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left.”
    She frowned, but then smiled gleefully.  “That means you are immune.  You would have changed by now.”
    “I guess so.”  I felt a sense of relief that someone knew, and that someone believed me.  It just stunk that it was a fourteen year-old girl.
    “So what now?” she asked as we started to load up our gear.
    “Well, I figure we need to find some transportation.”  I walked over to one of the windows and moved the curtains aside.  “We have free skies, so it shouldn’t be too difficult.”
    “Free skies?” she asked.
    “I mean the sun’s out.  No clouds.  Zombies should be taking cover.”
    “I don’t like that word,” Karina said as she hefted my bugout bag onto her back.  We decided she would carry some back-up ammo and half of the rations.  I didn’t want her starving if we got separated.
    “You don’t have to like it,” I chuckled.  “They are what they are.”
    “Well, scientifically, zombies are not possible.  Even the name dead-head is inaccurate.”  She sounded like one of my college professors, speaking to me as if I was an ignorant student.
    “Anyone ever tell you that you talk too much?” I snapped.
    “Yeah,” she said, not taking any offense to the way I spoke to her.  “Mostly adults, though.”
    “Well, I’m an adult,” I said as I walked past her towards the back door.
    “Well, you’re not a real adult.  You’re more of an ‘almost’ adult,” she said matter-of-factly.
    I turned around.  “I’m twenty-five.”
    “Really?”  She sounded astonished.
    “Yes, really.  Let’s go.  And keep quiet.  Clouds or no clouds, zombies will definitely be attracted to the sound of your voice.”
    Karina seemed like she was going to say something else, but I gave her a glare and she shut her mouth.
    “Come on Boomer,” I called out.  The canine trotted over next to me and sniffed around the back door.  He didn’t detect anything.
    I motioned to Karina to stay close to me as I opened the door.

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter 3
    Run!
    April 23 rd   Morning
     
     
    The area around the building was clear as we made our way to the road.  I had to use my small bolt cutters to get out of the fenced area.  In the first days of The Awakening, I would have thought the surrounding chain-link fence would have been a secure place to make camp.  I knew better now, though.  The fence would last about three minutes against a hoard of the dead.
    The sun was beating down on us from the east, barely above the surrounding tree line.  It was probably over eighty degrees already, and was bound to reach in the mid-nineties by noon.  The humidity was already thick and I was sweating in minutes.
    Off to the west I could see dark clouds over the horizon.  I prayed that meant rain.  The surrounding area was mostly wooded, though I knew that would end as soon as we approached the large urban area that made up the city of Palm Bay.
    Boomer was in the lead with Karina following close behind him.  I took the rear, regularly peering behind me to make sure we weren’t being followed.  I trusted the canine would alert me if he sensed something, but his senses could only go so far.
    “Where are we going to go?” Karina asked as we made it to the asphalt road.
    “To find a vehicle,” I replied, “hopefully with working air-conditioning.”
    “I can drive,” she stated as we headed west.
    “Is that so,” I said, not realizing the can I had just opened.
    “My father would let me drive in parking lots,” Karina continued.  “One time, I almost ran into a red SUV, but I hit the brakes just in time.”
    I didn’t respond.  I hoped if I continued to ignore her, she would finally give up on conversation.  Oh, how wrong I was.
    “He was going to give me his Infinity when I turned sixteen.  I really didn’t like it though.  Guess I don’t have to wait until I’m sixteen now.  I can pick any car I want.  I really want a Jetta.  My older