Just Your Average 14 Year Old - Book 4 - New Battles

Chapter 12: Spunky Blond Across The Hall

-1 Week Later-

I woke up, my eyes fluttered open as the sun streamed into my room. I took a deep breath and sat up in my bed, cracking my neck on both sides. I look down at my arm to see the gauze, it felt stiff but not as much pain. I sighed and swung my legs over the bed and grab clothing before going into the bathroom.

I turned on the water in the shower and undid the gauze. I let my hair down and took a quick shower. I then grabbed a towel and wrapped it around myself before getting out. I quickly change into fresh clothes and rewrap my arm. After I brush my teeth and wash my face. After I then put my hair in a huge messy bun and walk out.

"Morning Alex" Skyler smiles.

"Good morning" I sigh as I walked out.

"Sup" She said sitting up.

"Not much..." I respond with a small smile.

I sit down with a deep breath and lay on my stomach, facing Skyler's bed.

"You going to breakfast?" She asked knowing I sometimes don't.

"Um... I donno'... Maybe" I laugh a bit.

"Usual" She smirks.

I smile big "Uhhuh!" I say as I roll on my back, looking at the ceiling.

About after five minutes of conversation about how Skyler misses wearing skirts and dresses and myself not really partaking in the conversation there's a knock on the door.

"Who is it?" Skyler asked.

"I donno" The person says behind the door.

"My guess is the spunky blond across the hall" Skyler says, acting like she doesn't know him.

I laugh.

"Meaning it's for you" Skyler nods.

I smile as I get up, I open the door "Well hello spunky blond who lives across the hall who we don't know in anyway and apparently doesn't know who they are either" I smile, saying it all in one breath.

"Hi" James smiles raising his eyebrows and lowering them quickly.

I can't help but laugh "Wanna come in?" I asked.

"Sure" He said and I let him in to see Skyler has gone through the divider door to Katie's.

I then sit cross legged on my bed and James sits in a chair.

"So, what's up" I asked as I plopped down.

He shrugged "I was bored" He smirked.

I smile "Well good to know you find me as I time passer" I said my smile turning to a smirk.

"Well... Ryan and Nolen are arguing and I didn't feel like going to see Jake and Arlington" He confessed.

"Ah so I'm last choice is what I'm hearing" I raise my eyebrows pretending to be offending even though I'm not.

"No... Why would I be here if you were... Skyler and Katie are my last choice" He smirked.

I rolled my eyes "Understandable... I love them both to pieces but I just had a ten minute conversation on skirts...." I sighed.

"Ah yes... Personally I'm more of a shorts person then skirts... I do enjoy jeans as well" He nodded.

I laughed "I agree, skirts are just unconventional" I shook my head.

"Diffidently" He nodded with a fake serious look on his face.

We then both laughed for a minute.

"How's your arm?" He asked.

"Peachy" I nodded.

He smiled.

After a while we realized it was lunch time and so we headed to lunch in the loud, busy cafeteria. There we met Ryan, Nolen, Skyler, Katie, Arlington and Jacob.

"Hey guys!" Jacob called us over.

"Hey" I smiled as I sat down with my tray.

Once we finished eating we stayed and talked and things like that. The cafeteria was almost completely empty by now with only maybe three or four people left. But suddenly everything was quickly interrupted by a loud scream of a young woman on the far side of the cafeteria.

I jumped up looking in that direction. When I turned back too my friends they were all already standing.

She screamed again, the woman laid on the floor with a man near her and a few other people close by.

Out of instinct I grabbed a steak knife that I used to cut my chicken from lunch. I ran across the huge cafeteria hearing the others behind me. Once over there I gasped at what I saw. The man that was near her was a moaner, he was eating her arm. Disgust took my face, along with the others. The other people near by were moaners too! How did they get in?! What happened?

But there was no time to think about it because the moaners saw us and started coming our way. I was the only one who grabbed a knife and the rest of them had no weapons what so ever. Four moaners started limping towards us, not including the one that was sitting eating the woman. I looked at my friends who didn't really know what to do... They weren't about to leave me but they had no weapons. I barely had a weapon besides a steak knife!

One of the moaners headed for Arlington. Arlington pushed the moaner against the wall trying to slam it's head back hard enough. Another moaner went for Katie, but I drove my knife into its head before it could do anything. The third went for Ryan but Jacob pulled it off of him and started bring it down with his fists... Jacob is very protective of Ryan. The last one went towards James... James is protective of me, but I am protective of him too. I took the moaner by the collar on the back of it's shirt and pulled it off of James and then put the knife into it's head. After this one was still on Arlington in which I walked over and stabbed it in the back of the head and it dropped to the ground. I then took out the one that was busy eating the poor woman.

I breathed hard and looked at my friends who were breathing hard too.

"You all okay?" I asked breathing hard.

"Yeah... You?" James asked me.

"Fine" I sighed.

"All good here" Arlington breathed out hard, looking at the moaner in front of his feet.

"Great" Jacob sighed, his one arm bloody from taking the moaner down and his shoe covered in blood as well.

"Your arm?" I asked knowing his muscle was torn.

"Okay, I used the other arm" He held up the bloody one.

"I noticed" I sighed again.

"But guys... How did they get in?" Nolen chimed in.

"Someone probably got bitten on the run?" I suggested.

"Yeah but when you turn it's loud... Someone would have heard... Right?" James asked.

"I don't know... But what if theres more people who got bitten?" Nolen asked.

James and I exchanged looks "I don't know... But this can't be good" I said nervously.