Two Opposites | Daryl Dixon

Prologue

When Alexis was younger her mother and father would always tell her bedtime stories. Some were happy stories like the classic princess fairytale, or the story about the unicorns and butterflies, but for some reason those stories were never good enough for her. She would always want to be told adventurous and horror stories. The girl was all about anything fiction that had a twist in the end, but she never thought she would be in one herself. Never in her many years of living did she expect to have run home to her house one night because of a worried phone call from her mother due to a ¨sickness¨ going on. When Alexis rushed into the door she was met by a hug from her mother.

¨Where have you been, i've been worried sick!" Her mother screamed loudly.

¨I was out with Glenn. I'm sorry I lost track of time.¨ Alexis said with a guilty face.

The girl's mother looked at her worried before walking into the kitchen, leaving Alexis to walk upstairs into her spare room. Alexis has her own apartment but with everything going on right now she stayed at her parents house to calm their nerves of knowing if she is okay or not. When she got inside her room she felt her phone start to vibrate in her pocket, she picked it up and looked at the name that popped up on the screen.

'Pizza Boy.'

¨Hey Glenn.¨ Alexis answered.

¨Hey Alex, did you make it home safe?¨ He asked.

¨Yea, my mom was worried. I totally forgot the time when I was at your place.¨ Alexis laughed.

¨Speaking of right after you left I tuned on the Tv and did you see the news? Things are going crazy around the city, a lot of people are starting to leave the city. Apparently there's a refugee center.¨ Glenn explains.

Alexis's brows squinted in confusion when she heard a few bangs from downstairs, but she ignored it.

¨Refugee center? I thought this sickness was just supposed to pass over?¨

¨I don't know but-¨

¨OH MY GOD RICHARD!¨

¨Glenn I got to go.¨ Alexis panicked as she hung up her phone and walked down the stairs.

When she reached the bottom of the stairs she froze at the sight in front of her. Her father laid there on the floor with a bite of his flesh missing from his neck. A mystery figure hovering over her mother, blood soaking its mouth as it bites into her stomach, tearing it open. She grabbed a knife that was laying on the floor and stabbed the figure in the shoulder trying to get it off of her mother, but whenAlexis takes the knife out she is horrified when the ¨man¨ turns to her with blood dripping from his face, skin from her mother and father are stuck between the man's teeth. The figure stood tall as he slowly shuffled to his prey, low growls that would come from a wild animal came out of the man's mouth as he tripped over a chair that was on the floor.

Without thinking Alexis stabbed the man right in the back of the head making him lay still, she didn't want to kill him, but he attacked her family. The news said that these creatures only die from brain damage, so she did what she thought was right.

¨Oh my god. MOM, DAD!¨ She said running over to them.When she got to them they both laid still not moving. ¨Mom, Dad?¨ Alexis cried. Tears fell on the floor as she stared down at her parents' bodies that lay on the floor. At that moment she had no idea what to do, she was completely lost in her thoughts that she didn't notice her fathers hand slightly twitching. The man's eyes slowly opened, but the eyes did not belong to the girl's father. It belonged to whatever became of him. When his whole body moved that's when Alexis noticed her father' moving,¨Dad?" He growled and lunged at her making her yell as she fell backwards, his crushing body landing on top of her. ¨DAD PLEASE IT¨S ME.¨ Alexis yelled. With all of her strength she pushed her father off of her and ran out the door, grabbing the keys right before she ran out. She hops into her car and drives to her apartment. Her phone rang in the cupholder. When she grabbed it she noticed cracks that formed in her phone that was not there ten minutes ago.