Chapter 1: Trapped
Jack has been walking for quite some time now. Staring into the distance while letting his legs do the job. He has turned this into some sort of routine.
The town was secured. There wasn't a soul in the whole place, just him.
He arrived this place a few weeks ago and, having no desire to keep moving, decided to stay. The place itself was pretty small, no more than a couple of hundreads could have lived here before the outbreak.
This town was the best thing that happened to him in a while. For some reason hunters or infected haven't found it in the twenty-ish years this shit's been lasting. The only residents before him seemed to be the old bones in the porch of the biggest house in town, right in the middle of the main street. Before the outbreak the inhabitants of the town used that house for storage purposes, box after box of medicine, canned food and other mischelaneous goods where in there, a not so hidden treasure.
Jack rached the edge of the town."yep, still just me here" he murmured. He was bored. Patroling this place was turning into a chore. No one else in the whole universe seemed to know about this place's existance. Why he should expect that to change?.
Then he took the decision to walk a little further, break the routine a little bit. He reached the treeline and stopped again. He was forgetting something. A loud bang reached his ears right when the rope grabbed his feet. Just in a second he found himself hanging, victim of his own trap, the same one he setted up weeks ago "well, at least it worked" he said to himself, trying to stay calm, difficult task.
He had no means to break free, no knife, no handgun (which have just slipped from his fingers), no nothing. So he hanged there waiting for god to do something, anything. Panic started to slowly settle in his guts.
"So this is fucking it?" He asked after at least an hour of seeing the world upside down. He was hungry, skipping breakfast was not a smart idea.
He hanged upside down for so long that he started feeling deezy, a little more time and he would faint. And that would be it. If he fainted now he knew he would probably stay like that forever. But there was nothing he could do. He started drifting away while the pressure slowly started building in his head, just before darkness engulfed his vision a solitary figure appeared on the other side of town. A short, redheaded girl.
He closed his eyes.