Cimorelli's Surviving

What's Going On?

***forgot to warn you but this story might be to violent and disturbing for some people.***

Mike Sr POV

We laid spread out on the shore of the river.  All of us were exhausted but I slowly stood up and looked around.  I knew where we are, it was not to far from the high school.  We can get there in an hour if we walk.  I only hoped the others made it.  

"Is everyone okay?" I ask.  All three of my kids were still on the ground, but none seemed injured.  

"I'm good" nick got up and brushed himself off.

"Me too." Alex helps Lauren up.

"Same" she says, ringing the water out of her shirt.

"Good.  We have to get to the high school and find the others."  I tell them.

"What's happening dad?" nick asks still confused on what's going on.

"I don't know, we'll talk more when we get to the high school." We walked to the closest road.

"If we walk down this road we should get to the street we need"  I tell myself out loud. 

We start to walk.  On the road there are abandoned cars and trash all over, it's a mess.

"Wow" Alex is shocked.  We all are.

After a while we get to the road we need and I can see the high school.  I also see a man.  Maybe he knows whats happening.  "excuse me sir?"Ii approach him slowly.

He doesn't answer, his back is facing me.

"What's going on?" I ask taking another step closer.  

The man turns around and my heart neared jumps out of my chest. The man is pale and has blood around his mouth.  He is dirty and hunched over.  When he starts running at me I can tell he's not friendly. "Run!" I order my kids.  

"Where?!" Lauren asks

"To the high school!!" I push them along.  

We get to the high school and Alex tries to open the door. "It's locked!" 

The man runs closer. "Find another way!" I tell him as i get in front of my kids, ready to fight the man off.

Alex, Lauren and Nick look for another way.  The man runs up to me and I shove him down.  He jumps on me and pushes me against the wall.  I use my hand to keep his face away from me as he snaps his jaw open and closed.  Is he trying to bit me?  Using my free arm I reach for a wood plank that's leaning against the wall. Once I grab it I smack the man with it.  He stumbles back.  

Pow!

The mans head is blown to bits.  I turn to where it sounded like the gun came from.  Standing there was a man and a boy.  They didn't look so... sick like the other.  "Need some help?"  the man asks.

"Uh, yeah actually.  The rest of our family are inside the school, we need to get to them."  I make sure Alex, Lauren and Nick are here.

"Last time I checked it was only us in this school but you can come in"  he offered.  That did not sound good.  Does that mean the didn't make it?  My mind started to race.

We walked around the school to another door.  This door was unlocked and we went in.  We followed the man into a classroom.  "You hungry?" he asked.

"Just a little" i answered for all of us.  It had been quite some time since the cook out.

"Here" he handed out bags of chips.

"Thank you" the kids said and each took one.

We sit down on chairs and talk.

"You said you were looking for some people?" the man asked.

"Yes. 10 people. My wife, brother and kids." I told him.

"I'm assuming these are you kids too?" He gestured to Alex, Lauren and Nick.

"Yup" I answer.

"That's a lot of kids. I only have one.  This here is Max." he pointed at his son.  Max looked about 10.  "Anyways, there was another group of people, fits you description.  But they left.  The military came through a took people with them to some safe place."  He must have noticed the look on all of their faces, "They tried to stay and wait for 'the rest', they said" He quickly added.

"How come you didn't go?" I was curious.

"I didn't know what to do at the time" he looked down.

"Where is this 'safe place'?" I ask him.

"Some where over by Las Vegas.  I made up my mind a little while ago and we're heading there tomorrow.  You can join us." he opens another bag of chips

"Thank you" I put a chip in my mouth. Then there was silence.

"Do you know whats happening?" Alex asked, the question still hadn't been answered.

"Yes." he gets up. "The world has been infected with a virus.  The west coast was the last to get hit.  At least that's what the military guys were saying."

"A virus?" Lauren looks at the man, confused.

"Yup.  It's a virus that turns people into flesh eating monsters." He looks at her.

"Like zombies" Nicks voice quivers.

"Yes, but we call them runners.  'Cause man can they run."  he lets out a laugh.

"Wow" is all anyone can say.

"We should get some sleep, its late."  He lays down.  "Oh, and I'm Ben"  he remembered he hadn't given them his name.

"I'm Mike" I say before looking at my watch.  11:27.  We lay down on the hard floor and fall asleep.