Young and Beautiful Demons

Chapter 1

Alyssa's POV

“Nick, hold still.” I say as I aim the marker at his forehead.

“What the hell do you think you're doing!?” Nick looks at me wide eyed.

“Practicing my aim, so I can throw things at zombies!” I joke.

“You and your obsession with the zombie apocolypse is getting way out of hand Alyssa.” Elizabeth laughed as she tucked her dark cherry-red hair behind her ear.

“Hey, one day I'll save your sorry ass from a zombie and you'll thank me and my zombie obsessed self” I say turning to Elizabeth.

“YOU NEED JESUS!!” I hear Justin's voice scream out. Suddenly, I feel sharp pain on the side of my head as I see a book fall to the ground and not just any book... The freaking Holy Bible!! I hear them all begin to laugh as I rub the side of my throbbing head.

“I don't even think Jesus can even fix her!” Anna says with a chuckle. I turn to face her and give her a death glare.

“If looks could kill, you'd be fucked Anna!” Ray added.

“HEY! WATCH YOUR MOUTH MISTER!” Elizabeth says throwing a wadded up piece of paper at his face and missing completely. This just fueled their laughter even more.

"I have to go to the bathroom before I pee my pants guys!!” Anna is barely able to make out as she holds her stomach tightly.

“Then go pee” Nick says suddenly becoming serious.

“Somebody come with me.” Anna complained.

“No. Go by yourself. You're a big girl now Anna” Elizabeth says sarcastically.

“Fine. But if I get eaten by zombies then you guys will feel like assholes for not peeing with me” and with that Anna turned around and walked out the door.

Seconds later we hear a blood curtailing scream. We just assumed that she was acting, but then we hear it again. Elizabeth is first to the door, she looks out the small window on the door, takes a step back and screams. Almost instantly we all crowd around the small window just in time to see our friend get torn to shreds by someone.. no something.

I'm the first to register it. Our jokes are not jokes anymore. There is a flesh eating monster out there and if we don't get out of here soon we'll be its next victim.

I turn around and grab my backpack begin to dump everything out onto the table and quickly gather up the necessities I need. I look at my friends and their trembling bodies. I feel bad, but I know we need to get moving.

“Guys, grab your bags and lets go. Elizabeth and Nick you're going to drive. Go now and don't look back.” I say trying to keep my voice steady. I can feel adreneline pumping through my body.

“What about the others?” Nick questioned.

“The others are probably dead.” I say raising my voice above the screams echoing through the school.

“But we can't leave them!” he yells turning to leave the classroom. Elizabeth stops him by running infront of him.

“Nick, we need to worry about who IS alive right now instead of who COULD be alive right now.” I whisper as I place my hand on his shoulder.

“Then what are we waiting for?” he muttered through his teeth.

“Glad you agree.” I spit back.

I head towards the door leading outside. I see innocent people being devoured left and right.

“Shit.” Skylar mumbles under his breath.

“What?” Elizabeth says with her eyes covered, scared to look at the scene before her.

“They're everywhere.” Skylar recognizes.

“We'll have to push through our cars are just outside” I reason with the others. “One. Two. Thr-” I get cut off by a terrified Elizabeth.

“WAIT!”

We all turn to see a shaking Elizabeth bitting her nails.

“What's wrong?” Justin asks.

“I'm too scared” Elizabeth states simply.

I look into her terrified eyes and speak softly, “Elizabeth, we will all die for you, but right now you need to stop being a little bitch and run.” and with that I shoved her out the door and began to run to the cars.

“Nick, take Justin and Skylar and follow Elizabeth, Ray and I.” I command.

“Sir, yes sir!” he tries to lighten the mood. I simply shot him a glare.

We are about to reach the cars when Nick's sister jumps out infront of us.

“JoLean!” Nick yells reaching out for her.

“That's not JoLean, Nick, kill it!” I scream.

“I can't.” Nick stuttered.

JoLean began to stumble forward towards Nick. He stared at her shocked. Then he see's her dissapear and a bag takes her place as Justin hits her. She falls to the ground.

“Nick, get in the goddamn truck!” Skylar yells.

Nick weakly gets in his truck and starts it.

I roll down my window and yell, “follow us.”

“What the hell was that?” Elizabeth asks putting the car in drive.

“What the fuck do you think it was?!” Ray snaps at her.

“I told you to watch your dang mouth!” Elizabeth argues back.

“I'm sorry are you my moth-” he began to say before I cut him off.

“Bickering won't help, take the back roads. We'll raid the first house we see.”

Elizabeth lets out a shaky sigh, as we sit in silence trying to process what just happened.

“We're all going to die.” Elizabeth blutly says.

“We are not going to die so long as you listen to me.” I say running my fingers through my hair.

What felt as hours was really just a couple minutes as a house finally came into view.

“It looks empty.” Ray states.

“No shit Sherlock?” I sarcastically respond.

“Where do you think they are?” Elizabeth asks.

“Dead.” Ray answers.

“Ray!” I snap.

“What? I'm not going to romantisize it for her.”

“Pull over Elizabeth.” I say as the car slowly comes to a stop infront of a huge house.