Chapter Five: They made me laugh

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Jay and Jason believed they had found a brief moment of respite in the crumbling remains of the abandoned school, a place that once teemed with the laughter of children and the chalk-dusted voices of teachers, their hopes were shattered. As they frantically searched for Jason's friend Bob, a sense of dread crept over them like a specter. In a darkened corner of the nursery, they stumbled upon a scene that would haunt them for the rest of their days. Instead of Bob, they found the lifeless body of his baby daughter, her innocent face frozen in a silent scream.

Her tiny form lay crumpled on the ground, the sweet scent of decay mingling with the musty air. The metallic tang of blood lingered on the air, a grim reminder of the violence that had befallen her. They knew then that their world had irrevocably changed, and they were merely survivors in a realm of the dead.

Jason knelt beside the corpse and just waited for... Nothing. Taking a moment to drive for the girl he stood and turned to Jay. "If Bob is still alive he isn't gonna be the same.. stay behind me.. he doesn't know you he could attack" He said as he went for the door. Jay followed taking one last sorrowful look at the child's lifeless body he continues on. "Bob" Jason called out in the long dark hallway, bumping into an old rusty locker they stop for a sec before calling out once more "Bob".... Silence...

"Your brother" Jason ask "Is he older or younger" trying to make conversation so they both stop thinking of young Rosie "Older" Jay responded "He was always my parents favorite, their precious fuckin boy but I never minded" He continued "He was their favorite person period but I was his so it evens out to me" Jason responded "You guys were close then"?

Jay looks ahead before replying "yeah I mean.. yeah... Up until about a year before all this happened" He explains how Eli had met a girl and frequently spent more and more time with her never finding the time for Jay. The relationship blossomed as his and Jay's dwindled,

Jay being okay with his brother being happy accepted being sad until a day or two before the great axis death. Before he could explain the falling out last he saw of Eli they entered a room, seeing a man in a red shirt and blue jeans with short dark brown hair they stop

"Bob" Jason called out. Bob slowly looked up at the two people before him. His eyes filled with dread and pain he glances around frantically before beginning to half scream half cry. "THEY FORCED ME.. THEY MADE ME LAUGH JASON"!... "THE LAST THING MY BABY SAW WAS ME LAUGHING WHILE THEY TOOK HER FUCKING HEAD!! OH GOD"!!!

Jay and Jason were in shock... this level of brutality with this callousness was nothing short of something cruel, they let the man grieve for a few minutes as he shouted and screamed and ripped clumps of hair from his head, over in the corner a bag of clothes sat with the little girls dress sticking out from the top of the pile.

The whole building felt of dread and terror as Bob's cries and screams echoed throughout the empty classrooms and hallways that once held happy faces and learning brains of the future that was unfortunately now left in the past... the feeling was a feeling of being lost with no purpose... no real sense of direction... everything was over and everyone with it

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