Girl Vs. Apocalypse

Why Me?

¨Mom, i'm leaving i'll see you after school okay?¨ I said as I made my way own the stairs and into the kitchen where my mom was sitting, balancing her checkbook while munching on some toast.

¨Okay Oliver, but be careful at practice today. Don't want to mess up your knee anymore then it already is.¨she said pulling her glasses down as she spoke

I groaned at the thought of practice today. I really hated football and I was only doing it since my mom couldn't afford college for me so i took it upon myself to be the best i could at football. 

I heard the padding of feet as my little brother Jacob, came into the room towing his blanket and bear behind him while he simultaneously rubbed his eyes.  

¨Hello handsome¨my mother exclaimed as she hoisted him up to sit in her lap. 

¨Hi mommy¨ he said making a kissy face at her. His way of saying he wanted morning kisses. 

¨You want kisses?¨ she asked him as she started to cover his little face in kisses, his giggling filling the small kitchen. 

¨Owliver¨ he mumbled through his yawn. 

¨Yeah little buddy?¨ i asked him as i poured juice in a sippy cup for him .

¨I-I wove you Owliver¨ he managed to say through another yawn. 

¨I love you too buddy, very much.¨

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¨42, 43, 44, 45,46!¨"Said my gym teacher as i put the 50 pound weight down on the ground, taking a quick drink of water as I made my way down the steps to the locker room.

 10 minutes later I was completely showered and heading towards the front office when i heard screams. They weren't girl screams when they saw a bug or something. These were screams that made my blood turn to ice and my stomach drop. They carried on for a few moments until they were abruptly silenced by a gurgling sound. I being the idiot i am, went to investigate. I immediately regretted that decision. 

It was inside the biology lab, I managed to see in since there were windows on the door and around the front half of the building.  There I saw a girl laying on the ground in a pool of blood. I almost went in to help her, but there was a figure over her frail body, shoving his hands deeper into her stomach and pulling his hand out to revel it coated in fresh, sticky blood. I almost puked. That's  when my thoughts went to Mom and Jacob and I immediately  bolted home. 

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¨Mom, Jacob?¨ I frantically screamed as i ran through our two story home. As i passed the kitchen i grabbed a knife, unsure of what i was going to use it for but was too scared to think. I went to Jacobs room first and saw that his closet had been pushed open, a trick I taught him if something was to go bad that he needed to hide in his closet. He wasn't there. 

My search became more frantic as I went to the master bedroom and saw mom wasn't in there either. So i came back downstairs, heading towards the kitchen when i noticed something strange as I bent down next to our sliding glass window, A tiny hand print no bigger than Jacobs. It would't have been strange if it wasn't in blood. 

That's when I saw what still haunts me to this day. My mother. Our mother leaning over my baby brother and her son. Eating him. her covered in crimson as I flew at her. Before I jabbed that knife through her heart, her beautiful green eyes, the same one's I had were replaced with gray eyes and deep sockets. This wasn't my mother.  This was a monster.  And she had to be put down. And I did just that. Barely being able to see what i was doing through the tears. 

Once it was finished I went and dug a hole for both my mother and Jacob. His little body frail as I carried him to the hole next to our fence and placed him in gently. Then was my mother. She was still beautiful. I gave both her and Jacob a kiss on the forehead as i filled in their graves. 

I realize now after being on my own for a few days and watching the world go to shit, that this was the zombie apocalypse, and only I can save myself.