Gone

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1 Day Later

Tom's POV

It's been a day since my dad died, he was bitten, there was nothing I could do, I miss him.

A tear rolls down my cheek, I quickly brush it away

You have to be strong now, you can survive this....you have to survive this, he told you that and I will, I will survive this.

We'd been held up in that shack for almost 2 days, before that there was nothing, nothing but wondering from place to place for 5 months and before that there was Knightdale.....but now it was just me and the trees.

I paused for a moment to look around

Trees, trees and more trees

I start walking again

I walk further and further

I need to find some place to stay for the night, soon, before it gets to....

I twig snaps behind me, I instantly spin around on the spot, drawing my pistol, ready to fire

Just a roamer

Stumbling it's way towards me, I holster my pistol and withdraw my knife, I cautiously approach it, closing the space between us, I grab it by the shoulder with my left hand, plunging the knife into its skull with my right. Its corpse falls to the floor.

My name is Tom Smith and I am living in the new world.

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