Awaken

Bodies

Trey's POV

"What the hell happened? What did you do! What is this?"

"I-I don't know. I just found then like this when I got home. There was no note or anything."
There were so many different emotion going through me right now. There was obviously sadness and then there was anger. I was mad at my parents for dying and leaving me here to take care of Dani, I was mad at Dani for having to find out about this herself and then have to tell me. I was mad at the world. I had no idea why my parents would ever kill themselves. Maybe they didn't. Maybe somebody came in here while we were gone and staged it like a suicide. But who would do that?
"Are you sure there wasn't a note?"

"Trey, I'm sure. I looked everywhere. There was no bite or no sign or anything."

"Maybe they didn't kill themselves then. If they really killed themselves then they probably would've at least left a note."

"I don't know.. Maybe they got infected and didn't have time to leave a note."
What kind of parents wouldn't have time to leave a note for their own children that they were never going to see again. I didn't believe that they would kill themselves and not leave a note. It just wasn't something they would do.
"Well what are we going to do?"

"What do you mean?"

"What are we going to do with the bodies?" It was time for me to man up and be the older brother that she needed right now. I couldn't be a big soft teddy bear like I was after Gracie. After Gracie I was worse than Dani. I had breakdowns every single day, and whenever Dani saw me like that it would just make her more sad. I couldn't be the comforting brother that I desperately wanted to be, I had to be the strong brother that I needed to be.
"We can't possibly sleep, or be in the same house as the infected. Not to mention they're already starting to decay and in a couple of days they'll be covered in flys and smell horrible."

"The bodies?" I saw her start to tear up again. "Those aren't just bodies. Those are your parents and you don't even seem to care about them."

"Those things in that room, are not my parents. My parents were great people and they sure as hell didn't look like that."

"What the hell is wrong with you? Those things in there might not be your parents but they used to be. They raised you and took care of you up until now and you just want to dump their bodies somewhere?"
Being the strong brother was really hard because I agreed with her. Those bodies in there used to be the bodies of my parents and I didn't want to just dump them, but I knew it had to be done.
"I love them and you know that, but I can't have us sleeping in a room right next to them. What if they break down and walk up those stairs and eat you while your sleeping."
I really could've worded it differently but I needed her to understand.
"I barricaded the door last night."

"Oh, well what if somehow they break through the barricade and they're coming after you. Will you actually have the strength to kill them? If you won't even let me dump their bodies somewhere, then I highly doubt that you'll be able to kill them if they are chasing after you.

"Fine." She wiped the tears away that kept falling from her face "Do whatever you want with the bodies because apparently you know what's best for me. But just know that if it comes down to it, I will have the strength to kill you."

A/N
Hi, so I literally know it's been like four months since I've updated and I'm SUPER SORRY!! I think that I'll start making the chapters shorter (like this one) so that I can update more often. Shout out to like the three people that still read this book, you da best. I love yall though and I'm super sorry about updating times, I'll try to be quicker.
4-26-16