Corrupted: The Pain We Feel (Book 1)

Chapter 13: Howdy, Texas!

I follow the man since I don’t have much of a choice at the moment, he seems to know where he’s going and if he tries anything I could kill him in a heartbeat if I needed to. We dash across rooftops and glide down ladders. While following the man, I start thinking of how far I’ve come since Mr. B saved me so long ago. I used to be so shy. So quiet. I barely talked at all. I was the quiet kid in the class. That is, until Mr. B came in. 

Mr. B is the one who brought me out of my shell. He was more than just my teacher, he’s the closest thing I’ve had to a father since my parents were killed. Even if he was the one who killed them in the first place, he saved me...I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for him…

~Flashback~

~No one’s POV~

The little girl backs away in fear of her own parents, the savage look in their eyes striking terror deep into her heart. Loud sirens rupture through her ears as her heart thumps loudly and her chest tightens. The little girl begins to cry, still backing away from her parents in fear as the loud noises of people screaming and sirens sounding breaches and shatters her very soul. The foul scent of burning flesh seeping into the house from the hell that is the outside.

The little child screams, thrashes, and cries as her parents tackle her to the ground, arms raised and ready to strike when a loud bang was heard and a tall, lean man with short brown hair and growing beard who looks to be in his mid 20’s, a clear younger version of Mr. B, barges in and shoots her parents down as they fall to the side. The man quickly picks the crying girl up in his arms, rushes out of the house, and into his car.

“You alright little squid?” he asks the shaking child as he backs away from the house and drives down the road as fast as he can while avoiding the panicking people running from all sides.

“Why were mommy and daddy being so mean?” she asks, her mind still too young to understand that her parents are gone as the tears continue to flow down her little cheeks.

“Your mommy and daddy were very sick, it’s not safe there right now.” he tells her, refraining from telling the little child that her parents will not be coming back.

“But why would they hurt me? I thought that my mommy and daddy loved me.” she asks out of pure sadness and curiosity.

“I’m sure they do, but…their sickness made them angry and...they need some time to, uh...get better.” he glances at her through the rearview mirror before looking back to the road, a sorrowful look on his face.

People scream bloody murder as they run for their lives out of buildings on fire, falling to the ground once they’re fully black with ash and burnt to a crisp, the putrid smell of burnt flesh cascading off of them. The little building they were once in explodes, causing debris to hit people nearby in the head, making them a perfect victim for the cannibalistic people that started this madness as the unrelenting heat invades the air, along with the black smoke that chokes it’s victims and blocks out any light that the sparkling night sky might provide. Others are running faster than a race horse, trying to get away from the rogue patients still in their hospital gowns, but fail when the virus-infected people tackle them to the ground and rip them apart piece by piece, spreading the virus further as they shove their sharp blade-like nails into the skin of the innocent. A loud explosion rips through the eardrums of many as large pieces of what was once a wall land on top of citizens. Men, women, and children alike all dying at the hands of one virus.

A large concrete wall comes flying downwards, flinging the car across the road like a rag doll as it lands on it’s side. A loud ringing stabbing into the minds of the people inside the car like the song of a siren pulling their victim to their doom.