CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

Diana

SOME STORIES DO not start from the beginning. Stories like Diana's were just thrown into the middle. 

And like most stories, hers had a happy beginning, but her story started when everything went down. There were three sides to her; the leader, the child who never grew up, and the damaged version. 

For three years, she had strived to bury the last two parts where they could never surface, but after her last nightmare, the damaged version of her awakened. 

For the next week, Diana worked herself to the bone, preparing for the attack they planned to launch on the zombies in the next two weeks. She lived on two hours of sleep a day, and sometimes, she got none. 

She would wake up in cold sweat every night when she did manage to sleep, plagued with the same damaging nightmare. It seemed like something or; someone was trying to tell her something, but she cou