After that last attack, I stood surveying the damage. The bodies of those damned biters were everywhere.
"Goddamnit Phillip. Where are you?" I mutter in a hushed voice just in case there more of them lurking.
I heard a rustle coming from behind a tree at the wood line and I steady my bas
eball bat as I creep toward the noise.
Now, let me explain something. Phillip was the strong one, the leader. He always was. Even before all this shit. As kids, he was the one organizing the baseball games. The one who beat the shit out of the kids who picked on me. So, when Philip staggered from behind that tree with a vacant look in his eyes, I froze. Was he…? I shook my head, blinking hard trying to convince myself of what I was seeing. This had to be some kind of sick joke he was playing on me.
"Okay Phil, joke's over, its not funny…"
That's when I saw it. The blood running down his arm, hitting the ground in sickening drips. He had been bit. He WAS one of them and this WASN'T s joke.
Philip and I had made a pact, the same pact I'm sure many others made: If one of us became one of those God forsaken creatures, the other would do whatever necessary to end it.
So, there I stood, staring down my rock, baseball bat in hand, choking up hard on the neck until my knuckles turned white.
"C'mon man… just do it. Philip could do it. Philip wouldn't think twice. Philip would've done it already" my voice was progressively getting louder. "C'mon ya pussy! Just…"
With that, I felt something change, a boiling rage set in as I took a running start, narrowing in on his skull as I took a swing.
Then it went black.
The next thing I remember, I'm sitting on the ground, covered in a putrid red substance that could only be the rotting blood of a biter.
I held true to the pact, I took Brian out of his misery.
I gathered Penny from the tree I had hid her in as the biters first began to move in. I promised myself then and there that I would find a place and bring back a normal way of life for my Penny.
Brian was gone. Damn shame too, he was a good kid. He just wasn't strong enough.