Zombie encounter with my lifelong friends : FICTION

There i was, a happy camping day with my 3 best friends in the new town we moved in, Haiti.

Time passing by, sun going down to sleep like an obedient baby.

Alassss! LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL. I still remember how we all 4 friends used to go to school together, now highschool is over, we are all married men. New jobs, New town, New homes. It gives my soul immense peace to think, all 3 friends of mine : Jack, John, Calvin have been with me in all ups and downs of my life. And we are finally having our men time after a long, taking break from the wives and kids. Good food, good music, families and no big problems in life.

What a comforting thought, UNTILL the strange incident of that evening which i can never forget.

It is about to get dark and we decided to drive back to reach home safely. We wrapped up our belongings, camping tents, mats, barbeque, food and water bottles etc. Loaded into our truck and Jack drove. We played EDM(electronic dance music) in our truck which all of us loved to the core. Enjoying and sharing laughs, suddenly there is a big tree lying down on the forest ground and blocking the narrow exit road out of forest. We got down, as the tree was huge and it was getting dark, we were trying to figure out how to work around that tree to make our way, suddenly we heard a sniff nearby.

All of us got attentive, and no one moved thinking it might be an animal and we made step-by-step way back to truck. John, jack and i, made to the truck and Calvin just a few footsteps away. With the sound of door slamming, a sniffing human came out of bushes running towards Calvin. Within a few seconds, we realised it was a zombie-like-human or a Zombie. The zombie jumped over Calvin and god knows, what came into John's mind, he hit the zombie with the hockey bat on the head(thankfully) and Calvin rushed to the truck.

With so many rushing sounds, we suddenly see a pack of zombies coming towards us from all the directions. We could not figure out what to do, we had no gun, and we could not drive the road in front of us, neither left nor right, only trees around. John suddenly took the wheels and planned on driving the reverse gear. Zombies were knocking the truck windows out like crazy shit. Damn, i stil remember that feary feeling. How i was sitting on the window seat and she was about to eat me through the window. Thankfully Jack and John are hell of the strong and tough man, a bit unlike me who gets scared in such situations. John drove in reverse gear, hitting the zombies at the back, he kept hitting them, thinking some of them will get aside. Some got crushed, we drove in the reverse gear, which was quite tough and we drove slower than the speed in which zombies were running for us.

In rush and fear, truck hit another tree, suddenly we heard a gunshot.

Multiple gunshots in a row.

Another truck of men, comes from behind and shoots all the zombies down.

Really, it might sound like a movie, but it was scary. That was the local forest police who escorted us through anoter way out of forest and scolded us for coming to a prohibited area. Though we never knew it was and is a prohibited area. Later on, we researched on Haiti Zombie stories and how they awaken at night. Looking at the picture i took near river camping that day, i cannot imagine zombies camp there at night and something like 'Haiti Zombies' are real. Though the government has assured safety of civilians and only prohibited areas need to be avoided.

That was one hell of a shaky experience, again with my lifelong friends.