The Infected & The Healer

The Infected Part 1 An Old Friend

Alarms start blaring outside in the rain I jolt awake and I grab my knife. I knew today was the day. They had gotten out. The Infected had escaped. I grabbed my book bag of supplies with chips ,water and a mini first aid kit and flash lights with plenty of extra batteries to last me awhile. My parents had been missing since the war to fight the disease had spread to the adults. A couple of friends that rode the bus with me in 7th grade made a plan that when the infected escaped we would meet up at our old bus stop and twins who lived on my street would bring a bus to pick our group up. We shuddered in the rain while we heard screams of terror from people we knew, dogs barking viciously and yelping of pain and sirens wailing. What's funny to me is that the police didn't get sent off with the rest of the adults I guess it was for our safety if the Infected came. Thunder clapped and we all looked up to the sky and saw a plane we all hoped our parents were inside it. Leyna said "I wonder if that's our parents on that plane". Devon stated that it couldn't be since the plane was a red color. We knew why it was that color. Thankfully no one had to explain to anyone who didn't know. Brandon and Brian came to pick us up after the plane flew over head. First we looted all the houses in our community. We only took what we needed which was mainly food, medical supplies ,toiletries, fire extinguishers , art supplies, toys ,pillows ,blankets whatever would last us about two months. We dropped off our loot at our school and 45 mins. later we were robbing bass pro shops for weapons, everyone was fighting for knives and guns and bows that we ended up taking all the weapons in stock . We took things to help us practice aiming throwing and shooting our weapons. After loading all the weapons we raided the clothing aisles for t shirts ,shoes ,under wears ,shorts and socks for us and other refugees. We basically cleaned that department too. Brian and Brandon had to leave to steal a second bus for our supplies. Everyone was chilling out at the restaurant eating some food Hash and Danny cooked up when Kayla shushed us to be quiet. We heard footsteps but they were at a leisurely pace that would be pretty fast for some one who had been infected. Some one kicked something after saying the place had already been looted. We could tell it was a teen boy maybe around the age of 15. Then we heard a small voice of a girl probably his little sister who sounded like she was 9. The boy's name was Miles we figured since the girl said "Miles please calm down!". Miles spoke to her angrily " Mia we have to get weapons to protect each other". I couldn't stand to hear them argue any more so I walked over holding my hands up to show I wasn't infected and said " Hi I'm Bella and I'm sorry me and my team took all the weapons and clothes, if you need some you could take some or if you want to join us that's fine too". Miles looked unsure about us but Mia ran to me hugging my leg as if her life depended on me. I could tell that Miles was still unsure about us so I asked "What school did you go to?". At that very moment Brandon and Brian showed up and said " Hey you went to our old school you would always sit down near her outside when we had P.E. and she had recess". After their reunion we started to leave gathering any food that could be travelled around with since we were going to pick up any refugees that we saw. We got on the road and were traveling at a good pace so we could hear if some one screamed or if some one shouted. Not even 10 mins. went by and we saw 3 or 4 kids running away from some one trying to chase them. I hear gunshots but it was only mini fire works that you throw to the ground. I got my gun ready but then I lowered it. I was paralyzed when I saw some one who I cared about, his name was Jojo my ex-boyfriend and he was running after them but he didn't see us. He looked scared which didn't make any sense to anyone but suddenly I jumped off the bus and ran to him while everyone screamed my name telling me to run away from him but I was running to him screaming his name telling him to stop but he kept running too. I realized that he wasn't infected and he was running away from the actual infected corpses. So I loaded my gun shooting at free will while Jojo kept running to me looking for the other kids he was running with but he didn't see them and looked at the bus while I kept shooting as he sprinted to the bus looking for a gun. I saw more corpses coming so I found a smoker in my pocket bit the side of it and threw it towards them. BOOM!!! Oops it was a grenade. That kinda freaked me out that I had a grenade in my pocket without knowing it. But as I was walking back I didn't see Jojo running to me saying my name and was quite surprised when he grabbed me and kissed me. I turned around and slapped him.