When I Close My Eyes

A Rude Awakening

It had been months since it all broke out, everyone went their separate ways, which never went well, some made groups, mauled to death, some survived a bit, broke a bone and got trampled, but then there was me, I COULDNT DIE. NO MATTER HOW HARD I TRIED. I set myself in a trap, infected never came, I slowed down right next to an infected, right before it bit down on me a survivor burst out of nowhere and sacrificed themselves for me, even jumped off a roof and lived!
What did I do to luck?!
Why wouldn't it let me die?!?!
I let out a frustrated sigh as I snuggled my knees in a tree trying to rest.
Ok I was actually hoping I'd fall asleep and then fall out and then an infected come eat me but.... Same thing right?
I shifted and shifted and shifted before just lying down on the cold hard side walk, I love how I couldn't sleep in a tree fully protected....
But I could fall a sleep in a wink on concrete most likely to get tripped over and mauled on? Lovely.

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I felt something hit me in the leg, but it was sharp, unlike a foot.
"ugh why can't I just die already!!" I hissed under my breath,
"Uhhhhmmm that one just talked..." I heard a squeaky girl's voice
"Now shut up before it tries to attack you" I growled
"Because she's not infected, Flicker" a boy's voice said.
I hissed as I rose opening my eyes "don't you to have something better to do like get eaten by inf-" I stopped mid sentence, these two were kids... Not even teens yet, I raised an eyebrow at the two.
"Told ya!" The boy said and frogged the girl in the arm
She frogged him back for revenge frowning.
I slowly stood almost 2 foot taller than them, they looked up at me as I loomed over them with my eyes narrowed "I've seen 30 year olds die in perfectly good health, 13 year olds die trying to hug their infected family, 20 year olds save me... Yet rude, disrespectful, violent, 10 year olds live?" I hissed.
The boy tried to lunge at me "We're 12!!" He snarled as he stomped on my foot since Flicker, the girl, had put an arm in front of him to hold him back.
I didn't even blink "you just proved what I just said idiot" I chuckled as I extended a hand "name's Cynthia! Call me Thia for short! Now I've gotta run because I need to have a date with death!"
The boy looked at me and raised an eyebrow "suicidal much?" He mumbled
I crouched down to his height with my eyes narrowed and held out my hand in a fist "I've had my mom, dad, 3 brothers, sister, uncle, aunt, and god knows how much more family I had die in front of me." I hissed uncurling a finger from my fist for each of them "then I had to kill my boyfriend who tried to kill me... While he was alive.. Because he thought he was gonna starve...." He tried to look away but I held his chin and brought his dark blue haze back to mine "and numerous people die for me that I didn't even know" I finished before getting so close to his face that I could feel his breath my face "do I look like I'm playing? Trying to find hope? Waiting around for a cure? Trying to find a reason to live?" I growled "I did that once, and it only got people killed." I let go of his chin, he looked terrified, Flicker looked at me with a stern look "then wait on death and make yourself useful and just scavenge and search for food for other people!!!" She yelled in my face.
I laughed hard to the point where I was out of breath.
She looked at me baffled.
I wiped tears form my eyes and got my laughter under control "what do I can watch a bunch of twelve year olds die?" I chuckled "yeah I've been scarred enough, I think I'll pass and have my date with death"
She hissed "Dimi" she said "operation piggy"
Right then the boy that I hadn't noticed gone missing latched onto my back, I yelled in surprise as I felt a knife at my throat, Flicker smirked "are you sure?"
I chuckled "you kids are gonna go to hell but I like ya, and if I do say no I'd be getting my wish"
Flicker rolled her eyes "fine" she said "but now you're gonna sleep"
I raised an eyebrow "wha-" I was cut off, the boy had his hands on my pressure points.
I fell to the ground and my gaze was consumed by darkness.

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"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU JUST KIDNAPPED A GIRL WITH A DEATH WISH?!" I heard a male's voice tell
"It means exactly what I said" I heard the all to familiar Flicker's voice snap
"Well maybe you should just kill me and all your problems would be solved!!" I growled at the two, still not have moved or even opened my eyes "if not then shut the hell up in trying to sleep and wait for infected to come over run the camp and hopefully eat me"
"See?!" The boy Flicker called Dimi seethed sounding just as frustrated as Flicker.
I heard the older sounding male voice snort "not so glad you're awake, and no I will not shut the hell up and I won't kill you, no zombies are coming, and there's not a day that I'm gonna let some random girl with a death wish boss me around. They might as well announce a snow day in hell when that happens!!" He growled
"Well it's gonna get damn cold in this hell if you don't shut the hell up because I have a raging head ache and if you don't shut it quick the infected will be the very least of your problems" I snarled as I opened my fiery amber eyes and sat up with my hands curled into tight balls to the point where I felt my nails dig deep into my hands.
The male looked a bit shocked.
"Oh did I mention she has a lovely temper?" There was a sharp edge to Flicker's sarcasm.
I hissed in my fury narrowing my eyes at them all, I smiled at the silence and laid back down closing my eyes "much much better, maybe you'll even roll over next time"