Zombie Outbreak by John Del Toro Page A

future. For so long it had been too uncertain. Now there was hope. Though each of his friends were acting like everything was going to be normal, he could see desperation on their faces.
    “What kind of trap?” Bobby said with a coy smile.
    “Well, it will come out when it’s hungry and will attack the first human it sees. We can track it enough by looking for its left over meals and then trick it by parading a buffet of human flesh in front of it.” Joe explained. Bobby smiled.
    “Why do we have to kill it? Why don’t we just let someone else do it? It’s too risky.” Said Mary Beth. She was scared and had the right to be. She had watched her little sister get eaten in front of her by the zombies. She wanted to stay as far away from them as she could.
    Bobby turned to her. “Are you kidding? And let someone else be the hero who rid the world of Zombies for good? I don’t think so. I want to kill the last one myself.”
    Joe nodded. “I agree with Bobby. I want to know that it’s over first hand. The sooner we kill it, the sooner this is all a distant memory.”
    Todd slammed his glass down on the arm of his chair. His friends were so used to it that they didn’t even flinch. “Let’s get the son of a bitch.” Then they all looked at Sue Ann. Sue Ann looked at Mary Beth and saw the fear in her eyes. But she had lost her ability to empathize. She knew that Mary Beth had a point. If it wasn’t them, it would be someone else. It was only a matter of time. But really what was there to be afraid of. Their lives had been over for years. Sue Ann wasn’t suicidal but she also looked at her life objectively. There was no pleasure left in it. There was nothing real to hold on to. She shrugged.
    “Whatever.” She said plainly. The three boys cheered and Mary Beth hung her head in her hands. The guys planned the trap and discussed the supplies they would need and how to get them. Mary Beth let tears roll down her cheek for a moment then turned the radio pack on to catch the rest of the program. Sue Ann just looked out over the rolling hills of long green grass. They had been living out of an abandoned farm house out in the countryside. She remembered the first day they got there. She was shaking but felt nothing. Todd and Bobby had helped her into what was now her bedroom and kept asking the same thing. “Are you ok?”
    She heard them ask her at least ten times but their voices had been fuzzy. What did Ok mean? Did she know what it meant that morning? Before it happened. She and her boyfriend, Rick, were getting supplies from a looted store when the attack happened. Out of nowhere four Zombies were walking towards them. Sue Ann’s boyfriend fought them off while she escaped and ran for the car. Rick jumped in the driver’s seat and slammed the door, not moments after Sue Ann had buckled her seatbelt. He sped off down the road and lost the zombies easily. Though they could run surprisingly fast, they weren’t as fast as a car.
    But that’s when it started. He coughed a few times. Then he threw up blood on the steering wheel. Sue Ann knew in that moment what was happening. She saw a small bite on his arm. He pulled over and looked at her with terror and fear in his eyes. Through the blood oozing from his mouth he managed to say, “Shoot me in the head.” She hesitated and he slammed his hand on the dash. “Do it!” He choked. She pulled out the gun and ammo that they had just stolen from the store and put it on her lap. She didn’t know if she could make herself shoot him. The gun was loaded and heavy in her hands. She looked him in the eyes and remembered all the good times they had had together and how much she loved him. She started to put the gun away when Rick let out an unearthly growl and gnashed his teeth at her. Without thinking, she raised the gun and shot him squarely in the forehead. Survival mode had kicked in. She opened his door and pushed his limp body out onto the road and took his place in