"Addie..." Charlie stammered. "Is... That...?"
"Yes." I croaked.
The old man's skin on it's face peeled off and fell to the ground.
I gagged. "Charlie, there's another way home, let's turn and run around Mr. Fisbind's house." I said pointing to a big blue house. Charlie nodded and we booked it before the man even blinked. I looked behind us while we were running, he was following, bone sticking more and more out of his right ankle.
"Charlie! Run! Faster!" I screamed.
"It's not human! It's a zombie!" he screamed back at me.
We reached our house and slammed the door behind us, locking it and hiding upsatairs in my bedroom.
"You said... Zombie." I gasped between breaths.
"Yes, I did... Old men... with broken legs... can't run that fast." he said gasping.
I stared at him. "There's no such thing as Zombies. They are fake."
"Well you believe in sparkly vampires!" he yelled.
"Hey. Vampires have nothing to do with this... Even if they do sparkle." I protested going back downstairs and looking out the front window to see nothing but an empty front yard. Then I remembered Sav was at Eli's.
"Charlie!"
Charlie ran downstairs. "What?"
"Ready to go on a trip across the street?" I asked.
Charlie winced. "I'm scared,"
"Come on Charlie. You are in the 8th grade. We can do this together."
"But..."
"Charlie, I know your scared, but you gotta trust me, nothing will happen to you." I said soothingly to him trying not to look worried.
"Okay." he said shaking all his fears off. "Let's go."
We opened the door slowly, me first, I checked all around, no "Zombie". We slowly crept across the porch and down the steps. I looked all around.
"I think we are good Charlie." I whispered.
We walked quickly to Eli's making sure no "Zombie" was following. Finally we hit Eli's front porch and I laid three knocks on the door. Eli answerd it with a smile. "Hey, Addison. Charlie." he said. "What brings you to my house?" he asked.
"Can we stay here till my parents come home?" I asked worridly, looking all around.
Eli raised a brow. "Really? What for?"
"Eli, come on."
"What's wrong?"
"Eli! Just please let us in!" I exclaimed.
"Let them in, Eli." Sav said.
Eli motined for us to come inside and we sat on the couch.
"So, What is wrong?" Eli asked.
"A Zombie chased us." Charlie said.
"A Zombie?" Eli asked "Interesting."
Sav laughed. "Was he like 'I'm gonna eat your brains! raoughhghh'?"
"No but the last part was right." Charlie said.
Eli and Sav both jumped up and imitated a Zombie. "Like this?" Eli asked.
"Yes." I said, making them both stare at me.
"When did this happen?"
"A little bit ago, we hid in our house." Charlie said looking in his lap.
Then there was a bang on the door. Eli, Sav, Charlie and I all jumped.
"Shhhh." I said, getting up to look through the peep hole. I rolled my eyes when I saw Marisol and Casey.
"It's just Marisol and Casey guys." I said opening the door.
Marisol burst into tears. "We lost Jenna. A weird Zombie looking guy chased us and Jenna whent a different way, with Tyson! The man went after them!"
"Can we come in?" Casey asked.
"Join the party!" Eli exclaimed, annoyed.
Casey walked in dazed, confused. While Marisol cried onto Sav.
"Okay, so let's just say the Zombie is real." Eli said after I closed the door.
"How would a Zombie just appear like that? Just one Zombie?"
"I don't know." Casey said.
"It's gonna be dark soon, guys."
"I'll order pizza." Eli said picking up his cell and going into the dining room. "We can't be stuck here hungry."
The door bursted open and Claire ran in with Jenna and Tyson. Then Claire slammed is shut and locked it.
"Turn out the lights!" she yelled. Sav turned out all the lights.
Jenna craddled her baby in her arms.
Casey didn't even notice she was there.
"Casey?" Jenna asked. "Casey?"
"What happened?" I asked Claire.
"I was walking to your house Addison, with Jake, and some guy jumped out and bit Jake and Jake made me run becouse Jenna was running into your house so I followed and we saw the note you wrote that you were at Eli's so we ran here. I think Jake is dead!" she said covering her face with her hands.
"Oh, Claire." I said. While Charlie comforted her.
She looked at me. "What is going to happen?"
I shook my head. "I don't know, maybe the cops will catch the guy."
Eli came in. "Hey, why are the lights out?" then he noticed Claire, Jenna, and the baby Tyson. "Okay, what happened now?"
"Jake is dead!" Claire cried. Eli slumped down on the couch next to me.
The house was silent, except for a couple sobs from Claire. Nobody talked, nobody blinked.
Then there were bangs on the door.
Marisol screamed, but Sav covered her mouth. Eli walked to the door and looked through the peep hole. He waved me over. I looked in and saw the Zombie on the porch eating plastic.
"Thats him." I said. Everyone gasped.
"Guys. No noise." I whispered. Then motined for everyone to the other side of the room away from the window. "And that means you, Marisol."
The banging started again and you could hear his moans. Everyone huddled in the corner. Then the door shook and started to crack.