Heart Shape Necklace

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"On today's news the spread of Zom19 has infected majority of Los Angeles, we are evacuating the west side of the city, and will proceed with farther area's hourly" , "  Please be sure to follow protocol that is in place for your area, if you are in these area's we are evacuating please make your way to the designated check points."  

I could hear the soft tone voice of a female over the loud speaker's throughout the city, repeating the same saying over and over again. I gathered my backpack with what i could carry and walked down the hall to my fathers room. KNOCK KNOCK.

Waiting for his response I could hear screaming and car alarms blaring from outside, I walked my way over to the nearest window that out looked  into the front yard and could see my neighborhood running in chaos. Neighbors pushing and trampling over one another, backing their cars into each other as there making there way out.

 I rushed back to my fathers door and knocked louder. In that second he responded with a deep tone and told me to wait. I could hear two voices arguing behind the door. The voices were muffled but i could hear a male and female. Confused about the voices i'm hearing considering my mother passed away months before the city lock down happened. 

I knocked again. "Dad we need to go, people are going crazy, we cant wait around!" I yelled while still beating at the door. My father flung opened the door and grabbed me by the arm spinning me around and rushing my down the stairs. Half way down the large spiral stairs, i saw my father tumble down, with blood splatters following behind him.  "Father!" i yelled before rushing my way down.  

I made my way to his side and could see at the door and windows infected trying make their way in. Was we already to late? Was someone in the neighborhood already infected before the announcement? I looked back down at my father laying in a mess of his own blood. " What happened!" I stood to my feet and quickly turned around as i could hear the sound heels clicking with every step.

I turned around a split second to late before i knew it she approached me with a hug. I could feel a sharp pain followed with warmness rushing down my side. I tried pushing her away but she help tighter. I could feel myself getting weaker as the floor around us filled with my blood. She released me and i dropped to my knees. I looked down at a large knife sticking out from my side.  "Wh..wh...y!" i stutters collapsing to the floor. With everything turning blurry and closing in on me, i looked up one last time and could barely make out the person. The only thing that stood out to me was a heart shape necklace with my fathers picture in it, that slowly swayed back and forth in front of my eyes. 

I reached out to grab it but felt like it was getting farther and farther away from me. Everything was closing in on me and like a light switch i turned off and it all went dark. My last thought was 

Why did she have my mothers heart shape necklace?


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