Fortunes & Failures - 03
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“While everybody is here,” Mackenzie spoke up, “I want to remind everybody that the Celebration Dinner is at Juan’s and my house tonight.”
Juan liked the sound of that. With the growing population, everybody began spreading out and taking up residence in the empty houses. If their numbers grew, they might have to consider having multiple families under one roof. But for now, it was just the two of them. And to Juan, that was tight like a tigah.
Chad pulled his machete free from the skill of the zombie still wearing the remnants of its Yosemite Village Gift Shop uniform. He looked over his shoulder at similar scenes of a battle winding down all around. Then, he glanced over at the bus.
Once again, several people had opted to sit this one out. This was a trend that he knew would grow old fast. If this group was going to survive, everybody would have to do their part. He wasn’t foolish enough to believe that this would be the last time they would deal with zombies. It didn’t matter how far away they’d gotten from so-called civilization.
“I think this place is gonna work out,” Brett said, coming up beside Chad, wiping off the length of his shining blade.
“Scott said that the restaurant had shelves of canned food,” Chad replied.
“I think we found ourselves a place to call home.”
“Just in the nick of time, too.” Brett tilted his head back, looking skyward.
“Well,” Chad clapped him on the shoulder, “let’s go get everybody unloaded and show ‘em their new home.”
A single snowflake floated down, lighting upon Chad’s nose. As he brushed it away, more frozen motes of white began to flutter to the ground.
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