The Beginning of the End

Crystal clear

We walk through the woods and away from our make shift shelter. We've been walking for atleast three hours now, my leg is in horrible pain my head is throbbing, my side is suprisingly not that bad.

"We should take a short break" says Jessie.

I nod and sit on a log. I set the machete on my lap and I sip some water from the bottle jessie had given me earlier.

"Hows your leg?" She asks.

I shrug, not wanting to tell her how Painful everything is. She gives me a look of disbelief then she sits down and sips on some water. I take a deep breathe and try drowning out the pain.

"I never gave you a formal apology" she explains.

I look over at her and I clench a fist.

"Im truly sorry about killing your friend and.....your....father" she sighs.

I sadly smile and then turn away from her.

"Do you forgive me?" She asks.

I ignore her and start picking dried blood off of my machete. I hear her sigh and then I stand up and start limping over to the stream we passed a couple minutes ago.

"Where are you going Allison?" Jessie asks.

Once again I ignore her and continue walking, I get to the stream and take my socks and shoes off then I set my feet into the cold, clear water.

"Allison! What are you doing?" She yells.

"What do you think? Its like ninety degrees out and we have been walking for like five hours the water is cooling me off" I snap back at her.

She goes silent and I look down at the crystal clear water. I watch as some minnows swim by my toes.

"Ok I was just wondering you dont need to yell" she giggles.

I smirk and shake my head. She sits down next to me and then sighs.

"So.....whats your story?" She asks.

I look over at her, then back down to the water.

"What do you mean?" I ask.

She sighs.

"Like, your family, where you lived, pretty much just your backstory"

I wiggle my toes around in the water.

"Well the morning started off the same as always my brother watching cartoons my sister waking me up my dad nagging" , I explain, "then my dad turned the news on and we found out about all of this so we came to our cabin and now all this"

She nods and picks at her finger nail polish.

"How bout you tell me yours" I say.

She sighs again and I can tell shes holding back tears.

"Well a couple weeks ago I ran away from home...from my parents....from my sister...and I was walking home when I found out about this...the streets were crowded and all I could do was run into the woods to get away from people so thats what I did and ended up here...then I found you...your the only LIVING person i've seen in a while" she explains.

I nod and make waves with my feet. Grrrrr! I quickly get up and grasp a hold of the machete, i stare at the five zombies walking this way i look down at jessie and she searches for her weapon, a zombie pushes me into the stream and i drop the Machete. I spin under water and struggle against the current, i grab the shore and pull myself up and i quickly grab the machete as it floats by cutting my hand badly. Jessie pulls me up and she freezes when she sees the blood filled water. I cough up water and some blood. I sit up and slash a zombies head in half with the machete, then another and another until theres none left. I look over at jessie and her eyes are huge in shock.

"Are you alright?" I ask.

She nods and runs her fingers through her hair.

"A...are you alright?" She asks.

I look at my bloody hand and my bloody leg and side.

"I don't know" I answer.

I start feeling dizzy and i sit down. The world starts spinning and then it goes black.

"ALLISON!!!" Jessie yells.