Turned: A Spine-Chilling Young Adult Apocalyptic Fiction (The Undead Series, Book 1) by Kaylee Rae Page A
Authors: Kaylee Rae
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and closed my eyes, figuring that maybe if I closed them, everything would just evaporate into thin air and I’d be on the beach at Turks and Caicos, where Ethan and I were supposed to honeymoon so many moons ago. I waited, but Em’s reply frustrated me even more.
“Hmm,” she finally spoke.
“Hmm?” I opened my eyes and turned around to face Em. “What does ‘hmm’ mean?”
“Well, I think it means the test isn’t working because nothing is showing up,” Em answered.
I furiously picked up the pregnancy test and examined it. It was blank. I opened the vanity doors and slammed the pregnancy test into the trash, walked out of the bathroom and into the master suite, and threw myself onto the bed. I was so frustrated. I didn’t want to be pregnant, but I did want an answer. It was my fucking luck. Em walked in after me and sat next to me on the bed.
“Listen, dear,” she said valiantly. “I’m going back to the store and getting you another one. There were three more there. I’m just going to grab them all because one of them is bound to work. That’s what I should have done in the first place.”
“No way,” I shot her down. “There’s no way in hell that you, or us, is going back there. We’ll find another one later. That place was brimming with lurking zombies.”
“That’s what guns are for,” Em replied. “Look, I’m going whether you like it or not, or whether Jasper likes it or not. I am my own woman, and this is my choice. From a medical standpoint, I need to know if you are actually pregnant because if you are, there are precautions we need to take. From a friend standpoint, I need to make sure you’re okay, and that something else isn’t wrong with you.” She paused when she saw the worried look on my face.
“I’m not losing you already,” I interjected.
“You’re not going to,” Em assured me as she patted my leg. “But I need you to back me up. I’m going to sneak out the back door without telling Jasper. He’ll notice when I open the garage door, but at least he won’t have a chance to stop me.”
Reluctantly, I nodded. I realized there was no way I was changing Em’s mind. Em was extremely strong-minded and resilient. I’d learned that already. So I walked down to distract Jasper while Em snuck out the back door with her gun. Distracting Jasper was easy to do because he was preoccupied with finding out what the pregnancy test said. A soon as I walked into the room, he pounced.
“What’s going on?” he asked me kindly with a hint of impatience in his voice, which I could tell he was trying to hide. I sat down on the couch.
“The test was blank,” I replied bluntly.
“What do you mean blank?” he questioned me in the same way that I had questioned Em.
“It was no good. It didn’t work,” I answered. Jasper looked deep into my eyes in an attempt to coax answers out faster than I was giving them.
“So what now?” he replied. As soon as he asked, Jasper heard the garage door open and the jeep start. He gave me a sideways glance and just as he jumped up to run to the front door, the garage door was open and Em pulled out of the garage and off the driveway. She accelerated fast, as if she knew Jasper would come running after the car to stop her if he could. He turned back to me.
“What the hell is she doing? Is she leaving us?” he questioned.
“No,” I replied. I hated being sneaky, but Em had insisted. “The test didn’t work, so Em went back to the store to get the others. She insisted she go and didn’t want me to tell you.”
Jasper stood in the entryway to the living room staring bleakly at me. “That was a dumb decision, Retta,” he scolded me, something he’d never done before. I figured he was saying that because he didn’t want Em to get killed, but that wasn’t the reason and his reason shocked me a little.
“If she dies,” he added, “We’re stuck here without a car,
“Hmm,” she finally spoke.
“Hmm?” I opened my eyes and turned around to face Em. “What does ‘hmm’ mean?”
“Well, I think it means the test isn’t working because nothing is showing up,” Em answered.
I furiously picked up the pregnancy test and examined it. It was blank. I opened the vanity doors and slammed the pregnancy test into the trash, walked out of the bathroom and into the master suite, and threw myself onto the bed. I was so frustrated. I didn’t want to be pregnant, but I did want an answer. It was my fucking luck. Em walked in after me and sat next to me on the bed.
“Listen, dear,” she said valiantly. “I’m going back to the store and getting you another one. There were three more there. I’m just going to grab them all because one of them is bound to work. That’s what I should have done in the first place.”
“No way,” I shot her down. “There’s no way in hell that you, or us, is going back there. We’ll find another one later. That place was brimming with lurking zombies.”
“That’s what guns are for,” Em replied. “Look, I’m going whether you like it or not, or whether Jasper likes it or not. I am my own woman, and this is my choice. From a medical standpoint, I need to know if you are actually pregnant because if you are, there are precautions we need to take. From a friend standpoint, I need to make sure you’re okay, and that something else isn’t wrong with you.” She paused when she saw the worried look on my face.
“I’m not losing you already,” I interjected.
“You’re not going to,” Em assured me as she patted my leg. “But I need you to back me up. I’m going to sneak out the back door without telling Jasper. He’ll notice when I open the garage door, but at least he won’t have a chance to stop me.”
Reluctantly, I nodded. I realized there was no way I was changing Em’s mind. Em was extremely strong-minded and resilient. I’d learned that already. So I walked down to distract Jasper while Em snuck out the back door with her gun. Distracting Jasper was easy to do because he was preoccupied with finding out what the pregnancy test said. A soon as I walked into the room, he pounced.
“What’s going on?” he asked me kindly with a hint of impatience in his voice, which I could tell he was trying to hide. I sat down on the couch.
“The test was blank,” I replied bluntly.
“What do you mean blank?” he questioned me in the same way that I had questioned Em.
“It was no good. It didn’t work,” I answered. Jasper looked deep into my eyes in an attempt to coax answers out faster than I was giving them.
“So what now?” he replied. As soon as he asked, Jasper heard the garage door open and the jeep start. He gave me a sideways glance and just as he jumped up to run to the front door, the garage door was open and Em pulled out of the garage and off the driveway. She accelerated fast, as if she knew Jasper would come running after the car to stop her if he could. He turned back to me.
“What the hell is she doing? Is she leaving us?” he questioned.
“No,” I replied. I hated being sneaky, but Em had insisted. “The test didn’t work, so Em went back to the store to get the others. She insisted she go and didn’t want me to tell you.”
Jasper stood in the entryway to the living room staring bleakly at me. “That was a dumb decision, Retta,” he scolded me, something he’d never done before. I figured he was saying that because he didn’t want Em to get killed, but that wasn’t the reason and his reason shocked me a little.
“If she dies,” he added, “We’re stuck here without a car,
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