We leave as four.
Years back, he’d repeated this saying often with his three closest friends: Alec, Kale, and Scot. As children and as teens, they always left as four. Then high school ended. A rift in their bond sent them off in separate directions. While Scot headed to college, Alec and Kale stayed in their hometown, Green Hills, but discretely avoided one another. Jeff had joined the Navy before his assignment to the Vault Tactical Force.
While it was the VTF’s biggest mission yet, Jeff couldn’t help but think about his friends. It’s been a long time, boys, but I’ll be back home soon. Once this is over, I’ll see you again, and things will be better. As Jeff thought these things, he hoped he wasn’t being overly optimistic, and he told himself to focus on the mission at hand.
The old, cramped armored transport Jeff and the other members of the VTF were riding in rocked back and forth up a mountain trail. Constant bumping made him feel sick, and since he was a big guy, he’d never liked small spaces. He couldn’t help but think, This junk of a transport is a hand-me-down most likely, as his large knees nearly touched the specialist sitting across from him.
Another bump and his stomach tightened.
We leave as four, his mind repeated, trying to keep calm.
FOUR (Their Dead Lives, 1) Description:
Four self-involved friends are the key to saving humanity during the zombie apocalypse.
They’ll likely screw it up.
