Zombies

Chapter 9

It was the homecoming game. We were losing by 5 points. I was sitting in the front row when Addison started cheering for Zed. I smiled at her and she smiled back but my smile quickly faded when I heard Bucky tell her she was off the team. I didn't have much time to think about it because the game had started again and I wanted to see how this played out. I watched as Zed ran past everyone and scored the winning goal. I run down to the field so that I could congratulate him but before I could do anything, everyone's running away and the Z-Alarm goes off.

"Addison, what the hell do we do?" I ask my sister once I'm standing next to her "omg I've gotta find Zed" I say out loud and look around for him, "Harper are you kidding? You can't go after him, he's in zombie mode you're gonna get killed" she says to me, "I can't, I need to make sure he's okay" I say and I run off.

"Zed!" I yelled to him once I found him under the grandstand, he was making his way towards Bucky but turned around once he heard my voice "Zed are you okay?" I ask him as I slowly make my way toward him. His eyes falter for a second before they go back to their zombie mode and he starts walking toward me instead. I walk back slowly not wanting to get eaten when Gus finds us and zaps Zed with some electric pulse.

I watch him go back to normal and so I quickly run over to him to make sure he's okay but Gus pulls him away and my dad comes over to stop me from going after him. "Harper no, stay here," he says but I don't listen and run after him. "Hey stop what are you doing, these are my friends," I say trying to stop them from taking them away "we don't have human friends," Eliza says sadly. "Harper we told you zombies aren't safe, give them an inch and they'll bite your face off," my parents say and I shake my head. "Zed wait-" "Harper I'm sorry, maybe they're right and we shouldn't be together" "what? No, don't say that". I look over to my sister knowing that if anyone would help me it would be her but she just looks away, as she does I see the tiniest stand of white hair that no one would notice unless they knew. That's when an idea popped into my head, probably a really bad idea but at this point, I don't care anymore.

"Hey! You did this to him, all of you. You made him feel like he had to risk his life to belong because you couldn't deal with someone different! But you didn't have a problem using him to win your stupid games. Well if you can't accept them for being different then I don't want to be a part of this community" I say to everyone and I take my wig off revealing my real hair. It's quiet for a bit but then they start yelling at me too.