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Baekhyun
It was just like any other normal, boring day when it happened. I was walking in the hallway with my usual black jeans, button-up shirt topped with a cardigan and a backpack slung in my shoulders, just minding my own business when the world turned upside down.
First, everyone's started getting sick from what I heard was about a virus spreading on a black seafood market at Wuhan, in our country. And then people started having fever and dying. Reinforcements and the military acting on it for a couple of days but they couldn't handle it as it became a deadly pandemic. The next thing we knew, the dead ones started waking up and began attacking.
The faces I knew in that hallway are all now gone. Dead or fed by flesh-eating fuckers who walk like drunkards in the streets and rushes towards anyone who's still human.
Now I'm trying to survive here, caught up in my own survival instincts with some other survivors, Luhan and Taehyung.
Luhan was my classmate in one of my subjects, particularly biology. We don't talk much before because he was this shy kid who just put himself in one corner and listens attentively. We didn't even talk ever since. A few weeks when the apocalypse came, I found him having a fever with the fact that he was hiding in one of the storage rooms in an abandoned wood store for almost two days without water and food. From there, we found each other's company.
Things got hard, people are fighting for food. And we tried to survive at least eating what scraps we found on every store that's if we are lucky to take down the zombies before they could take us down first. And months flew by, together we found another.
The second was Taehyung, I found out that he was a freshman student in another school. He was being chased by a hoard of walkers in the street where Luhan and I are taking. He was terrified and traumatized, seeing his parents being devoured before his eyes. He didn't even talk even the slightest for almost a week.
Then things got harder after then. The virus kept spreading. The infected kept multiplying. And we are being chased whenever we go.
"Baek-Hyung? Can I have some more? I'm still hungry..." Taehyung asked politely, I couldn't blame him, he must have been so tired and hungry from the scavenging. We're also lacking resources now, we needed to get some in the city.
The night already ate the last shine of the sun. The rattling of the leaves made the cold atmosphere have an eerie sensation and here come the usual restless nights of my head wandering away, looking for monsters that make me feel weak. These are the monsters aside from the others that cross the earth. They are living inside my head.
I smiled at him a little and handed him my can of beans and soup. He was slowly opening up, and I'm grateful for that.
"You must have been very tired and hungry. You must sleep now, I'll take the watch." I stated, glancing at the two people in front of me.
This routine has been going for a while now. Risk. Scavenge. Eat. Survive. And risk again.
Luhan was just staring at the crackling fire, I was concerned because after Taehyung had been recovered, Luhan had been all silent these previous days. I know it was hard. It's hard for all of us, but we could at least try.
"Lu, are you okay?" I asked, feeling bothered. Dusting my jeans off from the dirt, I sat on the space between them. Taehyung was now laying on his side, facing me, creeping beside me, while Luhan was on my left side.
"I know my parents are probably dead by now, but I just can't imagine this was really happening. I don't even know when can I last. And I'm not okay with that." I felt the fear, anger, and frustration in his whispered voice. It was dry and bland. Filled with emotion.
I understand. I think these kinds of thoughts also. These are the monsters I'm talking about. The monsters that take your sanity away when you aren't careful with your thoughts.
"We can make it. Now sleep." I felt really bad. Because I can't even help myself, how can I assure them to keep them safe?
I sighed. I flung my arms around his shoulders and kept him close. The wind is getting stronger and I know for sure that there'll be rain or worse, typhoons that will come soon.
"You must sleep. You need energy for tomorrow, we're going to scavenge goods in the city the first break of sunshine and continue to heading south." Though it makes me feel bad and all. I needed to bring them there so I can watch them whenever they are. I can't risk them being unprotected within my perimeter.
We couldn't stay at one place, zombies gather by groups and we couldn't risk ourselves staying for long. Besides, we are heading south, last announcement said that there would be a safe place for us to stay and we should head south for that safe place they are talking about. It's all over the radios and TVs before the internet and electricity went down. My father would be there too, he's a famous scientist who's working under the World Health Organization under the CDC. He could help. That's if he's still alive. And to be able to get there, we should stay alive too to find out.
I was the only one who is equipped in battling the undead among us. I'm still trying to teach ourselves to use weapons to fight and it'll take time for sure.
I considered them as a family from the time I found them both, and it will be like that till the end.
"Get some sleep. I'll be staying up, I promise that nothing bad will happen to any of us." I patted his back. He nodded.
I diverted my sight on Taehyung, he was shaking out of coldness, I took my cardigan off my body and spread it above his shivering one.
His shivering lessened and I sighed in relief. I remember my siblings and tears immediately prickled on my eyes but I blinked them back. I saw them die and I didn't even try to help them, driven by my own fear. The fear made me not able to sleep at night. The idea that when I close my eyes, I could see that pass on how my mother and my siblings killed most inhumanly while my father was away trying to save the world when he can't even save us.
I feel sorry. I feel guilty and totally angry. They're the only ones I have. Now I'm worthless.
However, I'm trying my best. I wanted us to survive. I wanted us to get through this hellhole and I hope we can.
Standing up, I grabbed my samurai blade and the rifle that Luhan found on one of the dead police officers.
I chose a good location for better sight of what's coming and tried my best to stay awake until the morning comes. Whenever there's a zombie that gets its way in our direction, I would shoot them in the head or kill them with my melee weapon.
This is our life now. And I will deal with this shit until I die. All the people I love are all gone, and all I have to do is keep going and create my own story in this dying world.
Yeah, you would be curious how I survived despite of my short height, wearing tight jeans, a button-up shirt topped with a cardigan, and a pair of stolen boots from a famous shop. My only weapon to fight the world of damnation was a Samurai's blade that I found in the city museum when the first wave hit.
Funny, right?
A small teen like me, surviving the apocalypse. Not to mention that I was holding a samurai blade.
A teen with a blade versus the world?
Trying to protect the people that were left around me.
That's who I am now, I guess. The sassy Baekhyun, a black sheep of the family, wasn't just like that anymore.
I didn't get the chance to save my family.
Now, I'm trying to do something good.
Wish me luck.
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