2 Episode 2: My Past / My Life

Episode 2: My Past / My Life

DRIP!! MUNCH!! TEAR!!

Ryod kicked the zombie back as it bit out a huge chunk of his arm.

"Ack!!"

DRIP! DRIP!

He held his blood soaked arm and groaned in agony, his breathing lost it's metronome. He crashed back into a table and groaned in pain, the bite wound was starting to sting.

"Kilr, use this moment of my youthful sacrifice and escape from this hell."

Kilr hooked his backpack and said nothing.

"Kilr, you a**hole!"

"Why'd you let Ryod get bit?"

"You f**ker!"

"Wasting the life of our class head to save a mere incompetent slacker as yourself!!"

"Oh no, Ryod!!"

Kilr said nothing and waved his middle finger in the air.

Ryod flinched, the bleeding wasn't stopping. A stream of red kept flowing on end, there was also a stinging feeling that lingered there like something creeping in through his veins.

"No!" He slapped his palm on the table causing a huge bang that ricochet off the walls. "Do not criticize our fellow student, there are still zombies around."

The class were moved.

"C- class head?"

"Ryod!"

"One love!"

"Boss man!"

Some of them even shed a tear or two.

Kilr gritted his teeth, he hated chivalrous people. He hated Ryod too. And school. More above all, he hated his life.

"Zombies? Give me a break!"

He bit his lower lip and twirled his pen in his hand.

"I didn't ask for your half assed chivalry! Dips**t hero!"

Why wasn't he scared?

These were zombies right?

"I just want to di--"

"No!!" Ryod boomed. "Don't even say those words!!"

Kilr's gaze shifted to Ryod, he could notice the zombies closing in on them but he did not care.

"You think I don't know about your past?! About your life?!"

Ryod had known it all.

They used to be good friends!

Kilr had not always been a slacker, infact he was the brightest person in middle school. All that changed when his father started abusing his mother to the point where he killed her. His father was a rich business tycoon so naturally he had a way to cover it up.

His father remarried a popular fashion model but she was like a demon to him. His father would barely be at home, he was either at work or on business trips. This gave rise to a new level of maltreatment and neglet.

So Kilr eventually grew distant and slacked off in school. His father didn't care one bit, as long as he passed with an average grade he could still inherit the company. But Kilr detested the idea of working his life off for his mother's killer.

"I know you have no reason to keep living on but please… live on for me! Or my death would have been in vain!"

Kilr ran his hand down his ash and black hair. His eyes flickered with a pained expression.

"S**t! Look at you trying to give me a life again!!"

A moment later his past memories flashed through his mind and he remembered his little sister. The only reason he had left to live. Could he die and leave his little sister to that monster?

The thought of it made his stomach churn in rage!

CLATTER!

All the zombies scrambled for them, they seemed to be drawn to the blood dripping from Ryod's hand.

"Rawr!" They growled inhumanely and gibberish came out.

Honestly Kilr did not want to die, he regretted his life. He regretted losing his mother, he hated his father and stepmother.

But…

"Live your life Kilr!"

As Ryod spoke those words, it resounded with something his mother had said once ago. The fact that he had been living someone else's life all along caused him to shudder.

If he really thought about it, did he really want to come to school that day?

CLANG!!

The zombies tripped over each other, their roars rattling their ears. Ryod closed his eyes and accepted his cruel fate with tears rolling down his cheek. The other students wailed in fear.

A classroom painted red, the zombies rampaging. The life of his friend on the line!

"What is this smell?"

Kilr could pick up this aroma and it overwhelmed his nostrils. It wasn't the smell of blood or fear but a thrill that hit him, washing him with a wave of anticipation. Anticipation of the uncertainty the next second would bring.

A smile forced itself on his face, his body moved on its own accord seeking this thrill.

Kilr had never felt so alive in his life. It was like being on a rollercoaster riding a tsunami wave, the feeling was pulsating and intoxicating.

His hands reached out for it, the black string that swimmed in the air before his very eyes. He could almost feel it! If only he could grab it…!

WHAM!!

"What is this feeling?!"

He hit the zombie square on the face before it bit off Ryod's ear.

"My heart is jumping within me!!"

"This can only be… FUN!!"

"My heart yearns for it!!""

"Is this my reason to live?!"

Ryod's eyes popped with shock at what the No. 1 Slacker of the school had just done.

A crazed smile drew on Kilr's face and his heart throbbed within him.

The zombie tumbled into the other ones and crashed to the ground with a resounding thump.

"Let's get the hell outta here, I have a game of COD coming in a bit!"

He had never felt so alive before. Hundreds of neurons went firing off like fireworks in his brain.

Kilr still had a problem, four zombies and twelve students in the class. They could make it to the exit if they hurried.

BITE!! CHOMP!!

"Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!"

The students clamoured with their lungs screaming loud the anthem of chaos.

Kilr felt something biting down hard on his back and gulped down.

"S**t!!"

"A zombie!!"

"Waaaahh!!"

"I was bitten?!"

SNAP!!