Love by the Bullet

How it all Began

(Okay so this is my first time writing a fanfic EVER! I'm so exited to start this one! So I hope y'all like it! Btw: Carl doesn't come in until chapter 2! Sorry!!!)

Hi my name is Hayden Elizabeth Jones, I'm 12 years old, and I live in Nashville, Tennessee. I have long, wavy, blonde hair, blue-green eyes, and fair skin. I'm what you would call the "popular girl" at school. I'm the captain of the cheerleading team and my boyfriend is the star player on the football team, his name is Dylan. Dylan is perfect. he has dirty blonde floppy hair and crystal blue eyes. Although my life my seem perfect, it's not.

My dad is a drunk and smokes whatever he can. He is abusive to my mom, my brother, and me. My mom is to scared of my dad to stick up for me. But my brother, Nick who is 16, sometimes sticks up for me. My dad's name is Al (short for Allen) and my mom's name is Heather.

Whenever my dad comes home drunk, or even when he's not drunk, he beats whoever he sees first. Usually it's me because he wanted me to be a boy when I was born instead of a girl. He wanted my mom to get an abortion, but she refused. Of course my dad gave her two black eyes for that. You'd think because of that she would love me, but you'd be so wrong. She watches me get beaten and sometimes beats me herself.

Tonight I'm going to my friend's party across the street. I put on my favorite white, tight dress with my black pumps and walk to her house.

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The party was so much fun. half the whole high school was there. As I walk home I notice a weird-looking man stumble over to me. As he gets closer I notice his skin looks rotted and his clothes are tattered and dirty. He has a huge chunk of skin missing from his shoulder. Blood covers him from head to toe. I reach for my pocket knife I keep in my purse and hold it in my fist. As he gets closer he growls and moans in a creepy way. He is now only feet away. I push him to the ground and he stumbles, but gets back up.

"HELP! SOMEONE HELP ME!" I yell as loud as I can but the street is abandoned and no one can hear me.

I knew what I was gonna have to do. I took my pocket knife and stabbed the-the "thing" in the chest. But it kept coming at me. I stabbed it at least 5 times. I finally stabbed it in the head and it fell to the ground.

I was now COVERED in blood an my dress looked red instead if white now.

I took off my heels and sprinted home as fast as I could!

"MOM! DAD! YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED TO ME!" I burst through the door, now full-on sobbing.

"THERE-THERE WA-WAS THIS M-M-MAN A-A-AN-AND HE TRIED TO-TO KILL ME! BUT I K-K-KILED HIM FIRST!" I stuttered in between sobs.

"What did this "man" look like?" my mom asked with a concerned look on her face. I described what "it" looked liked and her face fell in her hands.

"Hayden pack your things now, we will leave for the CDC at dawn." Nick said with a flat voice, standing from the couch and turning off the tv.

"Wait wait wait wait wait! What's going on and what's the CDC?!" I asked confused and terrified.

"There's this-this...disease going around the world turning people into these things like the one you saw earlier. The CDC is the center for disease control in Gorgia. We are going there because it's safe there. So pack as little as possible and take all your guns and knives okay? This is serious." Nick says looking me strait I'm the eye.

"How do you know this?" I ask, my voice barely a whisper.

"It's all over the news." my dad finally speaks, standing from his recliner covered in alcohol stains. I don't speak, I have nothing to say. I'm in shock. I just slowly nod my head and go to my room. I pack my suitcase slowly. I pack a few clothes, my hunting guns and knives, first-aid kit, lighter, flashlight, and a canteen. I change into my pajamas and flop on my bed. I call Dylan an wait for him to pick up.