The alarm on the clock rings loudly. Kiryu’s eyes opened and look at the clock. Its 6:45, He needs to wake up and go to school. He gets up and went to the bathroom, looking at the mirror with his bloodshot eyes. He brushes his hair with his hand and gets his toothbrush. Spreads toothpaste on top of it and his day started.
My name is Kiryu, Kiryu Aoi. Half Japanese, height: 5.6, weight: 58 kg, Age: 17
My grandparents said my mom is Japanese and my dad is American. But they say I look more like my mom. Well, I have squinty eyes and black hair after all. My grandparent from mother’s side lives in Kyoto, Japan and my dad’s side lives in the southern part of the U.S.A. They both agreed that I will live here in Los Angeles and they both support me by sending money because they all want me to get graduate college. I’m still in high school because I decided to live on my own. So, I live in this humble small town house. I do what normal kids do… do home works, pass some tests, eat, draw and live in the internet. I’ve always been alone. At school, after all the classes, I got to some places to spend my allowance on. I love eating but for some reason, no matter how much I eat, I don’t get fat. Then I go home. Not much contact from the outside world, just play games, argues with some stranger over the internet, watch porn and that’s pretty much it.
Kiryu opened the door and locked it, he stepped outside and walks down the stairs. He looks at the time in his phone “7:12 am” “Not that late… Not in a hurry either.” He pulled out his earphones from the pocket of his jacket and plugs it to his phone. He opened the music player from his android phone. The phone reads “The Arcade Fire – wake up”. He continues to walk and the music surges through his ears. He walks past strangers with dull faces and looks at the father and son playing catch and bows his head slowly. “He’s fucking lucky.” his eyes full of loneliness. He keeps walking along the path and lead him to an intersection.
I don’t need to take the fucking bus. My house is just a short walk away and I don’t want to be with noisy douche and bitches. I like walking alone, I can hear myself think and I don’t want anybody’s company. I’m not a fucking emo or some shit like that, I’m not a fucking poser. I’m always quiet. Watching the world from afar and laughs inside my head if I see other people’s bullshit bringing them down. Basically, I’m evil inside.
An arm wraps around Kiryu’s shoulders and pulls him. “Hey! Sup’ bro?” with a smile on Greg’s face. “Then there’s this asshole” says inside Kiryu’s mind.
This is Greg. He’s been with me ever since I moved here in L.A. It’s just a random encounter with him. He’s nothing special; well, I guess he’s a bit special. He’s the only one I hang out with and it’s nice not being alone from time to time. He opens up he’s mind to me and I just go along with him. Of course I’m not his only friend here. I always leave when he has other company with him but that doesn’t get in our way.
“You’re not taking the bus today?” says Greg.
“No, I don’t wanna be with a bunch of douche bags.”
“Oh, well that’s too bad. Considering, you’re already one!” boasted by Greg.
“Shut the fuck up, asshole. I already turned off my music just so you could talk with me properly. How the fuck am I the douche?”
Both teenagers walk to school with their backpacks in their back and continue the day like normal. The bells began to ring and lunch time is over. Kiryu sat down in his desk in the back of the room. It’s his history class and the teacher writes on the board “What if we are attacked?” the chalk was put in the teacher’s table and the she stood in front with her arms crossed on her chest and a smug face.
“What if we are attacked?” said the teacher.
A student at the front raised his hand and the teacher to him and let him spoke.
“By what?” asked by the student.
“Anything! A Plague, Terrorists, Monsters, or even Aliens. What would you people do? ”
Kiryu’s phone vibrated in his pocket and took it out and read the message. It was a text from Greg. He opened it and it read “This bitch is going at it again.” Kiryu looked at Greg and Greg looked back while chewing a gum in his mouth.
“America has been attacked before. And what did we do? We fought back. We went to war and we emerged victorious!” said the teacher with pride in her eyes.
Kiryu placed his elbow on top of his desk and rest his cheeks on his palms. He heard a loud deafening noise coming from outside and he looked at the window. It was raining. At first glance, it seemed normal to him so he turned his head to his teacher and noticed something completely different. He began to look at the rain the second time. He was right, there is a difference. The rain is not a normal rain. The falling liquid is not water, it is something else. It has the liquidity of water but its color is red. In his eyes, it looked like blood. The teacher halted in talking and her jaw dropped as she looks outside. The whole class began to turn their heads and some walks slowly by the window and placed their hands on the glass.
“What the hell is this? Is it raining blood?” says Kiryu in his mind.
“Woah! You seeing this bud?” Greg took out his phone and recorded what’s happening in video.
“A-alright class, let’s ignore what’s happening and continue on with the lesson.”
The teacher cleared her throat and began talking again nervously but the whole class is looking towards the window. On that same evening, Kiryu came out of the bathroom all fresh from the shower and opened his television. The news is on and the reporters are talking about the peculiar rain that went by earlier that day. Kiryu stood on front of his television for a moment while drying his hair with a towel and walks to his computer.
“That was weird. But, fuck that. It’s time for some youtube.”
He typed at the search bar “Obey the walrus” and showed the featured videos. As he is clicking some random videos, he heard sirens and fast vehicles pass by. He was bothered by this so he decided to look behind his blinds. A fire near his place is being put out and people are going towards it to see.
“Some careless nut must’ve started the fire.” said Kiryu in a negative tone.
He gets back to his computer and started typing.
“Let’s see what’s in tumblr today.”
A loud thud at the door startled him in his chair. His eyes wide open and wondered who could be there. He stood up and shouted…
“Who is it?!”
Nobody answered. Another loud thud at the door and he grabs a baseball bat. His hands were shaking and he gulped his throat while slowly walking towards that door. Another big thud hit the door again like a rabid beast wants to get in. He backed away and blinks his eyes with his baseball bat in his hands.
“Whoever the fuck that is you better stop now!” he shouted at the door.
The hitting stopped and he put his baseball bat down and breathes without a sign of anxiety. He tried to catch his breath and walks at the door, he sticks one eye through the peephole and turned left and right. There was nobody on sight. Just the stairs he usually walks down on. He grabs the doorknob and slowly turns it as the door slowly opens. He sticks a part of his head and looks around, again, there was no one; He turns his head to the right; a red-haired man tried to bite his head and Kiryu quickly closes the door and falls on the floor. He’s breathing rapidly and the man is banging at the door forcing his way in.
“W-What the hell is this?!” yelled by Kiryu.
The man growls like a beast on the other side still banging his hands on the door. Kiryu quickly grabbed his baseball bat and stood up.
“What the hell do you want from me?!”
The man broke open the door and is not trying to break the rest if it. His head is now in and flails his hand around.
“Oh shit! Shit! This is not happening! This is not happening!” Kiryu runs towards his room and the man broke through the door. The man is screaming and running towards Kiryu. His veins were showing in his forehead and his neck. He lacks everything but aggressiveness. Kiryus quickly locked the door and again, the man smashes his hand through the door and Kiryu fall on the ground again and quickly stood up. The man broke through the door again and is standing still in from of Kiryu. He gazes on Kiryu like a prey and gnawing his teeth while salivating. His eyes are yellow and the cornea is popping with veins. Kiryu trying to stop the man and his hands up in the air with a taming look.
“W-What do you want? Huh? You want money? I don’t have any! “
The man growled at him and prepared to attack him.
“Oh shit.”
The man ran towards him with blinding speed and Kiryu dodged him and the man falls on his side table. Kiryu ran into the living room and grabbed his phone and quickly dialed 911 but the man once again chased after him and as the man got closer, Kiryu swung his bat at him and hit his head with a solid thud. This causes the man to fall on the ground face planting on the floor unconscious and Kiryu finally calmed down. He dialed 911 but the computer message answered due to the number of people currently calling.
“What?! What is this?!” Kiryu trying to catch his breath, he turns on the television and the news is reporting a number of people being attacked by people behaving like zombies.
“This can’t be happening. This can’t be happening! No! No! No!” yelled by Kiryu. He rubs his head trying to calm down and dials Greg’s phone number. But nobody is answering.
“C’mon! C’mon! C’mon goddamnit!”
Behind his back, the man regained consciousness and stood up silently behind Kiryu. He growls again and Kiryu quickly turned to his back and the last thing he saw was the man charging towards him. He fell to his side and the man went through his television electrocuting his whole body. The man screamed while his whole body is shaking and skin melting. Kiryu looked at the man in shock and just stared at him while the man is being electrocuted. The man began to burst into flames and his mouth is foaming.
“Fuck!”
Kiryu stood up and ran to the fridge to get some water. When he gets back, the man is already running all over the place and bursting the house on fire. Kiryu ran outside and tried to avoid the burning man and slips on the stairs. He fell on his back with agonizing pain.
“Oh shit! Oh shit! Oh shit! Oh shit!” He whispered quickly and still trying to catch his breath.
His phone rang on his pocket and it was Greg. He answered it quickly and Greg asked…
“Why’d you call bro?”
All that Greg heard was Kiryu breathing heavily.
“Hello?” said Greg.
“Greg! Z-Zombies are attacking!” yelled Kiryu.
“What? Look man, if this is some kind of joke, now’s not the time.” Greg said with a serious tone.
“Im fuckin’ serious here man!”
“Oh, wait. Gotta drop this call, people are bangin at the door.”
“No! Don’t open—“ The call ended and Kiryu screamed in frustration. He looked at his burning home covered his face just to see if this is all a dream. He still trying to catch his breath and lied on the ground with people running and screaming on the streets.