Kellie's Diary: Decay of Innocence by Thomas Jenner, Angeline Perkins

attract zombies.  Then it started raining really hard, so that wasn’t helping anything.  I kept hearing some thunder, but there was no lightning.
                  It was getting darker and then I heard walking, and when I found where it came from I saw zombies!  A whole bunch!  I haven’t seen this many zombies in a really long time.  I didn’t have anywhere to hide, so I started running.  Then I kept seeing even more zombies!  No matter which way I looked, there they were!  I didn’t know where to go or what to do, so I just hid behind a tree so I could think for a minute.
                  I could hear them getting closer.  I freaked out because I had nowhere to go!  I just stood against the tree and stood really still.  I wasn’t moving at all, and I just kept hoping that the zombies wouldn’t see me.  I felt like I couldn’t even breathe because I was afraid they would hear me.  The zombies started walking around the tree, and they walked right past me!  I don’t know how long I was standing there, but it felt like hours!  It was still raining, so I was standing there getting soaked.
                  Finally there were less of them, then after a bit I didn’t see any more walking past.  I still waited just to make sure they were all gone, because some zombies are slower than others.  I saw the ones in front of me getting farther away.  I didn’t hear any more walking or growling.  So I looked around both sides of the tree to see if it was really safe.  I didn’t see anything, so I went back around the tree to keep going.
                  And then a zombie ran right into me!  I don’t know how I didn’t see it, because I looked behind the tree!  It fell right on top of me!  It got so close to biting my face, but I pushed it up by the neck so it wouldn’t bite me.  I couldn’t push it off of me, so I tried to get my gun.  I had to hold it back with one hand, and it was so hard to do!  Its teeth were soooo close to my face!
                  I finally got the gun out, I put it up to the zombie’s head, and I pulled the trigger.  Part of its head blew away and it fell down.  I pushed it off and got out from underneath it.
                  But then my ears started hurting really bad and I heard this ringing sound and felt pounding inside my head.  Then I didn’t hear anything!  I put my hands up to my ears for a minute, and when I took them off I saw blood!  I think I broke my eardrums!  I tried to get up and I felt really dizzy and had a hard time standing up.  I started looking around and I saw a couple of zombies from kind of far away, but they were coming from the direction of that big bunch of them I just got away from.  They probably heard the gun!
                  I had to get out of there fast.  I still couldn’t hear anything, so I was looking around a lot to make sure more zombies didn’t show up.  I wasn’t running very well, and my head and my ears kept hurting even worse.  It’s really scary not being able to hear anything.  I mean I hear the ringing but that’s it.  I can’t hear the rain, or wind… I can’t hear zombies…
                  I think I was running for a while, but I had to stop for a second and get my flashlight because it was getting too dark.  I know it’s dangerous sometimes but I have to be able to see, I can’t be deaf AND blind.  But I was still dizzy so it was hard to run, and the rain made it even harder to see.
                  I don’t know how long it was, but after a while I found this old-looking house.  There was a big metal fence around it, and I found the front gate.  I got in and closed it behind me.  But when I got closer and looked with the flashlight, the front door was missing.  I saw a couple zombies through the bushes outside the fence, but I'm just hoping the fence holds them back.  I went in and I saw the