Gexo XXX Days

Week No Month

Joseph's face is pale. He is standing in the middle of the corpses of school
staffs. The scene reminded me of the rats, that i saw years ago. I started
running as soon as Joseph told me to RUN! I do not have the courage to
stand there and ask him questions about the mystery behind so many
dead bodies. I'm running towards the 2nd exit gate of the school since it
was the nearest one to me. I grabbed the door handle and pulled it with
my full power. When i got out of the school, i yelled, "JOSEPH!!! Come here
we need to leave." No reply came out of the school. There was just dead
silence and the reek of corpses. Nothing else. My blood is getting cold due
to the fear. I am running but I can't feel my legs. I was so scared that I
forgot to take my bicycle from the school's backyard and I don't have
enough guts to go back and take my bicycle. So i kept running and
running on foot. As i hit the main road, i saw it was empty. Not even a
single person or vehicle was roaming on the road. It looked like the town
was dead. It got me even more scared. Despite of the silence of the town i
kept running towards my home. After a few minutes, I saw Mr. Charles's car was burning in the middle of the road. It was burning so loud that i could
feel its heat even though i am 100 feet away from it.
"HELLO? IS ANYBODY HERE"
I YELLED. No answer. It was just the sound of a burning car, nothing else.
*Buzzzzz*
It was my phone. It was vibrating. I took it out to check and it was my mom
calling. I picked it up in an instant.
"Hello.. mom?"
I said
"Badger.... Badger, are you okay? Badger...."
The network was poor and her sound was vibrating.
"Hey mom, it's me. What is happening? Where are you? Where is
everybody in Gexo-city?"
"Badger.... Badger, are you okay?
Badger...."
"Mom, I'm fine... WHERE ARE YOU? I JUST SAW MY PRINCIPLE AND
OTHER......."
"...... Badger.... Badger, are you okay?
Badger...."
She kept repeating herself with the same vibrational interruption. It was of
no use so I hung up and started running to reach my apartment in time. I
assumed she must be there waiting for me. I again started running and
arrived there. I was stoned to see that the apartment was shattered. The
main door was broken and the glasses were shattered. No one was there
and it looked just like Pripyat after the Chernobyl disaster. I yelled "MOM"
and started running on the stairs. After running to the 10th floor I was
getting tired and everything was getting darker in front of my eyes. I was
losing my consciousness, yet I did not give up. I kept running and finally I
reached my floor. There were only 4 rooms on each floor and mine was on
the corner side. I saw every room's doorstep was broken but mine. As I
reached my doorstep to open it I fell down. It was not tiring. It was fear.
There was the corpse of my delivery guy. He is lying right in front of my
room's door. His blood was spilled on my door. His hands were twisted
backward and the joints of his arms were shattered brutally. His one eye
was holding a thin needle in it and it was still bleeding. His knee caps were
torn out and his lungs were taken out of his body by cutting his ribcage
from behind the body. There was not even a single nail on his fingers. His
teeths were pierced into his face deeply and his guts were peeping out
from his belly button. I have never seen anything so disturbing in my entire
life.
"Mom!!! MOM!!" I did not have the courage to go inside and check whether
she was in the room or not so I started calling her from the outside.
No answer from the room.
I assumed she wasn't there so i left the apartment in a hurry
It was 1600 hours. I saw a taxi whose door was unlocked. I decided to take it
and leave town, so I got inside it and was trying to turn the engine on. After
a few attempts it turned on. I pressed the accelerator hard. The car was out
of control yet I managed to drive it and keep it on the road. Physically, i was
driving but mentally, i was still thinking about what the hell is actually
going on. I tried calling 911 but there was no response. I looked at my watch
and it was 1710 hours. I was driving for 1 hour and 10 minutes but i haven't
crossed the town border yet. It was getting darker now. I stopped the car
and got out of it. My mind was fucked up at this moment. I had so many
questions in my mind that I was feeling like exploding. I shook my head,
pulled my hair with my own hands and yelled loudly. I could hear the echo
of my sound. I can literally hear everything around me but not even a
single human sound was there. I marked the place where I stopped with
an iron pole and started driving again. I was having double thoughts but I
was hoping that I was wrong. But I was not.
After driving for 38 minutes I saw that pole again. I was driving in a loop for
almost 2 hours.
I stopped the car. I was just sitting there quietly hoping that someone
would come and save me. I had lost all the hopes of seeing anybody ever
again. While I was thinking all of that, I heard footsteps coming from
behind the car. I turned around to look but couldn't because of the
darkness. I turned the window down and looked back. The footsteps were
approaching me too fast.
'tap..tap..Tap..Tap..TAP..TAP..' It was getting louder and louder and then it
just crossed me.... I heard the voice right in front of me but no one was
there. And just like that, the footsteps fade away.
I got back into the car and turned up the window. It was again, dead
silence. I was sitting and waiting for the sun to come up even though it
was still 1900 hours. After waiting there for 10 minutes..
I felt a sensation out of nowhere. There was a strange vibe in the silence
now. A silence of the dead. It was my 6th sense, telling me that someone is
sitting in the backseat of the car. I tried not to move even a single bit. I was
trying my best to stay calm and do fewer movements. I gulped. I chose to
observe it more closely and I was feeling someone's presence there ever
more after second by second. I tried not to move and turned my eyes to
the rear mirror. It was dark so I couldn't notice anything. But I kept looking
in the mirror, and then... I noticed two little glowing dots in the backseat.
They were, without any doubt, the eyes of someone. I looked away from
the mirror as soon as I caught the glimpse of the eyes of, I don't know
what. I did not want to stay even a second there anymore but what choice
did I have? But i couldn't stay there whole night either so
I pretended that I didn't see anything and got out of the car. I started
walking. I heard the sound of someone opening the back door of the car
but i didn't look back. I kept walking. Then i heard the footsteps getting out
of the car and then walking behind me at a certain distance. I ignored it
and kept walking. The sound was neither getting closer nor away. But yet, i
did not turn back to look.
The sound followed me for 5 minutes approx and then faded away. I never
looked back. Even when the sound was gone, I never looked back.
There were no street lights on today and it was the darkest night I've ever
seen. I looked at my watch but couldn't see the time. I took out my phone
and it was 0000 hours. " Just 6 more hours until the sun hits," I whispered
to myself. I was using the flashlight to walk now. I was tired and couldn't
run so I kept walking.
I was tired and starving and i wasn't even sure if i was still walking in a loop
or not. I fell down and got unconscious. I didn't even realize it. The last
thing I remember of that night was that I was looking in the darkness
laying on the road.
"Wake up.... hey, wake up."
I heard a sound of a lady. When i opened my eyes i saw a nurse was in front
me, waking me up, i was laying on a bed.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"Hi, I am Julia. You are at Virginia City Hospital. The cops found you laying
on the road this morning."
So i managed to leave the town i thought. And I don't even remember it.
But the first thing I want to do right now is to call my mom.
"Can you give me my phone?" I asked.
I'm sorry dear, but we did not find any belongings on you.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes. Even i checked it"
There was a silence in the hospital.
"So, what were you doing all by yourself at the town border?"
She asked as she put a glass of water on the side table and started noting
the conversation.
I didn't want to sound crazy so I told her, "Nothing, I was just looking for a
place to shift here. And i got lost"
"Oh. That's bad. Where are you from again?"
"Uh, I am from Gexo-city".
She stopped writing and looked at me.
"No, I mean where do you live now. Before getting here last night?"
"Gexo-city. I told you I live there and I'm looking for a new place in Virginia
now."
She put her pen aside and leaned at me, "Gexo-City has been abandoned
for 2 years now. There was a fire in the city centre lake and there were
many casualties. The fire spread over night and everything burned. I
wonder if even a single person would've survived it."
"WHAT?" I don't believe it. Or maybe I don't want to believe it.
"Yes, there is a list at the reception centre of people who died in that
tragedy. Wanna take a look at it?"
I agreed and followed her to the reception centre. She gave me a book
which was covered in dust and it was sort of burnt. The corners were black
as if someone tried to burn them. I opened the book and there were the
names of houses and their casualties. I turned to a page which contained
the names of City Centre Apartment casualties. It was there.
Amara Jones.
Kaushik Dev
Mike Andrew
I kept reading every single name mentioned in the book. I didn't even
know what was coming next for me. If I had known, then to be honest I
never would've opened that book in the first place. As I continued reading I
got two names. Two impossible names.
Joseph Charles.
Badger Hastings.
"Hey sister, I think there's a misunderstanding in the list. They might've......"
No one was there at the reception centre.
And the next thing I realized was, I was standing alone at the centre of
Gexo City.

Badger Collapses