Chapter 4: Attack

"Wait what?" My heart sank. 

SCRATCH SCRATCH 

"I thought this room was empty!" I said out loud while SOMETHING was scratching at the door outside.

BANG 

"Shit, now what??" I thought to myself, desperately trying to think of a solution.

CREAK 

I stopped dead in my tracks "creak?" that was NOT the sound I wanted to hear. 

I looked over to the door and in fact, there was a zombie, but something is off about it, it didn't charge at me immediately as it saw me, but more disturbingly "WHY IS HE GRINNING LIKE THAT?!" I thought to myself with my body tensing. 

The zombie smiled as soon as it saw me, and with every passing moment, it seemed its grin kept becoming wider and wider! 

"C-come at me, you f-freak..!" I shouted out loud with my hands beginning to tremble. 

"Keh keh keh" 

Wait a second, was the zombie... laughing?! Did it know I was scared? 

I slowly approached the window, my back facing the window, I quietly turned the knob so that I could open it at a moment's notice. 

"Hey! Zombie! I know you want to infect me, so let's just get right to it!" I said with my hands and legs shaking uncontrollably. 

To my surprise, the zombie took the bait, it lunged at me and I quickly opened the window and moved out of the way. 

To my horror, the zombie stopped just before the window. With a shiver running down my spine, I yelled "Fuck you!!" And kicked the zombie through the window. 

The zombie fell down all the way to the pavement, splattering on the ground. It got the attention of many zombies, but they couldn't have known from where exactly it came from so for now, I was safe... for now. 

Being absolutely EXHAUSTED from today I decided to go to sleep, it may not be the best course of action, but I definitely wouldn't be able to keep making good split second decision if I were extremely tired, so I closed the door, barricaded it with furniture, and I went to sleep, praying, when I woke up, I would still be myself. 

....

I woke up, and I was completely fine, I breathed a big sigh of relief that I was still myself and surprisingly it looked like zombies had tried to break in, seeing that a few of the furniture that I had used as a barricade that had fallen over, but the zombies ultimately failed to get inside. I looked outside my window and the streets were swarming with zombies, but nonetheless, I took my trusty pocket knife, a bottle of water and some bandages. I put the pocket knife in my left pocket and the water bottle and bandages in a backpack which I was also taking with me so I could come back with as many supplies as possible. 

I quietly removed the heavy furniture while memorizing the route I was going to take.

After I had finished removing the furniture, I sat down and checked if I hadn't perhaps missed a shorter route. After a moment of thinking, I put the map down and stood up, I was ready. 

I was headed to the store for 2 main supplies, food and water, but there are a couple other essentials that I would be looking out for and 1 very important thing which I would definitely need to survive. 

I took a deep breath, preparing myself for the worst and opened the door. No amount of preparation would be enough for the sight that laid before me. It made me sick to my core. 

The lady from before was laying on the ground, motionless while a zombie was drinking all of her blood. 

The zombie swiftly turned it's head when it heard the door open, from which I came from. With no time to waste, the zombie lunged at me. I failed to react in time.

"ARGH!-" I yelled in panic. 

I managed to grab my pocket knife and the zombie accidentally bit the knife instead of me. I saw it, from the extremely sharp teeth something yellow was dripping, almost like venom.

"Get the FUCK OFF ME!!" I shouted while pushing it back with all my strength 

I managed to push it away enough to stand up.

I immediately stood up and ran back into my room, just before the zombie caught me, predicting what the zombie will do next, I immediately started countermeasures. I quickly searched for the MP4 from the fat guy. I was trying to remember where I had placed it while swiftly looking at every-

BANG BANG

"the zombie is already trying to break down the doo-"

CRACK

"SHIT!" I said while desperately looking for the gun. I remembered where it was, I recalled not taking it with me to the 8th story because I had thought there wasn't any point to taking it, of course now I was regrettin-

CRICK CRICK CRACK

A wave of despair goes over me, I had no idea what to do. The door was about to break and I had no way of defending myself. 

An idea popped into my head, I wasn't sure if I would be able to pull it off in time. Though one thing was for sure, if I didn't anything, then I would die for sure.

THUD SMASH

I started to see holes in the door, I could clearly see the zombie, I was guessing the door would fall apart any second now.

Nonetheless, I ran to the bedroom and took off the bedsheets and I started wrapping my left arm in as many layers as I could.

CRACK..... creeaak

"Shit, the zombie is inside already?" I thought to myself. I only managed to get 5 or 6 layers before the zombie made it's way inside. Despite the impending doom, I kept wrapping my left arm while the zombie was slowly approaching.

I managed to wrap a layer or two more before the zombie spotted me. It was drooling from the sight of me and the panic began to set in.

"Heey~! Come take a bite." I pulled down my shirt collar a little bit to entice it.

Without missing a beat, the zombie ran at me, I shoved my arm wrapped in sheets into the zombie's teeth, feeling the pressure of its bite. I gritted my teeth in pain, but from everything that had happened before, my left arm had began to go numb so the pain wasn't as bad as it should have been.

After a power struggle between me and the zombie, I SLAMMED the zombie into the wall. I was taken a bit aback as the zombie didn't even flinch or let up the pressure even a little bit, I kepy slammed it into the wall, it's blood splattering on my face more and more the more I slammed it. 

After more time than I expected the zombie's body finally untensed, but despite that, it still kept a firm grip on my arm. I took a deep breath and quickly pushed the zombie to the same window as from the previous fight, pushing the zombie with all the force i had left in my body. With one final and powerful push, it's jaw unclenched from my arm. I watched the zombie fall to it's demise.

I took a huge breath of relief knowing that is over.

Taking a moment to recuperate, I took a moment to relax on the couch. I looked at myself in the mirror and thought to myself: "Just yesterday, everything was fine, everyone was heading to work, just like any other day, but less than 24 hours later, the fucking apocalypse is happening.." I sighed.

After taking a small break, I stood up, ready to go back on my objective.

I went to the broken down door and started going down the stairs and looked back, and I saw the petite lady and her daughter were missing.