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face warm.”
I said nothing and pulled up my hood. We followed the road, my eyes glued to the trees. I hadn't
been expecting to see a zombie in these forests. They normally stuck close to the towns, there was
nothing for them to eat out here. They weren't clever enough to pick berries or hunt. They were
driven by their hunger for flesh, to the point they would sometimes eat each other. I remembered on
the news before we lost the TV broadcasting, they had said the disease affected humans and made
them hungry for flesh. Everyone started calling them the flesh-eaters (basically a zombie). Their
bodies started dying from the moment they became infected. The disease spread within weeks and
soon became an epidemic. The disease originally came from bats that had traveled over from
Mexico. No one knows what happened or why the bats suddenly became carriers of the virus. The
bats became hostile and once a few humans had contracted the virus there was no stopping it. One
bite was all it took to create worldwide zombie chaos. Safe to say I now hated bats. The only upside
was the disease didn't affect animals, otherwise, I would have been screwed months ago with the
amount of bug bites I'd had, and my fair share of run-ins with psychotic dogs. I'm not surprised they
had turned that way, to them the humans were the ones that fed them and took them for walks, now
most of the population walking around on two legs wanted to eat them.
There was a weird awkward silence.
Lane cleared his throat like he was waiting for me to speak first, but I didn't know what to say, so
Lane finally broke the silence first.
“So what's the plan?” he asked.
“The plan?”
“Yeah the plan, where do we go from here?”
“I dunno, I don't have a plan.”
“Okay, what about the plan for tonight, what do we do when it gets dark?”
“We find somewhere to take shelter. Why, what do you normally do?”
“Hide.”
“There is nowhere to hide. They'll always find you.”
“What about when we get hungry?”
I looked over at him, unsure if he was kidding.
“Find something to eat.”
“What if they find us?” he asked.
“Then we run if we can or fight if we have to.”
“What if we get bitten?”
I came to a stop along the road and turned to him.
“Look, Lane, I'm not your mom. I'm not gonna hold your hand and talk you through how to survive
the zombie apocalypse 101. We happen to be walking the same way, that doesn't mean we need to
get to know each other, and I don't want to be friends because you'll probably end up dead in a
week. I'm kind of surprised you survived for this long... How have you made it this far?”
“I was one of the lucky ones.”
Figures. The best of the bunch picked for survival.
They started evacuating humans out accordingly. Which meant if you had clever parents you got
picked. Lane's father was a professor at the university, teaching Physics, and his mother was a
Doctor. The only way I knew this was because Pip had mentioned it. More than once. The lucky
ones were evacuated to the nearest facility that had been set up, armed with military guards. They
had supplies flown over and dropped, including medicine and food. Apparently they were deemed
the safest places to be.
My dad being ex-military was invited and I was his daughter which automatically got me a free
pass. One problem, though, my mom and dad never got married and they wouldn't accept her.
Obviously, there was no way my dad was going to leave my mom as she was pregnant and he had
been crazy about her since high school. They wanted me to go to the facility, hell, dad practically
forced me out the front door, but I couldn't leave them. In the end, I was glad I hadn't gone. I got to
spend more time with my parents. Later on, I heard from different survivors that the infection had
still got into the facilities and overtaken some places, then people scattered and took shelter
wherever they could, staying in numbers for safety. I was at a secure high school for two
I said nothing and pulled up my hood. We followed the road, my eyes glued to the trees. I hadn't
been expecting to see a zombie in these forests. They normally stuck close to the towns, there was
nothing for them to eat out here. They weren't clever enough to pick berries or hunt. They were
driven by their hunger for flesh, to the point they would sometimes eat each other. I remembered on
the news before we lost the TV broadcasting, they had said the disease affected humans and made
them hungry for flesh. Everyone started calling them the flesh-eaters (basically a zombie). Their
bodies started dying from the moment they became infected. The disease spread within weeks and
soon became an epidemic. The disease originally came from bats that had traveled over from
Mexico. No one knows what happened or why the bats suddenly became carriers of the virus. The
bats became hostile and once a few humans had contracted the virus there was no stopping it. One
bite was all it took to create worldwide zombie chaos. Safe to say I now hated bats. The only upside
was the disease didn't affect animals, otherwise, I would have been screwed months ago with the
amount of bug bites I'd had, and my fair share of run-ins with psychotic dogs. I'm not surprised they
had turned that way, to them the humans were the ones that fed them and took them for walks, now
most of the population walking around on two legs wanted to eat them.
There was a weird awkward silence.
Lane cleared his throat like he was waiting for me to speak first, but I didn't know what to say, so
Lane finally broke the silence first.
“So what's the plan?” he asked.
“The plan?”
“Yeah the plan, where do we go from here?”
“I dunno, I don't have a plan.”
“Okay, what about the plan for tonight, what do we do when it gets dark?”
“We find somewhere to take shelter. Why, what do you normally do?”
“Hide.”
“There is nowhere to hide. They'll always find you.”
“What about when we get hungry?”
I looked over at him, unsure if he was kidding.
“Find something to eat.”
“What if they find us?” he asked.
“Then we run if we can or fight if we have to.”
“What if we get bitten?”
I came to a stop along the road and turned to him.
“Look, Lane, I'm not your mom. I'm not gonna hold your hand and talk you through how to survive
the zombie apocalypse 101. We happen to be walking the same way, that doesn't mean we need to
get to know each other, and I don't want to be friends because you'll probably end up dead in a
week. I'm kind of surprised you survived for this long... How have you made it this far?”
“I was one of the lucky ones.”
Figures. The best of the bunch picked for survival.
They started evacuating humans out accordingly. Which meant if you had clever parents you got
picked. Lane's father was a professor at the university, teaching Physics, and his mother was a
Doctor. The only way I knew this was because Pip had mentioned it. More than once. The lucky
ones were evacuated to the nearest facility that had been set up, armed with military guards. They
had supplies flown over and dropped, including medicine and food. Apparently they were deemed
the safest places to be.
My dad being ex-military was invited and I was his daughter which automatically got me a free
pass. One problem, though, my mom and dad never got married and they wouldn't accept her.
Obviously, there was no way my dad was going to leave my mom as she was pregnant and he had
been crazy about her since high school. They wanted me to go to the facility, hell, dad practically
forced me out the front door, but I couldn't leave them. In the end, I was glad I hadn't gone. I got to
spend more time with my parents. Later on, I heard from different survivors that the infection had
still got into the facilities and overtaken some places, then people scattered and took shelter
wherever they could, staying in numbers for safety. I was at a secure high school for two
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