Our Days Are Numbered

Chapter 1

Its been years since Dr. Leonard had created his cure, a cure that was meant to do good, to help people that suffered from inoperable brain tumors. it worked... that was until the patients all started rapidly becoming ill, and then soon they had started attacking and eating f*****g people.

I had been 15 years old when the outbreak became a pandemic. Most of my family didn't make it. It had been my father and I against the world until a stupid mistake was made about 3 years back. A raid had gone wrong and only one of ours returned. He hid something from us though, a bite mark, the i***t had been bitten and decided to return to the camp. After a few days he had turned, my father had been in the front line and was killed. 

I shook my head at the memory pushing it out of my mind and focusing. I scanned the medication on the self in front of me. We would need to find a new Pharmacy soon this one was running out of the medication that we needed. I could hear a dragging sound in the distance. I looked up to see an Eater walking close to the glass door of the pharmacy. His face was twisted and decaying. He had one arm missing and his one leg seemed to be 'broken' his foot-dragging as he walked. I hugged my gun to my chest, holding my breath as he tried to push against the door. Moving slowly I pulled the knife from my boot, my eyes not leaving the eater. It stopped moving and turned and walked away from the door that had thankfully not budged. I let out a slow breath, putting the knife back and slinging the gun back over my shoulder getting back to work in finding the supplies we needed.

CRASH 

I jumped looking at the door then the windows, everything was still in one piece.

"Alice?" I whispered as I walked slowly towards the area that the crash had come from. A tall dark-haired woman walked out from behind a shelf, her front was covered in a white powder

"Seriously" I hissed "Are you trying to attract eaters?" 

"Sorry” she mouthed walking closer to me "I saw that eater at the door and ducked down into a shelf, when I tried to climb out again I fell over" she whispered quickly, 

"Get the rest of the supplies, I'm going to find Devin, we need to start moving out before more come,” she nodded her understanding and quietly ran off to get the things on her list.

"Devin?" I whispered as I moved to the back of the pharmacy. This area had been raided, there were pills and smashed bottles scattered all over the floor, the lights being out made it a bit hard to tell what was still up on shelves. I spotted a shelf that was full of birth control pills, taking as many as I could fit into my bag, "Devin?" I whispered as I zipped up my bag, standing up slowly walking along the shelves. "We need to go. eaters are in the area" I paused listening for any sounds. The sounds of shuffling caught my attention and I pulled my gun from behind me getting into position. 

A bottle rolled. I took in a deep breath, straining my eyes slightly to get a better look around me in the poorly lit area 

DEVIN's POV

she stood at the ready with her gun in position.  She was one of the best that the raid teams had, "f**k" she whispered. Her fire-red hair now loose and framing her face making her look even more on guard. I couldn't understand how this small creature had so many men shaking in boots, she was no taller than 5'1”, I mean some of the teenagers in the camp were bigger than her, but no one dared to mess with her. 

"Devin" she whispered again "stop f*****g around" I moved quietly trying to position myself behind her.  I moved my hands slowly and caught her around the waist, she immediately swung her head back and spun around loosening my grip on her, her eyes widened as she realized that she was pointing her gun at me and not an eater 

"whoa there ZoZo" I whispered

ZONI's POV

"Do you want to f*****g die, you i***t?" I hissed and shoved my gun back over my shoulder "cause that's how you get killed and don’t f*****g call me that"  

"Hey couldn't resist," Devin said moving closer to me again and putting his hands on my hips. He leaned his head closer to mine " you are just so... eatable"

"It's edible," I said pushing my palm against his forehead to stop him from getting any closer, "we need to go now "  I moved away from him turning and walking back the way that I had come.

"Babe, what's the rush?" Devin said taking hold of my arm and pulling me back to him, he now had me pressed up against his body.

"The rush is that Alice brought down a whole shelf that could have attracted eaters, so we are going"  I tried to move him again this time he held me against him with a bit of force, I looked up at him, his handsome face was going to get my fist in it if he didn't stop this. He brought his head down to mine slightly lifting me as he planted his lips on mine. As much as how stupid I knew this was I couldn't help but kiss him back. His familiar scent was all around me. My hands went up to frame his face I kissed him harder. I was so lost in the kiss that the sound of glass breaking had me reacting too slowly. I looked up to see Alice standing a meter away looking like a doe in the headlights, she was staring towards the front of the shop.

"f**k" I whispered, "did they get through?" She shook her head still looking towards the front of the shop

"One got a hand though, it's stuck," she said quickly under her breath I pushed away from Devin, pulling my gun from behind me Devin, following suit. 

"How many?" I asked Alice as I made a move to get past her

"four, maybe five?" she sounded too nervous for my liking, there was absolutely no time to lose your s**t in a raid

"maybe?" I hissed giving her a sideways glance "we need to get out of here, move towards the roof, try not making a sound"