11/25/07 - "The Infected"
Well for what I remember was that it was nighttime and I was at an extremely packed parking lot where an infection had started to spread. This virus caused aggression and anger towards people, like 28 days later. There was a huge cage that was filled with infected people, which was surrounded by military personnel. I any light had touched them they would disintegrate slowly. I walked closer to the cage, but before I could get to close, the infected human slammed his body against the cage in an attempt to escape. This had frightened me and I ran to my car. A girl was sitting in the car next to me and she told me she had to check up on her mom and dad before we found our own place to stay. I assumed that she was my girlfriend and I did as she said.
As I was leaving the parking lot, I saw an infected person crawl out of the cage and jump in the car in front of me. The driver got scared and drove wildly into the middle of traffic. An oncoming vehicle hit them and the impact killed everyone in the car, including the infected person. We waited for nighttime to end before we went to my girlfriend’s mother’s house. When we got there, I saw that it was a two or three story building that was very run down and the door was wide open. It was dark inside so I figured I should be extra careful because there could be infected in there. I went inside and I brought some spare bulbs that were in the back of my car in case the lights were burnt out. My friend was also with me just in case we needed some extra help. We tried to flip the switch on but indeed the lights were all burned out. My friend and I went around placing the new bulbs in with no problems while my girlfriend went to check on her mother.
The new bulbs were put in and light filled the muggy old apartment. We shut and bolted the front door to make sure that nobody could get in. Then we sat and talked for a while about what we should do and how we should live our lives until the infection dies out. I had brought plenty of food and supplies to live of for at least a week, but this definitely wasn’t enough. We decided not to find our own place, but to stay with her mother and keep her safe. It started to get light outside and we knew it was same to go outside. Later my father and mother knocked on the door and we let them in. We knew they weren’t infected because they managed to get here in the daytime. By now many of the army troops had moved through the other buildings surrounding us which made me feel much better. Later it grew dark and I had opened all the windows shutters so the moonlight could shine through. We could never turn off the lights or else we were vulnerable to the attacks of the infected, well at least we never turned off the downstairs one.
I couldn’t sleep there was something wrong. I went downstairs and I saw my girlfriend’s mother standing by a light. She looked at me and smiled; she then slowly disintegrated. I was shocked, but I knew she was doing this to save us from her. The next morning, I told my girlfriend about what happened and she ran upstairs crying. I ran after her and tried to comfort her by telling her that she died happily, knowing we would be safe from the infection. She finally stopped crying and she hugged me and thanked me for all I had done. I was very thankful that she said this to me. We had to make a run for supplies because we started to run low on food. It started to get dark, and we rushed back to the apartment scared for our lives. We made it home just in time and when we got back, my parents and my girlfriend were talking about me. I sort just forgot about that and went up to the kitchen to put the supplies away.
There was a knock at the door and for some reason I answered the door without seeing who it was. As I opened, I saw that it was an infected man that was holding a small gun and pointing it at me. I said, “Hey, you don’t want to kill me. If anything you would want me to keep you away from the military, right?” I had backed into my house as he followed me angrily. My friend shut the door behind him and I turned the light on. He started to burn from the light and he screamed and went outside. I locked the door and went up to my dads room and said, “Did you bring your shotgun with you?” He nodded and gave me it. It was an old wooden one, from like the 1800’s. I could tell because the shot was lead and he loaded it with black powder. I ran downstairs with the gun and shot the infected man in the head. I can’t say much about a happy ending because it ended about here.
