5 January 2013
Chapter 1 Wake Up Call
Waking up during the early morning, I realized that I had no idea where I was. As I looked around, it was black to no ending.
I laid there in the darkness and it seemed that I had no remembrance of the previous events. Including what day it was, who I was with, how I got here, and even my name. I noticed after a few hours, the sun was coming up, and I heard voices rattling outside the room and began to listen in.
"Ben, I really don't know. She hasn't been bitten. But there's really no way of knowing if she's going to survive. Or if she's even infected."
It was obviously a guy, with a deep southern accent. But what really struck me as odd were the words he used. Bitten? Infected?
Chapter 2 The Second Greeting Thinking about what this guy had said, I heard the slight squeak of the doorknob and immediately a strike of fear went through me. I didn't know what else to do, so I just asked "Who are you, and how did I get here...?"
Nervously, because he had a shotgun in his hand. He laid down the gun and replied "Ellis. We found you nearby, your group had been devoured and you were the only one who survived, you were in the room next them. Completely out of it, so we brought you here, only because there was a slim chance you might make it. It's hard to see so much death.. Ya know?..."
Chapter 3 That Article
"So, what's going on with all this biting, and infected talk? How long was I out...?" I asked, still ignorant to the current situation. When I got the shocking reply,
"The dead are coming back to life, and eating the living, and spreading a deadly virus that causes you to turn into whatever they are. You have been here for about two days." As soon as he finished my mind went back, to a newspaper article I had stumbled upon during travel with the group. " THE DEAD WALK?
Recent scientific research suggests that a deadly virus is being spread, causing high fever, fatigue, and then death. But slightly after death, the body reanimates and craves the flesh of humans, and the subjects bitten suffer the same fate. CDC suggests to avoid all contact with those infected.
And if you are infected, isolate yourself from all beings still alive. CDC also recommends staying inside your home, and boarding up windows, for these things will stop at nothing to get you."
Chapter 4 So Much Closer
My eyes had widely opened, only to see Ellis still there, waving his hand in my face. "Thought I'd lost you there. You seemed to drift off into space for a sec." He said, which explained why he was waving his hand in my face. To make sure I was still there. "It was nothing really, just remembered one of the last few good times I had with the group, laughing about some old news papers. Before, they became infected." I said, a bit shaken, until Ellis began rambling.
"Infected? Heck, when I found em', those things were ripping the remnants of the flesh from their bones!" I looked at him like he was crazy, when he realized that had upset me, very much.
"Sorry. I shouldn't have said that, I'm new with the sensitive thing. Are you okay...?" obviously I wasn't, but tried my best to fight back tears. I had not a clue what had happened to my group, but it had to be my fault. I was the only one who survived.
When suddenly Ellis had decided to leave the room. "Well, I'll leave you to it." He said, walking towards the door and swallowing a bit of confusion, and deep sorrow, for something I didn't know of.
There was something I was still missing, but it slipped my mind quickly. "There's a dresser full of stuff you might like to go through, over there." He motioned to my right, on the other side of the room, to a very large, wooden dresser, and then left the room. I then listened to what he said to Ben.
"What am I gonna do? She doesn't know who I am. I don't event think she can remember herself." I laid down again, and tried to absorb what was happening. After hours on end, I decided that I had to find out what was in that dresser.
I got up, and scurried across the carpet floor, and lightly pulled the first compartment , only to find family mementos, photos, charms, and yearbooks. Flipping page by page the yearbook of Ellis' eighth grade year, scrolling through grade six, to grade seven, and noticed someone extremely familiar.
She had black, shoulder length hair and icy blue eyes, just like I did. That was me, just a few years ago. My name was Shea Allison. I had no idea that Ellis and I had went to the same school, but then his brownish blonde hair, and deep blue eyes suddenly seemed familiar.
I left the book aside, and continued looking through this dresser. I found lots of useful things, including some familiar clothing, and shoes. I ended up changing out of the rags I was already in, to an outfit of shorts, boots, and a purple t-shirt.
Then again continued to search through the room, but found really nothing important, so I decided to look through that yearbook again. Laying down, and flipping the pages, I heard the squeak of the doorknob. It was Ellis, "Just coming to see if you were alright."
He said, stably. "I see you found my sister's stash. We lost her back in the beginning. I figured you'd like this room as much as she did, so I put you in here. Find anything interesting?" I flipped to myself in the book, and showed him, and to his amazement, he remembered me.
"Well, I'll be dang, it's you! I didn't know we went to the same school." I still had no idea who he was, but I did happen to remember his sister. She had black hair, and brown eyes. Her name was Sarah.
We were great friends, I don't know why we separated, but I was always talking about how cute her brother was, but she always said "Eww" and we laughed about it.
Chapter 5 Chased
We continued to chat, and I noticed it was getting dark, the sun had already went down. There was an awkward moment of silence there for a second, then there was a large blast, of a shotgun, to my surprise. The electricity flickered, and proceeded to go out.
It was now dark again, and extremely frightening. Out of instinct, I grabbed hold of Ellis, in a hugging way, my arms wrapped around his neck. and for a second we just stood there, but then he put his arms around my waist, and hugged back.
Then said "It's alright. Ben can handle this, I'll be here." Then Ben had screamed, and Ellis had grabbed hold of my shoulders and said "Stay here. I'll only be a minute, I promise." And left the room, with his gun. He came back in the room, without Ben moments later.
Out of breath, and splattered in blood he ran closer and said "It's worse than I thought. Ben dissappeared. I don't know if those things got him, or if he made a run for it, but either way-- we gotta go! They've broke through the first floor; and are on their way up now."
Almost as soon as he finished, the door had began to rattle, and we had to make a run for it. The nearest exit was the window, and it was our only chance. He opened the window as the door jarred in; and we both jumped, it wasn't very far, but it felt like a long way down.
Ellis motioned to the truck, maybe ten feet away. Running toward it, we both got in, and Ellis drove away from the house that he once called home. I looked in the passenger side mirror, only to flash back again. To a time when Sarah and I were out front, on horseback, getting ready to have a race, and on the count of three, we'd always gallop away on our horses like we were being chased, but with Sarah or without; we were being chased.
Chapter 6 Revealed Feelings For
Old Friends
Driving away from that house was yet heartbreaking, and life saving. It was stay and die, or leave and forget. So leaving the house of many memories behind, at a high speed, it was forgetting unknown good times. There really was no going back.
That place had been overrun, no matter how you put it. Neither of us knew what had happened to Ben, and preferred not to talk of it. I could tell that there was a sensitive side to him when it came to friends and family.
Like his sister, when he mentioned her, the entire atmosphere in the room had changed. That's when it all had came back to me, what had previously happened with Sarah. As the good times flew by, a song was playing through my head; more of a hum, from that of a horror movie, right before someone dies.
Flashes of images that could have been just my imagination flowed, when I realized Ellis was singing that song. He was the voice. I concentrated harder on the images, only to see him humming the song to me; Sitting in his arms as I just listened.
Thinking and trying to decide if this had actually happened, I went blank again. At that very moment the singing had stopped, and I remembered the door swinging open. "What's going on here...?!" Sarah exclaimed.
Ellis nor I knew what to say. "I thought we were friends? I was wrong. This always happens." She continued, deceived. Though, I meant no harm, Sarah slammed the door, and went downstairs. I remained where I was, and didn't move a muscle.
She was talking with Ben. "I didn't think that this would happen. It seems that we've always been friends. All of my previous friends fell for him, and ended up crushed. I just don't want that to happen to her." She said to Keith but he said nothing, because he knew, the entire time.
I could hear her strongly; the house was silent except her words. " I should go." I whispered to Ellis, but when I said that, I obviously died a little inside. I never wanted to leave, but Sarah warned me Ellis was a heart breaker. No one ever listens.
I ran down the spiral staircase as fast as I could. Looking down, the full moon was just as bright as a flashlight. Just one tear dripped down the left side of my face, and I turned to the window, only to see him looking right back at me. I continued my journey as I g
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