THE DAY THE WORLD FELL

CHAPTER FIVE

Sierra and Gayle ran from the house in terror. Their next door neighbor barged through their front door, covered in blood and his skin was grey like the black and white movies. No color at all. He kept moaning in a scary tone. They were terrified and didn't know what was going on. This was strange. 

"Tell me Gayle, did it seem like he was a zombie in a movie?" Sierra breathed out in gasps of air. "It can't be, right? That's just fiction."

"I don't know. It definitely seemed that way to me. I think we can stop now, do you have your phone on you? I left mine in my jacket at the house." Gayle was catching his breath better than Sierra. He was a fit man with sturdy legs and broad shoulders. A true athlete with wasted potential. Instead of pursuing a football career, as he initially planned, he ended up in a career with accounting. It pays him well and he stays fit in the gym. Sierra, however, not so fit. She lost a lot of weight and got control of her self esteem since high school, but she doesn't like running. 

"Yeah I have it. There's no service though. That's weird, I paid the bill yesterday and we usually have good service." Nix's house isn't too far, we can walk that way and find some better service or use her phone."

"Wait!" Gayle moved his arm in front of Sierra and with the other motioned for her to be quiet, "Look just past the blue house. She looks like the neighbor did. Why is she walking like that?"

She dragged her left leg with every step and seemed to be drunk in her walk. She was also covered in blood and her grey complexion was sickly. 

"Oh god, lets get going. I don't want to be chased again. Lets go this way to avoid her." Sierra pointed to the left and pulled her husbands arm. 

The rain clouds pooled over the city and began to sweat. Almost like the heavens were weeping for the fallen already.