Infected

Chapter 7 .~ Summer's for Whatever!

For now I must accept my problems are behind everyone else's, for I am a loner in society, and in my group of friends. Just an orphan with a stray dog. What am I saying, I don't have problems, I am too independent to have to worry about my problems, if I have something I need help with, I will figure it out myself.

9 miles up the road from Jenessa's house lies Ella's house, the final destination before my planning skills are needed again. Should I stray alone, or follow my pack?

I am complete by myself, but happy with my friends.

I put my thoughts aside when Ella took a sharp turn down her road. I sighed silently to myself, and picked Hoagie off the floor. Ella stopped the car and ran to the front door. Everyone else followed her, but I chose to stay behind. I sat and watched out the window, thinking about the scenario.

Truth be told, none of us have any idea of what's going on, it just kind of happened. Stephen said zombie apocalypse, but I feel like it is something way more simple then that, like this is just a test somehow.

I don't even know what to think right now, this doesn't make much sense, but I also don't know what is expected of our survival. Do we even need to survive? Or will this just blow over in a week?

I stopped my thinking and walked mindlessly up to the front door of the cabin house. Hoagie followed behind me, doing what ever it is a small dog does.

I paused before I entered, hearing the sound of an automobile. I glanced around before seeing a black truck pulling into the driveway. Jared. He was a huge star wars nerd, and I hated just about everything about him.

He had a frenzied look on his face, rushing out of the truck and running up to me.

"What are you doing standing out here Red Head?! Get inside!" Jared insisted, rushing in before me. Red head. What a stupid thing to call someone by their hair color. I guess I never really think about how I look, just because I don't think my looks should define who I am. I am just a ginger-haired girl with green eyes. I am the same as anyone else, maybe a little taller for my age.

I went to turn the door knob, but as I turned it, it refused to open. I sighed and knocked on the door. I heard muffled laughs from inside, warning me this was Stephen's doing. I knocked once more, but no one opened it. I heard someone shushing another inside, and I completely lost it.

I started screaming at the top of my lungs, and stepped quietly off the porch, my mutt following me. I hid around the corner of the house, making sure Hoagie didn't make any noise. I quieted my screams until they were no more. I waited patiently, and finally I heard the door creak open.

"Lila?" I heard Stephen ask. I stayed quiet, crouching behind the wall. I heard him quietly walk down the steps to investigate where I went. I picked up Hoagie and laughed quietly to myself.

Stephen walked past my hiding stop, letting me know I could sneak past him. I crept up the stairs and into the house. I slammed the door shut and flipped the lock. I ignored Stephen's shouts and pleads and walked into the living room.

I noticed Jenessa and Ella trying to explain the scenario to Ella's mom, Sherry, but she didn't seem to listen. The dark haired twins chatted on the other side of the room, both seemed distressed. Am I the only one taking this well?

Stephen started banging on the door, which irritated me. I let Hoagie down on the floor, and he jumped up to sit on the couch by Sherry. I walked to the door and opened it. Stephen pushed me out of his way and walked past me. I tripped him as he walked, and shut the door.

I walked over to the couch and sat with Jenessa, trying to figure out of what they are talking of. Same thing, Sherry isn't believing them.

"You girls are so full of imagination, but that still doesn't give you an excuse to leave school early!" Sherry exclaimed, not seeing through our pleads.

"Mom, you need to believe us! Or else we are going to die! All of us!" Ella shouted at her, trying to knock some sense into her.

"I don't get what you're saying, you are just yelling at me to believe you when you haven't told me what you want me to believe!" Sherry retorted, Ella giving a dumbfounded face.

"Dead. People. Eating. Other. People." Ella said, pausing in between her words.

"So cannibalism?" Sherry said simplifying Ella's sentence. Ella face palmed and shook her head in frustration.

"Yes, that, now can we leave?!" Jenessa answered for Ella, impatient as always.

"Lila, tell me honestly, since you seem to be the only one with common sense here, do you believe this?" Sherry asked, averting her attention to me.

"If I say yes, will you still make me food?" I asked, giving my answer in the terms of a question.

"No." Sherry said, bitter with the fact teens are talking against her.

"Then yes, I agree with them. Now I'm taking your food by force!" I declared, my stomach growling at the thought of food.

"Oh my god, you girls are insane!" Sherry barked, hysterical to our wishes. Jenessa gave a whine of irritation, where as I just got up and walked away. I walked to the kitchen, starving from my normal lack of food. I found a little container of peaches, and dug in, not bothering to use a spoon.

The day may have started out terrifying, but it is going to end being uneventful.

Hours later we had finally gotten Sherry to turn on the Tv to the news and thus she believed our tales. The reporters had told they had the situation in town under control, but they don't know of the infected on the outskirts of town yet. Soon enough someone attacked by an infected could travel to another state, with out anyone knowing of their condition.

Sherry was still in denial about the situation at hand, but she blew it off by making dinner, now that the clock told us it was 4 pm

"Truth or dare, Lila?" Ella asked me, obviously becoming bored. She only tries playing the game when she is bored.

"Dare." I stated bluntly, knowing Ella is horrible at making dares.

Ella gave me a confused look, trying to figure out why I would say such a thing. "I-I don't know what to say to that." Ella said, disappointed in herself.

"You should know I will always say that, and that you will always not have a dare." I mocked, tired with today's events.

Ella sighed and continued watching the television, with nothing better to do.

So this is how my day went, running from those things, being attacked twice, dealing with almost getting hit with a drawer, and now copping with a dysfunctional family. What lies for tomorrow's plan is beyond me, but I am hoping in this situation being over, waking up in my old house, and having passed my finals, enjoying a nice summer day.

I will go to the lake if I get a chance! Summer is the time for doing whatever, and that's what I plan to do, zombie apocalypse or not!