Rise of the Zombies

Chapter 1: And It Begins

Author note: If everyone would please leave out the negative comments please, if your not enjoying this book then it is simple don't read it please and thank you.

Tossing and turning in bed is one thing thats annoying, I looked at my alarm clock 3 am. Great. I threw my hands up to my face and rub them down, lately its been hard to sleep my mom doesnt know but Im pretty sure she somehow knows. Its been the three of us for 2 years now since dad died. Mom says she is fine but deep down I know she misses him, I dont blame her though I miss him too just sucks that I was the last person to see him alive hell I was with him. Main reason I have nightmares still I was 14 years old then still remember him clear as day we had a super close father and daughter relationship. Jake kinda remembers him but he is only 5 the boy barely remembers what he ate for breakfast, safe to say we are glad he isnt as torn up as me and my mom are about him being gone.

I shake the thoughts away and decided that I would just get up and go for a run that usually helps me out, I put my long dark red hair up in a high ponytail and then I put on a lime green sports bra then threw a white tank top over it then threw on some black leggings with lime green tennis shoes. I sneaked out of my bedroom quietly as I can so I dont wake up mom and Jake, I grabbed my keys and my phone then I was out of the door. Once I got outside I let out a breathe that I didnt know I was holding, I looked up to the sky " alright dad hope your happy that Im running again I mumbled to myself, I put my headphones in and started down the driveway and started running.

My dad died when I was 14 years old, he was the most loving man in the world, we were inseparable, where ever he went I was there. Me and my mom had a good relationship too but I was a daddys girl. One day me and dad went out for a run like we normally do every morning, dad was a fit guy he loved being at the gym it was like his second home, he wasnt overly muscular he was just right. He was so glad that I picked up sports in school, while we were running we went down this one path, we havent been on it yet because when we do it was either too late or the weather was bad, but we didnt mind one day we said. That one day came we left a bit earlier that morning so we could have the chance, clear sky the perfect weather to do it, when we got up to the trail we started out slow then it kinda of got scary as we went. lets turn around pumpkin I dont like how this is going I nodded in agreement and started to turn around but then I hit a rock just right and I ended up falling down the long cliff, I for sure thought that was the end of me but I looked and my dad is holding onto my arm while holding onto the tree " are you okay? daddy help me I started to panic, my dad sense my panic Pumpkin look at me I look at him. How can he be so calm right now? Im going to die! " Katie you need to breath okay everything is going to be okay I nodded my head and started to breath. Everything happened so fast, my dad lowered me to the ledge once I was on my feet again, my dad slipped and he actually went down the cliff, I screamed for my dad I screamed for help but no one came, no one is awake and we are so far away from neighbors.

I looked down and saw my dad moving but wasnt talking to me, I quickly climbed down to him but also being super careful so I dont end up the same situation as him, Once I got to him I cried and cried I didnt know if he was alive. I rushed to his side dad dad wake up daddy he opened his eyes tell your mom and Jake I love them I wiped my tears away but still crying, dad your going to be okay wheres your phone? he glanced down to his broken leg and there it was sitting under him. I quickly grabbed it without hurting him even more and called 911. 911 whats your emergency? please help us we were running on a trail and it collapsed on us and my dad fell " okay calm down sweetie what is your name and where is this trail so I can send rescue out there I took more deep breaths, Katie Blackwood my dad is Raymond Blackwood, we are at the storybook trail I heard typing at her end, but the tears just keep coming down " oh god he isnt breathing oh god " okay sweetheart listen to me carefully is your dad laying flat yes good I need you to do CPR till paramedics get there okay do you know how? I wipe my nose and cleared my years away yes " good go ahead I put her on speaker and set the phone down on the ground next to him.

I put my hands in the middle of his chest, I rearrange myself so my arms were straight and I was able to put weight down and started singing staying alive, then gave him 2 rescue breaths and repeat. After a few agonizing moments later he started breathing again, hes breathing the sign of relief over myself and the dispatcher " thats so good sweetie the rescue team should be there any moment stay on the phone till they get there okay I look around and there was nothing, it was starting to get cold and yet the news lied it started to rain. Its raining where are they? there was nothing on the phone, I looked at it. The phone died. no no no no I tried turning it on but theres no life to it. daddy I dont know what to do I held onto his hand and then I saw his backpack, I quickly grabbed it and saw the emergency kit thank god I grabbed the back up phone that sets a signal to mom when we are in trouble and then clicked the SOS button to give out our location.

I heard a helicopter in distances, I grabbed the flares and I shot up in the sky hoping they would see us, " I FOUND THEM I heard from someone up below us help us please they all came, they loaded up my dad first, I refused to go first I wasnt badly hurt like he was and then were airlifted to the hospital. Once we got to the hospital they rushed him into surgery right away and I went to go get checked out, Mom and Jake arrived at the hospital just when we got there, I held onto mom not letting her go and crying into her chest. Im so sorry mom I shouldnt have suggest that trail, its all my fault I should of watched where I was walking I cried shush honey none of this is your fault you hear me I nodded my head, Im still not convinced. An hour later the doctor finally comes into my room, I could tell things didnt go well just by how he looked at us, " Im so sorry Mrs Blackwood, your husband suffer from several injuries, he did not make it mom fell to the ground crying and I cried into my legs blaming myself for everything that had happened, Jake was with grandma and grandpa at this point so he didnt hear the news at first.

I snapped my thoughts out of my brain, ever since that day I dont run anymore but its the only thing that kept me close to dad, I really need to do it again. I walked by the trail we went on that day, theres signs on it now after our accident they put up signs warning people that it isnt safe to go on anymore, I wiped my unwanted tears away and run past it and not looking back. I ran up to me and dads spot and I sat down on a rock and just looked out in the scene in front of me, I miss you dad I smiled at the sunrise, I always loved the sunrise and the sunset too. I jumped down from the rock and ran back home so I was there before mom got up.