Contagious

part six

In the crowd were around three hundred people. everyone was standing in anticipation, waiting for the banner to drop and the show to begin. Daron was setting up his guitar. Once he was done he waited for everyone else, Daron walked over to John's drumset. It was across the stage but when Daron blinked he found that he was already there; It was like he teleported.

John looked up and was startled by Daron's sudden appearance.

"Gh! Jeez!" John jumped. Daron noticed that Serj and Shavo were staring at him with wide eyes. He had no idea what happened and was very confused.
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The banner finally dropped and beginning riff to "prison song" started playing. Daron jumped high in the air like he always did, the crowd started dancing and cheering. Daron got the familiar nerve-racking feeling that he loved, being a zombie meant he never got tired. So jumping and running around endlessly made that feeling ten times more intense.

Daron noticed how serj was looking at him, he looked suspicious. Obviously he was freaked out seeing his freind zoom across the stage at an ungodly speed. But he looked concerned. Daron realized that he had been avoiding his friends for almost a month now. He felt guilty.

After the show was over Daron found himself lounging on the couch eating a human liver mixed in with food. Serj came up to him looking tense.

"Can I talk to you for a moment?" He signaled for the door. Daron put down his plate and walked outside with Serj. They sat in the freezing cold for a moment before serj finally said something.

"I saw you move over to John in the blink of an eye. How did you do that?" Serj inquired.

"What do you mean?" Daron said, trying to dodge the question.

"Don't play dumb with me Malakian! You're hiding something from us I know it!" Serj confronted.

"S-serj calm down!" Daron pleaded.

"What are you hiding?! Why have you been so distant??? You think that I didn't notice that you've been disappearing quite a lot recently!!!" He yelled.

"You don't need to know everything I do I'm twenty-four years old for fucks sake!!!" Daron snapped.

"Daron you're not seeing this right! I'm concerned about you!"

"You're not my mom, Leave me the fuck alone!" Daron jeered.

"Your hair is turning white, there's pretty much no color in your face and your eyes are sunken in! Do you think that we can't see that?!" Serj yelled at Daron, he gave him a death glare in response.

"Piss off. My life isn't your problem." Daron brushed serj off and started walking away towards the RV. Serj reacted quickly and grabbed the back of daron's shirt; pulling him back and choking him.

"Get off me!!!" Daron felt anger course through his body. In a split second his eyes turned red and he swatted at Serj's face.

He had accidentally scratched him.