Road To Nowhere

ch. 1 Jazz: When I saw the SUV barreling down the dusty highway being closely chased by two Raider Jeeps, I knew this wouldn't be an ordinary day.

      My name is Jazz Monroe. I'm seventeen and I live with my younger sister-Andrea-,younger brother-Locke, and anyone who can carry their own weight.

      Technically, the world has ended. You can't grow food in the radiated earth and if you stay outside longer than a few hours, you'll suffocate from the gas in the air. Most people who survived the 'apocalypse' went insane from the neural decay of their own minds.

      Unlike my parents. Sixteen years ago, before Andrea and Locke were born, our parents founded this safe haven for anyone who wasn't completely crazy.

      I narrowed my eyes and reached up then pulled the red and black checkered bandana from my face.

      "Locke!" I called to my brother on the platform below. "Hand me Jessie."

      "One second," he replied. The barrel of my sniper rifle-Jessie-poked out from where the latter to the watch tower was. "Here." I reached over and took a hold of Jessie. I balanced her barrel on the slot in the watch towers side and peered through the scope at the driver of the SUV. It was a light haired boy, a terrified look on his flushed face. Probably seventeen. I narrowed my eyes then adjusted Jessie to point at the driver of the first Raider Jeep.

      It was an atypical Raider. Bulky, tattooed, shaved head, and guns strapped here and there. I lined up the shot to be between the eyes, then pulled the trigger.

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Kane: The car behind me swerved suddenly off the road and rolled in the dust that made up the road banks. The second Jeep did the same, crashing into the first. I gasped and slammed on the brakes, making the car drift to a stop. I sat behind the wheel, a shocked expression on my face. I blinked.

      What was that? 

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Jazz:      "Locke!" I yelled to my brother, standing up and slinging Jessie over my shoulder. "Go find Andrea and Vick. We're going out." 

      "Okay," Locke called back and I heard him clambering down the latter. Then, I added as an afterthought, 

      "And tell them to bring guns." 

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