Author's note: Hello, so I'm trying out a new thing. I haven't found anything like this out there so I hope you'll like it. I'm sorry for misspelled words and even worse grammar, but English isn't my first language. I have no idea how to get a beta reader so if you are a beta reader or know a good one, feel free to contact me about it:).
Since I live in Sweden and I've never been in the US, I took the liberties of moving Bella and Edward to my hometown so it will be easier to describe the places! Hope you like it!
So yes I guess you already know this but, Stephenie Meyer owns everything, I just thought zombies were better than vampires here hah! ;)
BPOV
The world I know has changed.
Not a little.
Everything has changed.
There will be no more strolling down the street on a Sunday afternoon. No more going to the library to borrow a book. No more going to the food-store to buy food. And no more lying in my bed until noon, because I've got nothing to do.
There are no stores left, the only thing left are empty rooms filled with broken glass and shelves. If you are lucky, you'll probably find a forgotten can of something in a hidden corner.
But I wouldn't know, since I haven't left my apartment building in 3 weeks.
I've only survived because of my neighbors, mainly Carlisle, Esme and Alice. They've been so wonderful to me, even though they're going through the same thing as I. Esme has lost her sister that also lived in the building, and the last I heard from my parents they were both fine, trying to hoard as much supplies as they could. That was 2 and half weeks ago.
There are others here too, but as we don't want to make too much noise, we keep separated.
Esme, Carlisle, Alice and I are living in Alice's condo on the 5th floor. Sam, with his wife Emily, their children Leah and Seth, and Jacob, Sam's brother, live on the 8th floor. And then we have James, Victoria, Laurent, Alec, Demetri and Jane that live on the 2nd floor, because they like to live on the edge.
Stupid fuckers.
They keep getting us in dangerous situations because they think this is a joke. Just yesterday, they let a zombie in and played with it for about two hours, claiming they were practicing for the "real thing". Whatever that is.
Everyone has their tasks. Jacob keeps the cars in the underground garage in order, in case of emergency and we have to leave instantly. Sam helps with the cars when he has the time, but otherwise he keeps inventory of the things we have and the things we will needing soon.
James, Laurent and Demetri go out and search our neighborhood for weapons and food and any other important thing they come across.
Alice, Jane, Alec, Seth, Leah and I take turns keeping guard on the balconies. But we also help with everything else, like helping Esme, Emily and Victoria with cooking and cleaning and fixing clothes.
Carlisle is our doctor, since he was our local hospital's Chief of surgery. But once in a while he goes out with James and the others in search of medical supplies.
Carlisle has only gone out 2 times but Esme has become a nervous wreck both times. I understand her. Our neighborhood was one of the last ones to get infected but now it's crawling with zombies around every corner.
I didn't know any of these people a month ago, but we have come really close.
I guess that's what happens when the world is going under.
At first everyone thought it was a new false epidemic warning. Like the swine-flu and bird-flu. But that was where we all went wrong.
This epidemic started in a little shit-hole town in no-where Sweden. Storuman. Never heard of it? Yeah, me neither.
Anyway, Sweden's gets most of their meat from Poland. And there they don't really tell the origin of the meat. But they said that meat from a cow or a pig, that was sick when it was slaughtered, and then sold in Storuman. 4 families fell ill, getting a fever, puking their guts out and then becoming zombie-like. The children got sick faster than the adults. They got ill within a few hours of eating the meat, and the parents fell ill 2 days after them.
After about 2 weeks, the doctors thought the children, a girl of two years and boy of 8 years, were getting better. They got sent to live with relatives until the rest of the family were better.
The boy and girl, refused to eat anything for a few days, but the girl was found in the kitchen one night eating raw meat. She was sent back to the hospital because she was acting really strange on top of that, Growling and her eyes were turning a weird shade of yellow mixed with white. There she attacked one of the nurses.
The boy attacked his grandfather, after the grandfather had cut his finger while cooking, smelling his blood. The grandfather fell ill too.
After that, all hell broke loose. As the girl was being under observation in the same ward as the other kids, they smelled the blood and they started chasing every person in that ward.
It took a month from this incident for the zombie-virus, as they called it, to reach Stockholm.
That is where we are at the moment. Locked inside a 8 storey building. With our food supply getting smaller and smaller everyday.
"Alice? Alice, where are you?" Esme's call woke me up from my thoughts.
"I'm here Esme. Let me just put on my shoes, I'll be right there!" Alice whisper screamed, trying not to wake me.
"I'm already awake Alice." I groaned.
"Sorry, didn't mean to wake you up, but I gotta get to the balcony. Apparently Jane is flipping her shit."
"No worries, I was already awake."
Alice looked at me with a painful expression. "Thinking about everything that's going on?"
"Yeah, it's hard not to, you know?"
"Sure is. God I wish we would have done something before everything went to hell. But I guess what's done is done, huh?" Alice said with a sigh, and then she hugged me. "Well, gotta go, talk to you later? Your shift's at 12 right?" I nodded in confirmation and Alice left with a wave.
Hearing Alice's and Esme's mumbles from the kitchen, I decided to get ready for the day. There was a lot of cleaning and cooking to be done today.
Taking a shower I tried to come up with all the good things that we still had. For some weird reason we still had electricity and water, which was awesome, so we could shower and live almost like before. But during the hours we tried to use less light so we wouldn't attract any more zombies than necessary.
There were a few zombies loitering around the house, but we would always throw a rock or something to divert their attention from the entrance so the guys could get out unnoticed. It worked like a charm.
I went out into the kitchen to join Esme and Carlisle for breakfast. Carlisle seemed more excited than normal, almost not being able to sit still.
"What's up Doc?" I joked with Carlisle.
He smiled and shared another excited look with his wife, Esme.
"James said he met another group in one of the houses on the other side of the bridge. They've been getting by just like us, but they're running out of food and other supplies." Esme poured me a cup of tea and sat down with us, continuing with the other half.
"They've got another doctor there and another kid. There are about 5 people in the group too, so they're a little short-handed with bringing supplies and keeping guard. But James suggested they come over soon, we got room and food for at least another week and 5 another five stomachs. Don't you think Bella?"
This was great, we needed a few more people to keep guard and new people in general were fine with me. We were getting a bit isolated and another kid would be awesome for Seth who was getting bored as hell with only his grumpy big sister.
"Sounds awesome, do you need any help getting anything ready for them?"
Esme nodded, and began organizing were they would be living. After breakfast the dragged me around the building trying to find suitable beds and clothes for them, they were also short on clothes.
"Esme I have to go keep guard, should I send down Alec or Leah to help you?"
"
Yes, Leah would be perfect. Good luck and keep safe." She gave my hand a squeeze and then went in search of another pair of boxers for the doctor.
EPOV
I had been stuck with my brother and his girlfriend for about two weeks now. They were insufferable but at least I had Jasper, who I found walking around the local food-store a week ago.
Emmett and Rosalie loved to get it on. They didn't do anything except that, eat, drink and sleep. They thought that the only thing they could now, since the world already was gone, they could at least have sex until they couldn't walk anymore, and wait for the zombies to come and eat them. Every now and then you would hear Rosalie wail out in despair, she was scared to death and couldn't really function to do anything else than what she already were doing. She also stated the sex and booze made her forget.
Jasper and I were the only ones doing anything here. We had tried to cover up all the windows, so the light would be seen from outside, collecting food and other necessities, and cooking.
Right now I was searching for another group that I'd heard the other day in a park nearby. Jasper had also seen them, right before I found him. Thinking I was one of them he had gone with me and was pretty disappointed when he found out how we were living. The other group had electricity and warm water, at least from what he had heard, and we only had candles and lukewarm water at best, in our one 2 room apartment. Our food was running low too.
Sadly, Jasper didn't know where they resided so we had been searching for them the past week.
I slowed down, as I could hear heavy breathing, which more times than not, meant there was a zombie close. Crouching down behind a car I waited out the zombie. After ten minutes I deemed it safe to get moving again. I checked the street for any other zombies and came up with nothing, breathing a sigh of relief, I kept going.
This last month had been a pain, we had lost our parents to the zombies while trying to leave the city and then another 4 people who had joined us on the way.
We'd had to leave the city because it was filled with zombies. Moving by day had been the easiest, the zombies were mildly sensitive to the light and would keep hidden or out of the sun as much as they could.
A sound in a house across the street caught my attention. I looked at the house, a white house with big windows and red roof along with red balconies. The door to a balcony on the 3rd floor opened, hinting a dark-haired head I stood stock still.
Was this the group me and Jasper had heard? I really hoped it was.
Just before the internet died a month ago the government had issued a sign for people who needed help or who were still people, so others wouldn't accidentally kill them. This sign was a bit ridiculous in my opinion but this was life or death and I would probably never see a zombie doing this, it was too hard for their half eaten brains. I started jumping, flinging my arms and legs in time with each other forming an X in the air.
Feeling all kinds of stupid while doing this I saw the dark-haired head rising and was met with two big eyes and sweet, smiling girl. She waved me over, pointing to a door to her left. I smiled back and ran over there. Waited for a minute and then heard several locks being opened and someone removing, what sounded like, a big bureau.
The door opened, enough for me to pass, but I waited for someone to peak out.
A blond man appeared at the opening, he stretched out his hand and I took hit.
"James." He said
"Edward."
The man, James, nodded, showed me both hands and I did the same.
"Welcome in."
I hope you liked it and feel free to correct my faults so I can become better writer!
Bye! :))
