"Nova! Nova wake up!" ,Zander's small voice rang in my ears. "Wake up Nova!" I rolled over and groaned. Zander woke me up from the horrifying dream that plague my already irregular sleeping habit. I dreamt of the memories of being at the facility...all those experiments...escaping...but most of all I dreamt of the raven haired boy that happened to have found me in the street after he hit me with his car.

Suddenly the door busted open,letting in all the light from the outside. "Zander, why don't you leave your sister alone and go play outside with Lydia and Max" I didn't look up from under my heap of blankets but I heard Zander's pitter-pattered feet run off.

"Get up nova . You can't sleep in when the world as we know it is ending." Jane says as she rips my blanket from my body; making me curl into a fetal position.

As if enough hasn't happened already.

Fate has turned against us and we only have so much time left before there's nothing left. See a few months ago an outbreak of some sort of sickness that reanimated to body after death or contact. It speared like wildfire across the across the city and glob in what seemed like over night.

The bodies turned a terrible white-blue , decaying flesh hanging by a thread to the material of their bones, mouths dripping with blood from the recent unlucky victim as well as their own.

Basically those who couldn't out run other became a Human Happy Meal. And there's only one word for that.... Zombies..

Not everything started to shut down due to there suddenly being a lack of humans like you would have thought. We still had what little electricity That we Jank from BLI had but only a limited amount that we only use at night.

The undead mindlessly walk around with an occasional screech when some gets to close. Sometimes I wish I would've died by the toxic gas bombs that they dropped to try and stop the spread and bring the Geeks down. They failed, Geeks still walk around with half a body.

I don't even know or I should really say I don't remember,how we came to find this group of ours.It's pretty much a blur.. I remember running out into the Desert with a guy named Gerard and we got separated by a herd of the very same creatures I had encountered at BL/I's Siren Facility. Zander couldn't travel because anything we did exhausted him. Well for one thing he's not actually my brother or even related to me, his parents literally abandoned him in their attempt to escape. They just left him, tied him to a chair and put him out side for the undead while they got away. How cruel people can be even to their own child. I know if it were me I'd develop Prescription Grade trauma and abandonment issues.

He's doing well now, he seems pretty happy I mean there's lots of kids his age for him to play with which is good cause one can only play Army Soldier for so long... Literally. Zander doesn't quite grasp what's happening here yet, not even after what happened to our parents.

Then again what 5 five year old will?

Yes, I wish things could have ended differently. It's a fucking Zombie Apocalypse for crying out loud.

"I brought you something to eat" Jane said as she plopped herself down. I groan and mumble "I don't care" as I sit up. "Ah she's alive at last!" She fake gasps, then hands me a can of mixed fruit and a plastic fork and my pill case. Fancy.

"I know, I know. It's not much but I didn't you you'd want to eat three day old frog legs.."

NO .

I happily shoveled a fork full of fruit into my mouth. "Oh and make sure to get dressed in something warm it's colder than usual outside." and with that she left.

Ever since this happened the world was plunged into an all around winter. I felt like the globe was dressed in snow. It felt dead. It just pulled the cold on like a sweater. Snow that you sink up to your knees in. Tree wore blankets of ice. Minus the living undead you'd never know we were dying. It was beautiful yet deadly.

I roll over off the bed and into my pants. I change my shirt then step into Caleb's old jacket. It hasn't been the same since the living dead got to him.

Boot?... Boot, where's my other boot? Ah, under the bed.

"Ahhhh!NO! NOVA HELP ME!!HELP ME!! NOVA!" Zander's shrill scream caught me off guard. What.

I didn't want to see what would come when I got outside. Because if Zander was playing; someone would surely tell him to quiet down or he'll attract the Geeks.

This time he called for me. I waited a minute to see if the screams would stop and Zander's laughter would follow.

They didn't and I couldn't get through he door fast enough. He can't leave me. He promised.i can't lose someone else....not again...

Notes

I was having trouble finding ways to connect the two stories and finally I just went 'fuck it' and basically all that happened in the previous chapters were Nova's Dream/Flashback memories and from her on its in then present day...

Enjoy!