9 An Insane Man! (1/2)

Amanda is having a breakfast consisting of a sunny side up, an apple and a glass of milk while watching the morning news.

”There have been an outbreak of people attacking multiple victims with some of them even confirmed dead and thousands of pet owners have reported that they were attacked on their sleep by their own pets and even Zoo animals were reported to have been acting strangely like they were anxious or afraid of something and experts can't figure out what makes them act like this. And because of multiple riots, the government had even dispatch a part of the Army to all Cities to quell all troubles with the police assisting them and citizens are ask not to go out at night before 7 pm from now on or you will be caught and thrown into jail if caught. Is there a cause for all of this unrest or its just people suddenly getting violent recently? We won't know until the government says something. In other news, actress...…”

”This...everything just blew up and more complicated, wasn't that the same news like yesterday?” Amanda said to her mom who came back from doing the laundry earlier.

”Yeah.. the good thing is there are not reported things like that here” her mother sighed in nervousness when she saw the happenings on the news.

”Well, I need to go mom. It's almost 9” said Amanda as she stood up and kissed her mom on the cheeks.

”Wait..you're going out?”

”Yes, I already promised my friends that were gonna go shopping today. Don't worry mom, I know you're worried but I'll be back before lunch” Amanda took her bag and left from the front door.

”Be careful out there, okay? I'll call your siblings to come here just in case” shouted her mom at the front door.

”Okay mom” Amanda waved back without looking back.

Amanda's mom went back inside and made a call.

”Jen, can you drop by here? Also, call your siblings too and tell them that I want you guys to be here right away, alright? No, I have something very important to tell you guys so make sure to hurry up” Amanda's mom lied instead because her intuition has been tingling since yesterday from that news she saw at the restaurant especially when she saw that the news is still the same thing like yesterday but it grew worse this time with even the Army intervening.

”I hope nothing bad happens today” she said worriedly while looking outside their window.

”Hey, I'm already outside the mall so where are you guys? Ohh.. you guys are already inside? In the reception desk? Alright, I can already see you guys” Amanda went inside and immediately saw her 2 friends and waved at them.

”Let's go?” Amanda said.

”Lets” one of the girls said as she lead the way.

Amanda with her 2 friends went around every store in the Mall in a shopping spree which lasted for over an hour before a chaotic mess happened that nobody expected.

Bang ~ Bang ~ Bang ~

Multiple gunshots rang inside and outside the mall while they were on second floor of the mall. Amanda bravely peeked down from the second and to her horror, she saw a group people gnawing on human's flesh and attacking those nearby people but what made her truly felt fear was those ”corpses” started to stand up and also had the same behaviour like those that attacked them. When she saw all this, only one thought appeared within her mind ”Zombies”.

”Come on! Let's go!” Amanda yelled at her friends who stood petrified and only when they heard her shout did they realized they're in huge trouble this time.

Amanda and her friends followed a stream of people escaping from the 2nd floor as Zombie chased behind them and when they just got a hundred yards away from the mall something unexpectedly happened.

”Kyaa!!” Amanda yelled as she tripped herself. The others heard her yell and wanted to help but when they saw the crowd of Zombie nearing them, they hesitated before they continued to escape. Amanda's friend also saw her and one of her friends turned back wanting to help her but the other girl grabbed one of her arms, stopping her.

”Michelle, let's go! Leave her, at least she'll be able to buy us more time to escape” the other girl shouted.

Michelle was immediately disgusted when she heard her and flung her arms away.

”You go while I help her” she said before she ran back to Amanda and helped her get up.

”Idiot!” the other woman said in contempt before running away but just as she turned around in a corner, a Zombie suddenly jumped at her and pinned her down as ”it” started to feast on her.

”No! No! He-help me!” the girl shouted for help before she was drowned out by more Zombies wanting to have a piece of her.