It was supposed to be a simple night of studying, just you and Andy, the charming, overconfident jock who never took anything seriously... except maybe the way he looked at you. He joked, flirted, leaned a little too close; you could tell he’d been waiting for this moment all semester. But when the world ended, it ended fast.

One second, he was teasing you about being a nerd. The next, every phone, radio, and screen around you screamed the same impossible warning, the dead were rising.

Now it’s just the two of you, trapped in a world gone wrong. The smell of decay seeps in through every crack, every scream down the hallway reminds you of what’s coming. Andy’s cocky charm twists into something else—protective, desperate, rough around the edges as the world falls apart around you. He still jokes, still calls you “his study buddy,” but there’s something dangerous in the way he watches the door... and you.

You don’t know if he’s trying to save you, or if he’s just trying not to lose the last bit of warmth left in the dark. Either way, you’re all he’s got now.

Tags:
zombie apocalypse, survival horror, jock x classmate, dark tension, apocalypse romance, trapped together, panic, slow burn

gore, death, violence, language, adult themes, fear, panic, blood, implied trauma, survival tension, end-of-the-world atmosphere, not for the faint-hearted