Wasteland

Zombie

Zombie fact
The abbreviated  'RLF' stands for reanimated life form, is the specific term of  the word zombie.
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Without hesitation, Nathan pulled me up , dumped me on the wheel chair and we ran ( technically I wheeled but whatever) towards the piercing screams.
However I just couldn't get the memory out of my head. It hurt. It just hurt so bad. What happened after that? Did we break up? Or was it when I disappeared?
These thoughts were all over the place, like tiny transparent beads that had fallen off and rolled all over the house. The challenge was to find all those tiny beads and string them all together. Sure, we can't find all them, but that just makes them meaningless, given that the present was going through a zombie apocalypse where I was one of those people who managed to escape but was bound to die by tripping over a dead body and cracking my skull. I'm just saying.

I was whipped back to reality when I heard Nathan

"They came in".

The tiny white lights above flickered weakly and there was a faint humming voice from the pipes. This reminded  me about ships ,especially a particular ferry ride... Yes that's where I met him. No I didn't want to remember .Not another fucking memory to spoil my present living.
We had stopped and the scene before us was not pretty. I stuffed my knuckles in mouth to stop screaming. I kept saying " Go back", as soft as I could, but Nathan couldn't hear me.
There,  a creature sat on what looked like Dr Mac. The creature was deformed but somewhat resembled a human. It's skin rotting and clothes half torn. From several bruises blood poured dripping with the already dried and clotted blood of dr Mac's. The creature turned towards us, and for a minute I regretted looking . It's eyeballs were falling out from its empty sockets and half of its face was ripped as if bitten. That's when I got an unpleasant feeling in my stomach that I had something in common with that zombie.

"Nathan .."

It lunged at us . Nathan pulled me away just in time and I held his neck for support. It began to  rattle and bite at  the wheel chair, trying figure out if it was something edible. Ah so they were also retards. Pro tip for later!

We didn't have any weapons so we ran. Hell yea, this time I ran because the mother fucking zombie broke my wheel chair. That just rounded up my awesome life. I limped with half support on Nathan. My leg had swollen and it was killing me. All the blood I had was trying to save my leg, all of it rushed from every nook and corner of my body. Leaving a trail of blood for the zombie to find us. Yes, I was making live easier.

" Come on, just a little further".

He gritted his teeth and forced me to move faster. That was the only way because I could hear more joining behind us. There far ahead was a white door, it was so white that it blended with the walls and I had to blink twice to focus on it. It looked angelic ,that door.
He gave all my energy accelerating toward the door and we banged in, and shut the door behind us. Nathan hatched the lockshut. The bangings continued.
I panted as I put my head on my good leg, straining to stretch the other .Nathan hit his head on the door repeatedly. Tiny clear drops of water dripped from his eyes. His cut on his arm bled slightly. Despite the throb in my leg ,I tore of part of my sleeve and wrapped it around his cut.
" I'm sorry" I said softly, as I tied the cloth.

He didn't say anything and sat back, his head facing the heavens, and his eyes closed. I looked at my leg.
"I remember it ", I said softly as I looked at him.
He looked back and this time, those beautiful grey eyes look familiar, except they had belonged to a more happier person.

"I was scared I lost you. I searched all over the place but I didn't find you or Lily. That's when Mac found me, and we reached the hospital which was the only fenced and safest place". He ran his hand through his dark hair, diverting his eyes from mine.

" Cady, when I saw you I , you cannot understand how elated I felt, how relieved."

"Then Mac told me that you needed time and you had amnesia so I waited. I was so scared, like what if you forgot."

I took a deep breath in, And calmed myself down. Then I smiled. It was ridiculous , to do something this crazy when the word was in danger. He smiled too. We both leaned in and I had what was my first kiss after a terrifying amnesia. It was the real one. It was gentle. His kiss and tasted like strawberries and cream (my favorite dessert- sorry couldn't help it)

"You should do this more from now if you don't want me to puke", I said.

He smirked and  pulled me closer,  avoiding my leg and placing his hand on the small of my back. I forgot all the pain. A really weird thought swirled in my mind, debating how I had got  such a good guy, I was indeed a loner, yet the memory stayed hidden.

" Nathan" I said softly in his ear. His lips on my collarbone .

" I hate to spoil the moment but something is wrong with my leg".
His eyebrows contracted as he broke away and examined my leg. The bandage was still intact but was bloody.

" Do you possibly think that I was bitten by a zombie ?", I asked randomly , keeping calm even though my heart was banging out of my chest.

"We weren't that sure.", He said.

It was the first thing that struck our minds but nothing really happened to you, you didn't change into one like the others".

"The others? You mean the other people who didn't escape ? And Dr. Mac is probably one now?"

"Uh, yea. Those people were the ones who attacked us just now. They might have entered through the broken fire exit."

" So how do we get out now? We can't stay here forever."
He got up and began pushing all the mediacl equipments to the sides.

"Thankfully we're on the ground floor so that means", He pushed the huge wooden cupboard aside.
"This is the only way we've got!", He said, revealing a tiny window.