"Yes mom?" Elizabeth Puglisi looked up from her homework.
"I was just talking to Mrs. LaPlante and she said that Claire is going to a small little party tonight after your meeting. Why don't you go out with her? It'll be good for you."
Elizabeth bolted up in her bed. "Party? Mom, really...I need to do my homework tonight. I have volunteering tomorrow and I still need to work on that extra credit assignment."
Her mother sighed. "I'm just worried that you're studying too much. The next thing you know, you'll blink your youth away."
Elizabeth scoffed and went back to her books.
***
"Vannette, give me back my phone." Vankelia punched her in the arm.
"Ow, you brat!" She hit back. "You're lucky I was asked to drive you to your meeting. I really need to get ready for my date tonight." Vannette said looking into the rear view mirror to check her mascara.
"Keep your eyes on the road! Sheesh...I wonder sometimes who the younger one is here."
***
The outbreak came out of no where. The zombies entered the store suddenly killing Rachel and Joelle immediately. Elizabeth panicked and saw Kelly Riley stuck in the corner frozen in her spot.
"Let's go!" She said trying to pull her. They both saw JC fruitlessly trying to save Abhi from being mauled and Libby on the ground, after tripping over a chair, crying profusely as a zombie ate away at her legs.
"LET'S GO!" She ripped Kelly from her spot and they ran through the kitchen. A huge group bottle necked the door into the hallway and they pushed, suffocating Andrew on the side.
Vankelia ran behind them and quickly grabbed a knife from the kitchen counter. She had no idea what was going on but it was the first thing that came to her mind. She passed the office as Lauren H. and Courtney tried helplessly to climb into the attic. She could hear a zombie coming from behind her as more people pushed to get out of the door way.
Vankelia followed a large group of people that turned left towards the front of the store.
"This way guys!" Claire screamed at the large group. "Our cars are this way!"
Suddenly a large group of zombies blocked their path. It looked hopeless for them. Mel G. was being ripped apart and two zombies began tearing away at Claire's flesh. Kelly and Elizabeth were on the ground crying.
"You got a knife too?" Vankelia turned around and saw David with a butcher's cleaver. "They're fucking zombies!"
"Zombies?" Vankelia said shaking.
"Yeah, you gotta attack the head. We gotta hurry." He rushed towards the group.
"Wait, what! Oh my god, oh my god." She followed.
David slashed one in the head as more were approaching. Vankelia saw Catie's lifeless body on the ground and Eric being dragged towards a bush by Sean. She was so confused and wanted to follow a group that was heading out into the forest. She looked back and saw David kill another zombie but he didn't notice the two that were creeping up behind him.
"Fuck." She ran towards them and stabbed one in the head from behind. David turned around to a zombie falling on top of him and he went down with it.
"Get it off me!" He yelled. Vankelia went to help him.
Elizabeth and Kelly attracted the other zombie and they hurried to get up. As it got closer, Helena's incessant screaming distracted it enough for them to run into the woods after her.
"What's going on?!" Kelly screamed.
"I don't know! I've never studied anything like this before."
Vankelia looked back and saw Sean trying again to help Ashleigh who had also fallen. A zombie was getting close and Vankelia didn't want to believe it but she was convinced she saw Ashleigh pull Sean down as he went to get her up causing him to fall into the arms of an awaiting zombie. Ashleigh, too, ran into the woods and disappeared into the night.
"Hurry!" David said. "We have to get away!" More zombies were approaching and they ran into the woods in an attempt to flee them. The two ran hysterically and bumped into Helena causing both parties to scream.
"Oh my god! You guys are alive!" Helena said.
"Dude, we gotta get out of here." David said and they continued to run through the woods. Vankelia could see other shadowy figures running beside them a few yards away. One looked like Luana and another of Maddie. She looked back to see if any zombies were chasing them and saw nothing. "Wait! I think we can stop." She said slowing to a weak jog. David and Helena also slowed down and realized that things were quiet except of the running of those ahead of them.
"What do we do?" Helena asked.
"We can fight." David said still holding his butcher's cleaver.
"Are you an idiot?" Vankelia began. "We don't even know how many of them there are out there."
"We can hide!" Helena suggested. There was no place to hide. The trees weren't big enough to climb and Vankelia didn't want to risk lying in wait while the zombies chased them.
***
"I think your ankle's twisted." Elizabeth said to Sami as she and Kelly helped her walk.
"I fell pretty bad back there over a rock. What were those things."
"I don't know but that group of people that ran towards the right saw us being ambushed and they didn't stop to help us." Elizabeth said. "Shows you what kind of friends THEY are..."
The three girls were in a clearing past the woods. They sat Sami down on a large boulder and examined her ankle.
"It's pretty swollen." Elizabeth noted. "You think you can move all right?"
"We can't stay with her." Kelly said.
"Excuse me?" Sami glared.
"I'm sorry, but I can't be slowed down by someone."
Sami hopped up and grabbed Kelly by the shirt. "If you leave me here to die, I will come back to haunt you and kill you in your sleep, so help me God."
"No one is leaving anyone!" Elizabeth broke the two apart. "I think we're safe for now. It looks like we're a bit away to Friendship Heights. I'm sure there are plenty of people there that can help us. Kelly help me get her up." Sami pulled down on Kelly hard as she helped her get up causing Kelly to fall.
"You did that on purpose you bitch!" Kelly said getting up wiping debris from her backside.
"I'm not sure what you're talking about." Sami said with a wink.
"Stop fighting you two. We're being chased down like rabbits...we don't need to be at each other's throats." Elizabeth said to both of them.
"We'll be all right, won't we?" Sami asked.
"I don't know. I wasn't prepared for this..."
***
"I'd slice them and dice them if they got close to the Demoralizer." David said swinging his cleaver through the air.
"Quit it." Vankelia said. Helena couldn't help but constantly look behind her back.
"What...we're in the clear."
"You really think that was it?" Vankelia asked.
"I don't know. How it works in TV is, a virus spreads and cities fall within weeks, if not days."
"This ISN'T TV." Vankelia raised her voice.
"I know! I'm just saying...it could be something similar."
"I'm sure they don't have this problem in Canada." Helena said looking back. "We could go to New FOUNDland..." She continued.
"It's pronounced FINland..." Vankelia shook her head.
"Whatever...but the next store we get to, I'm calling my mom to pick me up. My cell phone isn't working."
"Mine neither." David said.
"Neither is mine, now that you mention it." Vankelia added.
Helena turned to look behind them again. She began furiously tapping on Vankelia's shoulder.
"AH, you guys?"
"What is it?" Vankelia turned around. Her eyes grew wide. Two shadowy figures were running towards them menacingly.
"Should we fight?" David asked holding up his cleaver.
Vankelia gulped. "If we have to..."
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