Shadow In Your Mind [ARC 1- 5]

Chapter 6 - Is this savage person really my mother?!

Author's Note:

I had added a prologue, so go and read it to get a clearer idea of how this novel will develop! Yup, it's weird to suddenly have a prologue pop out after the story already starting... 

The reason is because the starting of this story is rather lukewarm, without suspense, and could be immediately dubbed as similar to other zombie apocalypse stories, which is not! (hopefully)

In this prologue that was half the length of my usual chapters, the objective is revealed, some hints on why Guo Guo is 'neglected' by her parents is revealed, well... there are bits of clue here and there which will be spoilers if I said more. If you want to know more, follow on the journey!

XG 6 - Is this savage person really my mother?!

The zombie that was feasting on the two bodies immediately turned its head to where the voice came from and let out an anticipating growl when it saw fresh meat had entered its territory.

Wong Xue Guo shakily pulled out her mobile phone, pressed the power button, and revealed the time to her. She had been keeping track of time, counting when her mother would arrive.

Her mother took only thirty-five minutes to arrive instead of more than one-hour estimation, which was with mild traffic jams from the outbreak taken into account!

Did she drive past every red light and cut cues?

Wong Xue Guo's heart pounded even harder than before after realizing that right now was not the time to think about how fast her mother had arrived. Unless one of the monsters had the ability to imitate her mother's voice, that was very likely to be her mother!

Legs scrambled to the floor, she strained her ears to listen if there were other people with her mother. But she could not hear any other footsteps other than her mother's distinctive high heels that she had long familiarized with.

Mother's habit of always wearing high heels will get her into trouble!

Unfortunately, she was not an expert in distinguishing sounds and had no idea what that zombie was doing after hearing her mother calling for her.

I also don't dare to answer back, ah! (×﹏×)

Unfortunately, the door was designed to only have a small gap at the bottom, with the top reaching the height of the ceiling. The only way for her to have an inkling of what was going on outside was to stick her face onto the floor and peek out of it.

Even if it was an emergency, she still felt repulsed from getting bacteria stuck onto her face.

"Guo Guo, stay inside," Suzie Yap's words ended her internal debate. She must have noticed her daughter does not dare to make any sound and remained hiding in the last cubicle, whose door remains locked.

Wong Xue Guo could only hear her mother's footsteps as she moved deeper into the washroom, seemingly alone without her bodyguards. Before she could even say anything in reply, the zombie roared like an overexcited puppy and charged over with bared teeth, the remains of flesh that it had been chewing were stuck between its teeth.

Despite her mother telling her to stay hidden, Wong Xue Guo could not just stay silent and hide away while her mother was in danger.

Adjusting her sling bag to the back of her hip to avoid hindering her, she tightened her grip on her umbrella and took a deep breath that was useless in calming her stretching tight nerves. This feeling was truly similar, but amplified a thousand times, to the moment she was about to reveal her failed exam scores to her parents.