This ends when I breath again.

1

——RUN

"Come on jay" shouted the voice of a boy he waved his arm as he waited at the edge of the tree line, his raven hair was swaying with the gentle breeze the blonde tips softly blocking his eyes as he waited for his friend to catch up "we can't wait forever it'll get dark soon!" The boy spoke as his friend stopped at his side.

"I know I know just been a while." The other boy spoke his dirt blond hair filled with twigs, He wasn't wrong it had been a while. The forest was more dangerous than ever but, ray had been getting bored so he forced his friend jay, a tall hunky male, to come with him. he was strong and it showed but he was soft and timid he didn't talk to many people. even at the age of 17 he kept to himself.

Ray on the other hand was totally different he was short male, didn't have many muscles and he had a mouth, a big one at that he wouldn't shut up once you got to know him. But his close friends had never really minded.

The two boys walked further into the tree line backpacks unzipped with skateboards hanging out.
When they stopped they were standing at the edge of an old rust filled skate park. ramps filled with dead leaves and blood splatters.

  few hours went by and it started to get dark both boys stopped and sat on one of the many rusted benches near the tree line and talked quietly to each other.
A snap distracted them from their conversation, both looking deep into the wood, Behind the trees moans of pain echoed along the dead wood.

with the crunching of dead leaves they watched as a rotted corpse of a women walk out, she looked pale. The skin on the body had rotted in some areas and blood was soaked into the clothes she wore, her hair was a mess, knots where everywhere making the little hair she had left look like it hadn't been brushed in years which it probably hadn't. Her left arm was gone broken bone sticking out along with torn skin. Her mouth was open to the point of it hanging by only a small patch of flesh.

The boys both reached for there bags, it had become protocol after years of living with the dang things nobody dared leave there home without a weapon. Jay razed his gun with both hands his bag around one arm and shot. 

The gun went off the bang leaving a ringing in there ears, shock and fear ran through them as they waited the body of the woman fell with a thump but she wasn't dead just had a new broken leg, she let out a cry almost a Shrek loud enough to wake even a hibernating bear. but both boys new what the sound meant. "Jay. Jay we have to go back the scream will lead more this way-"

 ray got cut off as more showed up. "God- for dead things they move really fast!" Jay was shouting as he grabbed his knife from the bag both boys started fighting or more breaking the legs of the things as they ran back to the places the lived.

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The sight that greeted ray was horrible the place he and his friends had called home, even after the zombies showed up was gone, body's of people he new where everywhere turning pale and gloomy from blood-loss homes where burned down and stores where empty.
"Ray you have to go," Ray looked over at his friend as he spoke "I'm not leaving you you're the only one I have from what I can tell!" He yelled but stayed quiet enough the last of the dead things wouldn't hear. 

"I know but I can't leave here yet, and I don't have anything of use. You can fight and you're smart jay, your smarter than most people i know," jay stopped and held rays hand as he yelled, "I can't lose you too, Okay you're the only one i know that's smart enough to find help. Please go, i will be here until then. i promise." That's all it took to get ray running from there he had a few weapons and his skateboard would do for now. Why was he running? he knew why, his friend had only known that place just like him, that was the only place he would call home. but he knew you had to leave something behind. and so even when he heard the gun go off again he didn't stop.

He ran.

——801 words

(anyway! hi, so i'm updating this book as i enjoy this and i feel i want to wait till my books get more traction before i update 'bound by murder')