Falling For Grimes

Chapter 1: End Of The World

Hi, my name is Kayla and I'm here to tell you when everything in the world went downhill. Now relax grab some popcorn and listen to how my life went from the worst to the better, and how I also found the love of my life in this apocalypse.

Kayla's POV

I woke up to sound of my alarm going off I grunted hitting the snooze button then throwing the covers off my body. I stretched before walking into my bathroom turning on the warm water in the shower. Today was the last day of my sophomore year in high school and I couldn't be anymore happier for the summer time to come around.

I threw my night clothes off and hopped into the shower washing my hair and body, after an 20 minute shower I hopped out walking over to the sink to brush my teeth.

As I was brushing my teeth as I heard a loud pounding at the bathroom door. "Come on Kayla or we will be running late again!" My brother Joshua said on the other side of the door.

"Alright I'll be ready in a few!" I said back to him then hearing him stomp back to his room.

Joshua is 2 years older than me and this was his last day of high school as an senior. We never really got along because he still thinks I'm the reason why our parents divorced a couple years ago. I snapped out of my thoughts walking into my room throwing some clothes on and then blowing my hair out straighten it afterwards. I grabbed my phone heading downstairs  into the kitchen seeing my mother and brother sitting at the kitchen table.

"Hey honey, did you sleep okay?" My mom asked looking up from the newspaper then back down.

"Sort of it got really hot last night." I informed her grabbing an apple taking a bite.

"I'm going to call the company and see if they can come over to fix it but listen to this..." She said before reading an article out of the newspaper.

"Dozens of people getting sick then coming back as the dead... please don't let them bit you! keep away from the infected." She read aloud.

"Mmm coming back as the dead? Really mom?" I say not believing anything she read aloud.

"I guess so Kayla.." She sighed folding the paper setting it on the kitchen table.

I looked up at time seeing that it was now 7:45am I quickly ate my apple saying goodbye to my mom then walking out of the house with my brother. We usually walk to school because its only 3 blocks away from our house. We reached the school splitting into our separate ways.

I smiled as soon as I seen my best friend Kristen, we have been best friends since the 3rd grade.

"Dude my mom is totally freaking out about the news this morning." She said as she walked up to me.

"About sick people coming back as the dead?" I asked raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah she is literally bleaching and disinfecting everything in our house." She said with a slight chuckle.

We reached our lockers cleaning them out and throwing away things we didn't need anymore. The bell finally rung which means we had to go to our first block class, we said our goodbyes then going into different directions.

"Hey Kayla." Anthony said. He's a boy in my class that has been liking me since forever.

"Hey Anthony, where is Mr.Carter?" I asked noticing the teacher wasn't at his desk.

He shook his head sighing. "Oh um I heard he called out for today due to being sick." He said.

"Oh..." I said sitting back in my seat putting in my headphones playing on my phone. It's been past 30 minutes and still nobody has came in the class to come sit with us or anything.