To the ends of the earth

Pressing Pause

While driving towards the high school Alex started to realize that everything was off, the area he lived in, to the people that lived there, they weren't the same. Alex was shocked, he was met with the unstable reality he longed for. He stared as he passed himself on the road to the high school. He saw everything, the blood from the bodies. He didn't know what to say, for a moment it seemed as if he was in slow motion, the thoughts came racing, for a moment he found himself wanting to just lay there and let it all go. For a moment  he sat there and wished everything would just be okay, he just wanted his dad to be there, he wanted his mom to not be so sad and overwhelmed with the need to drink herself to sleep every single night. She's constantly saying that there's no other way, because that's what makes her happy. Alex thinks to himself " NO MOM, that is not what's supposed to make you happy! You're not supposed to care whether or not there's beer in the fridge when you get home mom. You're supposed to love me and lexi, you were supposed to be there. I had to be there mom, I was there for Lexi, I took care of her, I was Lexi's support." After Carly died when we were eight I lost my support, I lost a part of my world. I stay up thinking how it would be if I was gone, If I got the guts to do it, to take my life that you so pleasantly gave to us. There is nothing pleasurable about this life, I don't want to be here anymore. But I can't just do that to lexi, I have my responsibilities, I have to take care of you and lexi. Alex repeats to himself "I have to be there" as everything goes white and he wakes from the hallucination of blood loss, he is back upside down, bleeding from his stomach, slowly. Alex shakes back to reality and wonders how to get out of this situation, he looks around and sees a hunting knife that stabbed the seat next to him, "I guess I got lucky" Alex says to himself. He tries reaching for the knife but is hit with a sharp pain coming from his stomach, the pain is unbearable. Alex says to himself, "I have to keep going I don't have time for  this". He reaches again for the knife and this time the pain is so painful he lets out a screech. Alex goes silent, he hears something coming from the outside the car, he doesn't know what it is. It sounds as if someone is outside walking around. Alex yells for help, no answer, he yells again, still no answer, he yells once more then he is interrupted by this thing that is walking around very slowly, he cant make out what it is. Alex rubs his eyes and tries to take a better look. Alex goes silent, he's just staring at this thing that's looking back, this thing looks as if it's staring right at him but isn't doing anything. It's just standing there, Alex decides to move quietly, he moves very slowly towards the knife, he's hit with another pain in his lower abdomen, right before he's about to scream, he stops himself. Alex has moved about an inch, there are about 4 inches between him and the knife. Alex moves one more inch, another pain strikes him, but Alex still silent moves another inch. Alex is one inch from the knife, he sees something in the corner of his eye, it's that thing, it's moving. He doesn't know what to do, he can see that it's sniffing the air like Alex does when his sister is making brownies. Alex decides to move the last inch but right when he's about to move that thing bursts into the front window but gets stuck in a shard of glass that had impaled it. Alex gets this adrenaline rush that makes him reach for that knife so quickly it looks as if he's in no pain at all. Alex Takes the knife and starts to use it as a seat belt cutter. But while he was cutting the seat belt he got another pain in his lower abdomen and dropped the knife. Alex starts to see that he is punctured with a shard of glass, cutting the seat belt made the glass shard fall out which is making him bleed out faster and a lot more. Alex looks up at the thing, it's starting to get angrier and looks desperate, it starts to move through the shard as if it feels no pain. It's coming, Alex grabs the knife and cuts the seat belt, he falls to the ground which is technically the roof of the car. that thing looks up and sniffs again, its angry Alex can tell. It didn't care that its leg and arm was cut by the large shard of glass. That thing kept pushing and pushing, Alex looked at the knife and then looked at the monster, he took the knife and slowly drove the knife into the skull of what used to be human.