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don’t, don’t schedule parents on the same shift unless they have someone who can take the kids. It’s not rocket science.”
     
    “Sorry, Jimmy,” Ralph said. “They’re all just really scared.”
     
    “It’s okay,” Jimmy smiled at Tyrell. “I understand.”
     
    “I still don’t trust it,” Tyrell grumbled.
     
    “Lucky for you, you don’t have to. Seems to me like y’all got a good thing going here. You’re on a main highway at the edge of popular hunting grounds and less than fifteen minutes from town. Hell, there’s even space for you to put in a garden. ”
     
    “Yeah. Thank goodness we found this place.”
     
    “Do all of you have weapons?”
     
    “All of us except the children,” Ralph answered. “We just don’t all brandish them at every visitor we have. You’d see them if we felt like you needed to.”
     
    “Ralph?” Sarah broke in. “Jimmy and I are gonna go grab some things from the truck. How long do we have till y’all are ready to walk home?”
     
    “Not long. And you shouldn’t be outside for long. They’ll smell you, and we’ll be dealing with a swarm.”
     
    “Okay, we’ll be right back.”
     
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    “Those people are kinda weird,” Sarah said, once they were alone. She angled their path toward the front of the building so she could collect the gun she’d stashed there.
     
    “They’re just scared,” Jimmy replied. “You wanna stick around tomorrow and make their grocery trip easier?”
     
    “Not really.”
     
    “Ha. Sarah’s not the white knight anymore?”
     
    “They don’t need a white knight. They seem to have things pretty much under control. And we don’t need any more responsibility. Besides, we’ve got somewhere to be.”
     
    “What’s that noise?”
     
    Sarah had reached the back of the truck. She opened the tailgate and pulled a duffle out of the bed. “What noise?”
     
    “Well, stop being so loud and you’ll fucking hear it.”
     
    “Oh no.”
     
    “What?”
 
    “Shh!” Sarah waved a hand at Jimmy. She whispered, “That’s the noise that Tom was making. I think it means they’re here. We need to get back inside.”
     
    “I see something moving.”
     
    “Where?” Sarah spun to see what he was looking at.
     
    Between them and the building, a few of the monsters were steadily making their way into their path to cut them off from the doors.
     
    “Oh, fuck. Now what?”
     
    “Where the fuck did they come from? I didn’t see them when we came out here.”
     
    Sarah fished around in the duffle for the night vision headsets for a second before remembering they were in the cab. Her hand closed on the handle of a flashlight. She pulled out the flashlight, zipped the duffle and swung it over her shoulder.
     
    “They’ll see you,” Jimmy whispered harshly.
     
    Sarah stared at him dumbly for a moment, then rolled her eyes.
     
    “They already see us. That’s why they’re cutting us off. We need to see them.” Sarah flicked the light on facing away from the monsters. The light gleamed off at least twenty pairs of eyes all staring back at her. “Jimmy…get in the truck.”
     
    Jimmy was standing next to the passenger door watching the monsters between them and the building.
     
    “What’s the matter?” he asked, without turning around.
     
    As Sarah watched, two of the monsters shot out of each side. Sarah lost track of them when they passed through the edges of the flashlight’s beam.
     
    “Jimmy, get in the truck.”
     
    “What is it, Sarah?”
     
    Two of the slower monsters from each side started ambling in the directions the last four had gone. Sarah pushed the suitcase back into the bed of the truck.
     
    “Get in the truck, Jimmy.”
     
    Jimmy finally turned around to see what Sarah was looking at. “Oh, shit!”
 
    “Get in the truck, Jimmy. Get in the truck. Get in the fucking truck, Jimmy!”
     
    Jimmy yanked open the passenger door. Sarah slammed the tailgate