I wake up to a dry mouth and cracked lips.
Nothing unusual.
I turn my head sideways and look at Lilly, who's body his curled up and leaning on Kendall's shoulder a little.
I pull myself up and decide to go for a walk.
I get as far as a turn around a building before I am met with a terrorising sight.
Six Zombies patrolling the grounds and walking straight for us.
I frantically hobble back as quickly and quietly as I can.
"Psst! PSST!!" I whisper. "Kendall? Lilly?"
Kendall opens his eyes with a frown "What?" He asks grumpily while rubbing his eyes and running his fingers through his messy hair.
"SHHHhhhh...." I cover his mouth and his eyebrows farrow.
He raises one eyebrow in acknowledgement.
"Zombies." I squeak out, his playful eyes harden.
"Where." he whispers.
I point to the right. "Just around the corner, and heading our way, there's about six of them." I whisper, fear laced between my words.
Flashes of memories from the last time I encountered Zombies with Nick and Lucas and what they did to Harry corrupt my mind.
Uncontrollable tears well at the pit of my eye but I wipe them away.
I turn to look back at Kendall but he is already up and getting Lilly awake.
A low grunt from behind me stiffens my whole body.
I turn around and see nothing.
I let out a sigh of relief.
I quickly help Kendall with everything and follow him round corners and bends to what we can only hope is safety.
My controlled paranoia rekindling itself forcing me to scan behind us every few paces.
I turn around once more to settle my paranoia when I spot one lone Zombie walking aimlessly through the broken city.
A scence of familiarity courses through my veins.
I stop dead in my tracks and focus on the Zombie who hasn't noticed me watching it.
Kendall soon notices that there is only one soul following him and turns around.
He follows my gaze and gasps.
He takes Lilly and my hand and pulls us around a corner of a building and put a single finger to his lips.
I nod and turn to Lilly who's face have overcome with fear.
"It hasn't seen us we're safe for now." I whisper a bit to loudly for Kendall's liking, as he quickly forces his hand over my mouth.
I roll my eyes and he lets go.
"He may not of seen us but he dam well will, if you keep bloody shouting like that." he aggressively whisper-yells a me.
"Oh, shut up you." I retort back and slip back around the corner to have a better look at the familiar Zombie a few hundred meters away from me.
Underneath the pale decaying skin, bumps and warts, I could see short shaggy brown hair that reminded me of my father.
"Dad?" I whisper inching closer.
The creatures putrid face snaps towards mine, glistening transparent saliva drops from its yellow teeth and forms a small pool on the cracked concrete underneath it.
YOU ARE READING
An instinct to survive
Aventura"The world is an unforgiving place Kiara, remember that." My mother's words echo through my skull as I walk down the deserted streets of the place I once called home, now destroyed. Anything worth talking has already been taken and all that is left...
