We had resorted to playing games my dad taught me, things they had before everything changed. Like "I spy" and what we were doing now was 20 questions. You think of an object and others ask questions to guess it. So far Chris was the best at it but Jess wasn't really playing with us. Something about "not playing baby games after our whole lives had been destroyed". Honestly, I'd rather focus on trying to see how many infected I could count than think of the fact that my dad might be dead along with everyone else. But hey, that's just me. 

"Is it a rifle?"

"Yes it is."

"Does it have a number in the name?"

"Yup."

"Is it heavy?"

I thought about it. I guess it weighed a few pounds,but not a ton. It was relatively lightweight. 

"Not exactly."

"Cheytac M-200?"

"How in the hell did you manage to guess that? You've asked like, six questions!" Izzy stared at Chris, and I was honestly impressed at that.

He turned his head to the window and looked out, speaking softly I heard him say: "That's Percy's favorite rifle. I mean it's cause- I- she likes it."

I looked at Izzy as she gave me the same confused look. How did he know what my favorite rifle was? I didn't tell anyone that. I was going to ask him but thought better of it. There was more important things like surviving. And here I was wondering why one of my best friends knew something about me. You probably told him dummy. I shook my head. 

"We need to stop soon and figure out what exactly we have in here and eat, we don't know how often we'll be able to. So, the sooner the better."

"Well, it says on the map that we have only like 20 miles until we get to a gas station. Which we'll need, obviously."

I tuned out their conversation and watched out the window. We had traveled over 150 miles on the full tank of gas, which was a rare thing to have around now. We needed to find more and fast or we'd be sitting ducks for the thousands of infected that we had avoided so far.

"-OK Percy?"

I snapped my head to Jess. Was she talking to me?  "What?"

She rolled her eyes and looked at me in the mirror. "I said  that you should crawl back into the trunk and see if you can find any weapons. If we're stopping I won't get out of this car unless I have something other than a knife to protect me."

I nodded at her and turned around to look at the seat. I searched until I found what I was looking for, the latch to pull down the seat and get into the trunk, and tugged on it. It took a few tries but the seat finally came forward. I pulled it down and looked into the trunk. It was completely dark and I couldn't see anything.

"Guys! I need a light of some kind."

I turned to them and Chris pulled a small flashlight on a key chain out of his pocket.

"Here."

 I clicked it on. The beam was really weak, but I couldn't really complain, it was better than nothing. I turned back to the trunk and found very few things. I frowned. There was three pistols,a shot gun and a rifle in clips on the side, a couple boxes of ammo, a giant first aid kit, four sleeping bags, four back packs, a box of protein bars and a case of water. I grabbed the pistols, the rifle and ammo and pulled them out. I closed up the seat and sat down.

"OK so, I have three pistols and the shotgun, there's one more rifle in the back. And a few other things, but we'll need food. This Jeep obviously wasn't packed for extreme outings like this. Who wants what?"

"Pistol."

"Pistol."

"Shotgun."

They all talked over each other trying to reach for what they wanted. I was fine with that until Izzy tried reaching back and nearly swerved off the empty road. "Hold up! I'll give them and ammo to you guys."

I gave everyone what they wanted and kept the last pistol for myself, loading it up and keeping the safety on. We all remained quiet as the clicks of our weapons sounded. I guess we've given up on games now.

The jeep made a spluttering noise and I became worried. As Izzy stopped the car, we could see smoke coming form underneath the hood. 

"Umm... guys?"

"Seriously? What did you do? This was our only way out and now it's literally up in smoke"

"Jess it wasn't her fault!"

I grew even more worried as the smoke grew darker. Their bickering over who was at fault and I came to the conclusion that we needed to get out. "Guys! We need to get out now! This thing is about to blow!"

They all stopped and looked at the smoke. Without a seconds notice, we all jumped out pf the car at the same time, bringing with us our guns and the rest of the ammo. 

When we were a safe distance away, I froze. We needed the supplies in the back, we couldn't leave without them.

"Guys! We need the stuff in the trunk!"

"Are you crazy? We'll die if we try that!" I looked at Jess. There was the possibility but we would defiantly die without them.

"Either you help or I'll do it on my own!"

I walked over to Izzy and snatched the keys out of her hands.

"Wait!" I looked at Chris and his hand on my arm. "We'll come with you."

I nodded and we all ran to the jeep. Opening the trunk, we all started pulling stuff out and throwing it behind us. Not long after, the jeeps engine started hissing and I pulled out the last sleeping bag.

"Help me!" I closed the trunk and we all pushed on the jeep, trying to get it to go over the side of the road. When the smoke turned black, we all knew we had to run from it. It wasn't going to be long before it blew up. We left it near the side of the road and ran back to where Jess and the stuff waited. She looked furious but also relieved. Probably because without me there wouldn't be any food.

I laughed to myself. All of a sudden, a resounding boom sounded. I ducked down instinctively and covered my head. When I was sure it was over, I stood up and looked at the jeep it was in flames and burning to a crisp. I turned to everyone as they stood up and then looked at all of our supplies on the ground. "Well... we better pack and head out, there's no doubt infected heard that one."

They all nodded and as if replying to my comment, across the road on the edge of the tree line, stood quite a few infected. There was no time for talking as we ran to the supplies and hurried to pack.

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