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going on. I needed to open the curtain, but it didn’t win in the stare down that in sued. Instead I sat down and tried to focus on staying calm.

                  It was now day five in my apartment. The sounds outside were still horrifying, however, they weren’t nearly as loud. I guessed that they were killing each other off and spreading out. They might be territorial.
                  I had yet to open the curtain. Instead I had tried to cover the windows with any object I could find as outside of my window was a fire escape. It had taken till the second night for my brain to make the connection that the windows weren’t safe. Somehow they hadn’t yet climbed it.
                  I still had no idea where I was going to go. I didn’t have a map and I felt helpless without the internet. The power had gone out yesterday. Honestly I was surprised it had lasted that long. This also meant my food supply was now cut in half. I felt no guilt eating the whole cartoon of double chocolate chip fudge ice-cream.
                  By day seven it became apparent I needed to leave. I was still alive, but this was no way to live. Maybe there was a safe place out there where humans were safe. I had to take my chances. I decided to take a peep out the window to check my odds.
                  After removing the stack of books, I looked out the window only I was not looking out onto the destroyed city of Cleveland, instead my eyes focus on a redheaded woman with red bloody eyes, a missing arm, and a look of starvation on her face. She broke through the window instantly, before I could even react.
                  I took a step back and swung at her with all I had. The bat struck her hard in the back as she climbed through. It had to have done some damage, but she acted as if nothing had happened. So I ran for it and shut myself in the bathroom before she got up. I had no other way out. She started to pound at the door and it was instantly apparent that the door wouldn’t hold. I had to get back through the door if I was going to survive. There weren’t any windows in here. I searched for another weapon and came upon my mirror just as her leg came through the door.
                  How many times had I seen this in movies? I smashed the mirror with my bat and wrapped the biggest piece of glass in a towel. Of course my knives were by my bag in the living room. She was now nearly in. I started to stab at her. Oh the horrible feeling of it stabbing into her flesh and having to pull hard to get it back out. Or the sound of her screams as she got closer to getting in.
                  Then with one strong push on her part she was inside. She was coming at me full force with her mouth wide open and ready to bit, her one arm flailing. I readied myself and swung the bat aiming at her head. The sound of the contact was disturbing. I could hear every bone crack as I smashed in her skull. And she fell limp to the floor.
                  For one second I took a breath and I realized I had just killed someone. This person had a family maybe kids. Yes, I know the kids are now probably eating the face off their Winnie the Pooh stuffed animals and karate chopping their cribs in half, but still. This had once been a person like me and now she was a freaking maniac that I had stabbed to death. Holy bloody hell. Alright panic attack over; this was no time to linger. Get it together, Emma. I needed to get the hell out of here. Who knows how many of them heard this? Neither of us was anything close to quiet.
                  I grabbed my bag, knives and bat, which had somehow survived with only a small dent. I leapt out the window onto the fire escape and didn’t look back. This was no longer my home. I regretfully took in my surroundings. I could see Jacks her and there, but mostly all I could see was red as there was now a layer of blood upon