Trust No One

Chapter 16 *Merging with Days To Remember*

Read Days To Remember by Afancybrickwall if you can, I'm going on with the merge with our stories.

-Mikaila ✍

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Mackenzie's P.O.V

I read the Welcome to Atlanta sign and wish I was happy about it. I would have been happy about 5 minutes ago, but now I'm just frightened. That grocery store wasn't far from the Atlanta sign. We could still see it if we turned around.

What if that newspaper was telling the truth?

If it was true, and nobody in Georgia was alive-alive, then how was that boy alive? We were heading in the direction that he came from, but I decided not to keep my hopes up. He did look angry, after all.

"Are you hungry, Mackenzie?" Ryker looks at me weird. Only then do I notice that I had been chewing on my Nacho Cheese Doritos in a nervous manner. What can I say? I was nervous.

I kick a rock at my feet, bored yet anxious, wanting to get in a shelter soon. What I would do for a blanket and a drink..

"I just remembered that we bought Gatorades. Can you pass me one?" I ask Xavier. He reaches back and in one motion, tears open the pack and throws me a Gatorade.

Clumsily, I drop it and glare at him as if it were his fault. He glares back at me mockingly.

All of a sudden I hear a vehicle behind us and I tell everyone to get behind an abandoned jeep. I don't hear anything for a while, so they must have stopped.

I feel my mind at ease. If there were walking corpses that were eating people here, how would these people be alive? How would we be alive?

They get out at the store we had just gotten out of a few minutes ago. What if they took the money we left on the counter? Hopefully they weren't those kinds of people.

I see bodies in the distance but can barely make out an appearance. An adult and two kids, girls, I believe. Possibly our age, maybe older. None that were Paige's age, though.

We still couldn't trust them. You never know what people could do when they get pushed to a certain level. They could also be half-dead...

What are you thinking? Have you gone mad?

People can't live after they've died. It's impossible.

The people walk out of the store and get back into their vehicle. I hear the one of the girls say something to the other. I start to crawl away from the jeep to hide better, but I notice the vehicle start to come our way. Then I hear a thud and everything seems to go in slow motion, but all too fast at the same time.

I see Ryker scream in heart-ache, but I can't hear him. The blood has drained from my ears. All I see is Scout on the ground in front of the vehicle and blood, everywhere. The blind dog yelps and is probably frantic, not able to see what has happened to him.

Paige covers her eyes, crying, and almost vomits. I almost think about vomiting, too.