The world as we know it

Matt

Matt watched as the breath left the man's mouth, the light leaving his eyes. As Bradley slowly removed his hands from the man's limp lifeless body.
" I can't believe this happened again." Bradley said wiping the sweat off his eyebrow.
This is the fourth one they've had to kill today. The world wasn't  always like this, before the epidemic the world was actually peaceful . Or as peaceful as the new world could be. Every since this newfound disease has been spread all around the world you wouldn't be able to identify the human from the animals. This disease makes you act in the most inhumane way that you can't even recognize the human race anymore. If you get infected it starts to affect your brain history, you lose all morals and you only have one thing on your mind to kill. Only a small percentage of the people were not affected, they said it had something to with our genes. That the genes of certain people are mixed just in the right way it forms a protection shield around the white blood cells, it helps prevent certain people from the disease. Matt was the only one from his family that survived the vicious attacks. As Matt stands there with his friends he begins to remember that terrible night that changed his life. They came at the dead of night, his family which consisted of his mom and sister. His dad died when the epidemic first broke out. They were all hiding out in an abandoned cellar thinking they would we finally safe from these relentless creatures but they were sadly wrong. These creatures had the strength of 100 men put together, they had the speed of a cheetah. Nobody stood a chance against them. They were very hairy and almost looked like a big bear then the men they once were. They could track down the human scent of anyone who was so unlucky to be their next victim.
"I tried to save them." Matt thought to himself now pacing as he recollected his past.
The creatures found his family where they were hiding and although Matt tried his very hardest to get them to a safe place he was too late. The creatures secrete a toxic chemical that kills a person instantly. Matt's family was in a small room and the creatures found them, Matt tried to think fast and get his family out of there . He dashed as quickly as he could for the nearest exit. Sure that his family was following right behind him he made it out of the house. But when he looked back his family was nowhere to be found. In a panic and with his adrenaline kicking in he ran back into the house but out of nowhere there was a huge explosion knocking him back a couple feet and mocking him out cold. When Matt woke up and got reorientated his family was gone, and so was all his hope that things were going to get better. Matt fell to his knees , too upset to cry, too numb to move. When matt finally felt a little better he started to make his way torwards the safe place that he heard many talk about previous months before. There Matt found his old friend Bradley looking really rough.
"Hey man am I sure glad to see another person who isn't trying to poison gas me." Bradley said through tears in his eyes.
"I'm glad to see you too man." Matt said.
The two boys walked around the safe area and talked about how messy people's lives had become. Matt was about to tell Bradley about what happened to his family but something caught his eye. In the right corner sitting on the side of a tent, was a old milk jug. Then all memories of the past year started flooding back to Matt. It all started in the middle of fall and matt's parents decided that they didn't like New York so they decided to move Vermont. At first Matt was really dreading going to his new school. This was the fourth high school he was been to in the past 2 years. He was over being the new kid, Matt had a plan for this year. He was going to lay low and just get through his senior year. But that all changed once he saw that a shy girl opening her locker. Matt came up with a plan, he was going to get to know her. At first Angelina seemed super skeptical to let Matt in and be friends with her, but once she did they become best friends. They would do everything together, for one on matts life he had an actually true friend. He was at a all time high and he thought he never lose it, but then the harsh reality happened and he lost it. Matt being him , thought that since he had a friend and was actually starting to feel like his true self he got alittle cocky. He decided to try out for football , he knew that if he were to make the team he has to get in good with the quarterback, Bradley. Matt told Angelina that it would only be temporary, but they both knew that wasn't true. Matt let all the popularity get to his head, and before he knew it things were already different. Weeks and weeks past that Matt didn't talk, or even looks at his best friend, they were drifting further and further apart. Matt deep down knew that he was treating her for granted, but he enjoyed the popularity too much to go back to his loser friend. As the weeks went on Matt was so close to getting his wish and being on the football team. He was so close he could taste it, but then Bradley changed his mood.
"Okay man so we decided that we aren't just gonna let you on the team without a little incentive for us." Bradley said as he entered the locker room.
" um what do you mean exactly?" Matt asked walking towards him.
"You need to do something for us an order to get in this football team." Bradley said more aggressively this time.
"Okay what did you have in mind?" Matt asked still very confused.
"So you that weird girl, Angelina?"Bradley said taking something out of his locker. " well what do you know about her,guys used to be friends right ?"
" well yeah , but why do you want to know things about her?" Matt said very suspicious of Bradley's actions.
" You see nobody really likes her, she just sits there to herself and never says anything," Bradley said shifting his weight between feet, " plus that mute ratted me out last week for setting off that smoke bomb, she need to pay."
"Look I don't wanna hurt her, we may not be as good of friends now but I don't wanna hurt her." Matt said taking a step back as Bradley approached.
" if you don't think of something that we can hurt her with," Bradley said poking Matt in the chest " you can kiss your spot on the team goodbye."
Matt had a lot to think about, the whole risk of not being on the team scared Matt but what really scared matt was having to hurt his best friend. Someone who was there for him when nobody else was . In the end he knew that his decision was.
That very  next day Matt came up with a plan to talk to Bradley about how he really felt about his plan. On the way he saw Angelina and was super awkward to her cause he was so nervous about how his confrontation was gonna go with Bradley. So he made the conversation short and found Bradley at his locker:
" Hey Bradley," Matt said walking towards him " look I don't wanna hurt my best friend you're just gonna have to give my spot to some spineless jellyfish who is gonna do whatever you say."
" Okay man I understand." Bradley said taking Matt very much by surprise.
Matt was feeling pretty good about himself and was gonna go share the good news with Angelina but as he was approaching some horrific happened. Gallons of milk poured out of her locker , Matt watched helplessly as the events unraveled. Matt tied to tell her that it's wasn't him who did it but she didn't wanna talk to him. She walked straight out of those doors and out of matts life without him even knowing who did this horrible thing to her. After that day Angelina was nowhere to be found. Matt tried to go by her house but her mom told him that she left out of state to a different high school. Matt was feeling so guilty, even though he didn't do it he still felt much to blame for the stuff that why down that day. Some people say that she got accepted early to a smart college and is now doing stuff for a chemical lab down west. But soon everybody knew what she was working on and it was detrimental to the world. The disease came at the dead of night and nobody really knew what it was until it was too late.
" I really wish I could have stopped it and helped her." Matt said to himself.
" What did you say man?" Bradley asked.
" nothing man just talking to myself." Matt said.
After they were finally tired of walking around they went into their tent and slept.