Ren POV

I jolted awake I realized it was morning. I fell asleep shortly after the student council presidents speech. I wasn’t worried about the vote I wasn’t popular but I didn’t thank I had a bad reputation. But still the time flew by it was time before I knew it. The student council enter the cafeteria with a short girl with glasses at the front of them. She looked terrified so I guessed she was the student councils choice.

“Everyone the voting will begin now” said the student council president as he appeared in the front of group. The voting began. The middle of the cafeteria was empty and everyone sat in a big circle around it. A big white board was hauled and put in the middle of the cafeteria. The people with the most votes names would be written on it. when it was my turn I confidently stood up.

“Hands!” Said the president. To my horror more than I could ever imagine hands rose. Looking around I saw that among the crowd Abby raised her hand. Next to her Jack looked at her hand clearly disgusted. I decided to ignore them and look and the council president.

“You can sit” said with a look of pity. The third person with a lot of votes was a boy named Corbin most knew him as a delinquent. His blond curly hair stood frizzy and unmanageable in a tangle on his head.

“I will kill all the fuckers that voted for me when I get back mark my words” Corbin yelled as he sat down.

The fourth most voted was someone ever called the Hyena. The rumor was the he got expelled from the top school in the nation and was sent here. He was tall and very skinny, he had his black hair buzzed. When it was decided that he would go he sat down with a wicked smile on his face.

“The four of you with the most votes follow me” the president said. He lead us to the student government room where all kinds of weapons and protective gear where played on tables inside. Baseball bats, a taser, and a few knifes was what we chose.

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“Try to get survival supplies from the near by camping store as your main priority. Then canned food, granola bars and water from the super market next. We don’t need a crazy amount just get as much as you can safely” the president said as he walked us to the main gate.

He wished us luck as we set off. As we started walking as a group Corbin started talking

“I’m going to find a pack of cigarettes the rest of you can go follow the geeks orders” he said.

“I’ll go with you I need a good smoke” the Hyena said and the two of them walked towards an empty drug store. I looked over too the girl and asked

“What’s your name?”

“Hailey, yours” she replied in a small voice.

“Ren” I told her.

“We should just go to the camping store get what we need and leave as fast as possible” she said

“Yeah let’s hurry” I replied. We started off towards the camping store. We walked through the parking lot abandoned cars surrounded us as we reached the entrance. We entered to see that it was already picked through. We searched around the best things we found were a portable stove, 3 mini propane tanks, and a med kit. I put all of it in my empty backpack. We left the building and started to walking to the grocery store when I say it a hoard of the undead. The skin lose around their face was a light grey color. There eyes where white as snow and the smell of rotting flesh filled the air.

“Run!” I yelled to her. We both started running and we were gaining distance, but there was one zombie it was skinnier and taller than the others and had no hair, the skin witch the others was lose and wrinkled, its was tight and stretched across it face. It ran with a desperation I’ve had never seen before. It was catching up with us. It screamed and lunged towards Hailey grabbing her foot. She fell and started kicking at it with all her might. But that did nothing to the zombie runner. I stopped and ran towards her and with something I didn’t know I had within me I grabbed the knife from my waist and stabbed it in the head.

“Are you hurt” I said as I helped her up.

“The skin on my knees ripped off when I fell” she said showing me the bleeding mess where her knees should be. I open my bag and grabbed the med kit. I poured alcohol on a cotton pad and put it on her knee. She screamed as I quickly did the other. I wrapped her leg and Hellen her up.

“Thanks” she said. And we switched directions to walk toward the drug store. As she walked behind me I swore she said

“My prince”