Rick stepped out onto the hot pavement splattered with blood that he in fact hadn't noticed until now. Why is there blood on the ground. How long was I out for? He thought in confusion. He stumbled toward a bike he saw on the other side of the road. He found a dead body on the ground and looked at it in horror. He pick up the bike and the corpse picked its head up slowly. It looked at him and growled and snapped it's teeth. Rick got on the bike and rode as fast as his weak and injured body would let him right as the corpse reached out for him. He rode to his house with the slim hope his family was still there. He walked in through the wide open front door. He searched the house up and down only to find open drawers with little clothing and missing photo albums. He cried out "Lorie! Carl!" in a horse voice. He fell to the floor in a heap of sobs and cries. He stood up and stumbled out of the house. He walked to the curb and looked around like a lost puppy. He went to walk forward and feel. He looked up and saw a man in the street. He crawled on the grass nearest to him. He called out to the man. "Hey! Sir, please help!" the man turned to him and started to limp towards him. It came closer and closer. Rick finally got enough strength to stand and just as he did he got a hard flat object to the face. He fell to the ground and almost lost consciousness. He looked toward what hit him and saw a blurry image of a women.

"ow! Doctor, I got one!" she screamed and held the object into the air. A man came into Ricks vision and he looked towards him.

"Rose! You got a man. He's alive." he said leaning forward his face inches away from Ricks. The man was still blurry. The man with a limp got within five feet of Rick and three feet of the other man. The blurry man took out what looked like a large pen. What is he going to do with a really big pen? Rick thought. The pen lite up and made a high pitched noise. The limping man lunged forward and snapped at the other man. "ow! Watch it buddy." he said moving out of the way. The women named Rose looked at Rick and asked

"Are you okay?" she asked. Rick squinted at her. "Lorie?" he asked and he blackout.