The beginning of the end

Chapter 1 The beginning

                             
The news playing on the TV extremely loud.

"Hurry up Jay we need to go NOW!!!"
"IM TRYING DAD I JUST-"
He interrupts...
Dad: "No fucking buts we need to go now we need to fucking go!"

I was just going to tell him I'm worried about mum... we haven't seen or heard from her since this morning when she left for work. With these things roaming around I'm afraid she can't get home.

I rush in my room and grab my clothes and my other necessities.
Dads grabbing every canned item in the pantry as well as blanets, pillows, clothes and filling up bottles of water.

We continue to pack with no words spoken.

It goes dark. The lights, The TV, Everything has shut off the only light peering through the blinds of the windows.

"Dad!! I think the power shut down" as I flick the light switch
I got no response I walk towards the windows and open up the blinds.

He walks in and chucks me the car keys
"go start the car so we can load it up and get the fuck out of here" with a face of no emotion no tears no anger just... nothing.

"Dad" I say in a worried voice
He turns and folds his arms still saying nothing Are we going to go find mum? I just want to know she's okay I don't want to leave her behind"
He looks at me with sadness but remains silent, he then walks off to grab the rest of the stuff.
I walk towards the garage my eyes struggling to hold the tears.
I open the garage door and get into the car as I put the keys into the ignition I look up and see a lady in the distance running up the steep road. As she gets close and closer I slowly see a crowd almost limping behind her.
My eyes widen and I open the car door
It's mum... she's screaming
"Jay get in the house now!"
It's them... the dead people and they're following her.
"Dad it's mum!!! She's being followed by those things !!"
He rushes into the garage his lips quiver
Dad: "Jay get everything off the table and put it in the back but hurry we need to go"
His voice was shaking almost like he was going to cry I run into through the door back into the house and grab everything I can and run to the garage.
Dads holding mum tightly.
He then lets her go "Sarah we need to go before they get here, get in the car"
She nods with tears dripping down her cheeks
And I get into the passenger seat of the car.
Dad turns to see me with all our gear he rushes to pop the boot of the car
The dead still slowly coming towards us
"I think that's everything Dad is mum okay?"
He looks at me with no emotion
"Just get in the car Jay she's here so she's-"
He pauses and looks at mum then looks back at me
"Fine she's fine"
I finish loading up the boot. And then get in the back seat of the car dad starts the car and the dead are just a house away from us
Dad shifts into drive and takes off swerving the dead. Mum freaking out with tears in her eyes and sweat on her forehead
Mum: "Jay darling are you okay? I'm sorry you have to see this we are going to be just fine"
"I'm okay mum... are you okay what happened where is your car how did you get home?"
she takes a deep breath as tears continue to roll down her face
Mum "My boss came in the office telling us to go home he didn't seem right he had this look on his face almost as if he had seen A ghost, he told us about that disease that had spread over the world I just remember him telling us that it had spread to Macon and we needed to get home to our family's-"
She started to cry more and wiped her tears with her sleeve
"Well after that I got in the car and heard a scream from behind me it was tracy... my work colleague i ran over to her and on the floor was a lady getting eaten by man. I froze I didn't know what to do we tried to take the man off her but as Tracy grabbed his arm he bit right into her forearm she screamed I ran... I feel horrible I just... ran"
I could tell she felt guilty for leaving Tracy but I'm glad she did, I don't think she understands what happens when they bite you.. it was all over tv but when me and dad would try watch it she turned it off and told us not to fall for the bullshit on tv.
Mum looks out the window
Mum: "i don't want to talk about this anymore I just can't, I feel so horrible about it all"
Dad: "and this is what we have been trying to tell you Sarah everything on the tv was fucking real and now look where we are!"
He continues to yell at her as she looks back at me.
She yells back.
Mum: "Chris I'm sorry! But you cannot blame this on me!!"
Dad: "Well if we left when I fucking said we should we wouldn't be stuck in the middle of this bullshit"
the car goes silent