Scarlet Memories (Book 1) by Jessica T. Ozment Page A

She took one more glance behind her and to both of her sides. Her best option was to circle around the parking lot and hope that the undead followed her. That would free up the exit for their escape. And hopefully, she didn’t take their intelliagence for granted. They didn’t really know much about them after all. Some of them seemed slower than the others. Some were faster. The best that they could tell, the older undead were slower. Newly turned bodies were faster. The condition of the corpse skin could tell a lot. Unluckily for them, it seemed that more than half of the undead out there were newly turned. So, it wouldn’t take them long to catch up with their car.
    Sam floored the gas pedal. The teams  reared back into their seats as the car lurched forward, Sam manoeurved around  trash cans, luggage and miscellanious items strown across the parking lot. By the sign of the trash and items on the ground, many of the undead were turned fairly quickly. Sam circled the parking lot. Most of the undead followed along close behind her car. The  rest followed suit. They were slow but, persistent.
    Ian watched as Sam pushed passed the slower mob and made it out of the parking lot. The entire car cheered as they flew passed a stop sign stationed at the end of the street. There would be no need for those anymore. Ian felt his stress level slowly calm. His nerves were shot after this. But, they had made it out of a bad situation. So, he couldn’t be more happier to be meeting back up with Jeremy. Dark had already settled in outside. Sam tuned her headlights on to be able to see. She placed the setting to high in order to see more of her surroundings.
    It didn’t take them too long to reach the school. The good news was that her lights had hit the building in time enough to see the giant horde fumbeling around the school.
    ‘They must have followed them here from the wreck!’ Ian whispered. He had Sam kill the lights and the engine. He didn’t want the undead to notice them. They would be sitting ducks if they were caught in this car. There would be no escape.
    ‘What are we going to do?’ Susan asked, the fear had set back into her voice.
    ‘I don’t know. But, whatever we do, we need to make sure that they don’t notice us.’ Ian proposed immediately.
    ‘Maybe we can sneak passed them into the school. But, in order to do that..’ Ian started. Jason jumped in to finish his sentence.
    ‘We’d have to get their attention.’ He said, unzipping his bag next him. Jason pulled out several mag flashlights. They were all high powered and easily seen from a distance.
    ‘That’ll work!’ Ian and Sam both cried in unison. He smiled back at her.
    ‘Ok, Sam keep the lights out. We will pull up as close to the school as we can. Then, we will turn on the lights and wait to see if they signal.’ Ian looked around the crew and made sure they agreed with him. They seemed to be alright with the plan. Sam turned the dash lights out and Jason passed out a light each to everyone in the car. She slowly drove down the drive of the school. There were a few stragglers walking around in the woods on both sides of the road. But, they seemed to be preoccupied with other things to notice the car creeping by. Ian motioned for Sam to stop and she did. She killed the car immediately so that the red brake lights wouldn’t come on. So far, they still weren’t noticed.
    Jeremy awoke suddenly from his deep sleep. His back was sore from sleeping on the hard floor of his office. He twisted his arms around to his side and popped his back. That seemed to help a little and Jeremy got up. He had been dreaming about a new era. One where he took care of the group. He was surprised that he even dreamt about current events. It usually takes him months to have a dream related to the present. He knew that he felt very strongly about this school. And felt he could lead them to saftey. Jeremy was proud of himself for making it this far.
    He wiped his brow.