In the Dead of Maine
Chapter 1
Beep. Beep. Beep. My alarm is yelling at me to wake up. It’s 10 am on a Saturday. I roll over and sit up. “Hrrrrggggh”, I stretched. I walked out to my kitchen and poured my self a cup of coffee. Everyone at my house is still sleeping it’s just my mom and her boyfriend. My siblings are over their dads house. “Buzz” my phone goes off. It’s a warning from the government not to leave my house. “What the hell”, I said. On the news lately there has been a virus going around Asia and other parts of the world, I didn’t think the warning had anything to do with that. 12 pm. After late breakfast I talked to my mom about the warning she told me not to worry about it so I didn’t. On the news more cases of this virus is getting around it’s in America now. I live in Saco, Maine it’s the town right next to Old Orchard Beach. There’s no video or pictures of what people look like with the virus. It seems like they’re trying to hide it somehow. 2pm. Social media is exploding with videos and pictures of people with the virus. The government can’t hide it anymore the virus isn’t going away it’s taking over. Panic. My moms boyfriend Aaron leaves to the store to get food, water and to get my brother and sister. Our neighbors start leaving and coming back and leaving it’s becoming chaos quickly. I text my friends to warn them about what’s going on. “Yo guys, somethings going on and it’s not good there’s frickin zombies so grab all your food and come to my house to group up and to gtfo of here”. While my mom is panicking I start collecting all the weapons I could find to which I found an axe, metal bat, 3 pocket knives, 3 multi tools, a karambit and a couple other kind of knifes. We have no guns in our house but with all the knives we should be fine. My friend Brandon Morris and his Grandmother Lori showed up and so did my friend Nathan Ellis with his sister. “Where is your mom Nathan?” I asked. “We were coming out of our house to get here and one of those things came out of no where and tackled her to the ground and started to eat and tear pieces off her,” Nathan said holding back tears while his sister balled her eyes out. “Oh my God, Nathan I’m sorry that happened I’m happy you made it here”, I said. Aaron showed up with my siblings and their father Eddie. “All stores are war zones we tried to get into one but gave up and came back”, said Aaron. “This is bad, maybe it won’t get any worse”, my mom says. “I’ve played enough video games and seen enough movies to know that it is going to get worse much worse so we need a plan” I said. It’s 8:30 now and as I’m looking at the time the power went out. Everything around us shut off until there was nothing. “No more electricity we’ve hit the apocalypse”, I quietly say to myself. “We should stay here tonight and head out tomorrow get away from any towns,” Brandon stated and everyone slowly nodded agreeing.
The next morning after a quick breakfast using up food we couldn't take with us. We start loading up the 4 vehicles we have for the 10 of us. Im standing watch over the vehicles to watch for zombies. I’m curious about our neighbors I haven’t seen or heard anything from them since yesterday. It’s been mostly quiet all day, every couple hours or so I’ll hear a car people are still leaving. “GREOOOAHHHHH”, one of my neighbors jumps out from behind a bush and tackles me to the ground. It’s my childhood friend’s dad, his face is mutilated with blood dribbling down all over me. “Crunch, crunch , crunch”. It’s gnawing at my face biting at nothing but air it’s teeth making a really loud snapping noise, I’m holding it back just enough to keep it from bitting off my nose. I have my arm up under its chin holding away, I take my other hand and push its face away and roll so now I’m on top. I take my knife a drive it straight through the center of its forehead. I’m now covered in its blood. I got up and ran back over to the loading vehicles. “I just got attacked but I think I’m fine, It tried to eat my face right off.” My mom ran over to me. “Are you okay Jared?!”, she said. “I’m fine mom I killed it but we need to hurry up that was a close call”, I said. We finished getting everything into the cars and started driving north. We started north because there are much less people in northern Maine so it’s the perfect place to be. As we started driving we soon realized how bad this situation was, abandoned cars lined the street and a few zombies were shuffling around. I was in the front car with my mom and Brandon and Lori. “What are we going to do about gas we are going to need some eventually. I know how to siphon gas from cars with a tube if we can find one.” I said. “We should stop at the group of stores over here a look for some supplies especially gas”, Brandon said. We all agreed and stopped at some sort of strip mall with, fast food places, hair and nail stores, a car part store and a pet store. With that we split into two groups of 5 and started looking around. I went straight to the car part store looking for some type of tube. I quickly found a few empty gas cans and a a really long tube I cut into a few pieces so we can have multiple siphons. I paced around looking for more things to bring when i heard someone yell for help it was my moms boyfriend Aaron. I ran out of the car store and ran towards the call for help. Aaron was in some sort of small grocery store, I walked in and was immediately greeted with a horrible stench and infront of me was a horde of zombies that completely engulfed Aaron. He was still screaming when I turned around and ran to the others who were coming towards the store. “ We need to go right now! Aaron is gone now I have what we need there are too many of them”. Everyone ran for their cars the zombies knew we were there now and we’re piling out the doors coming after us.Luckily the zombies are fairly slow compared to us running so we made it out fine. “AAAARRON NOOOOOOO!” My mom cried out. “Mom everything will be okay we will make it.” I said trying to make her feel a little better. I was driving this time once we made it a little way away we stopped and talked about what we were going to do next. “It’s getting late we should find a place to stay or find a place to safely park the cars and sleep in them.” I said. “Yeah that’s a good idea i’m getting kinda tired.” Said Brandon. We set out looking for any house far away from the streets. It only took about an hour but we settled on a house that has a long driveway surrounded by these large bushes. After parking walked up to the door and opened it luckily it was unlocked. “Hello any body in here?” I asked. When no one responded I knocked on floor really hard with the butt of my knife to try and attract any zombies that might be in the building. There was nothing still. Nathan, Eddie and Alicia went up to investigate the second floor. The rest of us looked through the rest of the rooms downstairs. We didn’t find any zombies downstairs so I went upstairs to make sure everything was fine. I found them in the bathroom with a couple bodies in the bathtub it was a man and his wife. They had killed them selves. I guess they had no more fight in them, stuff like that makes me sad but I will fight on. We left the room and closed the doors leaving them where they lie. We went back down stairs and told the rest of the group not to go into that room. No one said anything they just looked away, they knew what we found.
The next morning after a quick breakfast using up food we couldn't take with us. We start loading up the 4 vehicles we have for the 10 of us. Im standing watch over the vehicles to watch for zombies. I’m curious about our neighbors I haven’t seen or heard anything from them since yesterday. It’s been mostly quiet all day, every couple hours or so I’ll hear a car people are still leaving. “GREOOOAHHHHH”, one of my neighbors jumps out from behind a bush and tackles me to the ground. It’s my childhood friend’s dad, his face is mutilated with blood dribbling down all over me. “Crunch, crunch , crunch”. It’s gnawing at my face biting at nothing but air it’s teeth making a really loud snapping noise, I’m holding it back just enough to keep it from bitting off my nose. I have my arm up under its chin holding away, I take my other hand and push its face away and roll so now I’m on top. I take my knife a drive it straight through the center of its forehead. I’m now covered in its blood. I got up and ran back over to the loading vehicles. “I just got attacked but I think I’m fine, It tried to eat my face right off.” My mom ran over to me. “Are you okay Jared?!”, she said. “I’m fine mom I killed it but we need to hurry up that was a close call”, I said. We finished getting everything into the cars and started driving north. We started north because there are much less people in northern Maine so it’s the perfect place to be. As we started driving we soon realized how bad this situation was, abandoned cars lined the street and a few zombies were shuffling around. I was in the front car with my mom and Brandon and Lori. “What are we going to do about gas we are going to need some eventually. I know how to siphon gas from cars with a tube if we can find one.” I said. “We should stop at the group of stores over here a look for some supplies especially gas”, Brandon said. We all agreed and stopped at some sort of strip mall with, fast food places, hair and nail stores, a car part store and a pet store. With that we split into two groups of 5 and started looking around. I went straight to the car part store looking for some type of tube. I quickly found a few empty gas cans and a a really long tube I cut into a few pieces so we can have multiple siphons. I paced around looking for more things to bring when i heard someone yell for help it was my moms boyfriend Aaron. I ran out of the car store and ran towards the call for help. Aaron was in some sort of small grocery store, I walked in and was immediately greeted with a horrible stench and infront of me was a horde of zombies that completely engulfed Aaron. He was still screaming when I turned around and ran to the others who were coming towards the store. “ We need to go right now! Aaron is gone now I have what we need there are too many of them”. Everyone ran for their cars the zombies knew we were there now and we’re piling out the doors coming after us.Luckily the zombies are fairly slow compared to us running so we made it out fine. “AAAARRON NOOOOOOO!” My mom cried out. “Mom everything will be okay we will make it.” I said trying to make her feel a little better. I was driving this time once we made it a little way away we stopped and talked about what we were going to do next. “It’s getting late we should find a place to stay or find a place to safely park the cars and sleep in them.” I said. “Yeah that’s a good idea i’m getting kinda tired.” Said Brandon. We set out looking for any house far away from the streets. It only took about an hour but we settled on a house that has a long driveway surrounded by these large bushes. After parking walked up to the door and opened it luckily it was unlocked. “Hello any body in here?” I asked. When no one responded I knocked on floor really hard with the butt of my knife to try and attract any zombies that might be in the building. There was nothing still. Nathan, Eddie and Alicia went up to investigate the second floor. The rest of us looked through the rest of the rooms downstairs. We didn’t find any zombies downstairs so I went upstairs to make sure everything was fine. I found them in the bathroom with a couple bodies in the bathtub it was a man and his wife. They had killed them selves. I guess they had no more fight in them, stuff like that makes me sad but I will fight on. We left the room and closed the doors leaving them where they lie. We went back down stairs and told the rest of the group not to go into that room. No one said anything they just looked away, they knew what we found.