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could be a drill for all we know.”
    “I was hoping we were being evacuated to new housing, to be
honest,” Tom said. “There's a big spot above my bed that I am pretty sure is
the start of black mold.”
    “It was unreal,” Joel said, waving his arms to make his
point. “First I see all the people on the base running toward the old
elementary school. There are flashes of green as the soldiers run behind them,
forming something like a human shield. There’s a lot of screaming . . .”
    “But it's like someone screaming orders ,” Tom
interrupted.
    “Exactly,” Joel said. “Then the screaming started getting
louder and blending together more. That's when we saw the first wave of zombies
attack.”
    “I didn't know they could move that fast,” Tom said. “I've
only ever seen them kinda moping along. Sure they’re lethal, because they don't
ever let up once they catch a whiff of you.”
    “We never imagined they could move like that,” Joel said.
“It must have been the extreme hunger or something.”
    Get to the damn point , I thought. Just as I was
getting ready to lose my patience, Benji prodded them for the rest of their
long, drawn out tale.
    “So how did you escape?”
    “We cracked a window and slipped out,” Tom said. Joel shot
him a look that seemed to say thanks for ruining the story.
    “I've done some research,” Joel said. “Zombies are attracted
to noise and movement.”
    Everybody knows that , I thought, rolling my eyes and
fighting back an exasperated sigh. Joel pretended not to notice.
    “They were too busy going after the cluster of screaming
adults and fighting soldiers to notice us. So we slowly walked over to where
the fighting had started. There were three dead soldiers just ripped to shreds
lying there.”
    “It was ugly stuff, man,” Tom said, looking at the ground.
    “That's when we saw the second wave coming over the west
wall,” Joel said dramatically.
    “Zombies can't climb walls, man,” I said.
    “They didn't have to climb it ,” Joel countered. “They
lined up against it and just pushed it over like a human tsunami. They climbed
over the rubble. They were coming right for us.”
    “What did you do?” Benji's eyes were wide with fear and
anticipation as he listened, totally absorbed in the twin's story.
    “We hid,” Tom said. “Under the bodies.”
    “No way,” I blurted out.
    “It's true,” Joel said, not sounding so cocky anymore. “We
didn't have much of a choice, did we? The zombies were heading toward us so we
got on the ground and pulled the dead bodies over us for cover, hoping it would
distract them.”
    “It did,” Tom said defiantly, puffing out his chest. “They
went right past us and toward the fighting. I remember thinking I must have wet
myself out of fear and not even known. Only when I got up I saw it wasn't urine—it
was blood coming out of the soldier I'd pulled over me, leaking out what was
left in his body. It was still warm.”
    “Soaked right through our clothes,” Joel said. “We grabbed
these guns and broke out as fast as we could, using the buildings for cover.”
    “Why did you follow them to the school?” I asked.
    “I dunno,” Tom said. “I guess we just had to know what
happened.”
    “I kept wishing there was some way to stop them,” Joel said.
“Instead, we were as helpless as babies and couldn’t do a damn thing.” He
looked upset with himself for not doing more to help. I understood the feeling.
A wave of guilt crashed over me thinking about all the people we'd left behind.
I swallowed it back. There would be time for self-pity and wallowing later. For
now, we needed to keep it together if we were gonna make it out of this alive.
    “So you've never shot that thing until just now when we
arrived?” I was having a hard time wrapping my head around it all. The MK-13
was a fierce piece of machinery. Tom had handled it like it was an Xbox 360
accessory.
    “Our dad is a Marine who saw action in Iraq,” Joel