Well here is the next chapter of this story. Since my summer is coming to a close soon, it may be longer for me to update. So until then, please enjpy this chapter-

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"Happy Birthday Emily!" a little boy shouted jumping up and down in front of his sister. She smiled as he climbed onto her bed. His cuteness of only being 4 always seemed to have brightened her day. "Happy Happy Birthday!" he sang over and over, jumping up and down on her queen sized bed.

She sat up and tickled him. "No way I am going to let you get away with jumping on my bed you little chimp." She said as he laughed. It was one of those treasured moments. Suddenly the room changed. Her blue painted walls had started to peel and the window began to shake.

Emily looked around horrified as the walls fell into darkness and the window shattered into hundreds of pieces. Her floor then crashed upward and disappeared into the approaching black.

Emily turned horrified to face her brother, but instead of seeing his smiling face, she saw the remains of him. Staring coldly at her. His once deep blue eyes that once shown happiness and innocence was now condemned to emptiness. An eerie emptiness.

He had a large bite mark on the side of his neck, spilling blood onto his cloths and the bed, while the tendons hung out.

She inched away from him as he let out a low moan. "N-Noah." She asked hoping that maybe what she was seeing was some kind of joke.

Her brother then disappeared leaving her in the bed, and darkness. "Noah! Noah!" she shouted over and over again.

She leaned off the side of the bed and called his name, but still no response. Then she heard something from the bottom of the darkness.

"Emily. Why didn't you save me? Why didn't you protect me like you said you would?" the voice asked. She stopped her peering and took in the questions. "I didn't know. I didn't. If I had known that this was going to happen, I would have come for you. I would have kept my promise. I'm sorry." She said starting to cry.

"Your lying!" the voice screamed from the emptiness. "You said you would protect me. I waited for you to get me, but you never came. I thought you loved me!" it shouted, the voice now singing in a chorus of other familiar ones.

"I'm sorry" she repeated over and over her cheeks now stained with tears. The voices continued to get louder and louder. "Its your fault! You promised! You promised!" the voices continued to shout.

Suddenly the room began to spin again as Emily feel into the darkness, as she did hundreds of hands trying to grab her. They were the hands of the dead, sticking out of the sides of the emptiness, trying to grab her. Pull her in and make her one of them. Trying to take what was left of her sanity. "Help me!" she screamed again and again.

"Emily." Said a familiar voice. "Wake up!" It went on.

The darkness had started to fade and the hands disappeared. Emily solely started to feel herself being pulled from the darkness. Slowly and slowly it began to fade into a totally different scene.

Serena sat next to her friend trying desperately to wake her up. When the truck had hit them, the force had knocked her a few feet back, but left her uninjured. Karen was already up and shooting the approaching creatures as Dan stood behind them, trying to start another truck that had been abandoned a yard or two away.

Serena shook her friend again and then turned her attention to Karen who had a small trickle of blood coming down the side of her head. In the distance she could see the figures of the creatures approaching them. Another one drew near and Karen aimed her gun clicking it, but nothing came out.

She clicked it again, but still nothing happened. "Dang it! Dan I am out of ammo, are you almost done with the dang thing!" Karen shouted as Dan fused together the last two wires and the truck started.

He sat up and yelled back that it was good to go. Serena looked back to Emily who was starting to wake up. "Karen we need to go now!" Dan screamed as the creatures came within one hundred feet of the woman and girls. Karen quickly ran over to where the two survivors were and picked Emily up, and instantly instructing Serena to run to the truck.

Once inside Dan moved the truck/convoy into reverse and stepped on the gas pedal as far as it would go. They sped out of the area, leaving behind the creatures and the base. They now had nowhere to go. On their own, with no food, water, or ammo, they were to fend for themselves now.

Serena sat next to her friend as Karen sat on the other side, watching the girls and at the same time, keeping look out for others or a place to stay. Night was approaching quickly and she knew all to well that night was probably the worst time to be out in the infection zone, especially weaponless and carrying injured people.

Emily woke up to a world of pain and confusion. What had happened? Why were they in a different truck? Suddenly it hit her. The truck coming full speed, them getting hit and her seeing the darkness. Her eyes widened as she looked around. They had all survived, but how. They were supposed to be dead like everyone else was. They were supposed to be eaten by the dead and join them. They weren't supposed to be riding at the back of a moving truck.

She slowly sat up taking in all the information, only to be pushed back down by her friend, who had a look of worry on her face. "Em' you ok?" she asked as Emily nodded. She heard Serena and Karen both give a sigh of relief.

She wanted desperately to tell Serena of her dream. How Noah had waited for her and she never came. How she had broken her promise, but from the worry already plastered on her face, she would decided to wait till later.

The guilt from his words though was still vivid. The sense she had failed her brother was unimaginable, but she pushed it aside and stared at the ceiling.

Serena looked at her friend again and smiled. "Can you believe it? We survived. First we are stuck on top of that store for a month, almost food, hit by a truck, hitting th cold air, and now in a moving truck with the approaching darkness, and look we are still here." She laughed uneasily. She knew and felt like they were testing lady luck and fate. It could be only a matter of time before their luck would run out.

Emily looked at Serena and smiled a little. "Yeah I guess you are right, but it was my brains that got us out of your house and you are the one who is obsessed with zombies." She laughed back. Serena glared. "At least I am not the one who ran in a circle screaming like a mad man when you saw a dead person in life." Serena snapped back also laughing.

Hours later, Dan pulled over near an old police station. Coming to the back he peered inside. "We should stop here for the night. I haven't seen any of those creatures for hours and by the looks of it, we may be safe here." He insisted as Karen stepped out of the back and stretched.

Serena came out next, carrying Emily on her back. "You owe me big time." She grumbled as Emily smirked. "Yeah yeah." She remarked, taking in the surroundings. Not that there was much to see, in fact, no one could see barely at all. Night had come quicker than anticipated.

Dan took lead cautiously making his way towards the small building. The girls followed in the middle and Karen took up the back. What lay inside the building they were not sure.

The inside of the police station had seemed quiet enough, but they weren't taking any chances. They found a small room with a heavy steel door, most likely it was where they kept prisoners or suspects. As they filed into the room Dan went off in another direction. About ten minutes later he came back with some vending machine food, a first aid kit, some small guns, and water. Closing the door behind him, he sat in front of it.

"That is strange." He said, rubbing his temple. "What is?" asked Karen anxious to know what had to be said.

"From the looks of things, no zombies are even in this building. It doesn't even look like any I have seen before; usually there is a mess or even some creatures, but here. Everything is in order; nothing seems to be out of place. Maybe there are people, alive people here." He replied as Karen looked at him awkwardly.

"Other survivors?" Serena asked excitedly. Dan could only nod. It was the only logic reason why the place was the way it was. There had to be other survivors.

After things had settled down Serena had took a small book out of her backpack, that she had made Emily carry. Taking out the blue felt pen, she opened to an empty page.

Dear diary,

You will never guess. We got off the building with some other survivors who had found us. It is all good news. Heck I even survived being hit by a truck and flung a few feet. Not bitten or scratched is a good thing. We met these two other people. Karen and Dan. They are very nice and seem to have a sense on what they are doing.

Emily is ok. I am worried though. While she was unconscious, she began to cry and scream things. Too much of it was rambling, but I was able to make out Noah and sorry. Noah was her brother. We don't know if he is still alive. For that matter, we don't know if anyone we care about is alive. They could be, but then again they could also be one of those dead…living dead, human eating, and mindless zombies.

I have told myself time and time again that it was going to end. We would go back to a normal life, but I don't see that anymore. This wasn't supposed to happen. I am to grow up with my family and friends. Go to college, become a doctor and marry. I wanted to have kids and tell them all the fin things I used to do when I was little.

Yeah right, can't do that now. Well for the time being we have to work with the best of things. We are safe with food, water, weapons, and each other. Right now we are going to make the night. Also where we are at in this old police station, there may be survivors near. God I hope so. Maybe it will be people we know or close to us. Heck even I would be glad to see Mary, even though I hate her guts. Mostly I just want to gloat about how much I was right that an invasion was going to happen and that I would live through it. Everyone used to think I was crazy. All but Kari and Emily. They believed me.

Which is more I can say for most people. Let them laugh at me know when I say zombies are going to take over the world and we shall all become one with them. Well until the next time. That is all I have to say

June 16, 2010 -Serena Jennings-

Serena closed the book and put it away, then lying back against the wall. By this time everyone was now asleep. She rolled over and closed her eyes only to be awoken by a light shuffling sound from above. The footsteps continued for a few minutes and then stopped.

Serena stared at the ceiling and then laughed to herself. "Now I am hearing things again." She mumbled and slowly drifted off to sleep.

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