Barely Alive (First Draft Edition)

Chapter 5- Zombie Under The Bed

Chapter 5- Zombie Under The Bed


Ella tired her black hair into a pony tail then turned towards her bedroom door and closed it. The moonlight shined through her curtains as she knelt beside her bed and said a quick little prayer. After that she slid in her bed covers and turned off the lamp causing the room to go dark.

Ella sighed and squeezed a little teddy bear she found in the towns dump when she was four. The creaking of the house played as Ella closed her eyes.

Just then, a sneezed caused Ella to open her eyes again. She sat up as another sneezed startled her. Slowly, Ella leaned over the edge of her bed and peered underneath.

"Hiiieeee!" Quincey smiled. Before Ella could scream he put his hand over her mouth. Slowly he took his hand off when Ella said, "what are you doing under my bed?" Quincey moaned and groaned as Ella just sat there in confusion. The Zombish lessons earlier that day haven't improved her understanding of zombie much.

Just then Ella's door handle rattled causing her to push Quincey's head back and her to quickly sit up. Miranda barged into the room with her hair up in curlers. "Where did you put my all my nail polish! I told you to put everything back when you clean the bath rooms. Geez, you'd think a dumb girl like you could follow such easy instructions."

"I put it back in the cupboard, where it was before. I promise" Ella replied. "It's not there! Ugh! You stupid girl!" Miranda spun around just when Ella said, "I'm not the stupid one."

Miranda gasped and twirled around with fire in her eyes. "What did you just say?" Ella huffed and said, "I called you stupid. But I should have gone with stupid hag!"

Miranda gasped and yelled, "Fredrick! Get up here! This girl just called me a stupid hag!" Now Ella was in trouble. She wished she hadn't said that to Miranda.

Fredrick bursted into the room in nothing but boxers and a stained robe. "What did you just call my wife! You can be so stubborn sometimes! We give you food, clothes and a roof over your head and your treat us by making messes and insulting us!"

They had it all wrong. They don't give Ella much food or clothes and the roof over her head could fall down on her any day.

Fredrick pointed his bony finger at Ella causing her to fly into the wall. Quincey cringed as he saw blood splatter onto the floor. Fredrick marched over to Ella would looked up at him with pained eyes. He kicked her into the nightstand causing the lamp to fall and break over the floor.

"You are such and insulin girl! How dare you treat myself and my wife like that!" Fredrick kicked Ella over and over and over again. Ella would wheeze and cough as he kicked harder and harder. "I- I'm sorry. I'm sorry! Please stop it!" Ella cried. "Don't tell me what to do! I'll do what I want, girl!" Fredrick said plucking Ella of the ground and tossing her into the wall like a rag doll.

Ella looked towards the bed where Quincey sat in shock. He scooted an inch towards the edge of the bed when Ella shook her head. Fredrick kicked and Ella to the point where a pool of tears circled her. Finally both of Ella's guardians left her sobbing.

Quincey reached his hand out from under the bed as Ella managed to move her pale hand towards his. He grabbed her wrist and pulled her under the bed where he hugged Ella's weak body.

"Ella" he moaned. "Ella."

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Ella fell asleep while Quincey watch her under the bed together. When the morning came Ella groaned and sat up, hitting her head on the bottom of the bed. "Ow" she said rubbing her head. Quincey pushed her out from under the bed, following her.

Ella stood up and looked at all the blood on her trying to remember what exactly happen. As so as the memories came back she frowned and wiped the blood off her face.

"Ella" Quincey groaned while using his sleeve to help Ella clean up. "I'm gonna be okay" Ella smiled. "Thank you for helping me."

Quincey grinned as Ella peaked out her bedroom door realizing her guardians had left for work. "It's clear." They went down stairs where Ella prepared some toast for herself and a Rice Krispe treat for Quincey. After they ate breakfast Ella got changed while Quincey waited for her in the backyard.

Ella walked down the backyard porch in a large shirt, some jeans, her hiking boots and her witches hat. Today, her black hair was pulled into one braid she managed to do.

Quincey swung on the tire swing when Ella said, "alrighty! I'm ready to go!" He smiled and climbed out of the swing and walked with Ella over to the graveyard.

As they approached Quincey and his brothers headstones Ella said, "so how do we get down to your house?" Quincey smiled and grabbed Ella's hand and basically jumped on his grave. The ground swallowed then sending them down a muddy slide.

Just then Quincey fell onto the ground with Ella falling on top of them. They laughed and sat up seeing Jasper, Iggy and Axe sitting on the couch with video game controllers in hand.

Jasper moaned something causing Quincey to moan back. Quincey helped Ella up as she said, "so are you ready for Zombish lessons?" Jasper nodded and handed his controller to Quincey and led Ella over to a foldable table that stood in the corner of the room. He gestured to her to sit down as he shuffled into the other room.

He came out with a pen and a ripped notebook. Jasper sat down next to Ella and began to draw childish pictures of simple objects like a cat or an apple then giving a different moan, groan or grunt after. Ella soon caught on to his teaching style and started to speak Zombish.

After a hard days work Ella started to understand Jasper and his brothers. She was so happy she could kinda speak Zombish.

As the sun set Jasper and his brothers walked with Ella through the graveyard testing her Zombish. Iggy grunted a word which Ella translated into "good work today."

Ella smiled and groaned something back causing Iggy, Quincey and Jasper to clap. Axe just gave Ella the creepy stare in reward. "I think I'm getting the hang of it!" Ella cheered while skipping beside them. "You are doing really good for a seven hear old" Jasper said which Ella understood.

"Thanks! I have to teach myself everything since my guardians don't ever help me" Ella said to them in Zombish. Jasper smiled in return. They walked in silence before Ella groaned, "tomorrow at school we start learning how to fly on brooms! I'm so excited! I have wanted a broom forever!"

"What kinda of broom are you hoping for?" Quincey asked. Ella paused, thinking he said, "what store do you hop from?" As soon as Ella figured out what he said she replied, "well I was wishing for the Star Shooter 3000! But my guardians would never get me anything so I guess I'm going to have to take the standard broom they give everyone who pass the flying test."

Quincey nodded in reply. "Cool."

Jasper let out a with then grunted, "Quincey told me about last night. Are you okay? You look beat up." Ella took a minute to translate the said, "I'm fine."

"I wish I could eat their brains! They make me so mad" Iggy growled. "I wish we could something. Hurting a innocent girl is just plain wrong."

Ella smiled and said, "I'm glad somebody cares about me. That's all I could wish for." All of the brothers still had this sad look on their faces.

Ella spun around of her heels and said, "well I better get going home to make some dinner! Thank you for the lessons! I see you guys after school!" The brothers groaned and waved to Ella and she ran home.

The rest of the night was safe for Ella. Everything did loops when she got to school to find the big rumor about her though.


-----Ella, the bros and I thank you for reading this wonderful chapter! For that your brains will be spared. Congrats! Now if you want to save possible internal organs or limbs you should vote and comment your fav character!-----