you were at your best friend Jaylon’s track meet when it all happened, a loud siren had started whaling in the distance while Jaylon’s track team was busy doing warmups. people scattered from the bleachers in a panic, desperate to find safely.

you immediately made it down the bleachers to reach Jaylon, you two packing your things quickly to escape out onto the streets. The streets where filled with spine chilling screams and pure chaos, blood spilling out onto the ground as the once human figures of man kind turned into blood thirsty meat Hungry monsters.

it had been a year or so since the outbreak, the once blooming streets of the loud city had now turned quiet, only followed by the whistle of soft wind and derbies scattered on the floor. Empty cars and newspapers were left behind by people no longer to be found.

red and yellow leaves littered the sidewalks, the wind had started to pick up more throughout the past few weeks. Fall had arrived.

you and Jordan walked down the quiet street, your hand holding onto the back of his backpack handle as he led the way down the abandoned road.

jaylon was holding a map, a curtain area circled in sharpie labeled “Hope Base”.