Seven.

I sweat as a continue to survey the area I'm in. The gymnasium is a lot larger than i expected it to be. The orange tone seems to ripple with every floor board and crap color painted bleachers in vicinity. I reach for my knife and start fidgeting. I need to get out of here, what happened? Was that girl all just a dream? I adjust to the lighting again and see her. she's walking towards my cot and i oddly hear nothing except an eerie silence.
I ask her, "Am I the only one?"
She smiles, "Actually.. you are. Jack and Marie went to go scout, they should be back later. Go back to sleep."
I sit up and look around. The entire gym is empty except for the likes of both of us. She glances at me and asks "Do you have a weapon?"
"Y-Y-Yeah i do" i say nervously as i flip out my butterfly knife.
"Wow that's pretty cool, let me see that."
I toss her the knife and she embarrassingly tries to flip it open.
"How the hell do you get this working?" she says with a frustrating look.
I take the knife back and show her. As i flip it open and close, i notice she's not staring at the knife rather she's staring at me.
"I-I-Is something w-wrong?"
She snaps back into reality.
"Oh! sorry it's just, fancy seeing you around here, do you live around here?"
I put my knife back into my pocket, "Oh yeah i live d-d down the street more or less, what about you?"
I notice her confident demeanor is slowly starting to fade.
"I live on campus.." she pauses "Hey do you know what the fuck happened?"
I shrugg and explain my whole situation beginning with me waking up to this mess.
She sighs.

"I dont know what happened exactly, I just remember the screams. It was around like 2 am when i heard a lot of my floor mates screaming and yelling. My roomate got up and ran out the door and told me she'll come back and tell me what happened. I waited for like ten minutes and nothing. I didn't hear anything that entire time and I could tell something was wrong."
She lets out a sigh.
"Hey do you like zombies?"
I shoot her a glance, my eyes widen.
"You know what, I got to say I Love zombies, everything about them, i watched all the George A. Romero classics and they're okay remakes. I've played countless games."
Before I can finish she excitedly starts up
"Oh my gosh me too! I loved Dead Rising, my favorite zombie flick was 28 days later, holy shit!"
We both chuckle
"Then why does this feel so shitty? I mean, I thought a total zombie apocalypse was going to be fun. There's nothing fun about knowing you're going to die or knowing that your family is one of them." she lets out another sigh and continues.
"I was in the softball team here and we weren't bad. I always kept my autographed Affeldt bat I got during the world series. I held onto it after she left the room. I was worried more that frat boys would raid our dorm or something so i wanted to be prepared. When she didn't come back i got really worried. I looked outside my window which was like ten floors high. I could barely make out people running. I thought since it was a week before finals, people were just raging you know just partying hard."
She rolls her eyes
"I waited for a little while longer and decided to call my roomates phone. She left it, which totally pissed me off. So, I got dressed as quickly as I could and I remember grabbing my keys and my phone. when i opened the door you could see the lights flickering and huge dents in the wall. It was eerily quiet when i went outside. When i walked towards the elevator i saw a bloodstain on the stairs and thought, okay fuck that i'm not going on the stairs. So i walk to the elevator door thinking zombies wouldn't get trapped in them. Stupid stupid stupid."
She face palms and takes out her bat
"I saw two of them, both girls just standing there. Then they started moaning ... That fucking moan. God it was like they had a dick stuck in their throat or something."
She lifts the bat and swings it with force.
"She tried grabbing onto me, it was unreal, all the biting and stuff. This was an actual zombie and since i didn't know her i might as well stop from eating me. I didn't actually hit her. I thought it was a joke or something and you know what if it wasn't? I might get kicked out of school or worse arrested. So instead i ran the other way. stupid stupid stupid"
She sets the bat down and face palms again.
"I knew I shouldn't stay there and those two bitches were playing a really good joke on me, or so I thought, so i went down the stairs. The blood trail went both up and down so I thought getting out of the dorm would be best. I got all the way to the first floor door which led straight into the lobby and I could hear it. Not just the moaning but screaming. So much screaming, it was a wonder why I couldn't hear it in the first place. I think it was because colleges sound proof walls in dorms so when your neighbor is having sex the other people don't have to hear it."
She stops for a moment to think then sighs again.
"When I opened that door i saw my roommate getting eaten alive. I mean, what the fuck?! I almost had to throw up because again it just felt so unreal. I mean before i wasn't so sure if they were real zombies but this one. This dude was just straight up eating her neck with blood everywhere and bodies scattered around. Instead of going all stealthy like i should've i just rushed the bastard. I mean seriously three hundred style I ran in there with a roar and brought my bat straight down on this dudes head. Blood shot up from his head and hit my bat and my leather jacket. I was just so mad that i kept on hitting and hitting until i was sure he was dead. I looked at my roomate and started to cry. We were close you know? Her name was Allyson, she was a total quiet girl but we got a long."
I hold her hand and say, "you don't have to finish this if you don't want to."
She squeezes my hand and says, "Listen cowboy, you're gonna wanna hear the rest of this."