Stray kids BXB

13. Left behind / chanin

Zombie apocalypse au

Warnings: shitty people, foul language,  injuries, violence, death (no main characters), gore

Summary: jeongin's friends turned their back on him in the middle of a world apocalypse, what'll happen when he's found by others?

To make up for the random hiatus (I was focusing on finals/exams for school) here's a nice long 4000+ word short story

Enjoy :)
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What was considered to be a genre found in movies, shows, and video games,

Was now their reality.

Many rumours circled about the cause behind it all, some theorized it was a test induced by the government to lower the population, others believed it was your typical science experiment gone wrong, and a few lunatics out their convinced humans were being punished by god himself for the wrong they committed.

Jeongin however didn't care, his mind focused on survival entirely.

He had lost his family and friends a month into the apocalypse, after finding the courage to leave their hideaway to restock food and water.....

He returned to a torn apart house, broken doors, smashed windows, missing items, and a bloody mess of his own family and friends, left with open wounds to bleed out.

A scene so gruesome he was left traumatized.

Maybe he was considered lucky, if he hadn't gone off to find food that day, well then he wouldn't be standing alive and well as he was now.

He struggled in the beginning, until the day he stumbled on a group of survivors, taking him in with little question.

Things have been.....

well,

as good as it can be.

They often moved around to different bunkers, leaving towns behind when necessary. Almost half a year had passed, and despite the unfortunate circumstances it was nice to not be alone.

Sure he was still a bit of an outsider, the group he met had been close friends before all this happened, thus creating an odd dynamic with him there.

It wasn't all bad; being left out of conversation wasn't anything new, getting the scraps or leftovers from their meals wasn't all bad either considering they salvaged food better that way. Having to carry their bags on long walks was tolerable, sure he was the smallest of the group but that's why he didn't mind. He wasn't big or strong like the others, just a scrawny teenager fresh out of school. They helped convince him that with them holding the weapons, he might as well carry their things so they can focus, leaving him with the tasks no one else wanted.

"Hey you three grab any non perishable foods you can find, I'll hit the medicine aisle, you..... can go find some backpacks we can replace ours with, and the rest can search for anything else we'll need"

Each person respectfully nodded in understanding before spreading out amongst the deserted store.

Being tasked with finding better bags, jeongin ran off, eager to complete his task without question.

The store was thankfully quite broad in product variety, quickly finding the baggage aisle with everything from suitcases to school bags.

Being the designated bag carrier jeongin was excited to upgrade from the torn bags he had been dragging around before, deciding on some better quality waterproof bags with more pockets and thicker/padded straps.

He even took the liberty of transferring the items from their old bags to the new ones, arranging everything neatly with the heavier items at the bottom.