Outbreak - Trystan

I wake to the sound of a faint scratching outside the department store window. A ray of sunlight peaks through the boarded up windows letting me know it’s morning. I jump up to check where the scratching is coming from, and I follow it to the side window. I grab a piece of board from the floor and nail it up to the broken space and if it was pushed just a little more, a roamer would have been able to sense me. Since everything has gone awry, I’ve encountered several near death experiences with roamers, which has made me more alert. But with this outbreak, we must all be alert to our surrounding or risk being bit. I haven’t spoken to anyone in 2 weeks, ever since I had to… put my friend down. I know putting down sounds like an animal being killed, but if you could’ve seen the way she came at me… with teeth bared ready for flesh… it would be just like putting an animal down. It took an emotional toll on me killing Emily, I cried for the first week. Until I realized she wasn’t the only one who became one of those roamers that walked aimlessly only stopping for living flesh. They were humans but not really living, and it seems as though no on around here is. The day that all of this went down was two weeks ago, I was in Tanger Outlet on a shopping spree with my friend Emily. We were walking through the breezeway when someone grabbed Emily and bit her, which shocked us and then we panicked. I drug her into the nearest store, which happened to be where I still am. We started to nurse the wound, thinking about how to get her to the car and take her to the hospital. Then the blood vessels in her eyes begin to burst, and blood drips down from her nose and I couldn’t fix it. I just laid her down and held her hand until her chest stopped rising. I must have fallen asleep because I wake and Emily is gone. I go on the search for her and that’s when it happened, she came running at me and tried to bite me. That is when I had to put her down. After thinking of this scenario I decide to do something else to occupy my mind. I start wandering around the store filled with Nike brand everything when I hear the roar of an engine outside.

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