Outside, it's quiet. Too quiet, for me. Something seems off? Did the zombie outbreak actually start in our city? What are the chances?
A blue car with white stripes passes by my street and turns left at the nearest intersection.
The sky is a deep green. Weird. Usually the sky is a shade of blue or orange. Even looking at a red sky would be more pleasing than this.
My phone is in my pocket. I feel it vibrate and my notification hotbar has changed.
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1 new message
Who could this possibly be? The truth is, I've met a ton of people, and most, if not all, of their numbers have gone through the A.U.U.D. process on my phone:
Addition, Usage, Unimportance, and Deletion.
"Hey Mav. Just wanted 2 say hello." It's a message from my crush at school, Dessie Hykad. My heart literally wants to fly out of my body and flutter through the air right now.
Then another message comes up.
"What r u up 2?"
And then another. Like she's frantically trying to send me a letter, but she's chopping it up into small chunks.
"Please hold me."
The messages keep coming. But the emotion in them... it's changing.
"I hear knocking at my door"
"I'm scared"
"Help me"
The messages stop. I get scared and send a reply back. "What's going on?"
No response. I text again.
"Tell me. I'm here 4 u."
No response once more.
"Hello? R u there?"
"It's not funny." Don't judge me. Literally everyone in my class likes to play jokes. Being honest, I've played a couple or so pranks myself.
I end my messages there. With a sudden stop. Like you're watching a movie and right before you get to the good parts, someone clicks the Pause button. Yeah, that kind of stop.
I silently turn off my phone. I turn around and head back inside.
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