Naeus wakes up alone in the softest warmest bed imaginable and starts to roll over and go back to sleep before he remembers everything that happened he jerks up out of bed so fast that he gets dizzy.
He looks around and notices from all half naked dude posters on the walls and all the stuffed animals that hes in a girls room.
is this Beccas room?He thinks to himself.
he looks over on the bedside table and sees his janky glasses and phone which has a note taped to it.
He opened it up and read it.
Dearest naeus becca and I had to go to school this is her freind tansy by the way(wink)
I bandaged ur wounds for u and left some of my daddy's clothes out for u I even ordered some breakfast for u .
My caretaker should have it ready by the time u get up .
I put my phone number in your phone under queen biyatch so dont hesitate to call me if u need anything .
Thank u so very much for saving my precious freind from punks not everyone would risk there life like that.
Ps you better be careful or I might fall for you
we wouldn't want becca getting jealous would we?
Blushing heavily I look at the time on my phone and see it's not long be for I have to meet with josiah.
I don't even have time for a shower i look towards the bathroom with regret no telling how awsome her shower is considering how wonderful her bed is.
I pull on the fancy clothes tansy put out for me
a black and green striped dress shirt and silky black cargo pants.
then I head downstairs to see about this breakfast she mentioned .
When I get down there I see a large table absolutely covered in food (so much foooood I start drooling immediately) am I in heaven?
I spend too much time making my way through a veritable food obstacle course that I lose track of time .(shit I gotta go)
Good bye food I will remember u fondly.
I make to leave and out of no where a butler looking dude shows up
saying
did u enjoy the food sir? do you need to go somewhere?
the little miss said I should take u anywhere u need to go.
I admit my heart jumped a little(stealthy fucker)
uh ....yes could u take me to the school
(that's where I'm supposed to meet Josiah)
The butler dude frowned and said are you sure sir? little miss said u would need some time to recuperate from ur wounds.
Naeus responded I'm sure because I have to meet someone soon. by the way what's ur name ?did u make all that food ?
The butler responded while laughing slightly
my name is Tyler galdesci. I am the caretaker provided by little miss tansy parents. I have taken care of her her whole life
and think of her like my own family.
I cook all her meals and I am a trained combatant.
I would give my life to protect her.
now let's be going you wouldn't want to be late for your meeting would u?
Leading me to the garage Tyler opens the door to a yellow convertible and waits until I get in before shutting the door and getting in himself
we sit there a good minute before i realize hes waiting for me to put my seatbelt on.
Tyler drops me off in the school parking lot
and i say goodbye and he says i hope you can be a good freind to the little miss because if you aren't...he leaves the sentence unfinished but i can see the warning in his eyes.
Not long after he leaves Josiah pulls up in his crappy car and we leave to go help sherlock.
it's a long drive.
When we get there it's almost dark before I get out of the car he hands me a pocket knife then slips a crowbar into his jacket.
just in case he says.
We walk up to front door( place definitely looks like a crackhouse)not that my shed is any better.
He knocks on the door and tells them hes there to buy"ice cream" and the dude responds though the door .
No your not we know why your here and your friend dosen't need your help he's feeling really good right now so get the fuck of here.
Damn I thought that would work sherlock must have warned them I would come for him.
shit I guess we try to get in from the back. Maybe find an open window or something he said and started to go around but, naeus just backed up a couple of steps and ran at the door
with his forearms out in front of him
the door was weaker than he thought and with a loud crash he burst through the door and barreled through a couple of thugs who were standing behind it.
Josiah walks in behind me he already has his crowbar out and starts threatening the people in the room there are six of them including the ones I knocked down when I burst through the door. they start to get up and Josiah has them all sit on one side of the room .He tells me to hold them there after searching them for weapons he finds a gun and says I dont need this handing me the crowbar then he heads up to the second floor to look for sherlock. leaving me alone with thugs and drug addicts.
One of them starts jerking around like hes having a seizure and at first I think it's a trick that hes going to try something.
One of the other guys starts go to help him but I tell him not to move at first he doesn't listen.
So I pick up a peice of the splintered door and hurl it at his head just barely missing I pick up a bigger piece and he sits back down as his friend finally stops jerking around .So I check his pulse hes dead I say just as Josiah walks down with the unconscious sherlock.
He looks at the dead body and starts to yell
WHAT DID YOU DO!
That's when the dead guy starts to move he starts to try to bite me but I kick him into one of the other guys and he latches on to him and doesn't let go as the other guys start to try and help him I grab Josiahs arm who is staring blankly at what's happening I pull on him but he wont snap out of it and that's when we hear the sirens.
Damnit Josiah c'mon the police are here.
we have to leave the car and go out the back
luckily theres a gate or it would have been a difficult proposition to hop a fence whilst carrying someone who is unconscious.
Through the back gate is a wooded area the trees are black and twisted not a single speck of green to be found .
Josiahs pudgy body is already out breath and he starts to complain saying he needs to rest.
Knowing what I saw back there (a fucking zombie) and the police I dont think we have the luxury of resting,so reluctantly I take sherlock from Josiahs shoulder and toss him over mine. I tell Josiah if you wanna stay here and wait for the police and whatever the fuck kinda zombie shit was happening back there be my guest .
If u wanna survive though keep up and keep quiet.
We make our way along the edge of the woods
trying to get as far away from the crackhouse as we can. when we finally come out on the other side things have already gone to hell .
There are fires and screaming in the distance and at first I panic because it's not a good idea to be out in the open in a situation like this as I frantically looked around for safe haven I notice a convenience store with one of those pull down security gates and decide to make a run for it.
I'm almost there when I look back and notice Josiah frozen in place staring at the people shambling towards him and I yell out JOSIAH RUN!!!! and wave my hand motioning towards the store he finally breaks into a run as I get the entrance to the store an old man shambles out trying to bite me I kick him as hard as i can and he stumbles backwards as he starts to get up me and Josiah hurry insde closing the door behind us.
Once we are inside I press the button to close the security door and breathe a sigh of relief as I lie sherlock across the the top the freezer where they keep the ice cream.
Starting to look around for somewhere to sit down and rest i almost piss myself when out of nowhere a crying little kid who with a shotgun who looks like hes about 9 slowly stands up from behind the counter.
The first thing he says is were u bitten? when we dont answer he yells it .
WERE YOU BITTEN!!!
I immediately say fuck no we weren't bitten we just need somewhere safe to figure out our next move please dont make us go back out there.
With this the kid says sorry and with tears streaming down his face he says his grandpa was bit by a customer and he turned really fast he'd been hiding since this morning because he didn't want to shoot his grandpa.
After the kids story I ask his name and after a pause he says its Nathaniel but to call him by his nickname dodge his grandpa called him that cause he said he hits like a truck.
He said he lived with his grandpa cause his mom was a killer ,and was in prison and he was taken away from his dad because he would beat him and call him devil's spawn and evil little shit because of his killer mom .
Naeus thought to himself this kid doesn't have anyone else I need to help him if I can .
Right as I'm thinking this though Josiah is thinking that if they get rid of the kid he can have this place for himself and he starts to reach for the gun he got at the crackhouse .
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Elsewhere earlier today at the school becca and tansy got too school late because tansy had taken such a long time to write a letter to naeus (she was supposed to just write a note)after driving like a maniac to make it and still coming up short they ran straight to there first class but no one was around it was a ghost town or you know school in this case.
No teachers no students no principal looking around they couldn't find anyone but they decided to look around some more.
Becca was hungry though so they went to the cafeteria to see if they could find some breakfast cause they didn't have time to eat.
What they saw was unbelievable they opened the doors to the cafeteria and every person in the school was there and they were almost all zombies some were eating corpses,and there was a barricade made of lunch tables by the kitchen that the zombies were trying to climb over.
When they opened the door all the zombies turned there way at once and for a minute none of them moved until becca and tansy started to slowly back away and the zombies started to move all at once knocking each other and climbing over each other.
with this happening tansy grabs beccas hand and dashes out back into the hallway shoving becca into a locker she tries to get in a locker herself but the one she picks is full of books school supplies and and a metal baseball bat with the zombies right behind her she grabs the bat and slams it into side of one of the closest zombies head before running down the hallway and turning a corner leaving becca alone in the locker.
After the zombies all followed after tansy becca tried to get out but the locker wouldn't open from the inside she was trapped.
right then her stomach starts to rumble sounding like a wounded animal. Not having been able to eat breakfast she squirmed around trying to get her backpack off .
luckily she managed to grab a box of pop tarts
before leaving tansys house.they were a little smooshed but her stomach isn't going to complain.
tansy was munching away on the crumbling blueberry poptarts when a quiet voice said
Is somebody in there?
hearing this out of nowhere becca almost chokes spitting out a mouth full of poptart she responds yes its becca who's out there can u let me out?
the locker door opens and becca sees it is
principal Allana reiddu standing there in her formal skirt and blouse her hair normally in a tight bun is messy and for some reason she is wearing the gym teachers jacket in her hand she's holding a broken mop with a kitchen knife duct taped to the end.
c'mon she says and leads her back to cafeteria
theres a few zombies left but some students are taking care of them there are 5 of them 5 out of the whole school
principal reiddu walks through barking orders and the students run to the cafeteria doors and start barricading them.
becca asks what has happened and miss reiddu starts talking to her.
if u and ur friend hadn't come along the infected would've gotten past the kitchen barricade the gym teacher mr stolnact died setting up would have been in vain so what happened is you saved our lives.
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part two
TANSY KILLS THE JANITOR
MR DOAUD
Tansy runs down the hallway zombies right on her heels she tried to hit another one with the bat but when she did she almost got bit so she wasn't even trying to hit them anymore she just kept running but she was getting tired.
she turns the corner and sees another girl her clothes are ripped and she has horible bruises on her face and body tansy tries to tell her to run but she just walks right into the zombies and let's them eat her tansy knew that girl she was one of the most popular girls in the school and was sought after by half the boys in the school her name was suzie derunken.
The zombies were slowed down by ripping her apart finally she was able to catch her breath thinking to herself what could make her do that she turned around and kept running while the zombies were distracted she turns the corner and runs right into the janitor mr doaud and gets knocked down she looks up at the pudgy old janitor and says we have to hurry
the zombies are right behind us .
Mr Doaud had a twisted smile on his face
he said well we better hurry then come with me I'll protect you.
tansy didn't see his smile she was looking back to see if the zombies were behind her she turned back to mr doaud she said please help me I dont wanna die .
mr doaud grabbed her hand and said come on well be safe in my office and pulled her along . tansy thought office does the janitor have an office? it wasnt his office he brought her too it was the principal's office and just as they got there the zombies turned the corner. mr doaud held her wrist tighter and pulled her into the office there was food and toilet paper stacked up against the wall and trash all over the floor.
he swung her into the corner where there was a big stack of gym mats piled up she landed hard dropping her bat.
mr doaud grabs a bookshelf by the door and pushes it in front of the door.
he pick up her bat and puts it on top of the bookshelf.
tansy starts to get up and he backhands her knocking her back down on the gym matts.
did I say get up u little bitch said mr doaud
I'm protecting u now so ur gonna do whatever I want or imma throw u out to the munchers like that ungrateful little bitch suzie.
tansy looks down at the stained matt and sees a pair of panties and some torn clothes and realized what was gonna happen .what had happened to suzie and she reached into the cargo pants she was wearing and pulled out some mace and sprayed him in the face he screamed in pain you bitch he yelled out in rage tansy got up and ran to the bookshelf she tried to reach her bat but couldn't .
lumbering around trying to grab her mr doaud was describing what he would do to her when caught her.
when he got close she kicked him on the balls as hard as she could and he dropped to the ground she pulled the stack of food down on top of him and grabbed a large can of peaches and brought it down on his head over and again until his head was a puddle of goo.
she sat on top of his corpse with tears running down her face for a while before she came back to her senses .
she got up and tried to move the bookshelf but it was too heavy and she was on the second floor so she couldn't go out the window
she was trapped.
she pulled out her phone luckily it was still working she wanted to call becca but she had forgotten her phone this morning in the rush to get too school and her parents were outta town and she dosen't remember Tyler's number so that only left one option she scrolled down to the new number she put in her phone this morning and texted naeus and said she and becca were trapped in the school to please come help if he could.
looking around she thought at least she has plenty of food.