I ran down the school hallway, trying to reach the stairs up to the third floor. A horrid crowing of grunts, screams, and bones breaking announced the carnage that was happening behind me. I couldn't think about it. I just ran. My legs and arms ached but I ran. My friends called for help and I ditched them to die. I ran to reach the stairs up. The third floor was smaller and only had three access points. The main stairs, the emergency stairs and the elevator. With the power out, it was the safest place to be.

So I ran. I wanted to live, to survive. Students ran in every direction in the corridor, tripping over dead bodies and falling over. I avoided them as you'd never know when they would betray you. I've seen Elisabeth turn into one of them right before my eyes. Dark veins ran over her unblemished chocolate skin and her eyes became bloodshot. Then she leapt over Andrew and bit his nose off. I only survived because Liz decided to eat Andrew's flesh over killing me. Oh, God.

I jumped over a dead body and felt a wet hand grab my ankle. Then I was pulled down violently and slammed face-first into the ground. I looked behind me and the body I presumed dead was someone that fainted after being attacked. Now it was one of them. The thing wearing a senior student uniform rose to its knees and jumped over me. I fell and sprained my ankle.

The creature, as I dare not call that a human anymore, bit my butt. Quite the vexing way to die. I tried to move but it was too strong. A girl ran past me and I grabbed her ankle.

"Help me!" I cried.

She kicked my face. "Let go of me! Get away from me you monster!"

I released her on the third kick. She broke my nose. The creature crawling over me decided that biting through denim was too hard and crawled over me, reaching my shoulder blade and biting deep, carving its teeth on me. I shouted, I cried and then I saw movement. Another girl on the ground started to move and I instinctively reached out a hand to see if I could get any help from her.

It was one of the turned again. The girl opened her eyes, completely bloodshot and jumped at my arm, biting a chunk off.

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Then another two of the bodies on the ground also reanimated and crawled over, to feast on me.

I died.

> You died.

Everything went white but I could still feel the pain. I could still feel them crawling all over me. The terribe feeling of being eaten alive. In terror, I struggled to move but I couldn't. Everything was white pain. It took me some time to notice the glowing red letters in front of me at eye level if I were standing up. It even had a dripping blood effect but the droplets never touched the ground.

Yeah, I died. Is this the afterlife?

WIth a tremendous effort, I reached and touched the letters. Funny, I thought they were taller than that. Once I touched it, they turned into a infographic.

> Time survived: 37 minutes ------> 3 points.

>

> Distance walked: 154 meters. -----> 1 point.

>

> Zombies killed: 0.

>

> Remaining lives: 10.

What kind of perverted game was this? What the fuck was going on here? Was everything I've seen real? Was I in a VR pod, forced to play the world's shittiest survival game? After I was sick of looking at that pitiful score screen, I looked away from it and another window opened.

> You are able to purchase _ 0 _ items with your current score. Shop disabled.

>

> Remaining lives: 9 ( -1 )

>

> Rebirth in 10 seconds.... 9 seconds....

Aww shit.

Quit. Logoff. Shutdown. Terminate. Stop. Halt. Kill -9. Ctrl+Alt+Delete. Stop. Halt. Freeze. Pause. Up, up, down, down, left...

The white went whiter.

I kept silently screaming.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Sweating, I stood up in my bed. A flying Lego brick hit my head right after I screamed.

"Shut the fuck up, Sammy. What the hell, man! Did you wet your bed?"

My brother, Aaron was fuming at me. Older than me by two years, he attends another school. I jumped over and noticed that I indeed had wet my bed. I cared not a single bit for that part. I went over to the other bed and started to shake my brother.

"Aaron! The zombies! The zombies are real. It happened yesterday! They attacked my school!"

He shoved me away. "Fuck off, man! What the hell is that smell! You did wet your bed! That's hilarious. Not. Get the fuck away from me, bro. You're creeping me out."

I fell on my butt. I felt like crying. "The zombies! They attacked my school!"

"No way, dude. That's what you get for staying up all night playing LoL. Watching too much Walking Daddy?" He stopped and made a serious face. "Sammy, are you doing drugs?"

And with impeccable timing, my mom was at the door. "Samuel Atkinson, are you doing drugs?"

"No!" I shouted back at her.

My head hurt. What the heck was happening to me?