Infected

Chapter 1 ~. The Mistake

'Umm... C? The Answer is C! Maybe. Now, How does one show their work for this problem? Ah screw it. It's just the math finals for the second year of high school, which will determine if I get summer school or not. No biggy.'

"Jenessa, I don't know the answer." I whispered to her without turning my head to avoid suspicion from the teacher.

I turned my head a little only to see her trying to see which problem I was on. Her short, brown hair encased her face so I couldn't see what she was looking at. A student walked by and slightly moved Jenessa's short, blue dress. As I waited for an answer from her, I looked at her cute heels she always wore.

"D, the next one is A, and after that, D again." she replied, looking back down at her paper. I quickly filled in the bubbles and attempted to show 'my' work for the answers, it didn't take me long since I knew the answers now.

I hate math. I always have to get help from my friends Ella and Jenessa. Not Stephen though, because he is not too smart when it comes to math. I guess we actually have something in common. Not something good though.

Why does the counselor think I have a bad at home life and that's why I do bad in school?

Well I guess I do have a bad home life because my home is an old abandoned house on 8th street in this crappy little town of mine. Sometimes I feel like my life has always been like this but really my parents and family died in a house fire on the fourth of July like 7 or 8 years ago from a barbeque accident.

At least I have my little Boston terrier to keeps me company when I sit at my house alone. Why did I name him Hoagie? I was probably hungry at the time, when I found him on the streets. We are so alike, coming off the streets and all. But nonetheless, Hoagie seems content with his name no matter how ridiculous it may sound to others.

Over the summers, I normally stay at Ella's house with her, her mom, and her two older siblings, that are twins. Hmm I wonder if that old house will fall while I'm gone. Hopefully it will.

There is a huge animal in the basement that always bangs itself up against the basement door. A lot of the time, I feel like it is going to break under that damn thing's weight. I think the animal is a.. tiger? It hissed at me through the door once so I wouldn't be surprised if it was. And knowing my luck, it is a tiger.

But wouldn't a tiger have died if it was locked in the basement for like the 5 years I have been in that house? Maybe it feasts on the rats' nest that's in the house.

Now that I think about it, I accidentally knocked over the chair I had holding the basement door shut when I was in a hurry to leave this morning..

Hopefully Hoagie is in the attic where I told him to stay. Otherwise, if that thing realized the door was open and Hoagie was sitting there barking at it, his name would make sense since he would be the animals sandwich.

In that moment, the teacher walked up to the front of the class with a worried expression on her face. She seemed frightened by something.

"Class, stop your tests right now!" she yelled, making everyone jump and look at her. The whispers of my classmates seemed to only anger her. She wanted to say something but she couldn't fully catch the attention of them all, but only the majority of them.

"We need to get out of the classroom now! At about 9 this morning, an hour or so after school started, a tall man was seen killing others my biting into their flesh. It was told the victims were not completely dead, for they were seen walking around killing other the same way they were killed. This has been going on up until now and most of the town has been 'devoured' and we are now just being told of this." Wow. I didn't think the teacher would talk for that long, considering this seems to be turning into an epidemic.