The girl looks at him and screams. He turns and jams the barrel right into its mouth and fires. What was left falls he looks at the girl and walks back to his car and gets in. Turns the ignition and backs out. The girl runs to him and yells wait! Please I don’t have anywhere to go. Please help me. As tears roll down her face. He looks at her and drives off. The girl gives chase and yells no! Crying at the same time as well please! He watches her in his rearview mirror. Getting smaller and distant. He slams on the breaks. She hears the screeching tires and gives a laugh running faster than she ever did. He throws the car in reverse and backs up stopping. He waits until she is right beside the door before unlocking it.

Before she even gets in he takes off. She is shoved into the seat and the door slams. She tries to catch her breath... telling him thank you. But before she finishes he tells her to shut up. She does as she’s told. As not to upset the stranger and getting her self thrown out of the car. As long as she was with him she was safe. He tells her how do I get out of hear? She looks at him he once again says how do I get out of hear? She sits quietly. He stops the car and grabs her by the back of her neck. Look he says I didn’t do this to save you. I did it for me. You live here so help me get out of this fucking place! Do you understand me? Huh! He yells. She looks at him frightened and quite. He looks at her. Find get out he says. Unlocking the door. You not gonna slow me down hell no he says.

Hearing the door locks she screams ok! Ill help you. He locks the doors and drives off. She tells him turn here. Turn there. Turn hear. Go straight. They reach the intersection leading back to the high way. He pulls off into the empty parking lot. Kills the engine and looks at her. I got no use for you now. So get out. I hope you didn’t think I was goanna save you or something. He looks at her up and down. Flashing a smile and saying unless you got something else you think I want or need?

She unlocks the door and try’s to get out. He grabs her by the arm and she screams. Kicking and squirming about let me go she says. She opens the door and pushes her self out. He fallows but only to be grabbed be a cop. Let me go he says! Pushing the cop back and turning around. Only it wasn’t a cop. He screams as the cop grabs him and starts to eat his face... she jumps in the car and trys to start it.

The engine turns, and turns, and turns. But it doesn’t fire up. Damn it! She yells. The zombie starts banging on the car then she sees a few more coming towards them. Trent pops up at the door and starts banging on the window. She screams. Turning the key again. The engine turns, and turns. She pumps the gas and turns the key again. The car fires and dies again. She yells. Come on damn it! She pumps the gas and turns the key the engine turns, and turns, the battery starts to get weak and the engine turns a little slower. It turns again and again. The car roars to life. She yells out! Throws it into drive and floors the accelerator. The engine screams and the tires spin shooting smoke out. The car grabs and shoots out like a rocket. She runs over a few zombies and turns around at the end of the parking lot.

She sees Trent and floors the gas. The car flies down the parking lot and straight into Trent splattering him all over the windshield. She drives out the lot and up the highway intersection. tThe engine roars out into the silience of the day....