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3 - Knock on the Door

We stare at the door intently, preparing for the worst.

"Girls get behind us," Stewart orders quietly. The girls scurry behind Stewart and I, fear spreading across their faces. The door opens even further and a face pops out suddenly.

"RAH!" The girls let out an ear-piercing scream and Stewarts reflexes causes him to punch the face. "Owwww," someone grumbles behind the door. It creaks open the rest of the way to the guy lying on the floor holding onto his possibly broken nose.

"Mother fucker!" Stewart shouts between relieved breaths.

"You're an asshole Stewart, I hope you know that."

"Yeah yeah, come on, hop up," Stewart reaches out and hauls Tom onto his feet. Me and the girls give each other confused looks at the sudden scene that had played out. "This is Aiden and his girl Chloe," he indicates us as he says this and I give Tom a nod. "And this is my girl Cindy," Cindy blushes and gives a little curtsey.

"Nice to mee-"

"Tom?" A high voice comes from inside the bedroom , and a woman walks out half naked with only a towel round her waist. We all glance at her and as she sees us her face floods with a dark shade of red and she jumps behind the door.

"Babe I'm sorry, just go get some clothes on," she walks away mumbling something about how he should tell her these types of things before she embarrasses herself.

"So I'm guessing that she is Ivy?" Cindy asks.

"Yeah," Tom says scratching the back of his head uncomfortably. But in all the things that had happened we had forgot what our sole purpose here was.

"GUYS!" I shout to get their attention. "We need to flick on the TV to see if there's any news on the uhhhh....incident," realisation spreads across their faces as they remember what had happened at Fitzy's. Stewart runs over into his lounge room and flicks on the TV to the news channel with Cindy and Chloe right behind him. The light from the TV dancing off the walls. Tom stands in the doorframe of the bedroom with a confused look on his face.

"What's going on? What happened?"

"We'll explain later just don't get your titties in a twist!" Stewart calls out from the lounge room. Tom scowls. "Guys come in here!" Tom and I rush into the room to see Amelia Adams on the screen.

'Reports say that once people are bitten, or scratched by an infected individual, the person will convulse in a matter of time, die, and come back as another infected. And that infected should be avoided at all costs.' Stewart flicks to 7 News this time.

'Authorities warn that people should lock themselves locked in their homes at all times and not to come out until the Australian Army Corps have dealt with the situation at hand.'

"Unbelievable," says Chloe shaking her head. Stewart turns off the TV.

"So what should we do now?" Cindy asks with a slight edge to her voice.

"First you need to tell me what the hell is going on,"

"Okay," Stewart agrees. He tells Tom everything from the beginning- the date, the infected breaking into Fitzy's....and how the people turned. Tom listens intently, absorbing every word as Stewart says them, causing his jaw to drop. As Stewart finishes Ivy walks into the room....with clothes on this time.

"Hey honey," he grabs her around the waist and pulls her in for a kiss.

"Guys, I think we should do what the news report tol-" I am cut off to someone knocking on the door. "Coming!" I run up to the door, unlatch it and open up.

"ARGHHHH," It is the all too familiar sound of hungry infected..

"SHIT!" I try to slam the door back shut but the thing already had half its body through the door and into the house. I take a look behind it to see 5 other infected following suit of the happy neighbour coming for some dinner. "RUN!!" Nobody needed a second warning, we bust out the back door and Stewart picks up a cricket bat that was leaning against the wall.

"GO!" He orders us. It was dark and we couldn't see where we were going. I look behind me and see Stewart smash the bat into an infected head, caving in its skull and brain matter splattering everywhere. I had to stop the bile rising up in my throat, the others looked equally sick. "There's a gate back here! Follow me!" We follow Stewarts footsteps to the gate and I hear him unlatch it. "In the car!" He whacks another infected in the head and covers us while we all jump in the ute. The infected were closing in on us, 3 of them. There was only 5 seats in the car so Stewart had to jump in the back. I jump into the drivers seat with Tom next to me and the girls in the backseat. Stewart bangs on the window to signal me to start driving. I stick the keys in the ignition, push in the clutch turning the key, push it back in and put it into first gear speeding off into the night. I look in the rear view to see Stewart crouching against the glass, holding onto the sides of the ute, not daring to let go. I hear sobbing and look back to see Chloe and Cindy crying into each other.

"Girls," I say "We're gonna be fine, we just need to fi-" BANG . A massive crash comes from the front of the car. I look back just in time to see a body fly over the top of us and down the back of the vehicle. "SHIT!" "Girls stay in here, Stewart and I will go check it out, Tom is here if you need anything, okay?" I say reassuringly.

"Okay," they respond. I open the door and walk around the back and Stewart jumps off the back with the bat in his hands. We walk over to the now headless body, I can just make out a name badge 'Charles.G' his police hat was a few metres ahead of his body. Unintended pun.

"Well," I say. Walk back to the ute when a sound just audible enough to hear comes from the dark part of the street. They were here. As the first of the infected walks into the streetlamp light, I notice that there were many, many more than any amount of infected I've ever seen.

"RUN!!" It was becoming an all too familiar word in these days, we charge back to the car and Stewart jumps in the back, and I jump in the front. I move the stick up to the left to reverse, I go to back up when I slam into a few infected that wandered around the back. I panic. Because I can't move. I rev the engine to desperately try and get away but it just seems to get us more and more stuck. The horde closes in, trapping us.

"GET DOWN!" If we could crouch down then the infected may not notice us. But then it struck me....

Stewart was still in the back.

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So sorry for the late update, I got really lazy with it, but here it is and thankyou for reading. I made this one long to make up for the missed chapters. Please vote and comment I'd love to see what you guys think.

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