“What do you think you're doing?” We all turned to the voice we heard, where we realized it was Ramon. He looked around at our situation inside and noticed the man lying on the floor, writhing in pain. “We need stuff.” When I said that, he turned to me, he grinned and came closer to me. “And why? What are you planning to do? You want to save him?” he said with an insulting smile on his lips. “If we just let him go, he could die.” I replied, at the same time he laughed loudly and clapped his hands. “You? You're going to save this old man? Don't even bother to save him because he'll just die too. Didn't you hear me? Everyone, go back to your places.” He said, and the people immediately followed him where they just ignored the sick old man. I clenched my fists and looked at him intently. He turned to look at me again and just laughed at my angry expression on my face. They were about to leave, but I immediately chased after him and grabbed his arm causing him to stop and turn to me.
I immediately stood up and ran to her. I held both of her hands to stop her, causing her to turn to me, and we met each other's eyes. My eyes almost widened in shock when I saw her face. An old woman about the same age as the old man I treated. But why is she doing this to him, and why does she hate him so much? She let go of the knife she was holding, and then she stared at her hands that were stained with blood. I could clearly see her shaking in fear and when she discovered what she had done to him. Suddenly, she screamed while covering her ears. Therefore, our companions inside woke up, and they were very surprised to see what happened. I turned to the old man and checked his pulse to see if he was still breathing, but I just backed away when he was probably dead. Ruana and Kaiser immediately approached me, they too were shocked to see the old man's bloody body. “What happened here?” Kaiser asked, but I didn't respond to him, instead I was stunned as my hands trembled in fear.
“Ruana!” I quickly ran to where she was, but I immediately stopped when I felt a gun pointed from behind me. “Just try to take another step and this will be your grave.” I heard Ramon say, so I didn't move from where I was standing. Until they dragged us all back to the cell, where they locked us all. They sent me to another cell while I was sitting tied to an old chair and blood was dripping from my shoulder from the wound I had sustained. They beat me and trampled me like I was a piece of trash. Therefore, my whole body became weak, and I was unable to fight them. I stayed in that cell alone for three days without food or water. I feel faint and everything in my sight seems to be spinning. Furthermore, I have no idea what's going on in the other cell because all I hear outside is screams and I can't even get up because my hands and feet are still tied. But I am certain that they are doing something bad to them, and they definitely don't consider them as human anymore. I just open
While I was helping Ruana to walk, I suddenly stopped when I heard a loud gunshot from the other cell where Ramon and Hunter were. It looks like he fired his gun at Hunter, but it wasn't just one time but a series of gunshots. That's why I hurried our walk, and we immediately searched for a safe place where we could hide. But it was difficult for us to get away from there, especially since the zombies were coming gradually and many of them had already lost their lives. It's not just Hunter that we have to avoid, but also the zombies that are scattered around. “Sixto.” I heard Ruana call me while catching her breath. I looked at her and noticed that she was slowly getting weaker, but I will not leave her and I will not let her die. So even though I knew that she wanted to stop me, I just ignored her and continued walking until I stopped when her body suddenly collapsed. “Ruana, it's just a little while, so you can do it. We can get out too, just trust me.” I whispered to her as I trie
“Are you crazy?” Kaiser turned to me and said. But I didn't leave his side, but I remained standing there even though there was danger coming for both of us. “Do you still remember the time we met? You turned your body into a shield to protect me. At first, I thought you were just losing your mind and really wanted to die. But later I realized that you are a good person, that's why I'm one of those who believed in you that you're innocent, and you don't deserve this kind of place.” He added that I turned to him while the virus caused by the zombie bite on his arm was gradually climbing his body. “What did you think, and why are you telling me this now?” I avoided looking at him, and I was a little nervous because the zombies were approaching us. “Since then, I have promised myself that I will dedicate my whole life to you.” After he said that, I turned to him again, and then he slowly looked at me with a bitter smile on his lips, but there were tears in his eyes. “This is all I can d
“What do you mean?” Simon asked curiously. I explained to him everything that happened to us and how I got out of jail alone. We were both stunned and silent because of what happened, but we continued our walk again until we reached the city. We looked around our entire surroundings, and we couldn't say anything but dumbfounded. Other houses were destroyed, there were burning buildings, there were car accidents and there were people lying in the middle of the road. This was not the world I expected to greet me upon my return. “Tell me, it's all just a dream.” Simon whispered, and we still couldn't believe what we were seeing around us. “This is not a dream, but we are in reality.” I replied to him. We slowly walked towards it while observing our entire surroundings. Very different from the world we live in and my origin. Everything we see is heartbreaking, especially the corpses around that seem to have been abandoned. Apart from that, no one can be seen running around. It was like
“Are you running away from us? Where is what I made you do? Where did you take everything I gave you?” “I don't want to. I want us to stop and surrender to the police. Surely, they will understand us if we tell them the truth, right?” I said as I knelt down in front of them, but I received a strong kick on my face causing me to fall and lay on the ground. “You hear what you're saying? Do you think they'll understand if we tell them we didn't kill him purposely?” he said, and he kicked me in my arm all over again. Due to poverty, I stopped my studies. I'm the eldest of ten siblings, and I'm the only one my siblings look up to because my father doesn't have a good job, and he's drunk every night. While our mother, who was supposed to take care of us, was addicted to gambling and always came home drunk every night. So if I don't make a way and work, we will surely all die of hunger and thirst. Until I met Wesley, a leader of a gangster group. Our ages are not far apart from each other
It wasn't easy for me to get him out of the mental hospital as their security there was tight, and everywhere I looked there were his father's men watching over him. Some uniformed nurses simply pass by his room to make sure he's in there and what he's doing there, then they report it to their boss or Wesley's father. I'm just lucky that people around me don't notice me and nobody knows me either. But I still have to be careful because they're not just an ordinary people. Seven days ago, I always went into Wesley's room to clean up his messes. But no one knew that he did all that on purpose so that they would call me and let me in to clean up his messes, even though the truth was that we were both talking about what we should do on the day he ran away. I looked around to make sure that no one else was outside and that no one else was listening to us. At the same time, I took out the janitor uniform from the garbage bag and then handed it to him. He quickly took it and hid it inside h