Jack’s screaming, the zombies are trying to hold him down but he’s fighting and screaming. He’s screaming my name as they prepare to turn him.
I wake screaming myself, I look around expecting to see Jack so can know it was just a nightmare but he isn’t there. He’s not been here for two days, it’s been two days since they took him and I’ve been running to find him. I keep having this nightmare, this nightmare of them turning him and all I can hear is him screaming my name.
“I’m coming Jack” I say into the darkness. I lay back down on my beaten up sleeping bag, staring up at the stars. I hope he can see them too I think as I drift back into sleep.
Waking again as my stomach grumbles, I’m nearly out of food now. Jack had most of the food in his bag, so the quicker I find him the better. I try not to think too much about the fact they might have turned him, I promised him I wouldn’t let and I will keep that promise Jack I will as you’re the only thing I’ve got left. I eat what little breakfast I’ve got and begin my walk through the heat to get to the warehouse. From what I’ve seen it looks like some sort of zombie base, zombies seem to bring people there, what for I don’t know and I’m kind of scared to find out. Hoisting my bag onto my shoulders I start my walk back away from the order line to Pennsylvania and towards Maryland again. My thoughts wavering back to Jack again, my thoughts seem to always end up at him. People used to have a saying (before you know the world went to crap) ‘you don’t know what you have until it’s gone’ and man were they right.

I continue to walk through the abandoned streets; I can see the warehouse glittering in the distance.
“Not far now Alex” I tell myself, the days are getting hotter and I’m having to force myself to put one foot in front of the other but I have to get to Jack. I have to keep believing that he’s okay because I’m finally admitting to myself that I am in love with him as I have nothing left to lose.
“Alex” I think he heat must be getting to me; I swear I just heard someone call my name.
“Alex, is that you?” the voice calls again, I turn around to see a figure standing in the sunlight, their ginger hair standing out against the baron background.
“Hayley?” I call back. She rushes towards me and engulfs me in a huge hug.
“God Alex it’s great to see you again! I honestly didn’t think you’d make it out of that gas station alive”
“Me neither....”
“Where’s Jack?” she questions looking behind me.
“Hmm....”
“Oh Alex I’m sorry, he really cared for you, you know” she says. Yeah well I really care for him too.
“That’s why I’m going to get him”
“You’re what?” she stares at me in disbelief.
“You see that big warehouse in the distance? Yeah I’ve seen lots of zombies bringing people there, so that’s where I’m going”
“Alex that’s crazy! You’re going to walk in to the zombie HQ because Jack may be alive?”
“I have to try!”
“Why? Why do you?”
“Because it’s my fault he’s in this mess, so I’ve got to get him out”
“Alex the world doesn’t work like that anymore, people die but we’ve just got to get up and keeping going, without looking back”
“No, I’m not doing that to Jack. I’ve lost too many people already, I’m not losing him”
“Alex this is crazy, you’ll only get yourself killed! Do you think Jack would want that?”
“I don’t care what you think!” She grabs me by the shoulders and looks me in the eye.
“Alex....”
“No Hayley I’m sorry, wouldn’t you do the same for someone you love?” she doesn’t reply and I turn and walk away. I don’t hear her follow me and sigh with relief, I didn’t see Jeremy or Taylor and I wonder if she’s all alone now too and maybe I should have asked her to join me but she would have only tried to stop me. I try not to think about Hayley, I feel bad for leaving her like that but when the world is ending you have you look after the people you’ve got, and rescue the one’s you lose.

It’s almost pitch black by the time I arrive at the warehouse, the flood lights lighting up everything around them, including me but luckily I don’t see a zombie in sight but I can’t help but feel nervous. Biting my lip I take one last look around and head for the stairs at the side of the building to get to the side doors. I can’t exactly walk through the front door of zombie HQ. Now that would a good way to get myself killed.
I don’t expect the door to be locked; I can’t see zombie carrying keys around with them somehow. I push the door open, I nearly gasp at what I see and give my position away. They’re zombies all over the warehouse floor, people too; except the people are locked up in some sort of pen.
“What the fuck?” I whisper to myself. I stare down at them, scanning the people for Jack. I don’t see him. I duck down behind a door as I think I see a zombie look up at me, I continue to look for Jack for his skunk coloured hair but I still don’t see him. Maybe I was wrong, maybe he isn’t here and it was just stupid of me to come. I stand up again, getting ready to leave as someone or something grabs be from behind, pinning my arms to my body.
“Hey....What?” I turn around to see the grey eyes of a zombie staring at me.
“Shit” He lifts me off the floor by my arms and carries me down the stairs and back into the warehouse. The zombie carries me through the warehouse, all the zombies and people turning to look that I can’t help but feel embarrassed like a kid caught doing something they shouldn’t.
“Ah I see we have a visitor” I look up to see I’m face with another person, actual human person.
“What are you doing here?” he asks, as the zombie drops me at his feet.
“I’m looking for my....” I cut myself off, behind him there’s a person I didn’t see before, a person with dark brown almost black hair with black streaked in it that made him look like a skunk.
“Jack” I jump up to hug him but something’s wrong, he doesn’t hug me back and he’s cold....
“Jack?” I look up and instead of his warm, chocolate brown eyes all I see are the cold grey ones of the dead.

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