Rock and a Hard Place One
Nice Guys Finish First
Tyra
lost everything. A horde took out the remaining members of her group, not that
there were many of them to begin with. A teacher of history, a legal secretary,
a former drug addict, and a porn star. Not a stellar survival group. And then
there was Tyra, a high school student who couldn’t get a high SAT score if she
cheated. As if any of that mattered now.
The
world she knew full of high school crushes, sneaking alcohol, and texting on
her cell phone were long gone. All that was left was the dead. Funny that Tyra
never liked school but managed to find her way back there.
In the
initial confusing when you couldn’t tell who was infected and who wasn’t, she
never made it back home to her mom and younger brother. Most likely they were
dead anyway. That very morning Tyra argued with her mom about going to a party
that Saturday night. Todd Lewis was going to be there and she desperately
wanted him to notice how short her skirt was.
Her mom
didn’t allow her to go but Tyra planned on going anyhow, only the world didn’t
make it to Saturday night. Now instead of not studying for an algebra exam,
Tyra was hiding in the top floor of Sunset Valley High School, the former study
lab if she remembered correctly. Tyra didn’t really like the people she ended
up with but at least they were alive. Seeing them all fall to a horde was hard
to process and she feared she wouldn’t make it without someone, anyone.
“Tyra
Harris?” Just not Peter Kline, if that was the voice she just heard. She turned
to face him and saw that is was Peter Kline, nerdy, book smart, asthmatic,
always had a nosebleed Peter Kline. Geez.
“Peter?
Is that you?” She asked.
“Yeah,
well imagine my surprise when I saw in the stairwell. I was like, wow, Tyra
here huh?” The end of the world didn’t do him any favors. Peter has always had
a crush on Tyra and she knew, she just didn’t want to acknowledge it. Now she’s
going to be stuck here with him, she started to long for the emptiness of no
one again.
Hours
later and many stories after Peter finally stopped talking to take a breather.
Tyra knew every detail that happened to him from the walkers killing his folks
to ending up here and even though it was in gruesome detail it didn’t inspire
sympathy in Tyra. She was just waiting for him to shut the hell up. Everyone
still alive had a sob story, the world ended; it doesn’t mean I have to care.
Tyra thought as she absentmindedly played with her nails.
“We
should probably scout around before we lose the daylight, huh?” Peter asked, he
knew she wasn’t listening. She didn’t even consider him alive at school before
all this anyways, not even the end of the world could change that. Pity.
The two
walked in silence to the stairwell and walked down two flights of stairs but
stopped when they heard moans from beneath them.
“What’s
that?” Tyra grabbed his arm.
“It’s
only walkers trapped in the bottom stairwell, see?” Peter shined he light down
and showed at least a dozen walkers grouped at the bottom. A metal caged door
used to prevent students from accessing the basement held them at bay.
Peter
smiled at his pets, they were the only ones that really kept him company while
he was here. His mother was down there and so was..
“Todd
Lewis.” Peter said out loud.
“Huh?”
Tyra asked.
“He’s
down there. We both took up shelter here only he was being a real dick so I
helped him over.” Peter grabbed Tyra by the lower legs and flipped her over the
edge. She screamed all the way down but didn’t die right away. She landed on the zombie horde who began to
rip her apart including Todd Lewis. Peter didn’t want to spend the apocalypse
with her anyways. If she wasn’t such a bitch, he may have changed his mind.
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