They Eat Me Alive

As the smell of rotting flesh approached me at full force and the sound of moaning filled the air around me I found a new fear of walkers I somehow had not had before. Before tonight I had never been so close to walkers. Sure, I had seen them, but I’d been so fortunate as to keep my distance from them. Now they were stumbling over me and I was sure that Shane wasn’t going to save me this time.

Unfortunately, I was right. While I was clutching onto Shane for dear life I felt a walker kneel down to investigate. The smell was unbearable, but I tried my hardest not to move. I supposed this one didn’t have a nose because I felt something hard, like bone, press up against my ear. I was so scared I couldn’t help but shudder and start to cry. That seemed to startle the walker and gave it the impression that I was alive and that they had just found their dinner.

Before I knew it the walker took my ear clean off my head. I shrieked in distress and instinctively let go of Shane to cover the bite. I felt blood seep through my fingers and down my neck as more walkers saw that I was fresh meat. They crowded around me fast, each one finding their own body part to chew on. First, the hand that was covering my ear, then my neck. A walker went for my stomach, spilling my insides out onto the grass which other walkers found delicious too. The pain was too much. My voice was hoarse from screaming. In fact, I found that I wasn’t even screaming at all anymore. The bite on my throat turned them to gargles. My body was now numb; I never knew I could hurt this much.

I turned my head to my left where Shane’s body was lying. The walkers hadn’t touched it; they somehow knew he had been one of them. As the walkers around me started to blur out I caught a glimpse of his face. Even though he died a second time as a walker with a bullet through his head he looked… peaceful.

At least I was going to die next to him.

I turned my head back to the sky, even though I couldn’t see it through the things crowding around me. Tears slipped down my bloodstained face as I closed my eyes and slipped away into a better world. A peaceful world. A world that wasn’t full of infected, rotting undead.

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