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kitchen, from nowhere, one of the infected ran out to attack me.
    The lantern and the bat both hit the floor while I struggled to fight of the infected girl. Thankfully the lantern did not turn off and the kitchen maintained the light of the flame dancing around. The infected girl chomped her teeth at me and reached out to scratch and grab me. Her strong grip eventually took a hold of my right arm. We both fell to the floor. I barely manage to get my right hand around her neck, to prevent her from biting a chunk off of me. The baseball bat rested on the floor directly next to where I struggled with the infected and I needed to reach it somehow, but it was difficult to focus entirely on that when it became apparent the girl overpowered me easily. The girl was half my size with the strength of two full grown men. I kicked aimlessly, nonstop, until the infected girl loosened her grip on my arm and I kicked her into the wall behind her which gave me the chance to get away from her. She gasped from the force she hit the wall with and slid down the wall to the floor. With the opened opportunity I grabbed the baseball bat, dashed over to the girl to beat her over and over until she no longer moved or struggled to get back up. She laid there motionless, in my head I tried to debate whether I just killed a person or if the infected were even people anymore. If they weren’t, I was much more justified to do what I did. I assumed it was over and picked up the lantern to continue my search.
    I kept an eye on the infected zombie girl I just beat the crap out of while I searched the kitchen and noticed the back door was open; that explained how the girl entered the house. I should have checked the backdoor. I closed it in case there were more infected outside, ready to come in. I continued to search the kitchen, just like the living room, nothing was of use. Between the hallway and the kitchen there was a staircase that led to the second floor. I went up to search the bedrooms. I stayed up there a little under two minutes to miss nothing in any room, one by one I found nothing, empty dressers, closets and end tables. I was screwed. All that was left now was for me to guess my way to The Hills in a crank car.
    I finished my search of the rooms and made my way to the stairs. Precisely at the same time that I touched the first stair I heard repeated banging in quick succession like something shook or vibrated underneath. Something rapidly moved downstairs, somewhere in the dark. I paused to listen, it continued for a full minute before a girl’s scream followed up. The screams were insane and chaotic with random gasping between each one. It was loud enough to get whatever infected were already gathered outside to come closer. Maybe even close enough to find a way in. Regardless of all that, my concern for the moment was nothing other than the source of the sound. I was prepared to hit whatever jumped out. I pictured a girl under attack downstairs after following me into the house. The screams stopped. Whatever caused them still ran around downstairs. It moved back and forth through the living room, hallway and kitchen in front of me.
    Things were knocked down, whoever or whatever it was continued to run into things. Sporadic pauses were included in its run. For a moment everything went silent and I couldn’t hear anything else run. That’s when the screams began again, and, the sporadic running returned with it, in complete madness. I didn’t want to head downstairs and come across whatever crazy thing made all these noises but I needed go to the car and get the hell out of the house. On the plus side, there was no choice to be made since I was obligated to go through the house to get to the car in the first place. I was destined to find out what it was.
    I took my time when I went down the stairs, my heart raced and my hand tightly wrapped around the bat, sweat made it hard to keep a nice grip. I gradually walked closer to the source of