Somehow, I made it home. Somehow, I had run all the way home from the university. Clearly, those things had begun attack people in and around the city as the roads were blocked and people were looting, there was gun fire and police trying to do jobs but failing miserably; chaos other than those things had erupted in town but I did not pay attention. All I remember, briefly, is snaking between cars that were parked at a standstill until I reached my halls of residence. People here had seemed to get the same idea as those in town, many were trying to leave. Much to my surprise our hall manager George was nowhere to be seen- he must have fled before the chaos started.
Pushing my way past people and into my block, I ran to my flat. My hands fumbled for the keys as I unlocked the door, with extinguisher still beside me. Slamming the door behind me, I collapsed to the floor and began to cry. There was a moment, where I thought I was alone but then Josh poked his head out from around his bedroom door with a slight frown on his face.
He was silent for a moment "…Kat-..lyn?"
Karl, one of the other flatmates, peered out from round his door with a smile on his face. It faded though and was replaced with a look of only slight confusion "What happened to you?"
At first, I wasn't sure what he meant but then I looked down at myself and saw that I was covered in blood; I was caked in the stuff which was slowly beginning to dry on my clothes and skin and in my hair. My sobs became louder and more erratic as the sudden realisation that I'd killed 3 people and had left one for dead today hit me like a train. Both boys stood there, aimlessly for a few minutes as I screamed at the top of my lungs- my whole body shaking with each sob- before Josh approached slowly.
"What the fuck happen Katlyn?" he asked, with a tinge of anger to his voice
I tried to form words but I just couldn't.
"Why are you covered in blood?" Karl said questioningly
"What's going on guys…" Sarah slipped out of her room and into the corridor
It was as if the questions had lit a fuse to a bomb, and I was that bomb. After each and every word had hit my ears, I exploded with almost and angry cry of anguish "THE DEAD ARE COMING BACK TO LIFE"
There was silence. Obviously, what I had just said sounded utterly ridiculous; no one should ever believe someone when they tell you that the dead is up and walking. The dead rising from the grave was absurd and wasn't scientifically possible. My friends, were sensible and did not believe my words; what I said was crazy and with me covered in blood, I probably looked it too. They all looked at one another with slightly shifty glances and it was a good 5 minutes before any of them actually spoke a word.
"Don't be stupid…" Josh laughed it off as if it was a joke "The dead just can't come alive again"
"IT'S TRUE!" I sobbed, tears streamed down my face "I SAW THEM! I SAW IT HAPPEN!"
"Now Katlyn, you need to calm down and tell us what really happened."
"RONALD DIED AND THEN CAME BACK TO LIFE AND KILLED NATALIE FLEGLING" I screamed
Josh was just about to say something when the door opened and banged into my back. Through the small gap that was open, Jane slipped in and closed the door swiftly behind her; she was panting hard and looked round at them with a sheer look of panic on her face.
"Are you okay?" Josh asked
"RONALD…Dead…killed…Natalie…dead…" she gasped out in a mess of a sentence. She glanced at me briefly, seeing that I was covered in blood she looked away.
"SEE! SEE!" I shouted pointing at Jane desperately wanting the others to understand
"I don't know what you two have been having in your coffee, but I want some" Josh joked, laughing slightly at the end of his sentence
"This Is Serious Josh!" Jane snapped at him angrily, her hands shaking
"Uh…guys" Karl spoke up, his iPad in his hand "You might want to have a look at this…"
Jane, Josh and Sarah huddled round Karl to watch whatever he had playing on his iPad. I didn't have the will to stand up so I simply listened to what it was saying as I leant back against the door:
Great Britain is under attack – spoke some posh London male, most likely David Cameron- in the early hours of this morning, it is understood that a virus has been set loose on the US and has also spread quickly to the United Kingdom. This virus is contagious and fatal if one come into contact with an infected person…- there was a bit of muttering before he continued – the infected being the dead. It seems that this virus reanimates the dead, who are violent and will attack you on site. We at Parliament advise you to stay away from the infected, stay in your homes and do not attempt to travel anywhere (the message had clearly come too late for some). Remain calm, our police and military are trying to k-
That's when Karl turned the video off. They all looked at me and Jane before each other once they had realized that this was it.
This was the end of the world.
