I thought my life was over that day at the school shoot out. But was it really? I never got to do the things I loved. Like be an accountant, or get a girlfriend, but that doesn't matter.

I had this dream (or what seemed to be a dream) that I was in the middle of nowhere, and then I look at myself and see the same gun wound. I cry until I see nothing but water on the floor. Then my mom and dad are standing there doing nothing.

"Why aren't you helping? Help me!" I thought. Then they speak. "Wake up you fool. Why are just standing there like a dumbass? Wake up!" He shouted. Then my eyes open up and I jump off my bed.

I can tell I'm not in my house. But I'm in a hospital. "I swear I remember dying a while ago." I say to myself. I can't believe I'm alive.

THUD! I get up and fall straight to my chest. My back starts to ache. I forgot I got shot in the back. So I get up slowly and try calling the nurse. "Nurse. Nurse. Nurse? Where are you? Nurse!" I later realize that there is no nurse. Or people for that matter.

I walk slowly out of the room to see a very dark hallway with no one in it. What's happening? Where is everybody? After what seems like hours of walking. I hear this weird sound I definitely heard before. It was like a groaning noise. I then remember that video John showed me.

Is it true? Are they real? Where are my friends? We're is Janet and Mom? How long has it been? Are my friends okay? I had so many questions, but I didn't care right now. 'Cause I saw one and it saw me. Now I have to get out of here. NOW!

I looked for the exit to the hospital. I try to hold back my tears. I run as fast as I can away from the zombie that was right behind me. But I fall. Argh. The zombie is getting closer. GET UP! I thought. But I don't get up fast enough.  I thought I was gone for, again. But once the zombie is about to eat my shoulder, a knife gets jammed behind its head.

It falls on the floor. And then a cute girl who I don't know looks at me and puts her hand out. "Hey you. Let's go." She runs passed the zombie and I follow. "Do you know what's happening? 'Cause I don't really know." She doesn't respond instead she hushed me and told me to keep my voice down.

"My brother Andy and I were here to get some supplies, until I heard you scream from a mile away. Do you know what's happening?" I shake my head and she sighs. "I'll explain later. Right now we have to get the hell out of here."

She looks for an exit but then another zombie comes out of nowhere. Then a man with a machete stabs it straight through the top of its head and looks at us. "Andy, you said you'd stay in the car." She said. "I was, but you could've died without my knowledge. So I'm here now."

"Yeah great, but know we have to figure out how the hell were getting out of here." I look at them confused to what's happening. "You look confused. Well let me introduce myself. I'm Andrew. But you can call me Andy. This here is my little sister Jesse.

How far can you remember?" He asks. "I remember being at school." He sighs just like the girl. "I'll explain this later. What's your name?" He asks me. "I'm m-martin." He gives me his hand and I shake it. "Nice to meet you martin."

"Ok. Can we get out of here now. The others might be worried about us." Jesse says. "Others. Are my friends okay. Where's my sister at? Where's my mom? Please tell me." She doesn't say anything but tells me to follow her and andy

We exit the building to see hundreds of dead zombies just lying on the ground. I almost puked, but I swallowed it and kept on walking. He escorted us to the car and we drove out. The car was a regular red 2017 Jeep Wrangler. Looked pretty nice. We got in and left the hospital.

"So, Martin, where you from?" "Miami." He looks at me to see if there's anything else he needs to know about me. "What happened? Do you know what's going on? How this even started?"

"No. I don't know what's happening." Now jesse is looking at me too. "Well let me tell you just a little summary. 6 months ago a virus spread out near texas.

Then it spread to Alabama, then Virginia, and then, Jacksonville. Now it's all over the place." He continues to speak about the origin of this whole apocalypse. Until we reach our destination.

"Here we are." I get out of the Jeep to see a rv and a bunch of tents and an open fire. There's also some trucks filled with stuff. And what I think are training grounds where I see people fighting with knives and even old rusty pipes.

"Hey! Martin." I look to see both Wesley and John running to me. They both tackle me to the ground. "Wow. You're not dead. I was starting to worry. Your sister was worried too." Once he said that, I went to look for her.

But instead, she finds me and gives me a big hug. I almost cried. But I stayed strong. After we talked to and talked. A bunch of other people introduced themselves to me. At the end of the day I knew everyone's name.

Bob, Ryan, Emma, and Carol. Along with Andy, Jesse, John, Janet, and Wes. In total, we are all 10 survivors. We all are out to survive in this twisted world. The world we knew is now gone. Now we are out to survive from The Dead.