Clementine was at her desk, writing an essay for a advanced college class she was taking.
Downstairs the TV blaring so loud she could hear it from her bedroom, the door open.
SHe heard a weird noise come over, the TV and she made her way downstairs, where the TV showed their was a virus outbreak and the result was zombified people, whose brains rotted from the inside,, she looked to her father for comfort, but he wasn't in his usual spot, she looked around, shw shipped her phone out of her pocket, calling her dad.
He picked up briefly "hello?" he said, his southern twang thick over the phone.
"dad? where are you?" she asked quickly, her voice wavering with worry,
"what? i'm at the grocery store? I told you we needed groceries" he said confused, Clementines mouth stood agap, in a mix of fear and surprise.
"Haven't you heard the news, there's a deadly virus outbreak, please come home, It literally turns people into zombies" she practically screamed through the phone.
"alright I'll be the-" was all she heard before the phone beeped to signal that he's hung up, she looked at her screen, her stomach and chest aching, she gave a worried groan.
She looked at the text her dad shot to her as soon as it popped up on her screen,
'I'm on the way, there's a lot of traffic, might take a while, lock the doors and stay safe, I'll text you when i'm about to be there' she responded with 'okay, be safe, I love you' and threw her phone on the couch, and ran around the house, locking the doors and windows, she got her dad's pistol out of her nightstand drawer, because this is America and her dad was from the hick's, of course he owned a gun, and sat on her bed, she buried herself under her blankets and quilts and did the one thing she always did when she panicked.
She opened her laptop and started Coraline from the very beginning.