A Toxic Forever

Chapter 2

      I sat next to the fire, hugging my knees to my chest. It had been a long day. First I wake up in the dark, which for me is so not a good thing. Next i find out that my mom and dad are gone, just gone, like someone cast a spell and they just disappeared. After that Chaz comes running into the house with a bow and about became zombie food. And we got attacked twice, TWICE, in my house in an hour. After that Chaz wanted to look around town to find out if anyone else was in town, I wanted to just get the hell out of town and come back later, so we yelled at each other for about another hour, then came up with this plan, look around town as we also look for a place to hideout. I don't know why it made me feel better to find a place to hideout, but it just did. And as we looked around town we got attacked like six more times. Then we found a nice spot in the woods to use as a place to sleep tonight. 

      So here we are, in the middle of the woods, with a camp fire going, chaz was looking around the area with fang making sure no zombies were around. I should have been happy, this is what me and Chaz have been talking about for years. But yet the day we've been waiting for is here and I'm just acting like a little kid, crying my eyes out. I've been beating myself up all day for it, I keep telling myself i'll stop crying, but as soon as i think of mom and dad the tears come back again. Stop it, I  told myself, stop it now before you start in again. Too late, the tears rolled down my face. I closed my eyes wishing that this was just a dream, just a very bad dream. That none of this was happening and I would wake up at any moment, and mom and dad are just outside, mom and dad will be talking to Chaz as he plays with Fang. Yep that's what this all is just a dream.

      But yet when I opened my eyes I was still in the woods, sitting by a campfire, crying again. I covered my face with my hands as I lied down on my back. I'm never like this, to just start crying when it was uncalled for, was not like me at all. I uncovered my face and put my hands behind my head. I smiled for the first time today because i could see the stars. I have always loved the stars, but in the city you couldn't see them that well by just laying in your backyard, you had to be somewere high to see them. And for me what was on the roof of my house.

      I remember when ever I was upset I would climb to the roof and just lay down looking at the stars. That's how me and Chaz started talking. Yeah we had known each other for years but we never really talked. What had happened was my Friend was starting drama and you know how girls can be, we have to pull everyone into it, so I was being told to pick between my two friends that were fighting. But I liked them both and didn't want to lose them as Friends. I was so deep in thought that I didn't hear Chaz walk up to the house, and me being me I was sitting with my legs over the edge of the roof swinging them. He had called up asking if I was ok and he scared me so I jumped, and fell off the roof. Lucky for me I landed in the bushes, and Chaz was laughing so hard he about started crying.

      After I got all the leafs out of my hair, and Chaz had stopped laughing he joined me back on the roof but this time I wasn't sitting on the edge. He had asked me why I was sitting on the roof. Now I normally don't tell the people that are the reason for me falling off the roof why I was on the roof in the first place. But i needed someone to talk to, so i told him everything from my love for the stars to my fight with my friends. After I got finish telling him everything we just sat in silence. Chaz was the one to break the silence.

"I can understand why you would come up here. Its easy to clear your mind and think."

"Yeah I know, but thanks anyways."

Chaz looked at me startled. "For what?" he had asked.

"For letting me rant and tell you about my drama even though we don't know each other that well."

"Oh" was all he said.

"Yeah, well I think its about time for use to get off the roof before I fall asleep up here again."

We jumped down from the roof.

"You've fallen asleep on the roof?"

"Yes I have. Twice. I was very upset both times when it happened, and I woke up the next morning with a very bad sun burn. So after the second time I have learned never to sleep on the roof again."

     Chaz had just laughed at me and walked home. Everytime after that whenever I was upset, and was on the roof he was there with me, and some nights we just went up there for the hell of it. I closed my eyes wishing we could go back to those nights and how much fun we had. But I don't think that I would ever see those nights again, not anytime soon anyways.

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     I hadn't known I had fallen asleep until I hear twigs snapping. I shot up grabbing one of the twins and pointed it the way the snapping sound was coming from with my finger on the trigger.

"Hey!" Chaz droped the twigs he was snapping and put his hand up. "It's just me, no need to shot."

      I put the gun back with her sister. I rubbed my face with my hands, waking myself up a little, and trying not to smack Chaz upside the head for snapping the sticks. Why in the hell he thought to do that I don't know.

"How long was I out?" I asked as Fang walked over and layed down next to me, putting his head in my lap. I smiled and started to scratch him behind his ear.

" I don't know, you were out when fang and i got back."

"Damn, and how long have you been sitting there snapping twigs?"

"Hey I was bored, I got nothing else to do, but I've been sitting here for a few hours."

      A FEW HOURS!?!?!?!?!?!?! He said it like it was nothing. He could of woken me up. If I hadn't woken up he would of let me sleep the whole night. He's human just like me and needed sleep too. I stood up and stretched bones popping from sleeping on the cold hard ground.

"Get some sleep."  I told him

" What?! No I'm fine your the one that needs-."

      Chaz stopped talking and looked down away from the look I had given him. My mother had called it my 'Do what I say or else' face, and luckily it worked on Chaz. I bent down and picked up one of the twins.

"I'll be back. I'm going to walk around and see if one of them has wondered into the woods." I turned to walk away, but Chaz grabed my ankle to stop me. I turned and looked at him.

"What."

"Take Fang with you, and be safe. I promised your dad I would take care of you."

      I rolled my eyes at the last part. Yeah I knew my dad had asked Chaz to take care of me if anything happened to him and mom, and I was so mad at him for it. Yeah I'm glad that I have Chaz around, but i feel like he didn't think i could take care of myself. I mumbled a ok and called for Fang to follow me. He seemed more then happy to come with me and run around for a bit.

      I laughed as he tripped over everything and bring me sticks to throw for him. But the whole time I couldn't help but think about mom and dad. Like why would they be taken in the middle of the night, and why would someone board up my window. It all didn't make any seance. And what i don't get even more is why would they take  not just my parents but Chaz's parents too, along with their car. I tried to think of some reason of why people would do that.

   Then I noticed somthing. The woods where too quite. Normally you would hear bugs, and the night animals, but everything was just quite, and I haven't seen Fang for a little bit. He just ran back to camp to be with Chaz, its OK, but was it, I mean like Fang is my dog, he goes everywere with me unless told other wise, or he ran back to camp for antoher reason.Just then a branch snapped behind me. I started to turn and get the twin up to point, but then something hard hit me in the head. Then i saw nothing.