The Darkest Of Days

Rude Awakening

I was to awoken to what I thought was my alarm clock, but when I reached over and pressed the snooze button the sound stayed just as loud. when I looked up I found my the irritating noise wasn't my alarm, because it was set for seven-thirty today and it was only six fifty-eight. I sat up and bed to better adjust to the sound in which I discovered it was sirens seemingly coming from outside. "Mr.Gladovac must of throw out his back again." I said to myself. as I walked into the living room I was surprised to see throw the window not only an ambulance but a police car sirens both blaring loudly. the doors to the ambulance were open and a stretcher pulled out. next to the police car oddly was a man strangely standing there covered in what seemed to be blood. when I started to turn around to move towards the front door I jumped at the sound of gun shots and eventual screams. I peered outside the window again to see a officers shooting at the man and what looked like Mary from across the street running wildly away from her house. curious and slightly shook I opened the door. the scene I was witnessing was of udure chaos. the air was filled with sounds of screams,gun shots, sirens and slight explosions in the distance. I looked around and saw many people running in different directions and then some people staggering after the people. the police car I had seen from my window now had one of the officers from before on the ground with the man covered in blood leaned over him chewing on his back. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. a car had apparently crashed right into the side of garrets house, peeling away from the deployed airbag there was somebody crawling out who looked to be Mrs.Dickerson from down the street. distracted by this I wasn't expecting a sudden push from behind and a weight bringing me down to the cement. I rolled over onto my attacker grabbing him by the throat. he was crazily snapping his jaws at me, grabbing onto my shirt. as I held him down I noticed he looked very familiar. then it hit me he was that man from the In-N-Out last night. he then pushed me to one side and was now on top of me continually snapping. I landed a punch to his face which seemed to have known effect. by now his was getting more vicious almost clamping down on my shoulder a few times. I felt my grip on him wearing and him getting closer. I closed my eyes and pushed with all my might when I heard a loud smack. I opened my eyes to see the man roll over with apart of his head collapsed in.

"Come on get up!" a voice shouted to me. when I saw who it was I was thankful he had come along.

"Thanks Garret." I said grabbing his hand pulling me up. He looked to his left and said

"Don't thank me yet." he, said I looked over and saw what he was talking about. coming up the driveway was a small crowd of people including the cop and his attacker. "come on we got to move!" he said pulling me into my house and locking the door.

"What the hell is going on out there?" I asked

"I don't know. the TV said something about a virus making everybody go crazy." at that point I clicked on the tv to the news network." first of all we need to get out of here, go get some cloths on and pack some bags or something." he said in a worried tone. I proceeded up stairs, changed into my usual attar and began packing some cloths in to a gym bag. I grabbed my other duffel bag rushed into my closet. I reached up to grab a Glock seventeen on the upper shelf and below a twelve gauge shotgun. after putting those into the bag I pulled away a false piece of wall to reveal two M-16s, a thirty-five revolver and a custom sawed off shotgun. I zipped up my bags, threw them over my shoulders and went back down stairs. Garret was now sitting on the couch eying the TV. I joined him in watching, whatever this was it was big and it was everywhere. apparently most big city's or high populated areas are the most infested with those things and that if you were in a safe enough area it was recommended to stay inside and lock all the doors and windows.

"I don't know about you but I don't think we should be staying around here any longer." I said.

"OK, but I need to get some stuff from my house first."

"Alright, we can hop the fence. come on." I said trying to hurry. we hustled into my backyard and par core like jumped across the fence into his yard. when we got inside garret rushed up stairs and as I waited for him I peered out the window and gasped to see Mr.Gladovac's house up in flames with some burnt figures staggering inside. I looked away to see garret with suit cases in both hands.

"How we going to get out here?" he asked

"We can take my Wrangler, it off road durable and got a full tank, I just hope the roads arnt clogged and everybody else followed the directions on TV." I said in a slightly worrisome tone.