Survival

Chapter Three - Meeting

Vivian's P.O.V
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The rain punches at my window, waking me up from a deep sleep. I looked over to my alarm clock and saw that it was 3:48 AM. “Shit.” I rolled over in my bed and tried to go back to sleep.

 

I fell back asleep for what seemed like five minutes till my alarm started blaring waking me up. I stayed in bed for a few minutes, then got out of the comfortable warm bed, and trudged to the shower. I did the basic morning preparation I do every morning, Brush my teeth, shower, etc.

 

I dressed up in some yoga pants, and a hollister sweater with some Vans. I also applied some makeup then headed out to the kitchen.

“Good morning, Mom” I said with a happy face. “Morning potato” I  said to my 11 year old sister, Debby. “Morning” She replied.

“Honey, I need you to drop Debby off to school today okay?” My Mom asked. “Sure, Mom.”

 

“Oh shoot! Can you pick her up also, I just remembered that I’m working late today.”  Reluctantly, I accepted.

 

I grabbed a bagel with cream cheese off the counter and took a bite. “Come on Deb, let’s go.” I said with a mouth full.  I grabbed my bag and keys off the coffee table and headed out the door “Bye, Mom!” I yelled. “ Bye sweetie! Be safe!”

 

I walked over to my Honda that my parents got me for my sixteenth birthday. I put my sisters stuff in the trunk then got in the drivers seat and made sure everything was all set. I put on my seatbelt and started the engine and pulled out of the driveway, Debby giving me a wide smile.

 

I drove down the street, then I felt my car run over something. I pulled over onto the side of the street, but I didn’t see anything. I shrugged and got back into the car and continued driving.

 

I pulled into the carpool of Belleville Middle School and  pulled into the front of the school. I opened the trunk and my sister got out to get her things and walked around to the side of the car. “I’ll pick you up after school okay?” Debby nodded and headed inside.

 

I drove myself to school and pulled into the student parking lot. I put my bookbag on then went inside of the school. I headed to the science lab, so I could finish up an experiment I started. I got all the chemicals  and got to work.

My experiment got cut short once the power shut off and the alarms started blaring, which is unusual, and means something is wrong.  I wondered if it was something that I did in my experiment, but I don’t think the outage had to do with it.

I grown in frustration and plug my ears, blocking out the alarms. A few teachers shuffle past the classroom, all looking drowsy and dead.

The alarms start to bother me after ringing for a few moments and I look around for some earplugs, it is a science lab.. There got to be some around here. I get up off the wooden stool and as I do a teacher walks in.

“Hey Mrs Wh- WHAT THE HELL!” I scream as I realize the teacher is missing a arm, her intestines are hanging out of her stomach, and her face full of blood and a chewed off cheek.

 

I back away, horrified, as the teacher starts growling at me, struggling to get towards me. Am I being attacked? My back hits the wall and I slide down it, starting to cry when I realize the school is being attacked.. That is why the alarms have been blaring.

“Back up or I will attack!” I scream at the teacher as she gets closer, warning her.. She don’t stop.

The teachers ankle rolls and snaps in two, making her fall to the ground, no scream of pain, just more growling as she gets closer, I notice her eyes are yellow.. Something Is wrong..

“HELP!” I scream loud through my tears, kicking at the teacher as she gets to close. The kick don’t stop her, she keeps trying to get at me.. is she trying to.. bite me..? “HELP!” I scream even louder, squirming, trying to get out of the teachers grip as she pulls herself to me.

I scream she she gets closer, punching her, getting blood on my hands. “SOMEONE PLEASE!” I pleaded as the teachers teeth make contact with my neck, and her growls pick up, only to be cut short, and her head falling, lifeless.

I look around and notice a girl standing above me, paintbrush in hand. She reaches to the teacher and pulls out a sharp, bloody paintbrush from the back of the teachers head. I cringe, feeling the need to throw up. What just happened?

I push the body off me, did that girl just kill a teacher.. The teacher did just try to attack me..

“Thank you…” I say softly, out of breath. “No problem” the girl says. “What is your name?” she asks me. ‘I’m Vivian… what’s yours” I ask, still panicking.. WHAT IS HAPPENING! I continue to ask myself. “I’m Maddie, now take this brush, and aim for the head” Maddie tells me.

“Wait.. WHAT!” I scream, confused.. “We kill people?” I say. “Just this morning I was eating breakfast with my family in a rush like always.. what is going on..” I ask.

“I don’t really know.. all I know is that that thing that was attacking you.. was dead.. It wasn’t a teacher.. The teacher was attacked, bitten by another one of those things.. When you get bit.. You die.. and turn. That is all I know right now.. And that you got to kill them by stabbing them in the head.. I don’t know why but you do. But these things are dead.. and crave your flesh” Maddie says. Stressed out..

I gulp and grab the brush, holding it tight, ready to use it.

We start walking out the door when I throw up, the vomit burning my throat, making it hard to breath.

Maddie keeps walking when one of those things that attacked me, grabs her, throwing her to the floor, trying to tear into her skin.

She screams and fights to hold it off; “Help Me!” she says looking into my eyes.

I start to panic and realize I got to destroy the brain.. I hold the paintbrush in a fighting position and bring it up above my head, letting out a battle cry while swinging the brush, aiming for the head.

The brush hits the things skull, and instead of digging into the head and killing the thing it cracks, sending splinters everywhere.

My eyes widen in horror when I realize I failed to fill the thing.

“My--AWGH- Brush!” Maddie says, struggling even more to keep the thing from biting her. I look around and see her brush, right next to the body of the teacher that almost killed me.. I run to the bloody brush and grip it tight.

“The.. the Temple!” She screams.

I hold my hand against the things head, which it doesn’t notice,and bring my hand back, thrusting the pointy part forward, and into the things temple.. Killing it.

It just drops, all life draining from it.. If it is even alive..

Maddie struggles to push the body off her as she climbs to her feet.

“we should..go..” She says.

“Yeah.. We should..”

BANG!

A loud gunshot echoes throughout the halls, louder then the alarms, my head snaps to Maddie.