SHOOT ME NOW!

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　　"How is my daughter's condition ..." I heard mama talking to the doctor. She sighed first then turned to me, I closed my eyes and pretended to be asleep so I could also hear the conversation between the two of them.

　　"She can't make it." I was just quietly listening to them. I heard mama crying silently. The doctor calmed her down and said I might wake up.

　　"Her life is fixed. I will not promise but I will make sure we do everything for her." I heard the doctor's footsteps out of my room. Mama approached me and stroked my face.

　　Sorry, ma.

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　　I felt the weight of the lid of my eyes so I turned off the first television. Mama went home first to get my clothes at home because the doctor said I would stay here for about two weeks to focus on my condition.

　　I sighed.

　　"Ugh!"

　　"Is it delicious?"

　　"Fuck you!"

　　"Happy birthday bitch!" He burst out laughing before firing the gun.

　　"Miss, wake up!" I slowly opened my eyes and I was surprised by what I saw.

　　A man full of blood stains.

　　I backed away and shooked his hand off.

　　"Who are you?" I asked looking at him. He shooked his head and said I calmed down. I looked around and I was even more nervous.

　　We were on the road, many cars collided scattered on the road, there were still horns blowing here. Smoke and scattered fire around.

　　"Where are we?.." I asked him trembling. He held my hand but I tried to walk away.

　　"Miss, calm down. Come on!" I shooked my head and wanted to cry.

　　"Mama, mama..Where is she?" He did not answer me he violently took my hand and pulled me but I suddenly shouted.

　　"DAMN IT, WHERE ARE WE!" I shouted here something that made him stop running.

　　He turned to me and glared at my face.

　　"I told you to calm down ..." weakly but with authority over what he was saying. I saw the trembling of his lips. "NOW RUN!"

　　The once quiet surroundings that only the honking of the crashed cars can be heard, now suddenly collapsed. People were running and everyone was approaching us.

　　"RUN!"

　　I don't know where I'm going, I want to turn around but I can't move my head. I just run straight and walk fast on the road. I meet strange people but I do not know why I avoid they. I no longer know what is happening as long as my body agrees with what is happening around.

　　At the height of my running I saw a lot of people scattered.

　　Dead.

　　My eyes immediately hit a child who was having a hard time getting inside the car. Her eyes were full. I immediately approached it but I was surprised by what I saw.

　　A woman, the vein in her neck is black and her eyes are bloody. She is holding a gun that she is trying to hold in her child.

　　"Help!"

　　"Mommy!"

　　"Shoot me, baby!"

　　"No, help!"

　　I do not know why I am just standing now and trembling looking at their mother and daughter.

　　I can't move my legs, I want to step in and approached their behavior but ambiguous. Too much.

　　"Ate, help!" I saw the child looking at me and with pleading in her eyes.

　　"Pleasee!"

　　I cried. I nodded and even though it was hard I approached their behavior.

　　The girl smiled at me.

　　"SHOOT ME NOW!" The girl turned to her mother and shooked her head. "Were now sa-"

　　It's too late.

　　I felt a hand blocked my eyes.

　　"I told you to run, don't you!" He whispered. "Close your eyes, miss." I closed my eyes I did not know what was happening as long as I just moved where he was pulling me.

　　"This will be long." I heard him say as we continued to run. But I was thinking differently, as if I was going to have nightmares about what I saw before. I didn't really know what was going on, I was going crazy thinking.

　　I was in the hospital earlier right?

　　I just slept but when I woke up like this?

　　What happened?

　　Did I sleep for a hundred years and only now did I wake up so I was not very updated.

　　I really do not know. I do not know!

　　The girl, her mother. The mother of the child seemed to become a monster and just bit her daughter's neck.

　　"Ate, help!"

　　I didn't know that I had cried before when I thought about what was happening around now. I felt the man's grip tighten on my hand.

　　"It's not your fault." He said calmly.

　　"But she asked for my help, I'm just there but I just watched her got be bitten by her mom!" Even though I closed my eyes, the emotion continued to flow from the words I was releasing.

　　"Your just shocked ..." his calm response

　　"I am? I really don't know? Tell me what's happening?" I looked up and faced him.

　　He stopped running and faced me "They're infected."

　　I have noticed people running around, people asking for help, people becoming selfish and just wanting to survive, people being trapped and forced to survive, and people becoming one of them.

　　"Mama .."

　　"Don't die ..." there my tears flowed after she said that then she was feasted on by the monsters who were eager for her body.