Zombie Maria

The love

"So... this is how it will end huh" I said to myself, I stopped backing away from her. I just sit there and stared at my own shoes. Knowing that she's getting closer to me "It's because of what I did to you that you'd probably hated me and was left all alone in this forest. It's because of me that you... you..." tears left my eyes. I saw her bare rotten legs in front of me. I didn't dare to look up.

"Then if it would please you, go on and... just go on and kill me. Kill me. KILL-"

She hugged me. Her face turned back into the innocent zombie that I first met. Her hug was cold and empty, leaning onto my bare chest, but I didn't mind. This time, I didn't push her away. I wanted her to stay. I don't want to lose her. She's the only person who came to me when I have nobody. I can't believe I'm saying this but, I love her.

"It's not your fault that I ended up like this" she said softly. Her hollowed voice was replaced with a sweet alluring voice that caught my breath away.

"I've been saying that for the past 6 years already. I never hated you" she continued. Then her hands reached out the lighter that was lying not far from where I sat.

"I was hoping that we could keep playing together. But I guess I just have to end this" she said and flick the lighter, forming a flame. "The dead can't live together with the living anyway" she said in sorrow. Realizing what she was about to do, I came to my senses.

"You can't... Maria! Don't do it! Don't go! Let's live on together! Maria please!" I pleaded. But she was already engulfed in a fierce fire. It's too late to even wrap her in my shirt.

"You were right. I did have fun and happy moment if I kept on living. So you too have to live your life to the fullest. You have to keep on living!" she cried out with a smile on her face.

"Mariaaa!!" I shouted her name, crying.

Her corpse collapse and turned black, and slowly became ashes. I didn't left until the fire was gone from her corpse. I stayed there for hours, reminiscing our memories together in the forest. I never get to tell her that I loved her. She's gone.

50 years later...

Eventually, I lived my life. I went to the forest. Again. I had a family already, but they all gone to the town. So I was left alone in my old shabby house. Waiting for the death to come visit me and take me to their world. To the same place where Maria is.

Besides, Maria wouldn't forgive me if I decided to die.

THE END