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Dead Bitten Chapter 13
The soft summer night breeze refreshed my face, sending a shiver down my spine. I was still alone, leaning against the icy balcony railing, staring angrily at my cell phone screen, which again told me the call couldn’t be ended. Everyone had already given up on cell phones by that time, some had also cried about it, starting to get in a constant nervousness for not being able to contact their relatives and friends anymore. I’ve managed my anxiety well so far, but I dreaded seeing it spiral out of control at any moment.Finally I gave up and put my cell phone in my pocket, refusing to look at social media, full of more backlash from cases, endless debates about what the fate of cities would be and texts of mourning that only made my heart ache more. When I looked again at the scene below me, I went back to paying attention to the groans. They hadn’t stopped once since I’d been there, but sometimes I could almost distract myself from them when there was something to hold my attention. B
Dead Bitten Chapter 14
That dinner hadn’t been a particularly pleasant experience, but under the circumstances, it wasn’t surprising.The noise of cutlery clattering dryly against porcelain was the only thing that disputed space with the television news channel, which continued to announce with the same incredulity as the first time all the brutality that was spreading across the country. The noodles were great, but no one praised them. We didn’t even open our mouths to talk. Melissa even cringed a little and a few tears leaked out of her eyes after leaving more than half of her food untouched on her plate. Victoria hadn’t even touched the dinner.Everyone’s emotions were in a very delicate state, and that included mine. At times, especially when adrenaline dominated our bodies, we had the initiative to talk and even discuss what was happening. Yet just as suddenly these lapses of mood appear, they fade away, leaving us only in a constant state of fear, despondency, and sadness.I no longer believed there w
Dead Bitten Chapter 15
I was trapped in the bathroom again.This time it was smaller, suffocating. If I tried to move in any way, I felt the uncomfortable cold of the tiled wall. There was no gap between the door and the floor or ceiling, turning this already small cubicle into a closed box. I was sweating, but it wasn’t hot. There were things moving outside, moaning, growling. I could only hear them, but there was something else that told me they were there… Their presence took my breath away, as if they were already beside me, crushing my throat with their bony hands.I heard a scream and the feeling of being suffocated dissipated, at least a little. The voice I had heard was the same one uttered by one of the girls who was trapped on the other side of the door. But this time he didn’t just stay away, he came against the door, punching it hard, creating a deafening noise in the concrete box that held me.“RELIEF!” I heard the scream. “OPEN, OTHERWISE HE WILL CATCH ME!” she pleaded, her voice choked with a
Dead Bitten Chapter 1
As you rethink all your values to escape a cruel fate, you may discover that surviving the dead is just the beginning.My heart raced again as I remembered the need to get out of this place, as if the mere mention of that idea was evidence of my undoing. Still, the fact was that in one morning I had already seen more carnage than even my most visceral nightmares could count; and surviving that freak show to death locked in a bathroom stall seemed like the least digestible thing about my day. I thought if I was going to die, it would be from exhaustion trying to fight these monsters, instead of suffering like a scared rat.Too bad those heroic thoughts were useless in motivating me to leave that fetid bathroom I was locked in. Courage is beautiful in the books, but in real life it weighs a ton and stinks like death.I heard the groans once more and knew they were there—as if I’d ever really been able to forget them. There was also a corpse. These elements were familiar to me because I
Dead Bitten Chapter 2
When they finally fell silent, silence fell over the bathroom and we cried together. They were in tears and I was softly. My body was frozen and the shame of having been hiding for all this time punished me. Still, I couldn’t feel the slightest urge to get out of that cabin.One of the girls asked the other if they should go out. I heard a denial, and silence prevailed again. That summed up the hours that followed. Sometimes one of the two would cry and the other would give some kind of comfort. They would try to have a conversation, sketch plans to get out of there, but soon the subject would die on their lips. Like me, they feared the inevitable moment when they would be forced to leave that bathroom. At one point they tried to force open the door of the cabin I was hiding in, which almost led to a heart attack, but they soon gave up.When the monotony finally broke, it was only to start our nightmares.A new sound reached my ears, unlike all the others. A sort of deep, throaty grow
Dead Bitten Chapter 3
Under the door, I was able to see a pair of black Vans sneakers six feet away from me. The shins of those who wore them were white, stained by threads of blood that ran down until they were lost in the cotton of the white socks. Beside the Vans, a puddle of water was forming, thick white foam around the edges. What had once been a student appeared to be completely still. I didn’t know if I was looking at anything, or even if I was able to hold his attention on anything. Whatever that answer was, just the realization that I could only see the back of the shoes—which meant they weren’t facing me—was enough. In my field of vision, it was not possible to see anything else.I dared to wonder why I’d stopped her eating her friend, but just thinking about it almost drove me crazy.Still carefully, I got to my feet. The operation would have to be careful, but I figured I’d be able to make minimal noise. May God allow that to be enough.In slow motion, I started to climb into the tank, one leg
Dead Bitten Chapter 4
When I finished the crossing, facing with both legs towards the cabin in front of me, I noticed how tense my muscles were and I tried to relax, without much success. Now he was two cabins away from the door. The body of the last girl—the only one, in fact, dead—was just outside the door of the last cabin. I intended to get down and go out the door, but I soon understood that the idea would be flawed: the upper part of his body was leaning against the cabin door, which would make it difficult to open it without making noises. How much time would I have from the moment I attracted the attention of the creature Sarah? Seconds?It needed to be something faster.I risked slowly crawling closer to the edge in order to look at the floor. In front of the partition of the last cabins was the body drowned in a pool of blood, making it impossible to make a jump to the floor without the risk of losing balance. I looked again at the monster that until now seemed not to have noticed my presence, wi
Dead Bitten Chapter 5
During the entire time I was trapped, I never imagined that I would get out of there and everything would be safe, with rescue teams entering the school. First because the intermittent screams didn’t allow me to have so much hope, second because I was too focused on my own misfortune. I don’t like to be a nonbeliever, but I’ve never trusted the efficiency of public safety. In addition, I also followed the news while they were allowed to reach us about the first infestations of the virus and everything was the same: although we did not know exactly its nature, none of the infected cities managed to contain it. The disease before we lost contact. I was foolish to think it wouldn’t make it to Latin America, but we all have been this whole time. For these reasons, the nagging thought that my suffering and fear were far from over kept pounding in my head.But now I felt strangely safe, as if the risks I’d taken all morning had finally come to an end here, outside the library’s second-floor