One zombie is coming near her and it's a heartbreaking view to see one of her classmates however he didn't see the lady as the same as her since they're turned into deadly man-eating monsters but she has to survive and Scarlet doesn't want to be a zombie. She move backward with a frightened look, panting, almost having a panic attack while the zombie man took a step forward lifelessly. Scarlet felt something cold touch her small, dainty left hand and avert her eyes, she saw an IV Stand next to her and had no choice but to grab it and brutally stab it in his face with all her strength as her last resort just to grab the lighter. While distracting the zombie in front of the lady, she hurriedly crawls to get the lighter and briskly turns it on until it starts to light a flame and she throws it at them since the ethyl alcohol is flammable. Scarlet didn't expect to kill but, to survive, she had to and remembered in her mind that they were not humans anymore. While it burst into flames, she quickly grabbed the handbag, clutched it together with a lighter, and shove the scalpel on the pocket jeggings. She slid the window and jumped without hesitation, successfully landing on the ground but she felt the sharp pain then completely wore it off for a few seconds Scarlet ran as fast as she can even though the pain of jumping at the building is still there, she has to endure it since its life and death situation.
While running fast, Scarlet feel helpless and even pitiful since she could hear sirens and also see the victims, the people enrolled and worked at their university eating their flesh and lying there on the ground; feeling abandoned and now in excruciating, agonizing pain of crying for help and even the sound of zombies satisfied their meals. Scarlet was desperately running for her life, she carelessly stumbled and fell to the ground.
She groaned in pain cos she's bumped into someone when the scarlet red-haired lady take a look, she felt relief that it was a human and she knows this person whom she unexpectedly met in this horrible situation, judging from his visual looks, was medium length, thick, curly chocolate brown hair with pale ivory skin complexion, when she saw his face, the eye color same as his hair, eye-shaped was deep upturned set parallel, and eyebrow in a flat form, aquiline nose with beautiful freckles on his nose and upper cheeks, is no other than it was her best friend who also studying doctor as her, but his major was Psychology, Russell Ollychester.
"Lettiee, where have you been??!! I keep calling you but you didn't answer! All I ever heard was ringing and your voice message!" Rusell said with a worried tone. She felt bad that Russell called her but didn't notice since her phone was set in SILENT mode.
"I'm sorry Russ, but I was sleeping at the operating room for a quick rest...and I...." Scarlet was nervous, almost starting to palpitate when she recall the frightful incident a while ago, like a live-action nightmare. Her nut-brown orbs became large in shock like a zoom lens camera when it captured something, trembling in fear and gasping at what she saw behind her best friend.
"Russell.... let's get out of here AND RUUUNNNN!!!" Scarlet yelled while grabbing his wrist and running as fast as they can. Russell almost asked what's wrong until he turned back, instantly regret of what her best friend noticed. It's a blonde woman with straight lustrous hair, but it ruined the doll beautiful look her eyes are dead green, and crusty and black bruising lips and ashy skin with blue-green veins appeared on her neck and collarbone, and a wide mouth open with growling sound, wearing stained blood and torn yellow sunflower print summer dress same as her doll shoes, this woman was a zombie and she chased Scarlet and Russell. But Russell had tricks on his sleeves, as he pulled Scarlet closer, cover her with a tight hug then ducked down, then Russell stood up, quickly grab the silver heavy metal pistol hidden in his dirty white trench coat, and shot the zombie THRICE, left and right thighs, and forehead, then the blonde zombie fell into the ground with a thud.
Scarlet is out stunned and finds it weird how does Russell carry the pistol everywhere he goes? She stood up and asked him a question, for curiosity because her intuition bothers her.
"Russ, how did you manage to get a pistol?"
"Oh, this? Hehehe, I got this from the sweetheart I met at Military Department at our University. He is hot and cool that makes me drive insane all over him, Lettiieeee!!!" he giggled first then squeal over a young guy, she has an idea of whom Russell referring to, his ex-fling from Criminology.
Russell is a handsome man but he is bisexual however, he is also good at flirting and seduction is his art. She even questioned herself a million times about why they became best friends. Scarlet and Russell met in their senior high school and became friends after they are compatible and close to each other, too close that they've been accused a billion times as a LOVEY-DOVEY COUPLE which the two of them find ludicrous that makes their stomachs hurt, they even laugh as hysterically as hyena cos never in their whole life would even think and dream to be a sweet couple.
"You said you don't like him and even dumped him, are you still seeing him? Gosh, you still love him." said Scarlet in a deadpan voice, eyes bored and hands placed on her hips, seeing Russell's jolting, she knew the answer, then sighed and face palmed at how sensitive and softie her best friend is.
But Russell dropped the bomb that makes her take the words back and shattered when he recalls her past
"Look who's talking still falling in love with your man that you've been loyal to and adored over him since his title in our high school was a heartthrob and prince charming Adam in 11 years" Russell didn't mean harm and wanted to tease her for fun and messing her but seeing Scarlet's reaction, her nut-brown orbs looks gloomy, projecting a depressed aura, lower her head and looked pained and heartbroken, guilty is eating him alive, it hurts him that Scarlet keep waiting for Adam in 8 years and he is still not found, not even his close friends knows where he is now.
He almost comforts her until it's interrupted when a growl of zombies grew louder when they take a look, a pack of man-eating monsters appeared in front of them, and it's a horrifying sight. Russell changed his demeanor into a serious one, Scarlet doesn't want him to do an execution, she also wants to help him but how? Scarlet only quickly checked her handbag if she find it useful of terminating zombies aside from her paraphernalia, pen, and journal note, the only useful objects she can be used as weapons are a scalpel, lighter, and a Tanto. She grabbed the crimson-sheathed small sword and slowly opens it, it was glistening and bright and looked crystal clear but this tanto is dangerous, it was like a small version of katana. She always has this as self-defense and a memorandum of her late mother who gave this as a gift before her mom's time is running out.
'Neck, Forehead, lighter, gas, 3 people'
The intuition is internally screaming at her suddenly, she finds it disturbing cos she only experience this day, she can't even remember her inner radar and instincts are sharp, even though she is a woman, said that their intuition is accurate, this case is different cause it keeps bugging her and if she won't do it, the intuition still screaming at her until she follows and do the job.
Scarlet set those fears and traumas aside, sending prayers that her braveness possessed her fragile body and mentality, opened the tanto sheath, and was ready to strike but how?
When she saw a fuel tank truck, an idea popped into her mind. She took a step forward next to her best friend and muttered that only the two of them would hear while staring at the zombies with no emotion at all. "Russell, we have to run away now"
Russell's eyes went wide, turned his direction to look at her with a surprised "HUUUHHHH!"