Aftermath Book 1

Aftermath Part 1

Aftermath

CHAPTER ONE : THE BROADCAST

Alex awoke to a loud crashing noise. He immediately looked to his left, where Jessica slept. It comforted him to know she was still safe. He reached to his right, where he kept the bat. Alex stood and walked into the kitchen and over to the stairs, he looked down into the darkness, he saw nothing but darkness. I got to find a light source, he thought. He went back to the living room and searched through one of the bags but all he found was a candle.

“better than nothing,” he said to himself.

He found some matches and lit the candle. As he passed through the kitchen, he glanced out the window and realized there were more of them out than yesterday. The infected. They were roaming the streets, searching for uninfected flesh. Alex thought back to the times where he could go outside, safely. When his family was still with him. When he could drink water from almost any water source he found, nowadays they had to boil everything and it was hard to get your hands on lighters or matches.

He took the first couple steps down, the candle reached only about 5 feet in front of him, It would have to do, It was the best thing they had. As he got closer to the bottom of the stairs, there came a moaning sound. A sick type of raspy moaning Alex had become all too familiar with. There was an infected inside the house. As he reached the bottom, Alex got his bat ready, holding it in one hand with the candle in the other.

The basement was trashed, stuff everywhere, all over the floor. The moaning was coming from the room at the far end of the basement, as well as thumping noise. He got closer to the door, bat at the ready. He reached for the doorknob, and opened the door. There was a  zombie sure enough, and it lunged at him. It pinned Alex to the ground, and went for the bite. Alex squirmed and kicked at the freak, he kneed him in the him in the ribs. After that, he threw the monster off of him, and struck him in the head as hard as he could with the bat. The thing stopped moving, but Alex just kept going at it with his bat. Blood flew everywhere hitting Alex in the face. Don’t let any get in your mouth! His conscience told him. He stopped, and looked around the basement as if he were waiting for another opponent to challenge him. There was none, he was the champion. He felt an adrenaline rush like never before, he had been so close to death.

Alex hid the body, cleaned himself of the blood, and went back upstairs. Jessica was still asleep in the living room. He nudged her with his hand.

“Jessica, wake up, we should be going soon.”

“Huh?” She muttered.

“We have to go, those people might still be at the school.” Alex said. “You know, the ones we heard on the radio?”

Jessica looked at him with tired eyes. “Alex, that transmission was set to repeat, those people probably aren’t there any more or the… freaks got to them first.”

“No, they got to still be there! Why else would it still be going? By the way, it’s our best option right now, we don’t got anywhere else to go.”

“We can stay right here.” She said.

“No, we can’t. I just found a zombie in the basement and there are hundreds of them out there right now, not even 50 yards away. We’ll leave through the backyard and make our way across town, through alleyways.” Alex said.

“But if we stay here, we aren’t putting ourselves in danger. We’re risking our lives for something you can’t even be sure about!” Jessica cried.

“Listen Jessica” Alex said, “It’s our best hope right now, if we don’t check, then we’ll never know. I won’t let anything happen to you.”