Just to clear confusion, only Chidera and Isaac's POV's are written in the first person, the other characters are written in third person.

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Juanita has been quiet ever since, she laid her head on my shoulder, her eyes were closed, she was breathing softly, and every once in a while she would let out a small whimper and I would tighten my hold around her. Here in a strange land our faith was unknown to us, I feel so lost and if Juanita wasn't here beside me, I wonder how I would keep sane.

A blaring alarm had both of us jumping up.

"What the fuck is that?" Juanita asked angrily wiping the tears at her face. "Can't someone grieve in peace?"

Alarms like that only came up when there was an emergency. "I think there is a problem." I stood up helping up to her feet.

"What do we do?" Juanita asked dusting the back of her jeans which had collected dust from the dirty ground we were sitting on. "I'm hungry and need to take a piss."

I sighed and looked round the room. "Do you think they locked the door?"

"There is only one way to find out," We looked at the door, I don't remember the boy who brought in Juanita locking it after he left in a hurry. "Let's go."

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"PACK AS MUCH AS YOU CAN AS FAST AS YOU CAN!"

"DO NOT PANIC! DO NOT PANIC!! WE ARE ALL GOING TO BE FINE!" Rita shouted through the speakers as they all struggled to calm the agitated crowd, when even she did not believe the words that came out of her lips. She didn't know how they were going to work it, how do you get hundreds of people not to panic when they have just been told an army of zombies were coming to attack their home?

"What are we going to do?" An old woman asked grabbing on tight to Rita's hand.

"Ma'am you will do as instructed, kindly join the line and you will be instructed on where to go."

"What about my husband, he can't walk with his bad leg, who's going to help him?"

"We'll get to your husband ma'am, please we need to get going, join the line."

Fikkie quickly came to her aid, grabbing the woman gentle by her fragile elbow, he led her out of the room. "Come with me ma'am," he said leading her away.

"This is not good," Rita muttered looking round for Isaac. He had gone with John and the rest of the team to grab the weapons.

"Rita!" She heard someone call and turned round to find Ayesha running over to her.

"Hey, how's it going?"

"We've got five barrels full already, the aero can't carry more than that, and it's only enough to last for a couple of days. What are we going to do?"

"Uh, look for smaller bags, let each family be with at least one, filled to the brim with food stuffs. What's the use of running for our lives when we are only going to die of hunger in the wild."

Ayesha nodded her head and without another word ran to their team.

Rita rubbed her palms over her face as she watched the lines of people trooping out, she spotted her father helping carry the loads outside and that's when she remembered the two elites they had down at the cell.

"Shit," she cursed running out of the large hall.

"Rita!" She heard Ayesha shout her name again. "I need the key to the other store."

"Ask Fikkie!" Rita shouted not looking back as she raced down the hall. She arrived at the cell door, and before she could open the door it was already pulled back from the inside.

"Well, this is awkward," Juanita said. "But uh... We thank you for having us, we will like to take our leave now."

"Don't talk too much or provoke me, keep quiet and come with me," Rita ordered and without another word, she turned round and left.

"I don't like her," Juanita whispered to Chidera.

"Yeah, but you don't like most people," she pointed out.

"Exactly," she answered. They both hurried in there steps to catch up with a fast walking Rita.

"Do you two know how to work a gun?" Rita asked as she left them up to the arsenal, where she knew Fikkie was.

Chidera and Juanita glanced at each other confused. "Yes?" Chidera said, confused as to why the question was asked.

"Good, because in the next hour, we are all going to be fighting for our lives."

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Coming up: PART 2 - WASTELAND.

The first part of the story is about Chidera and Juanita coming to the Gonzites land and meeting with Isaac at the Grove, which is what they call their small home.

Part 2 takes place when the zombies attack.

Will be coming out very soon, at the meantime, you could check out my new book; Sister Mary. You will find it on my page, stay safe 💞