2.Day 1

‘What the …..., what happen’

I started to get up from my seat trying to remember where I was and what I had been doing the day prior.

Suddenly I remembered that I was in my car going to work, I looked around to see what had happened only to realize that I had hit the car in front of me.

‘I knew it, it got worst’ sigh

Getting out of my car hoping that the damage wasn’t too bad, I realized that I wasn’t the only one to have hit a car, the cars on my left had collided too and the ones behind and the ones in front too, all the cars around me.

‘What the hell happen, did we all fall asleep?’

Then some people started to get out of their cars looking just as lost as I felt.

“Hey man you ok”

I called out

“Yea…Yea, did I fell asleep?”

“I, I think so I just woke up”

I didn’t know what else to say, wile trying to figure out what happened or what should I do, people around me started to get more active, some started to yell at the people that hit their car others started to make phone calls and others started to record what was happening.

Sigh

‘I’m done’

Deciding that the best course of action was to wait for the police to arrive, I turned off my car and waited on the side of the road. While waiting I checked the time and if I had any missing calls or text.

’10:17, hum a little over two hours, no missing calls or texts’

Suddenly I felt something wasn’t right but I couldn’t quite place what it was, only that something was wrong I started to look around trying to make sense of this feeling, I looked behind me, there was only forest, I looked side to side there were only cars and in the other lane there were other car that looked to have crash,

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‘Actually, the more that I looked the more crashes I noticed. How the hell did that didn’t wake me up’

The more that I looked around the more baffled I felt.

‘How come everyone just started to wake up, that’s not possible. Wait not everyone is out of their cars’

Deciding to check on the people that were still in the car I got closer to the one closest to me. I tried knocking on their window and calling them.

“Sir do you need help”

I didn’t get a reaction. So, I try knocking and talking louder.

“Sir do you need help!”

This got his attention but when he looked at me, I felt as if someone had thrown a bucket of cold water into my face. I stumble back and fell on my ass; I got up as fast as I could wile stepping back.

“SHITSHITSHIT WHAT THE FUCK”

His eyes were completely black, and his face was pale I could only stare while walking back, it wasn’t just the eyes that unsettle me so much but something about him… no, not him, that ‘thing’ unsettle me in a primal way as if I was being stare by a predator or something.

My cries of panic drew the attention of the people around me; some kids laughed while they recorded me, some people got closer to the car to see what was happening and some just went back to their phones.

I went back all the way to the tree line trying to calm down.

‘Get yourself together you are ovr..’

“KYAAA”

“AAAAAAA”

“GET OF ME”

Suddenly everything went crazy. Suddenly people started to attack each other.

“This is not happening!!”

I tried to make sense of what was happening, but my brain couldn’t comprehend what was happening. I was only moved when people started to run in my direction.

‘FUCKFUCK where do I go, where do I go’

The clothes he was wearing weren’t good for the outdoors so going deeper into the forest was out, the last exit should be a couple of miles down the road.

Running as fast as he could, making sure that the people that were behind stayed as far away from him as he could, not knowing if they were trying to attack him or just following him.

After what felt like hours he was finally alone. He slowed down just to fall on his knees gasping for air, suddenly he bent over throwing up what little he had in his stomach.

“HAAA HAAA COUGH COUGH”

‘I haven’t run this hard since high school. I should have gone to the gym more often.’

Alex stayed like that for a couple of more minutes to tire to move or think properly, until he stars to hear more screams, yells, and all kinds of noises indicating that something verry wrong is happening, he gets up and starts to look around of where he is.

He is on a hill, looking to the side he sees the highway at a distance. He sees some cars that are driving away and some people that are running towards one of the cars.

‘Are they trying to get on the car?’

Suddenly one of the people running towards the car jumps so high that they end up falling on top of the car, the person on top of the car starts to hit the top of the car, this makes the driver to star Swerling side to side until he runs over one of the people that were running towards the car.

‘fuck’

Alex can’t help but look way but out of morbid curiosity he looks back only to see the person that had just been run over get up and start walking towards the direction the car left.

‘These……... These aren’t people. These are zombies.'