It's just a thing...

Chapter 1

(Flashback) It was all confusing at first, the first time I saw her in the hall at her locker I didn't know what to think. She was gorgeous with her long blonde hair and her bright blue eyes. I was staring at her then she looked at me and I blushed and started to walk away. I saw my buddy Liam he was talking to our group of friend waiting for school to start. I walked up to them "Hey have you guys seen that new girl? She's hot don't you think?" I said.

I was thinking about her all of first hour and second, when I saw that she was in my third hour I was happy. I hadn't figured out what her name was yet but I was sure Mr. Lintford would announce who she was and that she was new. Sure enough I was right "Sit down students, sit down. I am pleased to announce that we have a new student her name is Jade and she will be joining us for the rest of the year, so be nice and let's get to work." Jade, well now that I know her name I can try to focus on my science. We were working on an experiment and I was with Liam and Ian, my brother. Was it sad that my 15 year old brother was in my 11th grade science class? I don't know but he was annoying. Liam and I were talking about the football game on Friday and I was telling him about how my parents had fought the night before. "Dude they were legit throwing things because my mom accidentally killed the fish." I was trying to explain that I thought they were getting a divorce. "Jake you're being dumb. I've know you and your family since I was five and we met in kindergarten, and I know your parents and they won't do that to you and Ian." I didn't even care anymore I was to focused on trying to find the appendix of the pig we were dissecting. There was only a few of us in class today because people stayed home sick and there had only been about 15 of us at lunch that day. Later that night i was sitting in the living room and all of a sudden the news broadcasted that we needed to evacuate the city. There had been some kind of virus going around and people were dying.

(Now) I was thinking about how just three months ago my life was fine and I had just met a girl that I thought was actually into me. It was crappy knowing I wouldn't see her again and if I did she would probably be a . At least I had my buddy Liam with me and of course my family. Ian was learning how to shoot a gun and my mom was scrubbing clothes on a washboard down in the pond. We had tied cans all around our site so if a walker came we'd hear it. We were sleeping in a cave, we each had a cot and some blankets. It was cozy and lit by torches. We had to hunt and mainly my dad did it. The night before we had had a deer that my dad hunted down and cooked for us over the fire. We were just on the outside of a small town called Warsaw, it was safer to be out of town because the town was overrun.

In the past we had been moving around a lot, but we'd been in the cave the longest. I didn't know how to cook my mom mainly did the cooking and the cleaning, she was great at it. My dad had put me in gun safety a year before the world ended so I had already knew how to shoot guns, I was good at it too. I had to teach Liam how to kill the dead after he lost his parents. His little sister Blair survived because she was locked in her room sleeping when Amy and John died. Blair was only 1 1/2 so we had to keep an eye on her at all costs. She mainly slept with my mom because my mom had been around her because my mom used to babysit her before. There was 3 other people who stayed in our camp, one was named Lizzie, another was named Blake and the last one was named Ava. Blake and Lizzie were brother and sister, and Ava was Lizzie's daughter she was Ian's age. Lizzie's husband Derek had died, one day he was walking from his tent to the cave to eat and the camp got overrun and he ended up being bit so my dad had to kill him so he wouldn't turn. After that Lizzie got really depressed and Ava got sad so Ian and Ava ended up getting really close, I mean really close. Once I caught them in the the woods kissing and a walker came out and he showed her how to protect herself. Now she helps a lot with protecting the camp.

Liam was resting, Ian was shooting guns, Blair was sleeping, I didn't know where Lizzie and Ava were, they were probably way back in the cave where they stayed now sleeping, and I was waiting for Liam to get up so we could go clear the woods. Liam walked out of the cave,

"mornin lazy head" I laughed at him.

"Ya wanna eat so we can check the woods out?" I asked.

"Sure what are we having?"

"Frogs"

"Fine with me"

As we ate I watched Ian hit his target for the first time. I didn't really care tho because I had done it millions of times. "Let's go" I told my dad we were heading out he handed me a pistol and Liam a shotgun and some shells. We all had to carry knives on us because my dad wanted to be on the safe side. We had tons of guns because about a month before we found the cave we had found an unlooted armory and had taken everything we could. In all we had about 30 pistols, 50 shotguns, 20 rifles, 13 snipers, 25 AK47's, like 40 knives, and enough ammo to last about 20 normal world years but in this life about 10.

As Liam and I walked through the woods we stayed silent so if there were any walkers around they wouldn't hear us. We ran into a pack of 5 or 6 and before that saw us we ran behind two trees making hand signals to each other. We ran out and I stabbed a walker wearing a yellow rain coat in the head and slit the other ones throat then slammed him down to the ground and stomped on his head. Liam grabbed two more and got them then there were 2 left and we both ran at them and pushed them to the ground then stomped on their heads. See the trick to killing them was to get the brain because the brain was the reason they were like that.

"Good job!" I told Liam as we high fived.

"Let's head back and wash up." He said excitedly.