The groaning finally stopped. Silence. That's what Chester heard. "What am I supposed to do? Are there people out there? Am I the only one left? Either way, I need to find a safe place..." Chester mumbled to himself. He removed the boxes that blocked the door and slowly opened the door to take a peek. He pulled out his knife from his pocket. It was darker than he imagined. The room got eerier. The electricity might have been chewed by those "things". He was still confused on what was happening. He looked at the clock. "What? I was there for 30 minutes? "It's fucking dark here. I need to get my phone." He went out and focused his vision towards his phone, never looking at anything else.
Just when Chester moved towards the counter, he heard something. He quickly ducked and crawled his way towards the counter where he left his phone. He held his knife with a tighter grip as if he's ready to kill. He extended his arm towards the counter to reach his phone. He heard another sound. This time, it was the sound he heard when he locked himself up the stocks room. "Shit!" He planned on going back to the room where he felt safe but what he saw stopped him. "Jerry? You're alive? Thank goodness!" Chester exclaimed while getting nearer to Jerry who was standing still in the corner of the store. "Jerry, those things, are they wha-" Chester stopped. As he got closer to Jerry, he noticed his left ear was missing and his clothes covered in blood. His arms were missing flesh and his skin were grayish and greenish. He knew something was wrong. He knew something was terribly wrong. Then and there, Chester realized that the sound he heard earlier came from him. Chester took two steps back while Jerry was turning towards his direction. What Chester saw horrified him. "You a-aren't Jerry are you?*" A mutated Jerry that was bathed in blood was what he saw. "Zombies." He finally figured out. He was unable to move as if he was paralyzed. The mutated flesh-eating human suddenly lounged at him. "Fuck!" Chester was pushing his co-workers deformed neck while his other hand held the zombie's arm. He accidentally dropped the knife. He then realized it might be his end.
"Big brother! Promise me that we'll always be together no matter what! A flashback. He heard his Chelsea's sweet, innocent, angelic voice in his mind. Adrenaline kicked in. He shoved the zombie and quickly grabbed the knife from the floor. "I'm sorry Jerry, but I have to. You were a dumbass anyways." Chester forcefully said while his teeth were chattering and his body barely moving. He impaled the knife to the zombie's forehead. The zombie dropped, lifeless. Chester was in shock. He couldn't speak. He grabbed the knife from the lifeless body and ran to the entrance of the store he worked for almost a month. "Nothing's left for me there." Chester sighed while looking back. He slid his phone to his pocket and his knife to the pocket of his black hoodie. "Fuck. There's a lot of them there." He went to the east praying that he might find someone or at least something that can protect him.