Little Miss Perfect (The Perfect Trilogy: Book One)

The Homecoming Game Fiasco

Soon after Eliza felt a buzz and looked down at her Z band where there was a weird little cartoon on it, "The software's been corrupted, how?" Bonzo said something making Eliza stand up, "Zed what did you do?"

Zed did great even without messing with the Z-band and still scored a touchdown for Seabrook. Without warning everyone ran away from him, even the referee. "What's going on?" Casey asked right before the Z-alert went off, Eliza felt her z-band turning off before it happened, she pushed Casey down the steps of the stand yelling at her to run before she submitted.

Casey stumbled out of the stand as Eliza and Bonzo ran off the other side, than their Z-bands turned off. "My Plans working, I thought of everything," she heard Bucky say just as she made it down the steps.

"Great so how do we stop the monster from eating out brains?" Lacey asked in a panic.

Bucky's eyes widened, "didn't think of that."

"You Idiots! What were you thinking?" Casey screamed. They all jumped and looked to her, but she was quickly overshadowed by the approaching forms of Bonzo and Eliza. The Acey's and Bucky all ran away from the two, pushing past Casey and knocking her down, twisting her ankle in the process. Bonzo ran after them, but Eliza was going after Casey. She was too stunned to get up and run, but even if she could she knew in the back of her mind that running might trigger Eliza into chasing her. It was no secret that Zombies were fast, she would catch Casey in a second. "Eliza, it's me, Casey, remember." Casey tried crawling back away from her dragging her injured leg with her. Her voice cracked with her last plea, "doll, please."

Eliza suddenly stumbled like she was struggling to walk like she was trying to stop herself from going near Casey, "no!" her voice echoed.

The Z patrol came quickly, shocking Eliza back to life with a rather large taser making her fall forward into Casey. "Liza," without waiting for even a moment Casey quickly and carefully moved the zombie girl's head onto her shoulder. "Hey, you're okay, you're okay," Eliza looked up at her completely exhausted breathing heavily, Casey hugged her tightly pressing a feather light kiss to her temple. It was such a simple gesture one Eliza had seen her do to Addison before, something that should have meant nothing but to the two meant everything. Eliza looked at her with a fatigued shock, but their time only lasted a minute, as soon as the z patrol was sure it was safe they moved forward and quickly cuffed her. "Wait, what are you doing? Why are you taking her, no, no stop! Liza."

They pulled Eliza up, "I'm sorry Casey," she managed to choke out through tears.

"Hey, hey guys, these are my friends!" Addison shouted following an officer who had Zed.

"We don't have human friends," Eliza cried, not daring to look Casey in the eye.

Casey pulled herself up trying to get to her friends but failed miserably as her injured ankle gave out not allowing her more than a couple steps forward. She heard Addison yell, "Stop!" As they loaded the three, Zoey and Zevon into the truck. The rest of the crowd was shouting at the zombies in the stands who ran away afraid of what the humans would resort to next.

"Hey!" Addison screamed, making everyone shut up, "You did this to him! All of you he was your monster you made him feel like he had to risk his life to belong. Because you couldn't deal with someone different. But you had no problem using him to win your stupid games."

That was all Casey could get as she was dragged up to the nurse office by a couple of the cheerleaders.

She sat still letting the nurse wrap her ankle, "You'll be fine. Take it easy for a few days, you can walk just fine, but I wouldn't suggest jumping or flipping yet, meaning no cheer for now, sorry dear," Casey just nodded. The only motion she had made since she was dragged away from the crowd. "I called your parents, they cut their meeting short and are on their way home. You can stay here until you're ready to leave."