Chapter 3

After changing into my black with red rose pajamas I picked up my steaming cup of hot chocolate and started sipping on it as I looked around my room. My two best friends were curled up together on my bed talking about the latest gossip that was happening at school. I stood up and went over to my dresser to brush my hair before I fell asleep. I sat down at my vanity and grabbed my ivory hairbrush and started brushing my long silver blonde hair. I smiled in my mirror as I looked at my friends, thankful to have them by my side through all of this.

Once my hair was brushed I got up from the vanity chair and walked over to the bed and hugged them tightly, the events of the day finally truly hitting me. I felt their arms snake around me and pull me closer as the tears started falling down my face.

"It's alright. We have you. We love you," they told me in unison.

Hearing them I cried harder not knowing what to say, so I hugged them tighter burying my face in their chests. I climbed up in the bed between them and finished my hot chocolate before laying down to go to sleep. Both Takashi and Nana laid their heads on my chest and the three of us fell asleep just like we used to as kids.

I will NEVER forget that next morning. Every detail has been engraved into my memory due to the sheer horror or it.

I woke up as soon as the sunshine shone brightly through my window and hit my face. I stirred noticing how sticking the bed was. I rubbed my fingers together to see if I could figure it out without opening my eyes. The feel was familiar. I brought it up to my nose to smell it, my eyes still closed, and that was when I noticed the smell. It was metallic. My eyes snapped open and I looked at my hand and saw it was soaked in blood. Had one of us started our periods? I looked over to my left at Nana and freaked out seeing her pale, lifeless face. I then turned to my right to see Takashi and freaked started screaming seeing that she was the same way. My friends...were dead. I touched their faces with my fingertips and quickly jerked my hands back as soon as I felt how cold their skin was.

I jumped out of my bed and ran out of the room to find Lainey, screaming at the top of my lungs, before I ran into her chest. I looked up and saw her kind loving face and hugged her tight, burying my face in your shoulder.