Infected (Book 1): The First Ten Days Read Online Free

While I told her this fear filled her eyes and her expression became the same as Edgar’s when he went into shock. “Are you alright?” I asked when I realized her stare wasn’t on me but rather right pass me to something behind. Movement reflected off of her eyes. I turned around to face whatever it was. One of the infected somehow crept up on us.
Melissa panicked and yelled out without much thought “WATCH OUT!” she said and grabbed my arm to pull me away from the infected man that lunged at me. The infected man hit the ground thanks to her reaction. I toppled over her and onto the ground, we both scrambled to get back up while the infected man dragged himself over to us, he struggled to lift himself up off of the ground. We backed away and looked over the cars to find almost all of the infected in the gas station walking together in our direction. The scream stole their attention. I grabbed Melissa’s hand and walked away from the gas station.
    The further we made it the faster the mob of infected behind us would walk, but they never did more than just walk. Groans and growls came from the infected, alongside the stampede sound of their march toward us. Ahead of us, more of the infected came out of buildings and from out of alleyways. Melissa and I increased our pace to avoid the mob behind us but the quick movement and noise we made to get away attracted more of them. Before we knew it, there was a crowd almost as large as the one behind us coming from the front and the sides. We were surrounded.
    “Look!” Melissa yelled out. She pointed at a nearby building with the front door open but no infected coming out. I nodded at her and we ran towards the entrance. The crowd from the front was closer to the door than we were, but they walked which was the only thing going for us at the time. If we didn’t make it, we would be stuck between all the infected and die. They came from every direction around us except from where the buildings we ran alongside were. We reached the door almost at the same time the crowd from the front did. I pushed Melissa into the building the moment one of the infected tried to swing at her but missed and fell over to the ground. I stepped over the infected man and followed Melissa up the stairs. We didn’t have time to close the building’s front door and that allowed the whole group of infected behind us to chase us inside. Moans, groans and footsteps from the mob behind us echoed through the building’s stairwell and all of the infected inside of the building were stepping out of apartments and out of dark corners they blended into. Melissa and I noticed an open apartment and ran inside; we slammed the door behind us. As soon as the door was shut, Melissa turned all locks on and I walked around the apartment carefully to be sure there was nothing harmful inside. Melissa, now leaned against the door to catch her breath, slid down and put her hands to her face and began to cry.
    It didn’t take long before all of the infected outside gathered behind the door. A few of them tried to scratch at the door and others tried to hit it, but by the sound of it, most of them had no clue where we went. I came back to the hallway where Melissa cried against the door and I sat next to her.
    “I don’t want to die here. I want to leave and see my family and know they’re okay…” Melissa whispered. She wiped tears away from her cheeks and from under her eyes. She could have been reading my mind as far as I knew. I was worried of the same thing, but there was no way we were going to survive against another crowd of infected. We needed to arm ourselves.
    I stood off of the wall and took a knee in front of Melissa. I put my hands on both her cheeks and looked her in the eyes.
    “Look, we are going to get out of this. Let’s search the house for anything sharp or blunt with some range. As long as it could be used as a weapon, get it and bring it back to this hall. I’ll start in the living