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rang in my head. The zombie and its rotting friends behind it dropped, riddled with bullets.
    Claire motioned us to the staircase. As Rachel fired up the stairs, Claire fired across the entire living room. Bullets ripped through the air, ripping through the zombies, portraits, and vases, sending chunks of rotting flesh and plaster and glass everywhere.
    I headed up the stairs and looked left, then right. Clear . My heart was beating so hard that I thought I might faint, but I somehow found the courage to pull open the first door. Inside were zombies galore, even more than I had expected, and I fired off another round into them.
    A scream echoed in the bathroom. I bolted there and saw Claire fighting a zombie. She kicked it in the gut, and it went flying through the glass shower door, shattering it into a million tiny pieces. She wrapped her hands in a towel and grabbed a large shard of glass; without hesitation, she plunged her makeshift dagger into the zombie’s left eye, bursting it like a rotten tomato.
    “ Looks like you got this covered,” I said.
    She spun around, startled. “How do I reload this thing?” she frantically asked. “I ran out, and I need another clip.”
    “ It’s called a magazine.” I quickly showed her. “Got it?”
    “ Yep.” Expertly and bravely pointing her gun, she scoped out the hallway. “All clear,” she said.
    “ Up here!” Rachel shouted. “In the attic.”
    Claire ran down the hall and bolted up a rickety wooden stairway, and I anxiously followed. In the attic, rather than zombies, we found a terrified group of fifteen people.
    “ We’ve got an armored truck ready to go,” I said. “Let’s move it!”
    Claire ushered the frightened people downstairs. I went down first to make sure there was nothing waiting for us at the bottom, but one member of the welcoming committee greeted me with a snarling growl. I reached for my pistol in my holster and shot the thing right between its two white eyes. Its head jerked back as it crumbled to the floor. Then I aimed for the one coming past the couch. I squeezed the trigger, and the well-placed shot had the zombie slumping over the couch, its neck spewing out black tar like a geyser.
    “ Look out!” a woman screamed. “There’re more of them! Oh my gosh. They’re everywhere!”
    Claire aimed and shot an entire round at the horde as Rachel and I motioned the survivors outside to the armored truck. The smell of smoke wafted through the air, and embers were still sizzling in every direction. Stragglers were everywhere, but Rachel and I kept right on firing, squeezing out one shot after another. Gunfire echoed all around me.
    Outside, Bart opened the back of the truck and started herding the wide-eyed, petrified survivors inside.
    Another line of zombies staggered toward us. Taking a deep breath, I reloaded and mowed them down in seconds. A loud moan made me jump. From the left, a zombie on fire walked toward me, blazing as it moved, its foul stench intensified by the fact that it was frying. I shot it in the head, and it crumbled to the ground as flames consumed it.
    A new stench, a different sort of putrid smell, attacked my nostrils, and I turned to see where it was coming from. Something horrible caught my eye: one of Steven’s friends, scorched and still twitching. I wasn’t sure if he’d gotten caught in the path of the flamethrowers or if burning debris or a zombie inferno had fallen on him, but there was nothing worse than the sight of a warrior’s burnt corpse lying on the grass next to me. Again, nausea churned in the pit of my stomach.
    Rachel, Claire, and I ran toward the Land Rover.
    It seemed as if the zombies were multiplying, and I let out a trembling breath as I got back into the truck.
    “ Rachel!” Steven yelled. He then shot me a quick nod, and his eyes said it all; it was his way of thanking me for keeping her alive.
    The Land Rover was quickly being surrounded by the incoming mob, and my breath quickened.