It was at this point that Max remembered the boy they sent in. He managed to get to his feet and go there despite the way his body shook from the harrowing experience they had just been through, and surely enough, the lad was there, with his palms pressed against his ears and tears running down his cheeks as he lay curled up on the floor.Max was touched by the sight in that instant. He plopped to the ground near the boy and took him in his arms, holding him close. At first, their contact startled him, and he shuddered in response to this unexpected touch, but then the lad relaxed when he saw it was him.“You're fine now. They're both dead.” Max whispered. “Are you okay?”The lad nodded, but Max held on for a while.“Can you stand up, or are you okay?”Sure enough, the boy could, and then Max led him forward, only to run into Kevin, who seemed to have been coming to check on them. Kneeling before him, Kevin grabbed his arms and looked him straight in the eye, asking if he was okay.A
Who is she?” Kevin had asked on sight of the girl, perplexed.She looked away, clearly shy, and it touched the men's hearts. Again, they exchanged glances, and this time, they were both uncertain. At first, they were just two men surviving a zombie apocalypse. Now, they were laden with two children whom they did not know what to do with, yet were hard pressed to take care of. Despite their confusion, the little girl was soon handed a coarse meal they knew she was not used to, yet she said her thank you with a smile of appreciation that warmed Kevin's heart.Max took his own meal and another beer, while Kevin got a cigar he stood smoking.“So we came to the bunker to find safety and instead, got two children.” Max noted.“They don't seem bad to me. I like the girl —”“I'm not a big fan of kids.” “Why?” “They are cute, adorable and all, but are hard to care for. They can fall sick. They often have issues, and could even be a burden if we need a quick escape with them around. Sometime
Laila William and Stefan Kingsley had found each other in the thicket earlier that morning.One was an untouchable, protected young girl from the zombies, while the other was a broken, wounded young man, and while Laila grappled with the mystery of the Allfather, Stefan was coming into contact with the zombies.His scream alerted her, and she had rushed forward to find him in the midst of the zombies. Without a second thought, she leapt over and fell right on top of him, her body lying prone over him so that her head was above his shoulder, allowing for her lips to be close to his ear, and for his to be the same for her own ear.It was why the vibration rang into her ear when he let out another pained scream.“Are you crazy?” She shot at him on impulse, and still yet, kept her voice low.“Why did you do that?” He asked, returning her question with another in a voice just as low, despite the pain that wanted to rip him in pieces. “My leg is broken.” As soon as he said the words, she f
Kevin huddled the children into the car, swearing to them that he was going to come back, even though he had to raise his voice for the girl to hear him. Her eyes started to water when she did at last, and it was only the boy pulling her close to hold her that allowed them some respite.“Let's go, Kev. Leave the kids and let's go and check who it is.” Max yelled, hauling his RPG onto his back and slipping a pistol into his pocket. Kevin kissed the children, slammed the door, and ran with Max into the thickets, when the shouts reached them again.They crushed all in their path, running forward when they came upon the scene. A young man was held up by one of the large zombies, only hanging because the thing's tongue held onto him like a dear trophy. At its feet, a girl was trying to distract it and stop the boy with her from being eaten by distracting it, throwing stones at it.“Distract him and get the boy off. I'll shoot the gun.” Max ordered, going off to hide while Kevin pulled out
Outside Middlestown, the rest of the world stood watching with bated breath, and that small, largely unknown town became a world sensation in a week for reasons it would not have desired.Awareness of Middlestown's plight started with a 34-second phone recorded video uploaded to Facebook, in which someone was running through some hallway in a house before turning the camera's focus to show three creatures with grey, peeling skin as they attacked a man who had fallen to the floor, his blood curdling screams making the video one of the most frightening things anyone had laid eyes upon.The video's caption was just as chilling as the video itself. It read:“SAVE US IN MIDDLESTOWN. WE ARE BEING ATTACKED BY STRANGE CREATURES. #SAVE MIDDLESTOWN. #PRAY FOR MIDDLESTOWN.”It instantly went viral, but failed to get the reaction that the poster hoped for, with most of the comments lauding how everything could be done with artificial intelligence in recent times, and others making jokes about it
It took the duo that was Kevin and Max a lot of effort to convince the girl to join them as sobs racked her body over the death of the boy they had found her with. She remained where Kevin let her fall, shedding tears on the ground while the two men looked on, the killer unmoved — convinced that he had done what was absolutely necessary to save themselves from a man with an infected leg and the rest of the world from an extra zombie, while the other man looked as though he would join the girl in crying for the boy.“Was he your boyfriend?” Max asked, not without being spared a deathly glare from the other man, however.She shook her head.“Did you guys fuck?”Again, she shook her head, too immersed in her misery to see Max raise his eyebrows and then roll his eyes at Kevin.“You should come with us.” Kevin told her. “We are just trying to save ourselves from the apocalypse, and don't want to leave you here alone with the zombies.”“You promised my friend to take care of him and kille
Laila.Laila William was disheartened to lose the young man she had spent six hours shielding from the zombies to a man who had just come on the scene from nowhere.Just when help and a promise to take care of the person with her came, she had been led off thinking that he would be saved and they would relive the memory, if they ever made it past the borders. Then she heard the gunshots that sent him to his end.Her knees went weak, and she fell to the ground without the will to do anything but cry and wallow in self-pity. It all came rushing into her head at that moment: how she ruined everything she got close to, including her entire family, and a boy she tried to keep safe. She could swear she was cursed and unfortunate.It would not be the first time she wished for death. She had already come close to suicide once, only lacking the willpower to actually kill herself. The man who shot her friend could as well do the job and finish what she could not even start. Only, he didn't seem
Laila.At the van, the sympathetic man whom she liked more was still with the girl, still holding her to himself while the boy looked up at them. “She's gone through too much already.” The newcomers heard him say. “To lose your full hearing and see a corpse so close to you in twenty four hours. Why did she leave the van?”“To save you.” The black boy answered. “She was brave enough to think she could have.”“She heard the gunshot?”“She can only hear things said and done loud enough.”“Oh yes, that is true.”Again, the sympathetic man who she liked more planted a kiss on the girl's hair, cradling her in his arms before raising his head to look at them. “I think camping in the bunker until we can get help is the best thing we can do for now. We should get in as quickly as possible and shut ourselves in while I go to get some food for us all when we start running out of supplies.”“What about me?” Laila heard the unsympathetic man ask.“I promised to take care of the children, or did I