Crimson Embrace: A Zombie Reckoning [Ongoing]

Chapter one

Rowan rees

‘’where is it?’, I grunt under my breath, looking for my pink favorite gum. I swear I just left it on the table a minute ago.my face crunched into a disorientated alien. From the corner of my eye, I saw a pink wrapper at the edge of the rubbish bin. Please don’t tell me I-, I quickly check the rubbish bin to see my bubble gum, I continued, í finished it’. Hi,I'm Rowan Rees, the daughter of a long, lost dead father and a mother who barely knows me.
I angrily put on my sandals. I’m going to be late. I straightened up my stiff collar of this horrendous uniform, and I made my signature face whenever I saw this horrible uniform on me. A disorientated alien. I quickly run to fetch my bag and close my zip no forgetting the recent book I’ve been reading, its title covering almost all of the book in big green fonts reading, a human guide to nature by Any Blackwood. Even though its title is quite displeasing, dare I say it’s a really good book. Even if the reviews suggest otherwise.
I made sure I locked my door properly after hearing the click, I hurried off to the nearest bus stand. It's quarter past seven. I still have a few minutes before the bus arrives. Using this time, I read my book. This book is about how nature can be seen in different ways. How it's not only green in color but yellow, brown, blue, and even red in many ways. It’s quite a boring topic, but I personally feel gravitated towards nature. Like an invisible force pulling me towards the life cycle of nature. I grab my book and stand up as my school bus arrives. I smiled at the driver as I paid my fare before I sat, occasionally glancing at the students that go to the same school, pushing and crosscutting the line secretly as other students waited for their turn. I don’t stare long enough before I get back to my book. ‘reading again? ’a boy whose name I seem to have forgotten asks me. ‘’yes’ ’I reply, not in the mood of talking. I guess he got the idea and slinked back to his seat. After fifteen minutes, the bus halted, and everyone kept gushing out of the door as if they were goats on a farm, letting out from their pen. It's quite hilarious to think about it, really. As usual, I made my way to my classroom, crossing the inevitable hall where only students in a relationship stand and talk in the morning. The awkward tension is still present when I sit at my desk.
After two long hours of studying, it was recess. Realizing I forgot my lunch at home, I thought to just take a nap. Oyo what’s up?’’, my friend Thea said. She has short black hair that stopped at her shoulders. Her dark circles were visible than ever, indicating she was up doing her assignments. Thea was a hardworking girl who never misses any class, but lately, she seems tired. I’ve had conversations with her several times, but all she tells me is that she’s fine and I know when to stops’’’, I replied. Óh, do you want to join me and Sarah in the movies?’, 
‘’I can’t, I have to study’ ’I replied. I was hardworking like Thea, but my memory capacity wasn’t like her, so I had to constantly keep revising to improve my grades. However, I still do take time for myself to take breaks and do fun things. Like reading, drawing, and watching dystopian movies. They have my heart. ‘’girl give yourself a break!’, Thea suggested. Okay, how about we go to the movies on Saturday, just you and me, okay? ’I suggested. Thea smiled and replied with a quick nod as the bell rang, and the teacher watched in. it was our pe class. Okay students I, going to need you all to stand up in an orderly manner to change, those who want to play will play and those who don’t can sit at the benches, remember to walk in a single file, you hear me?’, she instructed.
The students reply with a yes and adhere to her instructions. She was my favorite teacher because she would let us play different sports  and even let others who didn’t want to play sit down. We made a straight line go to ground two. Ground two was a flat plain of ground surrounded by fences. Trees outside the fences. It was to be strictly monitored by at least three teachers because a large forest was surrounding the area as it was the back part of the school. ’did you know tress was suspended?’, Thea asked. You can already tell, it’s going to be a gossip session. I sat and bored my knees to my face to act like a pillow. Thea did the same.  ‘’yeah, I heard she bullied the juniors’’,Thea gasped ‘but I heard she got into a fight and broke two windows’’, she explained. ‘’no way, that’s probably related to the bullying thing she got going on’ ’I guessed. Ýeah- well, we can’t do anything about it’, Thea said. ‘’I guess so’’
Ur conversation was cut short when the students who were playing surrounded an area. ’someone probably got injured’ ’I guessed. ‘let’s check it out’ ’Thea suggested, then she stood up and made her way to the group of students. I did the same.my brown eyes widened with horror, and my mind was filled with questions about what was going on. There, lay a student, its eyes black in color and blood running down like tears. His mouth emitted a black liquid that horrified everyone. Before I could react, Thea burst out in tears as she yelled the students name. ‘SAM! ’she ran to him, closing the distance between him and her. I realized he was her brother. He was shaking violently as he grasped her hand tightly. ‘Sam you are hurting me!’’, tears filled my eyes. ‘Thea get away!’’, I ran to her, and pulled her hand. ‘’Rowan- what’s happening to him?’, she cried. I gasped, crying now. I’m sorry’, I whispered. ‘’ I don’t even know what’s happening’’, suddenly as I pulled Thea out of sams hold, he bit another student at his neck. Blood gushes out like water as the other students run away in fear. ‘’go’ ’whispered Thea. ‘what- No, Thea I’m not leaving you, I looked at her, determination filled in my eyes. ‘look, I’m not leaving you’, I said. ‘’wait Rowan look out-‘as I turn around, I see another one, eyes that are black like the void and black substance pouring out of the mouth. Before I have a chance to react, Thea jumps on my way. ‘go’, she whispers. And I run.