Horror Fan Fiction ❯ Death Comes Knocking ❯ The Beginning ( Chapter 1 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

“Time to get up.”

The lights in the room suddenly flashed on when the sound of a older woman's voice cut through the fog of a deep sleep.

“Huh?”

“It's time to get up, youll be late for school if you don't get up soon.”

“Alright mom, I'll get up in a few minutes.” James rolled over onto his back, scratching his growing beard. Damn, another day of college he thought. Id give anything to be able to skip that god-forsaken place. Grunting with stiffness from having slept in an awkward position for hours on end, James finally stumbled out of bed and went in search for the bathroom in a hurry.

After using the bathroom, he stood In the mirror observing his appearance. Standing at 6' 3", he was a tall man, the years playing football in high school had given him a large muscular frame, but the months of not working out had taken its toll. Weighing in at well over 300 pounds, his muscled body was turning over to fat through disuse. He laughed at himself. “I look like a damn trucker with this beard.”

He quickly went into his room and dressed in his favorite pair of jeans and long sleeved white shirt. After checking himself in the mirror of his cramped little room, he went to the computer in the living room to check his emails. He logged onto the yahoo website and briefly checked the news to see what was going on in the chaos filled world today. The main headline was “Race riots break out once again in Los-Angeles.”

Nothing new there he thought, there always seemed to be crazy shit going down in that city, but another headline down the page was saying “Confusion and panic spreads while violent gangs attack citizens.” That was in Seattle, I wonder what's going on over there he thought. “Oh well, gotta leave before I miss class, bye mom: he yelled back to her room in the small house he shared with her and his grandparents.

“Bye hun, have a good day at school.” she said back to him as he was leaving through the front door.

The sun was just peaking over the tops of the mountains when he got into his car, a blue 2002 chevy cavalier. It was a good ole car he thought, not much of a speedster, barely able to go over a 100, but it got him where he wanted to go.

Turning the key, he started on his way to college.

After an hours drive, James pulled into the parking lot of the local community college. He sat there a few minutes eating the McGriddle he picked up at McDonald's, listening to the new Stone Sour cd he picked up a few days before. “Mmmm...god I love this stuff!” he proclaimed as he finished his breakfast.

Right at the moment he turned the car off, the car started to shake. “What the fuck!” he yelled, and looked out his rear view mirror, and he saw it was a couple of his best friends pushing down on the trunk.

“You scared the crap outta me!” he said to the young women standing behind his car.

The two just stood there laughing as hard as they could. “You should have seen your face.” one girl said.

James just laughed. “Shut up, I thought someone was messing with my car Amy.”

“Come on James, walk with me and Roxy to the game room.” Amy said to the flushed young man.

“Alright, sounds like a plan to me.” he said.

So, the trio of young friends walked into the college towards the game room that a few students had taken over as their little hang out. As they opened the door to the game room, they took notice that their fellow group of friends had already gotten there and were talking loudly among themselves. James took notice of the little group gathered there. The two girls he liked, Jennifer and Sarah. His high school friends Jeremy and Chris, Roxy's boyfriend Dan, and Amy's boyfriend Adam. All nine of the little group of friends were there.

“Hey James!” Jeremy called to him. “Have you seen the news this morning?”

James looked at him with a funny expression on his face, “Yeah, I checked it out some this morning, they were saying something about riots in Los Angeles and Seattle weren't they?”

“Yeah, buts its spread some man.” Dan said to him.

“Spread? How, where?” James asked him.

“I don't know how, but they're saying that New York, Boston, and D.C. has also got that rioting going on in em. And its spread to more cities in the west too.” Dan replied to him.

“Well shit, aint that something.” he said, “Ah, its nothing the national guard cant handle, unless bush does something stupid to fuck that up, lets hope he doesn't try to give a speech and makes a bigger ass outta himself.”

That remark brought laughs to the little group, and they momentarily forgot about the riots going on in the country by greeting one another and asking who was going to skip class and watch some DVD's.

“Whatcha got?” asked Sarah, trying to peer into the bag Adam had brought, which contained the DVD's.

“Uhh...lets see...I've got both Kill Bill's, all three Lord of the Rings, some Dragon ball Z movies, King Kong, and Shaun of the Dead.” he told the tall blonde girl.

After a vote, they all decided to watch Shaun of the dead. As they were pulling their chairs around the tv screen. Turning the lights off, and making last second runs to the food machine, the little group of friends remained oblivious to the extreme chaos gripping large parts of the country.