chapter 20

Khaja screamed because after she turned her back to the man that she was supposed to be treated for a moment to talk to Lee.

He got up and grabbed her and attempt to bite her.

Lee who was the closest to Khaja jumped in to help, he tried to separate the both of them.

Finally, he manages to push the man off of Khaja, he immediately called out for the ax that's on Mark's hand, but after he turned around to call out, the man grabbed Lee and try to bite him.

He quickly bashed the now dead man head on to the side of the truck.

Mark rushed to him and swung the ax however he missed, the zombie then carried on to jump on Lee once again and manage to push him down, it was then that Carley came by with a gun and put a bullet inside of its skull.

"Why'd ya bring him here in the first place, asshole?!" Larry roared at him.

"Dad calm down." Lilly talked to her father.

"You're gonna get us ALL killed!" he continued and ignore Lilly.

Kenny who almost had his wife turn into zombie food wasn't happy at all with the kid that was with the now deceased man.

"You said he wasn't bitten!" Kenny roared.

"What?" he teenager stuttered as he looks at the group, whose all now eyeing him.

"We asked you, point blank, "was he bitten." and you said "no" !" Kenny roared at him.

"He wasn't!" the teenager keeps on denying that accusation.

"Well, your "not-bitten" friend here came back to life and tried to kill my wife!" Kenny was totally enraged.

"What?!! Wait, Y'all don't know?" the teenager asked.

"What the hell are you talking about?" now everyone was gathering around the teen.

"It's not the bite that does it! You come back no matter how you die, if you don't destroy the brain, that's just what happens. It's gonna happen to ALL of us." he told everyone in a depressing tone.

"You mean that we all are infected?" Leonard asked.

"It makes sense. In those first few days, it spread so fast." Mark chimed in.

"Car accidents, suicides, everything was making more of them," Lilly added.

The teen then continues with his story.

"When I first saw it happen, we were all hiding out in a gym and everybody thought we were finally safe. But one of the girls, Jenny Pitcher I think, I guess she couldn't take it. She took some pills. A lot of them." he stayed silent for a minute. "Someone went in the girls' room the next morning and...god…" he ended it there.

"Back off!" Conner called out and then raised his rifle aiming outside the wall.

Carley who also notice what or who Conner was aiming his rifle at also ready her pistol as well.

Outside of the wall stood two men.

"Woah, man, relax! Me and my brother, we….we just want to know if y'all can help us out." the leading man asked while holding up a Jerry can.

However, Conner doesn't say anything and stays silent with his rifle aiming at the two men.

"You're outnumbered here, just turn around and go back," Lee told the two men.

"Okay, that's fine. But you'd really be helping out a fellow survivor if you could part with some extra gas before we leave…" the leading man asked as he raises his Jerry can.

"Why do you need gas?" Carley asked.

"Our place is protected by an electric fence. Generators provide the electricity…" the leading man told her.

"Our generators run on gas, look, we own a dairy farm a few miles up the road. If y'all be willing to lower your guns, we can talk about some kind of a trade " he added in.

"How are Y'all doing on foods? We got plenty at the dairy." the second man told them.

The group then all looked at one another.

"Lee, why don't you and Mark check the place out, see if it's legit," Lilly suggested.

"I'm going with you. I got your back if anything seems fishy." Carley suggested to Lee.

"I'm in as well," Leonard called out.

"So what are y'all thinking?" the leading man from the other side of the wall asked.

"You've got a deal. We'll bring some gas to your diary. In exchange, you give us some food to bring back. We'll see how it goes from there." Lee told them.

The leading man grinned.

"Sounds fair. A couple of gallons should power one of our generators for a while," he told.

With that, the four of them along with a few gallons of gases followed the two men to their Dairy farm.

"Oh, this is going to be fun." Leonard thought.