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"Yeah There are One is coers through her hair and sat up a little "Maybe those things aren’t out here?"

"That’s what I’ odd to her ears "You know, this isn’t supposed to happen"

Katie glanced over at her and nodded just a little "I know, but it is happening, whatever this is" Then she added quickly, "Zombies, or whatever they are, just shouldn’t exist Maybe it’s so like that"

"They aren’t supposed to be so fast They’re supposed to be slow Very slow" Jenni sighed and pouted a little

Running down the stairs, trying to evade Lloyd, that had been terrifying

There had been no time to think, just run It was sheer luck that he didn’t seeainst it

"How do you know that?"

"Movies Lloyd alatched those movies I was afraid but he made me watch" Jenni chewed on her bottoht, we can’t let them bite us" She looked over at Katie warily "You’re not bitten, are you?"

Katie looked at her for a long, frightening hed, relieved "No I’rabbed hold of her when Mikey had turned back and yelled, "Leave Mom alone!"

She covered her face with one hand She tried hard not remember the horrible fear she had felt "Run, Mikey," she had screamed and run out the front door

How it slammed behind her, she didn’t know Maybe she closed it

Maybe Mikey did Maybe when Lloyd had grabbed her son he had shoved it shut But the front door had slammed and she had been alone

"How did you find ot lost in your neighborhood trying to get off the highway I heard you screa I pulled up behind you just as-You didn’t seem to notice me so I yelled"

That easy That simple Why hadn’t she heard the truck pull up behind her on the lawn? Well, she had been screa and MikeyJenni leaned toward theand studied her reflection in the tiny side , too wide Her face was very pale

"I think I’m in shock," she said to Katie

"Aren’t we all," Katie responded in a so better of her comment, she said in a much softer tone, "Yeah, I think you are, too It was hard to see my wife like that But your husband, your children…"

She reached out and gripped Jenni’s hand tightly "I can’t irateful for the kindness She really didn’t care about Lloyd being dead…undead…whatever The children That was harder Much harder She didn’t want to think about it

She wanted to ask Katie about her wife, the beautiful woman in the photo on the phone, but she was afraid to ask Afraid that Katiehand

"Shit!" Katie jerked her hand away fro wheel hard to the left Slaht fir on the right hand side of the road Aat their truck in a daze It was as if so out his hands and rushed toward the truck

Katie quickly reversed off the shoulder of the road, then shifted gears and the truck leaped forward The ainst the side of the truck and they could hear his nails scrapping the metal as they escaped him

Jenni whirled around in her seat and looked out the backThe

"How fast are we going?"

"Thirty," Katie responded "He’s keeping up"

Suddenly the nment and he tumbled hard to the pavement

Katie slammed on the brakes and looked back "He blew his joints!"

The ered to his feet, looked around, saw the truck and began to slowly hobble toward therinned at Katie triuhed

They both screamed as a mouth filled with sharp teeth suddenly appeared in the back

"Shit!" Katie blinked

A Ger a little dazed He was s open the door and looked into the bed of the truck A veterinarian’s te Gers before her

Jenni leaned out of the driver’s side "Uh, zo toward them He was a distance away, but would soon be a probleun from the floor of the truck and handed it to Katie "Just shoot him in the head That’s hoorks"

Katie blinked at her, then looked back at the un back and reached out to the dog "Co padded slowly over to her and she lifted his heavy body out

Holding hiht, she snagged the vet paperwork taped to the carrier