The Gone (A Zombie Apocalypse book)

Chapter 1- 3 hours left

~Current time 10:00, 3 hours left~

        I sat in Mr.Parry's Tech class, waiting for the bell to ring. I stopped trying to move the minute hand with my mind and decided to listen to what my partner was saying. "Sooo, like Jent from Immortal Ninja is soooooooo hot! Don't you think too Tara?" She asked with a huge smile on her face. God she was talking about that new syfi series. "Yeah, sure" I said with a fake smile. She kept on talking about it, soon I tuned her out and started to read off  Wacky-Stories. There are usually some good ones, I prefer the zombie survival ones.

~Current time 10:45, 2 hours, 15 minutes left~

       After a while of reading the bell rang and it was time for lunch. I walked to the lunch room and got inline. I got my food and sat down. I waited for my friends to finally appear and sit down. While I waited this kid sat all alone eating his food. He looked really sick though, so i wondered why he was at school. He got up to take up his trash, but suddenly fell onto the ground. Someone screamed and everyone stopped eating. Some teacher in the lunch room called 911. My friend soon came over and saw my face. "Whats wrong Tara?" Sam asked. She was about to start eating when I took her tray and threw it against the wall. "What the hell Tara?!" She asked pissed. I pointed to the passed out kid on the floor and she got the point. Everyone that hadn't eaten the school food which was maybe 2/3 of the 10th grade student body and the other 3rd i guess went to the nurses office. We both sat down under our tree and talked. "Wow, I didn't think the school's food was that bad. Well, anyway i'm glad you stopped me from eating the food. I don't wanna end up like him." She said pointing at the kid they were taking into an ambulance. We watched the ambulance drive away until we couldn't hear and or see it anymore. Then the bell rang and it was time for band for me. Sam's next class was English, so we went our separate ways.

~Current time 12:00, 1 hour left~

        When I got into the classroom, half the class was missing. I just ignored it and got out my instrument. There were kids that looked just as sick as that one boy from lunch. I tried to get a seat as far away from them as possible and it looked like other people had the exact same idea. Our teacher, Mrs.Fancher, was looking quite sick as well. She just tapped something on her keyboard and a movie started to play. I was watching it for a few when someone, as in Sam, grabbed my arm and dragged me out of the room. "What?" I asked her, confused as to why she pulled me out of class. "Tara, follow me now!" She said in a serious hushed tone. We walked as silently as we could to the teachers lounge. It was empty, which was strange, because lunch was going on. Sam opened the door and locked the door,closed the blinds,and sat down in a chair. I looked at her with a confused face and she just sat there and laughed. "Tara, C'mon no ones going to catch us!" She said grabbing sodas out of the fridge. "Sam, we can't be doing this." I said scared that we were going to indeed get caught and be in a lot of trouble. "C'mon, who's going to tell? Like half the school is sick from lunch Tara. Just relax." She said patting the seat next to her while putting her legs on the table. I humphed but sat down with her. She smiled and pulled out a deck of cards.

~Current time 12:50..., 10 minutes left~

         For the next 30 minutes or so with the bell ringing for the last 2 classes,Sam and I played cards I won the last game and she sat there pissed. I turned on the lounge TV and I was flipping through the channels, but they all had the same thing. I turned it up and this is what the news lady said, "There have been reports of a disease out-break from the CDC. When they were trying to find a cure for the recent Ebola out-break, the cure they thought they found turned out to be a highly deadly disease. The symptoms for this disease are heavy sweating, nausea, loss of sight, and falling down. 

~Current time 1:00....,1 minutes~

        Sam and I looked at each other with shocked faces. We immediately left the room and ran to our lockers. We grabbed our bags and started running to the cafeteria outside doors, but something was off. I dragged Sam to a stop and made her look around. There was no one in the halls.. it was pure silence. No sounds of people typing on their computers, no writing, no teachers talking, and Sam and I never heard the bell go off for everyone to be dismissed. Then we heard screaming, lots of screaming. Then every classroom burst out with kids and infected kids. A boy ran to the office and Sam and I followed him. I asked what he was doing. He replied looking at a button, "This button will lock down whoever and what thing is still in this building in 1 minute, so run." He pressed the button and ran we ran to. The lunch room was a long ways from the office and there were screaming teens everywhere. I swear i saw blood a few times and teens eating teens. Then the count down started on the speakers.. "Lock down in 30 seconds." We weren't going to make it and if we didn't, I was going to make sure Sam got out at least. "Lock down in 20 seconds" We ran, we ran as fast as we could through the crowd. I had an idea and I grabbed Sam and dragged her into the gym. "Lock down in 10 seconds." Sam ran at the door as fast as she could. "9,8,7" I was almost there. "6,5,4" Sam ran out, she tried to hold the door open but it was closing faster then hell. "3,2,1" I ran out just before the door totally closed. There were teachers and teens banging on the windows and then blood replaced them.

~Current time ?...Minutes left none~ 

        "Sam..." I said looking at her terrified expression. She had blood all over her clothes, I bet i did to. I walked up to her and I hugged her we both cried on each other. Then we started walking. We didn't know where. All we knew is that we were going to have to stay alive together.