
My name is Isabella Kim. 21 years old, Westwood University, California.
It was supposed to be a normal Monday morning lecture. Then the screaming started from the field outside.
One bite. One virus from a lab leak. In 24 hours, our entire university turned into a dead zone. Friends, lecturers, security - all with white eyes and blood mouths, biting everyone.
Trapped in our dorm for three days with no light, no water, no network, my iPhone 11 dead, we thought we would die. Then he came - Ethan Black. The cold, quiet, handsome boy who always sits alone at the back of my class. He broke our door with a baseball bat and saved me and my best friend Chloe.
But while saving us, he was bitten.
We have only 24 hours before Ethan turns into a zombie. 24 hours to live, locked in an abandoned cafeteria outside campus, surrounded by the dead.
In those 24 hours, with no future and no hope, we fell in love. Real love.
When he finally turned, he remembered me. One tear fell from his white zombie eyes. Instead of biting me, he fought his own kind to save me and shouted "RUN ISA RUN!"
I was rescued by the military. Ethan was lost for one year as a zombie, alone in that cafeteria.
Everyone said he was gone forever. No zombie of one year ever came back. But I went back for him.
Can love bring a one-year zombie back to human? Can love survive the dead days?

