Grace

Mallory arrived at the park only 20 minutes late. It was probably fine. Mallory found Grace sitting at a table under a tree. To Mallory’s dismay, she wasn’t alone. Grace was joined by her boyfriend, Miles.

Mallory didn’t like being around Miles for two reasons. One, it brought up Mallory’s insecurities about not having a boyfriend, and two, Mallory had a crush on him. Mallory knew it probably wasn’t being a good friend to be crushing on your best friend’s boyfriend, but she couldn’t help it. She had liked Miles since before he started dating Grace, however Grace had beaten her to the punch.

Mallory couldn’t really blame Miles. Grace had long blonde hair and an absolutely beautiful face and eyes. She also had slightly bigger boobs than Mallory, something that also made Mallory insecure. Grace was not only more beautiful, but also more confident than Mallory, evident in her ability to actually ask someone out.

“Ohh there you are,” Grace said as Mallory walked up. “You know I was starting to think maybe I should leave, but then I remembered who you are.”

“Very funny,” responded Mallory.

“Yes, I know, I am a very funny person,” replied Grace with a smile.

“What did you want,” Mallory asked.

“Well I wanted to tell you about a party that’s happening tonight.”

“You couldn’t have just texted me that?”

“Well if I did that you would have looked at the message, then never responded and pretended you didn’t see it.” Said Grace.

“So you ambushed me,” replied Mallory

“Kind of, Mal you have to come, a whole bunch of people are going to be there it’s going to be tons of fun,” said Grace

“Yeah Mallory you should come, it’s going to be great,” said Miles, looking up from his phone. “There’s going to be drinks, some games, and it’s all down on the lake.”

“Come on Mal, you’d have sooo much fun,” said Grace.

“Alright fine,” said Mallory conceding. She never could refuse her best friend.

“Great, can’t wait to see you there, party starts at eight thirty on the west beach, ok?” said Grace

“Yep,” replied Mallory.

“Alright see you there,” said Grace, as she and Miles got up to leave.

“You got somewhere to be?” asked Mallory.

“We’re helping to set it up, so we got to get down there,” replied Grace.

“We were supposed to already be there, but we had to take this detour to convince you,” said Miles.

“I feel honored,” said Mallory.

“You should, it’s going to be greeeeaaaattt,” sung Grace.

With that the group said they’re goodbyes and left. Mallory began to walk home, thinking about how she got dragged into this kind of thing.

Meanwhile, unknown to Mallory, an outbreak had occurred at the Thompson Chemical Company. As she walked home, the employees there were running around in a panic, as one by one they were chased down by the sex crazed maniacs that used to be their coworkers. Soon none remained uninfected, and the employees began to leave the company in search of new people to turn.