Zombies

Chapter 5

Lunch rolled around and I was sitting with Addison and Bree when Principal Lee announced that the zombies could eat in the cafeteria. I for one was excited, the only one at that. Addison and Bree were talking about cheer of course but I couldn't pay attention, how could I when Zed was only a couple of tables away? They both noticed and kept asking if I was okay.

"My heart is racing and my palms are sweaty," I tell them, and Bree immediately thinks it's the flu. "No, it's Zed," I reply "wait you like-like him? You like-like a zombie?" Bree asks and Addison just smiles at me like she already knew. "It's not that bad, right?" I ask "Harper our parents will freak out, but we got your back, right Bree" "yep, no matter what, just don't let him break your heart, or devour it," My two friends tell me and I smile at them, I hear my name get called out and I look in the direction it came from, Zed then waves from his seat. The whole room went quiet, Bree tells me to stay but my sister gives me a look that tells me to go, "Well I can't be rude" I say and quickly make my way to his table.

"Hi," I say smiling once I arrived at his table, I could feel everyone's eyes on me, "welcome to the cafeteria" "thanks" I feel a tap on my shoulder and Bonzo hands me a flower made from an apple "thank you" I smile at him, "why is she here? I thought the point of having our own table was to avoid people like her" Eliza says "I'm sorry, I was just-" my sentence got cut off as I got dragged away by the cheerleaders, in doing so I dropped the apple flower on the table. "You know you're talking to zombies," Tracy says "yeah what about it" "your cousin isn't gonna be happy your hanging around with zombies" "Bucky isn't the boss of me" "hanging out with zombies could get you at the reject table like that" Lacey says clicking her fingers at me, "things might take a turn for your sister if your not careful, and I wonder what your parents will think of this", "you're blackmailing me? seriously" I scoff and they walk away.

I look over at the zombie table for a second and then walk the other way. I need to clear my head.