Every story, literally every story ended on a “happily ever after”, but no one will tell you the story after “happily ever after”. Today I will tell you the story after “happily ever after”.
Everything was white, the sky was white, the land was white and as far as the eye could see, it was white. He was wandering alone, not another person visible in sight, everything seems stopped, it seems like someone suddenly pressed the stop button, and the life halted. The clock was showing 5pm, I guess. Today was really a quiet day unlike other days, but he was there, came from some other city, I guess, searching for someone, maybe!
He heard a voice from a corner, he immediately look towards his right. He was standing right in the middle of a road junction, from where four roads are protruding in four different directions but no soul or vehicle were visible. Again he heard a sound, this time it came from his left side. He was terrified to say the least. He was tall, I think around 6.2, lean, and had a cylindrical face structure with a huge protruding nose, a little salt-peppered beard, no moustache though, and wore glasses, looked like an athletic professor of a college and in his fiftys, but he was scared of the voice.
He moved a little towards his left trying to find the source of the voice. It was eerily silent now. He behaved like he heard something, he walked a little more towards his left. It was a row of houses on the left side of that road junction, but all seems empty, devoid of any population. He reached to the first block, but nothing, not even a scratch. He certainly heard something.
He turned back, again a small scratching sound, this time it was loud and clear. A chill ran down his spine, “what was that?”, he mumbled to himself. Again he heard a scratching sound, this time it came from the second floor of the first house. He shouted, “Hello, Hello, anyone there”, he was not entering the house, shouting from a distance away from the house, standing right in the middle of the road.
And then it jumped, right on him, he yelled in fear, but it was just a cat, and he fought with it, thinking it was something else, took out his gun from his pocket and shot it. That doesn’t seemed a regular cat, something was wrong with it. The cat was lying down on the road, but no blood spilled, it does seemed dead. He cautiously moved closer to it, to maybe, examine it. He touched the cat and the cat again sprung back to life, and screeched in a hissing voice, ran away from him, and disappeared. He was shaken by that instant screech from a the-then-dead cat! He ran back towards the junction and away from the encounter. He was totally shaken by this unexpected encounter. He was, maybe aware of a different environment, something wrong with it, but this was the first time, he saw with his own eyes, at least I think that was the case, as someone who had seen such things before may react in a different manner, but not this guy.
The time was, I guess around 6pm, and it’s going to be dark soon. He ran a little farther and reached another junction. He again looked at the sky, and hurriedly fasten his pace towards another road from that junction. I guess he wanted to reach his home before dark comes. He only reached to the supermarket just around ten blocks away and the darkness fell. The white turned to black and it was time for something to come to life!
Lisa was holding me, “Hey do you love me Rick”, I was madly in love with her. I squeezed her against my chest, felt her body tight against me. Finally the moment has come, and I said “Will you marry me”. She jumped and jumped and hugged me again tightly, and shouted “YES”. And then we kissed each other saying “I love you”, and our story finally got a “happily ever after” ending. The clock of the supermarket stuck nine, and a loud bang was heard, and everything just vanished in a moment. We both were still hugging each other tightly, but we were changed!
He was attacked immediately by two people, and we were out of the supermarket again, we got our food, he was delicious and tasty and meaty. Lisa and me, we enjoyed one more meal together. We were not normal, we got changed right after that bang, which happened exactly an year before, and we immediately turned to something else, the term “zombie “ was introduced after that, but we were no mean dumb zombies, we were intelligent ones, the evolved zombies who were living happily ever after
Ruchir Pathak
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