Chapter 3: Skin deep

Leah

Sitting down on the stairs watching over the desk wall that was successfully installed. It almost seemed magical to have survived this long.

I'm safe right now but how about my little sister?My hands clenched tighter on the pole ,my fist turning white.

I tried calling for home or the fire department but they never got here on time.

Then the rattling of the railway frightened me , standing up I went closer to find Maison bleeding from his left forehead and two little kids with him.

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Annie was more or less shocked when I announced that Maison came back with children, She was tending to Ali's potted tomato sprout and almost toppled one of our potential food source.

The two kids were taken to rest and Maison?, He looked like hell, his clothes were drapes than uniform but he was padded from the arm with magazines taped around his arms.

"Police cars were dispatched infront of the school, I meant 'was' dispatched. Nothing was left but butons and 8 bullets beside what uses to be a police officer" He starts to tell his story on how he got dragged near the kindergarden and reached the opposite building as well just to find former teachers eating mutilated childrens.

My head couldn't comprehend the idea. I also have a little sibling and worry doesn't linger far from my mind. Maison dropped a satchel in front of us with a small battery maintained radio,he was pacing back and forth fidgeting with his fingers.

The last message was 6hrs ago on this radio. One from the Winchester Gold Course and a short signal from a student along with 7 other stuck in a dorm room. His gazed when to Annie and then me his next word gave shivers down my spine and bottle of hope.

Ocean came barging in hugging Maison like his life depended on it ,In the corner of my eye I thought I saw him winced on impact but Annie dragged me out to talk me.

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Ash

Watching him move around the clinic with a duffle bag on his bag was hot. I layed on the clinic bed with crossed legs, watching Grey flex his muscles taking menstrual pads and bottles of medicine stuff with complex names.

"You can still rest if you want to, The bed is more comfortable than the couch."

"I'd love to right now Grey, but your not gonna carry the other bag for me.I know your just getting an excuse to carry for me, I can do it." I hugged the bag of half filled food towards me. The other room was compromised after the dead heard me moaning and destroyed the sliding door.

"I guess I should have done it harder so you'd barely be able to walk and I'd have to carry yo- OUCH!"Smacking him was not enough, My face flushed with anger and embarassment.

I told him to hurry up and proceeded to wear the duffel bag on my back. The front building is blocked just as he said, they linger onto the rooms crawling out the broken windows but most of then were just infront of the door.

Questions still lingers on my mind 'Who blocked it and if the door was blocked how did they get in the first place?

I could hear Grey still packing up when I jumped out one of the sliding windows. The image of that one kid still bothered me but the kindergarden was just a few gaps ahead.

They infested the ground just as I predicted. I was already strolling a fair amount of distance but my boyfriend should be able to notice me after a while

boyfriend.

I didn't think I would get one during a nationwide catastrophe. The garden club is attached to the PE outdoors storage room used by clubs and their extra junk.

My phone vibrates on my pocket.

"You left me :( -Grey" Ehhh.... He'd become clingy the moment my mouth dared against me and said yes.

I typed a reply and shoved it back in as soon as I heard banging inside the shed, Then came a shriek. Something I haven't heard yet.

It gave me goosebumps and my feet felt cold. Tomatoes grew on the garden and a few of the club's prized vegetables while a few were crumpled to the ground as footprints and signs of desperate escape marked itself on the soil.

*shriek*

My eyes widened of a humanoid form but as it got cleared my heart started beating rapidly so I jumped and slipped onto the soil myself , another noise came farther away. I kicked the soil and ran back to the window. the shrieks were terrifying, my sweat turns cold and my legs tremble as it got extremely loud. The zombies outside alarmed started to force their way out the building and windows.

Shit was thing calling more? It was coming from a different building, but how much zombies will horde with a loud cry like that?

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Grey

I caught Ash as she was entering, before pushing me back inside the room .The loud shriek alarmed a big number of the dead that the moment we got out the room ,the hallway was nearly empty. The blockade was still there but started hurdling towards windows instead. Footsteps down the stairs caught us off guard and Ocean appeared slamming one zombie down the stairs.

Grey?What are you guys doing here? Were you cornered?Wait, We can't stay here we have to get back Maison's back, but Ash stopped him.

"There's something out there".

My stomach twisted with her words as she describes what she would soon call, A seedling. As we returned I noticed something odd with some of us. We split up when I went to find Annie.

"What's going on?Why are the other packing up?"I questioned her and her face soured with an expression looked terrified and close to vomitting.

Maison came up and to his sudden apporach, I hugged him. I thought I lost someone close to me again, I nearly pushed him from his words.

"We have to leave. The loud screaming thing you heard?It sounded like it called for zombies right?" He explained what he experienced as he was hiding with the children he found.

His observation was detailed and I couldn't keep my eyes off on his nape that he keeps on scratching. A commotion caughts us off guard.

Ali came in rushing mentioning Ash. My heart started to feel slow as they mention the things we've been hiding.

My eyes widened as they brought her in and on her ankle up to her back the black veins started to show and could hardly be covered.

"We can't have her stay". Matt was the first to speak followed by Nessie and Leah.