No Hope Left (The Walking Dead)

Chapter 1 - Before It All Happened

Charlos

Slowly he ran his fingers through his hair. Everything was peaceful. Nothing was going to hell for once. Normally his job was more hectic, but today wasn't. Today was a peaceful day. These are days that he wished he had more often but he also doesn't, because he likes getting paid.
"I'm ready to go hope already." He jokingly says to his coworker. His coworker turns to him with a grin.
"It's only twelve!" He hollers as he finished up his paperwork for the last car.
"Yeah, but nothing happening, man." Carlos sighs and leans ageist the wall. Today seems like it's going to drag on, never ending. They do live in a big city, but what's that going to do for them when they aren't getting business?
He let out a sigh as he turned on their TV, only to see the news being hectic as ever.
"The hell..?" He mumbled as his coworker, Scott, wandered over.
People were screaming and there was video of people eating each other.
"Fucking cannibals!" Scott yells as he looks disgusted at the TV. Carlos tries to listen closer, but all he can make out is them tell them to get out of the city.
"This is BULLSHIT, man!" Scott growls as he grabs the remote and turns the TV off.
"I don't know.. maybe we should get our families and go.." Carlos mumbles as Scott wanders off to one of their older cars.
"No, they're fucking with us!" He yells as he hits the car. His anger issues were always an issue, but never like this. Was it.. fear?
"I don't have any family, so if you want to go we can. It's all up to you, man." Carlos walks his way over to his coworker, worried he'll say no and all this is true. Worse comes to worse, it's fake and the shop is unattended for a couple hours. Are news able to even make jokes like that? Scott slowly begins nodding as he grabs the keys to the car. Scott gets in the drivers seat and Carlos gets in besides him.
"Where are we going?" Scott asks as he starts up the car.
"To see if this shit is true." Carlos decided in that split moment. They were going to see if this was bullshit or if this was all the truth.

Lacey

Lacey sits in her class tapping her pencil ageist her desk. She couldn't wait for this to be done. She couldn't wait for school to be done and she could finally be a biologist. She would've gone through a few hard years of college, but it would've been worth it. It would've been worth seeing everything she would see. This was only her first year in college and it was already killing her. She wanted it all to end but it just wouldn't. She looked over to her classmate, only to get the same bored gaze back at her. Class would be dismissed in five minutes. But this teacher couldn't help but use those five minutes for teaching. Lacey would have dozed off if it wasn't for her fear of this teacher. She was a mean old lady who didn't always remember to put her dentures in.
Someone enters the room and whispers to the teacher. She stares at them in disbelief as she yells to the class, "Class is done early!" As she rushes out of the room with her things. People start talking and speculating what is going on.
A man yells, "There's people eating each other!"
Others gasp in disbelief, "No fucking way, loser."
Others grab their phones and begin Googling it. Only to find its true. Lacey gets up quick, not intending to stay when there's a bunch of people upset. She quickly makes her way out of the lecture hall and to her car. If shit was going down, she was making it home to her parents. After some time, she reached home. The traffic was crazy but she made it home to her parents. Cars were crashed along the way and people were in the streets upset, some wandering around.. inhuman like. She rushed into her house to find both her parents in a crying mess. They hug her tight and keep her close to them. Along with her four year old sister. 
"We have to get out of town, this is going to shit!" Camille, her mother, yells, not caring about the four year old close by.

Camreon

This was the same day, different time. Stay at school for a few hours, go home, die inside from the homework load, and repeat. Rinse and repeat. He's sick of it, but what else is there to do? He can't flunk school, but he also can't be killing himself day after day to do his work. Something has to change. But what? What was in his power to change? He couldn't exert that much energy into the project, he needed as much energy as possible for his school work. He payed more attention to his phone than to the class itself, it was more entertaining, plus he already knew all this stuff.
'An alert' he thought to himself. 'Maybe another amber alert or something.' He taps the alert, only to see a video of someone eating the others face off. He scrolls down to read the article. 'People coming back from the dead and killing others. This seems like something from a horror movie, but it's real.'
"What the hell!" He yells, in total fear. Kids begin checking their phones and gasping at what they see. Camreon looks around at his classmates, wondering how they will react. He was sure some of them were sociopaths. The teacher checks her phone, wanting to know what the kids were all upset over.
"Class is dismissed." She growled as she grabs her bag and quickly leaves the classroom. Kids flood into the halls. Camreon quickly makes his way to the parking lot where his car is parked. He looks around, only to notice the traffic not moving. "Dammit." He mumbled under his breathe. His house wasn't far, but walking would be absolute hell.
"Fuck it." He growled as he began running, if he was going to make it home, he wasn't gonna be there hours later. He makes it home within the hour. The traffic was backed up because of one car with no driver inside. 'Idiot.' He thought. He made his way inside and found the house empty.
"Mom? Dad?" He gazed around the room. 'Where the hell are they?' He made his way up to his room and grabbed his medication. 'If things are going to hell I might as well have my things.' He emptied his backpack and quickly stuffed clothes inside and food. This would pass over, and he wanted some snacks while they waited for it to did.