In this world, there are certain things that people say rather will happen or won't happen. Like how people say the world will end on 2011, how aliens would takeover planet earth, but one that's the most popular one is zombies.

At first I didn't believe it, but now I realize that they were right this whole time. My name is Martin Cunningham, I am 16 years old, and I was at first just a regular teen, but now, I'm a survivor from the zombie apocalypse.

6 months ago<<<

I was going to school one day. I was riding the bus and just looking out the window. It was so peaceful and quiet outside that I almost fell back asleep. That was until my best friend John screams at the top of his lungs right at me. "Come on dude, what the hell was that?" I snap at him.

He didn't hear because he was to busy laughing his butt off. "My bad man, you good?" I ignore him and he starts catching his breath.

"That was too good." I roll my eyes. John has been doing this ever since kindergarten. John and I start to talk about our weekend. John Henderson was one of the coolest and funniest friends I've ever had.

That's the same thing he said when we first met. It never gets old to hear. The bus stops at school and drops us off. Once I get into school, almost everyone is one their phones looking at some video. And each of their faces are all scared.

I see Wesley(one of my other friends) and I go to say hi to him. But he cuts me off to tell me something that looked serious. "Bro, shut your mouth for 1 second. I need to show you something"

He shows me this weird clip of a man I'd say is around 40 years old. His face was what disturbed me. His right side of his mouth was practically ripped off his face. Showing nothing but his teeth.

The man was in the middle of the street making a groaning noice. Until he picked up a raccoon from the street and eat it. I throw up in my mouth from the sight of this. Not only was is face messed up, But so was his skin.

His skin was very pale, almost has if he was dead or hasn't eaten in days. The video ends, and Wes looks at me like he's seen a ghost.

Which I wouldn't be suprised because that looked very realistic. "Could you believe that this took place in Texas? That's way to scary to be fake." He says. I looked both scared and puzzled about this whole thing.

"Dude this is most likely fake." I said. "There are no such thing as zombies. That was probably from a movie or something." He opens his mouth wide to show how suprised he is. "You think that's fake? Look at what everyone is watching. The same video. This was shot by a drone in Dallas, TX. On that road lied the same raccoon the dude ate.

And you think that it's just from a movie?" I nod. "No way man, this is most definitely real. And sooner or later, zombies are going to be all over  the place." Before I disagree, the bell for class rings.

Throughout the whole day I think about what Wes says about the zombies. And I think, is this really true? Or is this another one of Wes' stupid pranks. I can't really say for sure.

The final bell rings and I head on to the bus and wait to go home. John and I were talking a little bit about that stupid video. But I still believe it's fake.

Besides, that video was all the way in Texas. And I think that were good in Florida. I get home and see my mom on the couch watching news. My mom doest really go to work as much as she did when dad was alive. Ever since he died when I was 9, I've practically grew up with my mom being unemployed.

"Are you ever gonna cut that hair of yours?" My mon jokes about my short dreads. "No. They just reached my chin." We both laugh our butts off.

"Hey kid. How was school?" I tell her it was great and start to do some homework. "Have you been seeing the stuff on the news? Apparently there was a man who ate a raccoon on the street. People say that it's fake, but I don't know. It seemed too real to look fake." She said. "Really mom? You too? Almost every one in school is talking about that.

I mean, what if it is true, then what?" She gives me a little smile and just forgets my question. She gives me a kiss on my forehead and go's back to watching news. "You know what, I think this story is totally bull. If it was true, then the governmet would do something about it." I nod and walk up stairs to do my homework. Later that night, I couldn't sleep with that 'zombie' on my mind.

I check in on my little sister Janet. "Hey. You awake?" She gets up and tells me the zombie story that I heard a billion times. "Im scarred" She said. "Don't worry. If this is true, I would kill any zombie to protect you." I gave a kiss on her cheek and told her to go to sleep. "Hey Martin. Are you gonna cut your dreads off? They can almost touch your chin." She giggles. "Haha. Very funny. Now go to sleep." She then goes back to bed.

The next day swings by and people still looked scared. But this time, I see that someone is watching a different video with the same  This time John came running to me wanting to show me the video. "Dude, you have to see this." He shows me his phone. And the thing that I see is very intense.

This time, it was a female who was the zombie. And she looked like 20 or 19. But these guys were recording in
the woods until she popped out of nowhere and bit one of them in the neck. The guys with the camera ran and left.

I shivered a little in the sight of this. What if it's true? "You still think it's fake Martin? 'Cause that looks way to real to be fake." I have a 5 minute conversation with him in homeroom, along with everyone else, that it's fake.

I can't believe people think this is real. Have they never heard of movies?  I think in my mind. But my didn't matter anymore.

Right now I'm in 3rd period. I ask to go to the bathroom and the teachers says yes. Once I walk to the bathroom, I see a man at the school who doesn't look like a staff member. But I assume he's just a parent picking up a child. So I continue.

But I look at him again and I see a gun in his right hand. It was a glock 43. What I did was rather the dumbest thing ever. I run as fast as I can to the bathroom, trying not to look back, but he sees me and BOOOM! He shoots me in the back.

Arrggh. No. No! Not now. You can't die. What about mom? What about Janet? I thought. I didn't see it, but then the school heard this and put the school on lockdown. I feel like I'm gonna puke. But all the comes out of my mouth is blood. Then I say to myself,"This...this is it. Goodbye world" I close my eyes and take my last breath.