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Belle awoke with the sun as she often did she glanced at the sleeping form in the bed next to her and smiled contentedly. Getting up out of the bed she strode through the hallway, the floor creaked as it often did. She entered the kitchen and put the coffee on to brew. She saw out the window the neighbor boy making his way across the lawn. She unlocked the front door and went to the bathroom to put on her nurses outfit, she heard the boards creaking in the hallway, "He's still asleep Chris, go ahead and wake him up if you want." Belle figured the young boy wanted to play, boy was she ever wrong, she finished getting ready to go to the hospital, and as she walked by the bedroom door she saw the most horrific sight she'd ever seen. Chris was standing at her bedside chewing on her fiancee's neck. Belle shreiked not knowing what else to do. The young boy glanced up at her, blood pouring down his chin then he leapt toward her. She slammed the door in his face and ran to grab her keys, she heard the bedroom door breaking off it's hinges as she ran to the garage locking herself in her car. She jammed her key in to the ignition and started the car, the radio was on, and a news broadcast expained the horrid actions of the neighbor boy...
"We're very sorry to interupt your regularly scheduled programming, this is an emergency broadcast, The Corspes of the recently dead are reanimating and eating the flesh of the living, please stay indoors and protect yourself, the only way to stop these creatures is by destroying the brain or severing the spine, I repeat the only way to stop them is by destroying the brain or severing the spine... This incident was caused by an outbreak of a virus, no other details are known at the moment we will keep you informed as the crisis continues..."
As the Radio broardcast ended Belle heard a loud thud, as both her Fiancee and the young boy were now entering the garage, she threw the car into reverse the tires squealed. Her car burst through the wooden slats of the garage door. The she skeeted off, not knowing where to go, she sped through the town avoiding cars and people when possible, she neared the hospital where she was an intern, and as she entered an intersection another car crashed into hers. Belle's head bounced off the steering wheel and her last thought before losing consiousness was, I hope someone finds me here before they do...

About an hour or two later Belle stirred inside her car, she sat up and looked around. Still quite dazed from the accident she opened her car door and looked at the damage. She'd been hit by a pickup truck the other driver was no where to be seen. She groaned and rubbed her sching head, then she stumbled toward a nearby convinience store, to find a phone.

Laraine yawned and stretched under her mound of blankets. She paused a moment to listen before she rolled them back and waited a moment for her eyes to adjust to the sudden brightness of the morning sun. She had slept under the stars on the roof of a warehouse in the downtown area. From the sounds below it had been a good idea, someone's car horn was blarring unwaveringly, which is what had awoken her. She floundered around inside her blankets untill she found her beat up looking bottle of water and a battered pack of cigarettes. She took a swig and then lit her cigarette. She only had a few left, she was going to have to panhandle today if she wanted some more before tonight. Christ, whose horn was doing that?! She crawled over to the edge of the roof, careful to not be seen in case there was a cop waiting nearby to chase her away from her most recent favorite spot. What she saw when she looked over the edge was the most insane thing she'd seen in her entire life, and she'd seen some crazy s**t. Cars smashed into each other in the street and sidewalk, but no drivers. In fact it seemed nearly deserted except a few dazed looking people lumbering about. She fumbled through her blankets once more and came back out with an old battery powered hand held radio and clicked it on as quiet as it would go and listened to the emergency broadcast. "s**t," she whispered under her breath, "I need a bigger knife, and a metal baseball bat..... but if this is anything like the movies my smokes are on the house today."

Laraine had snuck in the back door of Tracy's convienience and, much the same as it was in the movies, the store was empty. A little disheveled, ok make that alot, but empty nontheless. She fumbled around stuffing the huge bag she had taken to carrying everywhere with cigarette packs. She had decided to leave her not so important things on the roof seeing as how no body really took much notice of her there and the ladder was broken so it took quite a bit of effort to climb to the top. Plus there was shelter there, and quite a bit of canned food she'd ferreted away over the few months she'd been hiding there at night. It was an ideal location for an extended stay.She heard some people towards the front and ducked quickly behing some things stuffing the last handfulls of cigarettes boxes into her bag and held her breath. If they were normal people it was ok, but if it was something else she didn't want to bring attention to herself. She had gone through the alleyways to get here and besides being a bit bloody they had, thankfully, been empty for now.

Laraine popped her head up and glared at the kid yelling. She marched up to him and jerked off his headphones. "Are you retarded or something?" she whispered angrily, "Haven't you noticed what's going on? You can't yell like that right now, they'll hear you!"

She sighed, this kid was not observant in the least. "Zoombies" she answered simply and continued to pick up things off the shelves and stuff them into the little space the cigarette boxes didn't take up and then began filling her pockets with water bottles and convienance store munchies.

"I figure I can take all this back to my place to put it away and then go ransack some houses to find some weapons. If this is going to be like a movie time is of the essence and we have to move fast. You're welcome to come along if you'd like, it'll be easier if we're both watching out for anything unusual. Although if your observations thus far are any clue, you might just need someone to take care of you.", she said and poked her head out the front door and took a quick look around. There were a few dazed looking people lumbering about in the sunshine. The alleyways might be the best choice again. At least there she had home court advantage, and it would be more difficult for the zombies to manuver in the more confined space which meant they'd be easier to kill quickly.