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

escape to reach the top of the building and work our way to the furthest building from that point. We’d get the distance we needed from the infected, go down through whatever building it was that we ended on, and finish when we made a clean get away from the large crowd outside. Maybe we could finally get to our families and find out what the police and military planned to do to contain all the attacks that took place.
    Melissa finished her cereal and put the spoon and bowl in the sink and came over to sit next to me. She rested her head against the wall behind us. “Okay, we can leave now.” She said with an innocent smile on her face. She stood and grabbed the broom stick and moved it around a little to test the weight and range by swinging it around similar to how I did with the bat. She grabbed one of the kitchen knives and put it in between her belt hooks on her jeans. I couldn’t help but find amusement in that she was so much more prepared for a fight with one of the infected than I was, and it took her less than half an hour to build up the courage to suck it all up. I still was processing so much of what happened outside that a backup knife didn’t even cross my mind till Melissa took one. 
    I stood from the chair and took a knife, put it between the belt hooks on my jeans; the girl was onto something and the idea was not going to be wasted.
    “Alright, follow me.” I laid the baseball bat over my shoulder and led the way out of the kitchen to the living room window. The fire escape we planned to use waited patiently for us to be ready and use it. I opened both the locks on the window,being extra careful just in case there was already someone on the fire escape ready to jump out at us, I peeked out, checking both the fire escapes over us and below us and made sure it was safe. I glanced back at Melissa and gave her a nod to assure her it was safe and I went ahead. I climbed out of the window and went up the stairs on the fire escape. Melissa was close behind. At the top of the fire escape there was a ladder that led to the roof of the building, I climbed to the top but didn’t immediately get on the roof. I looked over the edge first; there was nothing up there so I climbed the rest of the way to the roof. Once up there, I helped Melissa climb up. Just like that, we were ready to move again.
    During the winter, the sun would usually set around five-thirty in the afternoon, but because of what took place, we forgot it would get dark eventually, and eventually was no more than twenty or thirty minutes away. The darkness tried to slowly swallow the light and we still had to get off of the roofs and make our way to both Melissa’s home and mine. We wasted no time building up our momentum once again. She and I headed towards the roof of the next building which was the same height as the one we came off of. We walked from roof to roof until we reached a building with one more floor than the other ones. This wasn’t going to stop us though. Melissa gave me a boost onto the roof and I pulled her up once I had a firm grip on top. We weren’t going to let anything stop us.
    We made it to the last of the buildings connected by the roofs and looked over the edge to be sure it was clear. A few of the infected were in front of the building but it wasn’t anything worth worrying about. Two or three infected, nothing big compared to the entire mob that swarmed towards us. The one concern I had (and I was sure Melissa did too) was the crowd a few buildings over, where we came from. After the infected in front of the building knew we were there they would move our way and those that didn’t would follow those that did. We would need to be silent and invisible; speed meant more movement and sound, which is what put us into the jam we were in to begin with.
    “Let’s take the fire escape off of this building so that they don’t see the front door open,” Melissa said.
    She pulling my shoulder to take my focus away from