I look down noticing that I've only eaten about half of the granola bar, unfortunately for me that's all I can seem to handle though, I walk over to the garbage can and throw the rest away and make my way to my bedroom, slowly unbuttoning my shirt and then make my way over to my closet and change into pj's, I choose a light cotton shirt with a skull on it and light cotton shorts that are black and slip them on. I usually don't wear this to bed but due to my body seeming to be overheating Its the best choice I have right now since I'd rather not sleep naked, not that there's anything wrong with it, I just have never felt comfortable doing so myself. Once I've got my pj's on, I make my way over to my bed noticing how achy my body seems to feel all of a sudden, I can only hope with a goodnight sleep it will make me feel better. I plop down on my mattress and grab the covers rolling over and snuggling into them, my head hits the pillow and as soon as it does I'm asleep. I'm suddenly woken up what feels like hours later by what feels like my body on fire, I don't know whats going on as I am still disoriented from the nightmare I was having, I look down at myself and see that I am covered in a sheen of sweat and my pj's are stuck to me, the pain is unbearable though, this is like no pain I've ever felt before and all I can manage to do is wimper from the pain, my muscles are so tight and it feels like if I were to move they might just snap, thats when I realize my vision is painted in red. It takes all my might not to scream out loud, my breath comes in shortened pants and I can feel myself slowly falling backwards into what feels like a dark abyss, it feels like I am being dragged down under and there isn't anything I can do before I'm completely pulled into the darkness without any warning. I wake again with a start and immediately look down at myself and notice that I am completely dry, I shake my head, rubbing the sleep from my eyes and laugh at myself " it must have been one hell of a nightmare " I think to myself, I shake my head again not believing i let a nightmare get the best of me like that, its still dark outside unfortunately which means it must still be early, so I decide to grab my phone and take a look at what time it is and thats when it hits me, I do a double take and hold my phone close to my chest not believing what day it is or even what time it is, it just doesn't seem possible. I smack my cheek trying to wake myself up thinking that I'm still in my nightmare and pinch myself, but when I feel the pain I know I can't possibly be dreaming, I shakily hold my phone from my chest and push the power button to turn the screen on, on the lock screen it shows, " January 25th, 2024, time 3:04am ". It doesn't seem remotely possible that I've been asleep for almost three days, everything seems to vague I can't even piece everything together. I try not to panic as I try to remember everything that's happened, I remember going to bed two days ago and going to sleep after trying to eat the stupid granola bar and I had the shot that day, I remember the nightmare, I remember having vision problems, it looked like my vision was painted in red and then what felt like being pulled under a current of black, muddy water and then waking up today. So what the hell happened within a little over 48 hours that I seem to be suddenly missing? I try to think but it seems to be to difficult right now its like something is wrong and my body knows it but my brain is so foggy its hard to piece together anything. I eventually give up on trying to piece things together and my back against my pillows taking my phone off my bed where it fell, and decide to try and see what I can find on this so called virus and the new vaccine. As I search through endless articles and YouTube videos, I find more then I bargained for, its scary how out of the loop I've been when it comes to the news, I really should have been paying better attention, then I would have known that getting that shot almost three days ago would have been the end of me.
Based off of all the headlines, and everything I've read and seen in YouTube videos it is a scary world out there right now, people are getting sick from a shot that was leaked into the health system by a science laboratory out in Russia thats been experimenting with whats called the Z Virus, which based off all the symptoms people have made videos about and the changes they have gone through, its not hard to figure out that they have created a virus that makes people go insane and die but it doesn't end there oh no, it gets much worse then that, people comeback from the dead with a taste for flesh and blood. Apparently its been happening all over but it wasn't until recently that its become a huge problem now, cities are being over run by these monsters, the president has gone into hiding, whole cities are going on lock down including mine apparently and the military are trying to set up bases to keep people safe from the infected. I try not to panic after seeing all of this, until one headline catches my eye I can't find the courage to click on it but in big bold leaders it reads " THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE IS AMONG US".
I let out a small cry as I think of all the possibilities of what could be happening just outside my door, I've seen enough movies and read enough books to know that this doesn't end well for anyone. In the middle of my panicking I start to see a red haze in my vision again but ever so slightly I almost don't realize it, thats when I start to focus and calm myself down a little more, its then I realize that something isn't right with me either and I start to panic again, going over everything I had read and seen within the videos, and the pieces start to come together the ones that I couldn't figure out before. I run all the symptoms and everything everyone went through, and that's when it dawns on me, not only did I get the experimental shot with the z virus in it but, what i thought was a nightmare was all apart of the transition, I actually died and came back as a zombie but how is it possible that I feel more human then zombie? Thats when I remember seeing something about a zombie called a nightstalker in my search of what going on. It is said that very few who end up turning, turn into a nightstalker which is a certain breed of zombie, they seems to have more control over their instincts but they prefer the night over the day, as apparently they have very sensitive vision, and the daylight is their bane of their existence so to speak. But if that is the case of what I am slowly turning into, then I am glad I have those extra dark welding glasses I got for Christmas one year, it was a joke from a friend of mine because I've always sensitive eyes, but little did we know back then that, these things could come in handy one day, especially for a zombie apocalypse but with the twist of me being the zombie now.