Chapter 1: Youth

He didn't want to call them people-but that's what they were before they got turned into beasts. Beasts who had no mind of their own; who attacked people without hesitation because they no longer recognized what they were doing was wrong.
The thing that made them human got eaten away by the virus.

. . . . .

David knew the rules. Gwen enforced these rules for their survival. He can't let a slip up become a hurricane. David was not stupid. David was not stupid.
Yet, words fail him as he finds himself entranced with the most unlikely being on earth. The virus on this one... was different.

(Inspired by "The Zombie Song" by Stephanie Mabey. It'll be based on that)