Oh my apocalypse [YiZhanFF]

Part 12. Vampire

Zhan and Yibo slept until late afternoon. Their bodies seemed to have already gotten used to the fact that nights are now their days and they sleep during the day.

After a small breakfast, slowly both had enough of the one-man rations, they went through the building to have a closer look at the village school. Anyway, they still had a few hours before the sun set and they could get back on the road. And instead of just sitting around, they decided to look around.

First, they went straight upstairs to the first floor. There were 6 small classrooms there, with colorful pictures of animals taped to their doors. In the classrooms, everything looked as if the students would return at any moment and start their lessons.

On the blackboard of one of the classrooms there was even the homework for the following day. And there was also a list of the students who had made a special effort that day and had been praised for it. Right next to them were the three students who were inattentive and were scolded. Zhan who only knew the military school had to smile.

"What happened?" Yibo asked him when he saw Zhan's smile.

"We didn't have anything like that at school. There, it was more like if three students didn't pay attention and disrupted the class, then everyone would be punished, especially those who were the role models that day. Because those should have instructed and corrected their disturbing classmates."

"What, you were all punished?"

"Yes, that's just how it was at military school."

"Why did you go to military school anyway?"

"Well, those were the schools for kids who lived on a military base. On top of that, we moved around all the time and rarely lived anywhere for more than 6 months. So my parents couldn't enroll me in schools in every new city and country. Therefore, I went to a military school whose classes were mostly in English."

"That must have been hard, having to move around all the time and never being able to put down roots anywhere."

"Yes it was. That's why my parents didn't really want children. They said to me at the time that I'd been hiding in my mother's womb and keeping quiet long enough that they didn't notice me until it was too late for an abortion. And my father said at that time, I guess, that child seems to want to be with us very much, otherwise he wouldn't have hidden for so long. That's why we should keep it."

"So you were an unwanted child?"

"Yes and no. Yes they didn't want children and no because, as soon as they knew about me, they were happy and my father even built a crib for me with his own hands. Every day after his duty he had worked on it until it was perfect. My mother knitted baby clothes every day. So they both wanted me then."

"It's a good thing they were happy then."

"Yes. It was often hard for all of us, but it somehow worked. Well now let's move on." Said Zhan and walked with Yibo to the next classroom.

In this classroom, there were pictures of the students in this class, hanging on the walls. All of them were not older than 7 years, Zhan estimated. And as he looked at the pictures, he wondered if the children were doing well? He certainly hoped so.

The other classrooms were similar to the two they looked at more closely. They then went upstairs to the next floor. They found the chemistry room, biology room and physics room there. Also, the teacher's room and the principal's room and a nurse's room. In the nurse's room, Zhan took a special look around and even found some medicine, which he immediately put in a plastic bag and took with him.

There was another staircase leading upstairs, where the attic was located. There, however, they found only old furniture and old student files, as well as books that had been sorted out.