Peace, Love, and Zombie Brains

Chapter one

I heard something. I don't know what, but that little sound woke me up from a deep sleep. It was like a shuffling of feet. Odd. Why would I wake up from that? I looked at my clock, it showed 3:45 in glowing red numbers. I groaned. Ug it is to early to be up, I thought. I didn't need to be awake for another hour and a half. But I was already awake and couldn't go back to sleep so I got up from my warm safe bed and walked out into the hall. My dad would be up anyway so I could go and chat with him.</p>
<p data-p-id="807fc7834196000169175bd5760b703c"> On the way down to the first floor I couldn't stop thinking about WORLD WAR Z, the zombie movie i watched with Derek (my boyfriend) last night. It was so cool! Best graphics ever! Those zombies looked so real! God i can be such a nerd! But come on! The guy who played Gerry ( i always forget his name) is soooo hot! Derek wasn't to happy though, haha. But i loved Derek. Didn't I? We had been together for awhile and i cared for him obviously, but love? That's a strong word and i doubt i'd say that anytime soon.
I was pulled from my thoughts when i heard a crash and scream.I ran the rest of the way to the kitchen, feeling like my heart was going to burst! The lights were on and the fridge door was open. Everything else seemed normal. Actually, not everything was normal. There was a weird sound. Almost like gurgling and smacking. I played it off as the fridge being left open to long even though i knew it couldn't be. But I didn't want to think of it. Dad just left the fridge open when he left for work and i imagined the scream. I walked over to the fridge to close the door and prove to myself that my 'funny feeling' was wrong. As i passed the island ,though, i stopped short. I couldn't stop it, I gave out a loud ear piercing scream. My father was lying on the ground with....SOMETHING....on top of him and oh god! It was eating him! There was blood everywhere, pooling around him!
Then the thing turned around and looked up at me! It just looked up at me for a moment and i realized it looked a lot like the zombies from the movie. But how? How could that be? Zombies arn't real! It is just a myth. A what could happen if or a what would happen when. Not something that should happen now. To me! I unfroze immediately when i heard my mom getting out of bed!
"noooo!" I yelled and took off up the stairs towards my moms room. I could hear the thing following me though so I ran faster. I thought I could make it. I really did, but then i tripped on the last step! I thought it was all over. I was going to end up just like my poor father, lying in a pool of my own blood. I could hear the thing about to start up the stairs. He must have tripped on something or he must be really slow because if not it would have already made it to me. "Honey?" My mom was in front of me and helping me up, "What's going on?" "Run mom!" I yelled as i caught sight of the thing. I grabbed her arm and pulled her into her room and slammed the door. "Hurry! The dresser now!" I told her. We pushed the dresser in front of the door right as the thing slammed into the it. I was breathing hard and holding my chest. The adrenaline was still there but less than before. Think Kayla! Think! What kills zombies? Guns, knives,anything really if its in the head. i went in my parents closet and threw there clothes aside until i found the gun safe.
"Mom! The code! What is it?" I asked. My mother was crying and i felt like i would be too if i wasnt thinking about my brother all alone in the other room. "Mom!" I shook her a little, "The code!"
"6...2...3...5" She said between sobs. I went back in there and put the code in. There was a click then the black steel door opened. My dad was a cop and liked to hunt so we had hundreds of guns and other weapons and had taught me how to use them all. I grabbed a .45 caliber, checked the clip then went back to the door.
"Stay here, mom!" I told her as i pushed the dresser out of the way and ran out. I went to Eddy's room. The door was opened. Damn. I hope I wasn't to late. I took a deep breath to calm my racing heart then pushed the door opened the rest of the way. Eddy was on the top bunk of his bunk bed ,crying, and there was not one but three zombie things surrounding it. And they all turned and looked at me. Shit. I shot the one closest to me in the head easily, but the second one was faster and tackled me. "oofmp" The wind was knocked out of me.
I managed to get my arm up and shoot it before it bit me. Ewww! Blood and brain was all over me. Gross! As soon as i pushed that one off of me the third was there. I couldn't breath. The retched smell of decomposing flesh filled my nose and i couldn't think. It was suddenly pulled off of me and a rush of air filled my lungs. I looked over at my mom who was hitting it with a baseball bat over and over again. The head was completely smashed in. "Mom! Mom! It's dead!" I said. She looked up at me and my heart broke in half. She wasn't crying anymore but there was pain in her eyes. My dear sweet mother who couldn't harm a fly, had just killed something and must have realized the tragedy of my father.
"Eddy, honey, you can come down now," she said. Eddy made his way down the ladder and ran into her arms. I hugged them both. My heartbeat was so loud I wondered if they heard it. I knew things were gonna get worse. I'd seen enough of zombie movies to know what was coming......