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Chapter zero

Delilahs life before the apocalypse;

The following morning Delilah was awoken by a startling nightmare, gasping she held her chest, looking around her room to make sure that she was the only person within the room, the pang of daylight shining through her curtains illuminating parts of her room.

Moving to check her phone, it read an early nine in the morning, a Wednesday, her birthday, three messages had already come through from Angela, wishing the girl a very special birthday, to which she responded with a few hearts, and a voice note explaining how her day was going to happen, and that she was excited to see the girl later on that day, once school had ended.

Getting up Delilah waddled out of her room and into the shared bathroom where she brushed out the mop of hair on her head and brushed her teeth, turning back to walk into her room she jumped, placing her hand over her heart as Addy stood with a small box in hand, "Happy birthday lil's, it isn't big but I'm sure you can wait for your bigger presents later when mom, dad and grandma come over right?" she smiled at her slightly shorter sister.

Smiling, Delilah unwrapped the present seeing a small locket inside, "There are two photos inside, one of the two of us and the other side,well you can put whoever in there really." Addy smiles softly, Delilah opened the lock seeing the pictures of the two sisters, smiling the girl laughed and hugged her older sister, "Thank you Addy, I love it." She smiled, clasping the locket around her neck.

"Alright snot bag no more mushy shit get dressed we need to leave." she smiled walking out her sisters room, "I'm finally sixteen." she smiled to herself, looking in her closet as she figured out an outfit for the game, finally choosing a grey Nirvana jumper with ripped jeans she let her hair do whatever like usual only adding a small amount of mascara on her eyelashes, walking out of her room she knocked on Addy's door "I'm ready!" Delilah yelled before walking downstairs waiting for her older sister.

By the time Addy had finally walked downstairs, had left the two having twenty minutes before the game actually started, meaning they could get to their seats, have drinks and snacks and just wait.

Which is exactly what they did.

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After another twenty minutes the game had started and everyone was yelling, cheering and laughing with excitement, Delilah never had fun at social events, but she couldn't care less at the moment, she was here for her sister, and she was getting free drinks and food from her sister, what else could she want?

She'd never seen her sister so into something before and couldn't help but laugh when her sister started to chant and yell at the players, even though they couldn't hear, as the blue and white team played, Addison's laugh got louder as she nudged her sister, "Look! A fight is about to happen Lilah!" She laughed.

But the players soon broke up as an old looking man ran up to the plastic windows surrounding the ice, Delilah's breathing got heavier as she realised the grunts and screams were the same as the ones she had heard from last night down in the alleyway.

The same grunts that plagued her nightmares throughout the night, the same noises that made her fear the night, the same nightmares that would create goosebumps along her skin.

Suddenly she was being dragged by Addy as the two made their way past, shocked at what was happening, Delilah gasped as she saw the man starting to tear open a man's stomach right in front of them on the floor, the pair ran down the stairs Addy's heals making it slightly harder for her to run in but she did it nevertheless, the pair held each others hands, making sure that they never lost each other.

Searching for the nearest exit, Delilah ran with Addison as they ran scared out of their minds as a woman's neck was being bitten into.

The pair had ran into the storage area where they thought they were going to be safe from the madness on the ice rink, yet turning around the pair found one of the players attacking another from the other team, yet the blue seemed sky blue, "Hey!" The player in white yelled as he pointed at the hockey stick on the floor, running over Addy swung the stick at the blue players back knocking him down.

But it wasn't long before the player was back on its feet and coming towards Delilah, who stood beside the door still, Addison threw the hockey stick at her sister catching it in time for Delilah to give the two space as she watched the other player run with the end of the other stick from behind, before smashing it on the back of its head.

"Woah Woah! Stay back!" Addison yelled as she stepped in front of Delilah, the guy looked at the two up and down "You're not bit?" he asked as the two shook their heads "No! No! And we aren't going to be!" Delilah said as she looked around before looking at the player.

"Oh my god, oh my god that's Brendan Jeramie!" Addison said as she pointed at the player in blue, who layed lifeless on the floor with a skaters shoe sliced up his face.

"He was the best player we had on the court!" Addy yelled again as the guy in white turned to look at them "Not that good then.. Obviously" He said as Delilah snorted "Nows not the time" She mumbled.

"What's it like out there?" He asked the girls "It's.. Its insane. People are crazy, there's blood everywhere we gotta go." Addy said before the guy walked towards the two "Oh no no no no not out there, not that way no" Delilah said pushing him back as he and her sister looked for a different way "Alright come on." Delilah said as she held her sisters hand again running forwards back out to the playing grounds.

Along the way Delilah had found herself taking a broken hockey stick that had a pointy edge laying on the floor, quickly picking it up she had enough time to stand up and shove the spiked end through a man's head as he ran towards them.

Gasping the girl took her sisters hand and ran with the two up the stairs, "Okay we should-we should stick together right?" The guy said as the two nodded, sweating.

"We need to get home, we need to get dad, mum and oh god Maisie." Delilah said panicked hoping they were all safe, nodding the guy agreed "Okay we can do that I'll come with you" He nodded as they ran the rest of the stairs before stopping at the final doors before they were outside.

"I'm mack, mack Thompson" He introduced himself to the siblings, nodding "I'm Addison Carver, this is my sister Delilah Carver" She said to Mack who nodded "Okay?"

"Okay"

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