Chapter 3
Perfect Timing
I really wanted to tell Hunter Tiffany and Caitlyn that I thought that we should just haul ass out of there and get my sister and head to Birmingham. But we decided at the door to get Tiffany's brother, if he was still alive, take Hunters car and then get my sister.
We all took a deep breath and opened the door taking a few hesitant steps outside only to stop at the horror before us. Most of the lights were blown leaving the hall in the darkness. Blood dripped from the walls and lockers onto the floor in big clumps there was even some on the ceilings. Body limbs were scattered all over the floor hands, arms, feet you name it. I walked out a little to look down the hall when I felt something moving by my foot. I looked down and instantly jumped back letting out a little scream there was a severed head with its eyes open and its mouth open chomping. It was actually trying to eat me! All I could do was sit there frozen not sure what to do. The next thing I knew was a piece of wood coming down on it smashing it, once again covering me in more brain matter.
I looked up to see Caitlyn raising the piece of wood off of the head offering me a smile. She holds out her hand to help me up. I take it and wobble a little at first but then regain my balance. Caitlyn then turns and looks around the halls and lets out an tired sigh,
"All of this happened in 5 minutes. I swear the screams only stopped a second ago…" She pauses and turns and gives me a serious look, "Do you think their all-"
She is cut off by the sickening sound of hurls coming from Tiffany. She was leaning over the side emptying her stomach while Hunter was trying to sooth her.
"As I was saying..." She continued completely unfazed by the vomit, "Sara do you think everyone is dead?"
I looked around again. There were no full bodies around, thank God. No dead fucks either actually, and that was weird to me that the hall was completely empty.
"There is no way that EVERYONE is dead Caitlyn. But most likely almost everyone is." She turned and shook her head trying to grasp this situation. Hunter finally got up and snapped out of her little slump and got angry,
"So what the fuck is going on? Is this the Zombie Apocalypse?! An army of dead fucks are going to kill us all?" She was getting louder and louder so I raised the bloody piece of wood in her face and she finally shut up.
"Hunter I don't know what the hell is going on right now but let's get our siblings and get out of here. What about Harrison? Do you want to call her or go get her?" She snorted and gave me an annoyed look, "No way in hell. I hate her she can get eaten for all I care."
I was shocked by this so I tried to reason with her, "Hunter…" She just turned away and went back to check on Tiffany.
We waited until Tiffany calmed down before we started moving again. As we walked towards the Science and Foreign Studies building all was quiet. We had only walked a few feet when a scream erupted behind us. We turn to see some of the other students had walked out of the classroom and had spotted some of the dead fucks. They looked exactly like Mr. Barwick, they had greyish blue skin and yellow eyes with the same scary red tint. They were only freshmen. I recognized one of them as my friend Katie. She was a sweet girl and she did not deserve any of this. I let out a choked sob as she started to limp toward me.
I backed away trying not to have to have to hurt her but she kept coming towards me. I raised my chair leg and whispered "I'm sorry." Before bringing it down on her head making her drop to the ground dead.
That's when shit started to happen. All of a sudden they started sprinting forward grabbing anyone they could. Screams came from various people it was hard to determine who it was coming from. From a distance I could see Jessica with three on her ripping into her flesh. Behind me Hunter snickered.
I turned around to glare at her and she just shrugged and was about to say something smart but she grew very quiet and started backing away from me. I then realized that she was no longer looking at me but at something behind me. I turned slowly to come face to face with a dead fuck and all its black oozing glory. It took me a second to realize that it was Mr. Reillo. It then grabbed my arm causing me to fall to the ground. He brought it to his mouth and I let out a scream closing my eyes waiting for it to kill me.
But it never came. I then opened my eyes to see the body sprawled out next to me with its head bashed in. My savior was our classmate and friend Miguel. His clothes were ripped and had more blood on them than mine did. His glasses had smudged blood on them that he had given up trying to clean a while ago. Blood and body matter dripped from his once wavy brown hair and was in matted clumps. He was wild eyed and breathing hard as he raised the dented baseball bat once more delivering a final blow.
He finally looked at me scanning over my body as if he was looking for something,
"You ok?" He asked. "Uh...ya I guess but Miguel w-" He had the tip of the baseball bat in my face instantly and had a dead serious face on,
" . ." I only shook my head no and he lowered the bat and relaxed a little. "Ok. I'm sorry that I had to do that but you never know." He then grabbed my hand and pulled me up on my feet. He looked behind us and cursed under his breath,
"Miguel what is going on?" Instead of answering my question he grabbed my hand again and started to run up the hall, "I'll explain later! Right now just don't look back."
I did as he said and continued to run not looking back but the sounds of chewing answered my question right then and there. We ran out a door at the end of the hall to the outside. Everything looked normal besides the bodies on the ground with crows picking at them. Miguel then pressed up against the wall and slid down sitting on the ground. He looked exhausted. I remained standing glancing around relived that we were alone.
"Miguel what happened?"
He looked up at me and narrowed his eyes scoffing, "Shit happened Sara. Mrs. Cesar and Mr. Barwick brought it in most likely. Seeing as they were in the faculty lounge eating people."
"Wait how do you know?"
"I was picking up copies for Spanish for Mrs. Santana. They were in there feeding on Coach Johnson and Mrs. Rollan. I-I didn't know what to do so I just ran into the chapel and hid until the screaming started. Then some of the dead people came into and tried to get to me so I...Um grabbed the gold cross off the alter table and started smashing their heads in. Then I took the bat from one of the dead guys."
His eyes were full of tears when he finished. I just stared at him feeling kind of awkward. I never liked crying men it seemed unnatural to me so in an attempt to get him to stop I tried to distract him.
"Um…so what's your plan? When you get out of here I mean."
He sniffled drying his tears with the back of his hand standing up. "I have to go get my sister Maria from the middle school. I don't know about afterwards we have no car."
"Well Tiffany, Hunter, Caitlyn, and I were planning on getting Tiffany's brother and sister and then heading to the safe haven in Birmingham."
He stood silently looking at me not wanting to ask hoping I'll get the message he was trying to send me. "I'm sure there is room for you and Maria as well." He smiled and picked up his bat.
I turned to Tiffany and Hunter to make she there were ok but they were not there. I spun around in all directions but they were not there. Panic began to set into my gut as I looked desperately to Miguel for an answer.
"They must off ran off when the Dead Fuck came at you I bet they are in-"
A scream came from behind us making us jump and force Miguel to stop halfway before continuing,
"…the courtyard."
I turned around and took off sprinting towards the scream him following close behind but we skidded to a stop seeing what had become of the school. This was not happening. Why wasn't I waking up! Why is this happening what did we do to deserve this!
To be continued….
Ok so that was my next chapter! So let me clear some things up. They are residing in Montgomery Alabama and going to a private school called Montgomery Catholic. It's January so it's kinda cold out and we introduced a new character Miguel! Yes he is Hispanic and one of Sara's good friends. Tiffany is Asian and Hunter is Caucasian. More people will be introduced in the next chapter so please favorite and review!
-Sara
