The Beginning of the End

chapter 1

Today marked a year since everything had begun. Since the world changed. Last year, on July 20th, a virus broke out. It infected millions of people a day. The symptoms? It starts out with a fever, sweating, coughing, that sort of thing. The next stage is incomprehension. The brain doesn't process anything. words, emotions, feelings, nothing. Then comes skin decay and violence. The skin rots away and gets injured easily. They resort to violence, its all they want. Just the sight of someone causes them to snap and they attack, usually biting you. When the virus first broke out, people became scared and the world turned to chaos. People stole and murdered without a thought, living life before the virus destroyed them. The government shut down and left us all behind as they went in hiding, in hopes they survived. Being the modern day, people refer to them as zombies. But, the virus name is phototoxalius microtestia. And in a year, its destroyed most of earths population. The ones left are the ones immune to it. A genetic miracle, they said. Me and my friends?  We're immune. When my family caught the virus and I was left alone, I took refuge in the school. And slowly, my friends families caught it too. They came to the school in hopes of finding someone healthy. It just so happened that all of us had the same idea. So, a year later, it was me, taylor, harley, Jessica, conrad, and beth. Our school had 4 buildings. The main building, the Fine Arts building, the classes, and the gymnasium. The main building connected to the classrooms. The class building consisted of 3 stories. Each floor had 3 hallways and 6 stairways leading to the other floors. We stayed on the top floor. We each had our own class room for our bedrooms. Our bedrooms had a mattress on the floor and any personal belongings that we retrieved. We got all the mattress from my house which was only a mile from the school. The first hall were our rooms, the second our supplies of food, medicine, water, etc. The third held our weapons. We of course had extra rooms that were empty. Our school was our home and has been for a year. We were safe here.