Give Up and Die

chapter 3

It was lunch time, I was sitting in the bus eating my lunch, when Christopher and his girlfriend walked in. I looked at them. "hey" i quickly said before taking another bite. The girl looked at me, smiled, waved and sat next to Christopher. I swallowed my food and looked at the girl. "i thought you were in the other bus" the girl looked back at me smiling.
"yeah, i am, im just in here to eat lunch" Christopher got out his lunch and started eating.
"huh, ok, oh, im Amanda by the way"
"my name is Carla" she got out her lunch as well and started to eat and talk to Christopher. Suddenly Eric ran in very excited, yelling.
"Ama! Ama! guess what?!" i looked at him and smiled.
"what?" i asked.
"i made a new friend!" my smile widened.
"oh! yay! good for you champ!" he smiled so big and ran right back out to his new friend. I was finished with lunch so i went to throw my trash away. I came back into the bus, and sat in my seat, i decided to pull out an old book i had gotten years ago, but never had the chance to read it. it looked like a pretty interesting looking book. i opened it and tried to read the first page. but, i couldnt, the words were bigger, and the sentences were more complex. I stared at the first page, trying to decipher what it said. Carla looked at me, she looked at my book.
"oh! i love that book, its my favorite" i look up at her, and quickly close the book, embarrased that i cant read it.
"o-oh? thats cool" she frowned and looked at me.
"is there something wrong?"
"n-no! nothing is wrong!" Christopher looked at me, and it was as if he could read my mind.
"can you not read?" he asked. Carla looked at him.
"hey, dont be rude" she looked back at me. "hes just being a rude butt, you can read right?" i looked down and put the book back in my bag. "or...wait, you cant read?"
"look whos the butt now" Christopher said.
"oh my gosh! im so sorry! i didn't mean to offend you or anything! please forgive me! i didnt know!" she frantically said. i looked up at her and smiled.
"no, its fine, i can read..just not very well, i used to read to Eric,but, the words were easy, and the sentences were short. even then i still had a little bit of trouble" Carla smiles.
"yanno! i could teach you! reading is easy!" i smiled so much my teeth showed, i was so excited.
"really?! you will teach me how to read properly?!" Carla nods giggling. "thank you!" i stand up and hug her, she hugs back.
"so its true, all girls become friends within minutes of meeting each other" Christopher said.
"shut up Christopher" me and carla said in unison.

soon enough we were on the road again, and Carla went back to her bus. Eric went to sit with his friend. as we were driving along, i saw more and more buildings, and towns. a few other busses joined us. everything seemed to be going well, till, we heard gunshots again. i heard the driver say, "I thought they said this place was safe!". all of a sudden a bullet went thru the drivers window in another bus, we began to speed up. the other bus lost control and drove off the rode. I assumed that the driver was dead. I looked at the other bus, many kids opened the emergency doors and were jumping out even tho the bus was still moving. tons of kids then flooded into the rode banging on the other busses to let them in. but they kept moving. my bus stopped, the bus driver opened the door and demanded that the kids hurry in. more kids crammed into this already crammed bus. many kids just stood or sat on the floor. many kids were crying. I sat quietly, we turned and got away, we were back in the country. we drove some more and started to see a forest. we stopped by the forest and the driver got out to go check in with the other busses. meanwhile we were aloud to get out and stretch our legs. I walked around a bit, the driver made it clear to us to not go into the forest. after only a few minutes the driver got back in and everyone started piling back into the busses. When i got in and looked around, i soon realized, that Eric wasnt in the bus. i stood up.
"excuse me?! my little brother isnt here!" the driver looked back.
"he might still be outside, maybe he didnt hear me, go check" i got out and looked around the busses but he was no where to be found. i got back into the bus.
"i cant find him! anybody saw where he went?! he's 6 he has curly blonde hair, blue eyes" One kid called out.
"i think i saw him and another kid go into the forest!" sam stood up.
"ill go find them!" he said, he started to walk out. the driver sighed and got out to tell the buses to stay a bit longer. i stood outside the bus, waiting for sam to get back. then i saw Eric run out of the forest crying, alone. he runned over and hugged me.
"wait! Eric? where's sam?! or your friend?!" i demanded.
"w-w-we, we were walking. a-and, w-wild dogs, i think they had rabies, 3 of them, a-attacked us, they bit my friend r-really hard. th-there was alot of blood. a-and then sam came. and grabbed me, and started running but the dogs bit his leg and started chewing on it, he let go of me, and i ran away" i stared at Eric. wild savage dogs were pretty common, but ive never had to deal with them before. i looked back into the forest, hoping that sam would come to, but, he didnt. Christopher came out and looked at us.
"where's sam?!" he asked.
"th-there are rabid dogs in there, hes injured i dont think he can walk" I answered.
"we have to help him!" Christopher said as he started running to the forest only to be stopped by the driver grabbing his arm.
"im sorry, but we have to get going, if there are rabid dogs out there, we cant risk them deciding to come out"
"b-but! my brother!-"
"lets just say that your brother is dead, now get in the bus" the driver said harshly. Tears starting running down his cheeks and he ran back into the bus. i walked in and sat down, Eric held onto my arm. I glanced at Christopher sitting across from me with the twins, he was looking down, tears were dripping off his face. And the busses started moving again.