Hi! My name is Joshua, and I am Senior Highschool Student. I live in Bohol, Philippines, but I spent my childhood in Cebu City. I am a simple guy who minds my own business and someone who loves music. I had a normal life, but everything changed after a life-changing event that happened ten years ago.

Ten years ago

Hi it's me Joshua and today is Saturday. I woke up early and prepared myself as I'm going out to the mall with my friends Joseph and Jamester. I kinda took a long time to prepare because honestly I'm not really a morning person when it's a Saturday or Sunday. They told me that we would meet up at a restaurant in the mall at 10am sharp. I had no choice because it was two against one. Well so as I finished preparing I rushed to the mall quickly as it was actually already 9:20am. As I ran outside to the highway, I was lucky enough to get a cab to take me to the mall.

Joseph and Jamester were my childhood friends. We three have been through challenges together. Together we moved here in Bohol to continue our studies here as we received scholarships. We were brothers from another mothers.

I arrived at exactly 10:00am. I ran towards the restaurant and saw them laughing at me.

"Late as always aye." Joseph said sarcastically.

"Hey guys sorry I'm late." I told them.

So we went to eat lunch at a restaurant called "Chimon". We enjoyed their Japanese food. The three of us really love Japanese foods but the one who really love it the most is Jamester as he always orders food from this restaurant. After we finished our meal we walked around the mall to find interesting stuff's to buy.

"Hey bros I have to go to the restroom, wait for me here outside." Joseph said

"Ok" I replied

Me and Jamester chatted for a while. I asked him where he was going for college.

"I'm probably going to the Manila to pursue acting." Sortones told me.

"Go bro and accomplish your goals." I replied with a smile.

I would honestly miss him as we were together since our childhood days. The three of us me, Joseph and Jamester.

We chatted for about fifteen minutes, and we started wondering why Joseph was taking too long. Then suddenly we saw a guy running fast from the restroom like he saw something so scary. So we rushed to check on Joseph if he was alright.

"Help!" Someone yelled inside the male restroom.

As me and Sortones walked inside the restroom we started shaking as we were spooked by what we saw.

"Help!!!" Joseph yelled.

We could not believe what we were seeing. We were looking at. We couldn't move as we were full of fear. It looked like a human, actually it was a human. It was putting Joseph down to the floor. We realized right away what we were seeing. We were actually looking at a live zombie.

We were frozen, as we couldn't believe that those things were actually real.

" Are you guys just gonna let this monster eat me or you're going to help me?!" Joseph yelled.

So as it was busy on trying to bite Joseph, Jamester took my water bottle, and he pushed it to the zombie's mouth then we immediately pushed him away and ran outside the restroom and locked the door.

After what happened, the three of us looked at each other because we knew we were in big trouble and our world was about to change.

After our traumatic experience, we rushed to the security guards to report what happened but as we were running we had to stop because we can't help but notice the chaotic sight we were seeing. Our adrenaline have risen as we saw there were actually more zombies inside the mall and now they are attacking every human in sight.

"Get something to defend yourselves!" A guy shouted.

So we looked around our surroundings to pick up a weapon to defend ourselves.

Luckily we were near the hardware. I got myself a long hammer, Jamester got himself a machete while Joseph got an axe.

Honestly I was jealous of Joseph's axe as it looked so cool and I wanted one too and I could tell Jamester felt the same but sadly we had no time to be picky as there were alot of zombies around running around like Predators hunting their preys and sadly we were the preys.

We're the Preys but we wont allow them to eat us without a fight.

"Come follow me!" The guy from just now shouted.

So we ran and followed to an empty room that seemed like an office. Once we reached the office we immediately sealed the door to keep ourselves safe from the chaos outside.

"Hi! I'm Stephen, I used to be a clerk here." The guy from earlier said.

So the three of us introduced ourselves to him too.

"Hey Stephen, do you know what's happening?" Jamester said.

"While I was working I heard my coworkers talking about a virus infected person escaped a lab and then this all happened." Stephen replied.

"What we feared is actually happening. The world is gonna end!" Joseph yelled with fear.

In my mind I was panicking because I was thinking about my family. I was scared if my parents were alright.

We spent the night inside the room as we were lucky that we had some food supplies. There were bags left behind by Stephen's coworkers and they had their lunch boxes in it. We stayed up late and planned our strategy for the next day. After planning we decided to rest and since there are four us we decided that there would be two of us looking out for the ones who are resting then vice-versa. We woke up frightened because there was a loud knock on the door. I asked Joseph and Stephen who was making the loud knock and they said they don't know because they actually fell asleep.

I decided to check who was knocking loudly. Last night before we slept Sortones made a small hole on the door so we could see through it. As I look through the hole I saw two girls. As one of them saw my eye through the hole she told me to open the door fast.

" Please open the door! Help us!" She said.

I got nervous as I didn't know who were the people outside.

I told the boys to prepare their weapons as we didn't know what we were dealing with.

As I opened the door the two of them ran quickly inside and behind them were four zombies chasing them. So as soon they got in I slammed the door shut,locked the door and everyone in the room sealed the door with cabinets and tables.

After we sealed the door Joseph told the girls to stay away from us as we didn't know if they were good,bad or maybe even infected. Joseph grabbed his axe and stared at the girls.

"Woah! Woah! Joseph chill!" I said as I went between Joseph and the girls.

" I'll check them out if you want!" I said.

I checked the girls if they were bitten and luckily they weren't.

"See they're all good!" I said.

" I'm sorry girls..I'm just trying to keep my friends safe as they might be my only family now." Joseph told the girls.

"It's ok we understand." One of the girl replied with a smile.

The girls seemed like they won't cause any harm. So we decided to introduce ourselves to them.

"Hey, I'm Jonah and my friend here is Miara." One of the girl said.

All of us shook each other's hands. I asked if they have any info about what was happening and they said they were actually just shopping and when chaos struck they found a room near ours to stay for the night and hide. As they woke they decided to go out to look for food but ahen they went out there were also zombies that were looking for food so they ran to this room. They said they were lucky that the zombies that chased them were slow ones and once the reached our door they looked through the small hole Jamester made and saw us sleeping that was why they knocked loudly and asked for help.

"Would you mind if we join you guys?" Miara said

"Of course why not? The more the merrier." I replied with a smile.

Our group got bigger and at the same time everyone felt happier because of the addition of the girls to our group.

We spent the whole day asking about each other's life. We started with Stephen. He actually was actually from Cebu too. We told him that the three of us were also from Cebu. He then continued with his story about his life. He was eighteen at that time. We had the same age but instead continuing his studies he searched for a job to support his family. He told us that he has a poor family. He had three siblings and his parents couldn't afford all the needs that his siblings needed. He ended up getting a job here in Bohol as a clerk in this mall that we were stuck in.

We felt sorry for Stephen as we could see it in his eyes that he has very worried for his family. We continued our story telling and Jonah was next.

Jonah was sixteen years old at that time. Surprisingly she revealed that she was actually from Cebu too and she said Miara too.

"Really?!" Me and the boys asked with excitement.

She then told us that her mom is a single mom. They moved here in Bohol because her mom found a good job here.

That was all for her story and next was Miara..

She kept her story short but filled with important details about her life.

She told us that yes she was from Cebu but she has came here before a lot of time before actually living here. She wanted to come here in Bohol and live by herself as she wanted to know if she was ready to be able to live alone. She ended up in the school as Jonah and they became best of friends.

After we shared to each other about our life we ate our dinner as it was already night time when we finished.