Tainted

Chapter 7

(Rhea's POV)
My heart thumped in my chest as I shoved yousef off me. Shakily , he stood and began to speak.

"How far have you run from the school?"

"Not too far. What about you?  The others? Are they ok?"

A look of immense sadness washed over yousef's face as he relayed the events. It was heartbreaking to watch germaine's and Adrianne's faces slowly get sadder and sadder. I stood off to the side to let the trio have their moment of mourning.

Eventually, they stopped crying and we all came together to discuss what to do.

"The others are holed up in a small house near the school. It's not too far from here. Follow me" yousef spoke up.

"But what about those... Things that are wandering around?"

"We Will be fine Germaine. Trust me"

"What about me? I think I twisted my ankle.. If those things come after us, we're stuffed."

"Listen! All three of you! I've got a gun-"

I gasped, yousef??!! With a gun??!!
-" and  we will all be fine. Adrianne, put your arm around Germaine, germaine, help her. We will be fine."

(Genevieves POV)

I sighed and fingered my gun ( not that way you dirty minded creeps )  and thought about how we were ever gonna get out of this.
In the movies, when this kind of thing happened, there was always somewhere safe... With walls, buildings, food.... Then it hit me, the school! It has fences, shops not too far, food! Rooms! We could be safe!

"H-hey guys?"

Before I could say something, phoebe (k) spoke up.

"S-someone is running towards our house"

Everybody ran towards the door and quickly ran out to greet yousef, Adrianne, Germaine, and rhea.

But something wasn't right...

Rhea was limping and there was blood pouring from a wound on her leg. Jasmine quickly ran out and carried rhea, bridal style, into the house, and lay the girl on the bed. Blood quickly soaked the sheets and She was turning paler by the minute.

"It's a bite... She's been bitten..." Jasmine mumbled. Pulling rhea's pant leg up, we all quickly noticed the large pale green line running up her leg.

"Someone help me get her shirt off, and any boys in the room, leave."

Bailey, Hayden, croustos, Matthew, and josh left, and phoebe (p) ran forward to help. Quickly pulling her pale yellow shirt off, they looked for the pale green line.

And noticed it dangerously close to her heart.

Baileys POV

I despareately wanted to know what was happening in that room, but dicided to talk to the other guys instead. Genevieve had been telling me about how she thinks the school might be safe, and so I dicided to see if the others thought the same thing.

"Hayden, Matthew, Josh, do any of you think that the school might be safe?" 
Josh shook his head, and Matthew sighed

"It seems pretty hopeless Bailey... I mean, who knows how many are still hanging around in there..."

"We could hole ourselves up in the hall, and clear a block or even just a room everyday. There's food there, books, fabric , wood and pillows, we could make makeshift beds. It's worth a shot. It's worth it if we could make it somewhat a home."

Hayden raised an eyebrow and sighed.
"It could work. We would have something to do while the girls are busy. Why not?"

"Great! Grab a gun, a bat or something to hit them with, and let's go."

We slowly and quietly searched the house for anything to bludgeon those things to death. I found a nice baseball bat, croustos had a hammer, and Hayden had a knife. I didn't see what matt, josh and yousef found.

Standing in front of the school was rather... Daunting. I mean, we used to come to school here, we met our friends, laughed, had fun. And now it just looked like an empty prison.