Outbreak of Z-Day

Just an Ordinary Day...

My dad opened my door and told me to get up. I moaned an okay before he left my room and I threw my blanket off myself and sat up. I sighed, "My school wouldn't close down if it was the Zombie Apocalypse." I picked myself up off my bed and went to the bathroom on the opposite side of the house. I used the toilet and brushed my teeth then returned to my bedroom, telling Karl to get up as I got past his room. I took my uniform off the radiator and got some underwear from the drawers. I quickly changed into the underwear and school trouser, sprayed my armpits and put my school shirt and tie on, then pulled my jumper over my shirt. I grabbed my bag and checked I had everything in it. Yep. Then I grabbed my boots and went down the stairs. I set my bag and shoes on the 2-seat sofa and went to the kitchen. I opened the fridge and took out my lunch, sandwiches, a chocolate bar and a packet of skittles, and went back to the living room and put them in my bag and went back in and filled a bottle with water and put it in my bag with my lunch. My brother came downstairs and did the same, without the 2 trips to the kitchen, and then he sat on the 3-seat sofa and turned the TV on and went to Channel 4 and watched "According to Jim" I sat on the 2-seat sofa and watched for our friends coming to get us for the bus.

They came at around 7:36 and we walked down to the bus stop, talking about random shit. When we reached the bus stop, no one was there except us. Then at around 7:42, 3 more people came, our friend Kelly and 2 sisters in the years above us. The bus came at roughly 7:45 and my friend, Laura, was sitting downstairs so I sat with her and the others went upstairs. We talked about fit guys in our year and bitched about the people we hated. After a 30 minute bus journey, we got off a stop before the others and went up to the maths block. I went in and she went to the music corridor to put her guitar away. I climbed the maths block stairs and saw Daniel, James, Louise and Victoria. They sat in their usual spot beside the radiator. The usual group of people that sat in the maths block were all here, except for Sarah, Lauren, Celia and Jordan. "Have they got the 'flu'?" I asked everyone.

"Mark, it is just a flu. When you say it like that you make it sound like the Zombie Apocalypse." Pearl responded. "But yes, Lauren has the flu and so does Jordan."

"And Celia is always off anyway so we wouldn't know if she was sick or just couldn't be bothered coming in." Victoria reminded me.

"What about Silent Sarah?"

"I think one of her family members died from it and she's staying off." Victoria said.

"I can't believe it's killed like over a million people in its first month." Louise told us.

"What?!" James reacted.

"Yeah, apparently it's high contagious and worse than cancer, in mortality rates." Daniel told us."Oh and apparently a priest caused it! He was killed by lightning, remember the real bad Thunder storm not so long ago."

"Was that the priest that was praying when a Lightning bolt hit the big spike on St. Anne's Cathedral? And then it conducted through the whole building and he was the only person in the building?" I asked, acting out my interpretation of it.

"Yep. Seems like something out of a cartoon doesn't it." Daniel laughed at my interpretation.

"Yep." Victoria input. "Probably been over exaggerated by the Internet though." And that was the end of the discussion about Priests, Death and the Flu. And we had a fairly normal conversation. The school bell rang at around 8:45, and we all went to our registration rooms.

I sat with my usual group,without James because he had the flu,at our usual table. We talked about the flu and other random things, and then we answered with 'here' to when our names were called out. Then Mr Moles read the announcements, they were just about how to avoid getting the illness and after school clubs being cancelled due to illness.

At 8:55 we had to go to a special assembly, which was to tell us more about the flu, how to avoid it and what we should do if we do get it. And if you knew you were immune you just went straight to 1st period. Thank God, that my family have good healthy immune systems, but it was French first period. I climbed the Jackson stairs and walked down the hall to find Daniel and Craig, I knew Daniel was immune but I was kind of shocked Craig was immune. And I looked into the classroom and Lauren Turner was sitting there on her own. Daniel, Craig and I went into the classroom and Lauren told us that Miss Park had the flu. I sat in my usual seat behind her and Craig sat in front of her and Daniel decided to sit in Emma's seat. I looked out the window and watched as some scientist and soldier got out of a car and went into the 6th Form centre. I turned around,

"Why have they brought a soldier here?"

"What?" Lauren said, turning round to look at me. And I pointed out the window.

"They're was a scientist and a soldier, they came in that Jeep." All of us got out of our seats and looked out the windows. Then Craig looked at the gates.

"Hey look!" He pointed over to a man limping around the gates. "He's drunk!"

"What's wrong with his face?" Lauren asked, she looked horrified.

"Oh my god. Is that what I think it is?" I asked. Daniel looked at me.

"Yep." He swallowed. "I need to phone Rachel." He went away from the window and phoned her. I watched the zombie as he sniffed at the air. Behind him was a woman jogging with her earphones in. He turned and even with the distance we could see saliva dripping from his mouth, then he started running at her and she didn't even notice it til it was too late. We watched as the zombified man bit into the woman, her scream echoing across the school. Then more of them came about 5. They all surrounded her and her screams became silent.