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Authors: Jessica Ward
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spent the next few hours reminiscing of the old days, the days before the virus took over. We talked about holidays we had been on, places we’d visited and happy memories we shared.
For the first time in a long time, we were all getting along well. We laughed and joked with each other, it was starting to feel like the good old days.
We were brought back to reality by an almighty bang, coming from the guest room. We ran in to find out where the noise was coming from. It was the other side of the wall that we share with our neighbour.
It was a constant bang, as if someone was punching the wall trying to make their way through.
The noise from inside was stirring up the infected outside. They became more animated, looking around trying to figure out where the sound was coming from. They gradually started to walk towards our building. They made no attempt to open the doors, however started banging on the doors in time to the bangs that could be heard from next door.
It was as if they were somehow communicating with each other. We were surrounded. Both our exits out the building were surrounded. The banging could still be heard from next door. The banging was now going on all around us, perfectly in time.
We heard the glass downstairs smash, still the banging carried on going.
“What are they doing?” Duckface whispered , her voice shook. We were all huddled together on the living room floor. We stayed away from the windows not wanting to make our presence known.
“Do they know we ’re here or something?” she asked, trying to make sense of it all.
Nick got up and went to check out the window in our bedroom, it directly faced the entrance door outside. He came back after a few minutes. “There not attempting to get in at all. The glass smashed over the door, and they’ve moved away from it, if they wanted to get in they could easily climb through.” He looked at us all completely baffled. “They’re just banging on the walls and windows, just making noise”
We all looked at each other. We needed to stay as quiet as possible. We knew hardly anything about the things outside. We didn’t know how clever they were, how long they would live or how they communicated, if they even communicated at all.
The only things we knew about them was from what we observed. They moved very slowly, and were slow to react. Walter the warden was the only one of them that seemed to have any sense, if you could even call it that. Between us we had limited experience, only a few of us had been within close proximity of them and we had all been able to avoid close combat.
We sat on the living room floor for hours, holding onto our partners. We were silent. The only noises that could be heard were the on-going bangs from around the building.
We were all terrified. I grabbed onto Nick burying my head in his chest trying to block out the sound. What the hell were they doing? This didn’t seem normal at all. I kept racking my brains trying to come up with a logical explanation for all of this. But there was no explanation, at least not yet.
After a couple of hours the banging died down. Within 2 minutes it went from full on banging on the walls to complete silence. We looked out the window. The infected had all gone back to wandering around the streets, exactly as they were before the banging started. It was as if nothing happened.
Nothing could be heard at all from the inside; however, we had made the unanimous decision to stay clear of next door. Whatever supplies we needed, they weren’t worth risking our lives for.
“I don’t understand” I whispered “why spend hours banging on the doors but make no attempt to go inside?”
“I know, I don’t get it either” Duckface agreed.
“Maybe they’re just trying to scare us” said Andy. “Who knows if their that clever, but it’s the only thing I can think of.”
“You might be right, but I don’t want to sit around here and find out, we’re like fish in a barrel
For the first time in a long time, we were all getting along well. We laughed and joked with each other, it was starting to feel like the good old days.
We were brought back to reality by an almighty bang, coming from the guest room. We ran in to find out where the noise was coming from. It was the other side of the wall that we share with our neighbour.
It was a constant bang, as if someone was punching the wall trying to make their way through.
The noise from inside was stirring up the infected outside. They became more animated, looking around trying to figure out where the sound was coming from. They gradually started to walk towards our building. They made no attempt to open the doors, however started banging on the doors in time to the bangs that could be heard from next door.
It was as if they were somehow communicating with each other. We were surrounded. Both our exits out the building were surrounded. The banging could still be heard from next door. The banging was now going on all around us, perfectly in time.
We heard the glass downstairs smash, still the banging carried on going.
“What are they doing?” Duckface whispered , her voice shook. We were all huddled together on the living room floor. We stayed away from the windows not wanting to make our presence known.
“Do they know we ’re here or something?” she asked, trying to make sense of it all.
Nick got up and went to check out the window in our bedroom, it directly faced the entrance door outside. He came back after a few minutes. “There not attempting to get in at all. The glass smashed over the door, and they’ve moved away from it, if they wanted to get in they could easily climb through.” He looked at us all completely baffled. “They’re just banging on the walls and windows, just making noise”
We all looked at each other. We needed to stay as quiet as possible. We knew hardly anything about the things outside. We didn’t know how clever they were, how long they would live or how they communicated, if they even communicated at all.
The only things we knew about them was from what we observed. They moved very slowly, and were slow to react. Walter the warden was the only one of them that seemed to have any sense, if you could even call it that. Between us we had limited experience, only a few of us had been within close proximity of them and we had all been able to avoid close combat.
We sat on the living room floor for hours, holding onto our partners. We were silent. The only noises that could be heard were the on-going bangs from around the building.
We were all terrified. I grabbed onto Nick burying my head in his chest trying to block out the sound. What the hell were they doing? This didn’t seem normal at all. I kept racking my brains trying to come up with a logical explanation for all of this. But there was no explanation, at least not yet.
After a couple of hours the banging died down. Within 2 minutes it went from full on banging on the walls to complete silence. We looked out the window. The infected had all gone back to wandering around the streets, exactly as they were before the banging started. It was as if nothing happened.
Nothing could be heard at all from the inside; however, we had made the unanimous decision to stay clear of next door. Whatever supplies we needed, they weren’t worth risking our lives for.
“I don’t understand” I whispered “why spend hours banging on the doors but make no attempt to go inside?”
“I know, I don’t get it either” Duckface agreed.
“Maybe they’re just trying to scare us” said Andy. “Who knows if their that clever, but it’s the only thing I can think of.”
“You might be right, but I don’t want to sit around here and find out, we’re like fish in a barrel
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