Alive

Prolouge

Ah I miss the good ol' days. When I still had something to live for. When I had the greatest of times. When I had a home to come back to. The smell of the wet grass and the oh so clean air back at the cabin out at the property we got at the woods me and my family would visit every so often. My angelic daughter's smile as she went out to frolic in the small patch of flowers in the garden with my wife.

My lovely wife, you were so kind to me when no one else bothered to care about nor empathize with. Before everything went to shit and people started turning into something into beasts, tell me........

Did I do good? As a father, as your husband, your partner?

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Why must this be our fates? Why, oh why?

The sounds of those monsters scratching at the doors trying to get in haunts me every second as the days progressed.

The wails and screams of pure agony and pain from the survivors outside as they meet their unfortunate fate in the gut of inhuman beasts.

I knew it was a bad idea moving to the city but she was persistent. Although the schools were better for our daughter I still wanted to remain in the cabin.

Haaaaahhh.......

If this was a dream I would like to wake up now. Caged in the bedroom of the minature room of an apartment complex we barely had enough time to get used to. I had limited supplies and a pretty dull knife.

I dont think I can make it out there. The moment I step out the scary fuck will tear me to shreds in less than a second.

To make it worse, when i peeped through the hole of the bedroom door I suspect the creature was the old man who lived in the room next to us that kept causing some kind of ruckus whenever he could do so.

God, I hated that wrinkly, raisin looking motherfu-

No no, I shouldnt get stressed over a person who's basically gone by now. The thing outside is just a monster in that aged body.
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Buh buh buh ..... BUH

And there he goes again banging on the goddamn door. Aside from the scratching the banging is much worse because the fool would keep at it for a few hours and it is obnoxiously loud.

Buh

Wait.... Was that morse code or something? Hell, does that thing even know morse code?

Buh

Its very unlikely for it to know morse code... the hell was I thinking.

Buh

"Haaaa"

I sighed, tired of the shit happening now.

If only I can go back

If only I can be more prepared

If only.........

If only we couldve been together in our final moments.......

Well this is it for me, im tired of this. Too tired to deal with this. Let me be free of this nightmare....

As I thought of my family and our days together. I was about to open the bedroom door to greet the thing that wants to kill me but then.....

BANG!

"GuUuoOooohh!"

As the door opened midway a gunshot was heard by everything in the apartment. Guessing how it sounded from up here I presume it was fired in the lower floors of the apartment and damn!

It was so loud that it made the aged reanimated corspe outside stagger back and forth in what looks to be pain. In a flash it went out to look for the cause of said noise.....

'Hmmph'

Never thought I could see those pale skinny legs run so fast. It was very ridiculous to look at and in response I restrained a small chuckle as the thing burst out of the unit I was in.

Wait.....

This is a chance!

Realizing my golden opportunity I rushed without thinking much and ran as fast as I can to the door of the unit. Pouring out all my strength into my weak legs I made one of the fastest sprints I have ever done in my life.

When I got close enough to the door I crashed into it with my right shoulder  closing it in place. My shoulder was aching and the sudden surge of pain caused me to recoil and stand there trying to get a hold of myself.

I truly regret doing that.

Holding in the pain I reached for the knob and finally locked it.

At last...

I'm safe, well for now but I think I alerted some of the creatures in the vicinity because of the loud and painful crash I made. Well shit, at least the door was locked.

Leaning against the door I plopped down on the floor panting heavily and not knowing what to do now....

Find my family? Hah, thats a big risk I will take. Well, considering if can even make it out of here without turning into some monster's lunchable. Nevertheless, thats a goal, dont think of it as a risk...

Risk..... 

Yeah.... No matter what and no matter where I am I guess I'll take the risk if it's for family huh?

I chuckled at myself.

You can do it...

You can survive....

I got up and slapped myself in the face getting hyped despite the fatigue.

'Im gonna make it out of here and move to a new planet with my family if I have to!'

I slap myself once more with extra force leaving an even brighter red handprint on my face.

"Come on, Matthew!"