Please You Stay Alive

Chapter 3: Close Call

"Let's go and stay close."

We were walking around to the store when we heard a girl screaming. We hid and watched as the zombies ran towards her.

"We have to save her." Hoseok said.

"If we save her and she's bit, we risked our lives for nothing. Leave her." I said.

"How can you do that? What if she isn't bit? Then we saved her." Hoseok said. I started running to the store since there was an opening. They followed me. We broke the lock and opened it.

"Mommy!" I froze once everyone got in. They looked at me.

"Sooyoung, what are you doing?" Dad asked. I turned to see a little girl crying. The lady was running.

"Fuck." I dropped my shit. I took my knives out. I ran towards the little girl. I stabbed any zombies in the way. I picked the little girl.

"Shhh, it's okay." I took out my gun with the silencer. I started shooting the zombies. One by one each of them fell down. I ran out of bullets. I ran to the store and dropped the girl off. I ran towards the woman but something grabbed my leg. I fell and looked. It was a zombie. I was trying to kick it off. I tried grabbing my knife but couldn't. I started to panic.

"No mommy!!!" I looked and the lady was covered in zombies.

"No." I said. My ankle was let go. I got picked up and dragged. They shut the door and boarded it up.

"God fucking damn it!" I grabbed my head pacing back and forth. I failed.

"We don't have time. We have to grab as much supplies as possible." Jimin said. I looked at the girl. I knelt down.

"Sweetie, what's your name?" I asked.

"Kim Bora. I'm 3 years old." I teared up.

"You're gonna be with us. We'll keep you safe. Okay?" She nodded.

"Is my mommy gone?" I shed a tear. I nodded.

"She is in a happy place. She isn't fighting anymore." I choked out. She nodded. I picked her and we started walking.

"Be on the look out." My dad said. We started packing the bag with batteries, leftover flashlights, snacks, canned foods. I packed my bag with feminine products.

"Stay within sight. Let's go get more clothes." Jungkook said. I went to the kids section.

"Pick what you like." She picked alot of clothes and I put them in my bag. We went to the pharmacy. It was locked.

"We might end up setting the alarm but I see a back door. If we set the alarm we run as fast as possible to the house." Jimin said. I stayed quiet. I set Bora down.

"Sweetie, you wanna help me get inside for medicine?" I asked. She nodded. We walked into the little office. We looked around for any keys or lock picking kit. I started crying out of nowhere and leaned against the wall and fell.

"Are you okay?"

"Can you go wait out there, sweetie?" I asked.

"Okay." She left the room. I stared at the family photo. I threw it across the room. It shattered. I through the other photos. I fell on the floor. I started sobbing.

"Eomma!" I yelled out.

After a while, I calmed down. I felt numb and got up. I grabbed the fire extinguisher. I started banging it against the know. Each hit getting harder. The door opened up. The alarm went off. Everyone ran in the room. I kicked the door. I grabbed a bag and started wiping the counter of the medicines. They pushed the desk to the office door so zombies couldn't disturb us. We cleared the counters and opened the back door.  It was blocked. We shut the door fast and blocked it with the counter in the pharmacy.