The DEAD Are Here

Chapter 2

The light shines on my face. Burning my skin since its almost summer. My mouth is dry. I try to move my arm to cover my face from the scorching sun and I realized my hands are handcuffed to the tree.As my eyes adjusted to the light I realized I was all alone. There was no one. This isn't a kind of loneliness I can describe or want to. Let me just say it really hit me.I couldn't deal with all of this anymore I started to sob. I couldn't feel anything but the tears slowly going down my face.

     "Do you want to get up or are you just going to cry there?"someone said. I looked up and I saw the person I thought was the angel. She was dirty blonde probably around 13 or 14. She said "So do want to get up or not? I don't have all day." "Could you get me out of these?" "What's the magic word?" She said. "Zombies are coming." I said. "It was actually please but that works too."

     She reached down pulled out some gold keys and was about to unlock the handcuffs but then asked "You're not a serial killer right?" "I cross my heart I'm not" I responded. As she unlocked I looked at her more closely. She had lots of cuts across her. It looked like she could be hurting herself by unlocking my handcuffs.

     She looked like someone who could be 5 years into a war even though she was so young."Who are you?" I asked. "Questions later." She told me. "Why?" I asked

   "Because I said so and unless u want to be knocked out and handcuffed to a tree and left to a painful death I suggest you stop asking questions" I put my hands up as if I was surrendering but she didn't realize that's exactly what I wanted less than 24 hours ago.

     I find it interesting what the outbreak has done to people. It has turned us from civilized equal people back to evil sinister things. There are still some good people in these times though I hope she's one of them

    "Okay let's go"she said "there's a bunch of zombies coming in from the south, I say we if we head north we can reach the Adirondacks in three days." I nodded silently and we headed off but I was still confused how she found me.

    Why did I get so lucky not to die or did I just get another chance to lose someone...

    "My name is Cora by the way"she said. "James" I said