A/N: Just a quick author's note, for all first time readers these are a group of one shots from my versions of the special infected before infection, I suggest you go read my story 'Why do I cry?" first, it introduces you to the characters, I hope you enjoy.

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I shivered as the cold night breeze smacked against my bare skin. I felt the roof tiles dig into my back and rolled over and pulled the thin blanket over me. I knew I would never get to sleep, no matter how hard I tried so I sat up and rubbed my sore back.

I fumbled through my small backpack that I had been using as a pillow. My hoodie quickly found its way into my hands and I pulled it on over my short sleeved shirt before finding the tape. It was easy to tie the tape around my arms and legs, it kept me that little bit more warm from the harsh wind.

Just as I went to zip up my backpack I noticed my moblie phone. I picked it up and unlocked it, the bright light blinded me for a second but my eyes quickly adjusted.

My hands shook as I searched through my contacts, but it was more from fear then from the cold.

Finally I found the contact I was looking for. The Georgiana home phone. I almost called them when the time caught my eyes. It was three o'clock in the morning.

I threw my phone on the roof. I didn't want to wake them up, not with school tomorrow.

"Shut up you little prick! I'm trying to sleep!" I heard a voice call from the inside of the house.

I froze. The last thing I wanted to do was get my dad on the roof, I couldn't run if he was up here.

I lay back down and felt a tear run down my cheek.

I was so afraid.

...

It was early morning, the sunlight had woken me from my short nap.

I crawled across the roof and tried to grab my phone with out sliding off the roof tiles.

I banged the tiles underneath my phone and it fell perfectly into my hands.

I knew my dad would have heard that and quickly fell off the roof.

Some part of me knew I wouldn't land right and as soon as I hit the grass I stumbled on my ankle and fell flat on my face.

It hurt like hell, I tried not cry out in pain.

"What the hell are you doing at five o'clock in the morning?" I heard my dad roar in anger as the front door flew open. I knew he had a hangover so I calmly tried to stand, if he tried to lung at me I'd know, and besides I was near the front gate, not close to him.

"Going to school."

"At five o'clock in the frickin morning?" He screamed.

"It's not the first time."

"You brat! How dare you wake me, first I hear you having a party on the roof at three o'clock and now I hear you jumping off the roof like an idiot! I should just cast you onto the streets!"

"I'm barely in the house anyway, I only need food and water from you, and if you did cast me onto the streets you know I would call the police."

"I can't believe you, I give you my own food and water and you repay me by spitting in my face!" My dad exclaimed as I finally stood up.

I limped over the the gate.

"I'm going now-

"And don't come back!" My dad shouted as he slammed the door shut. I flinched as the sound echoed in my ears, I was surprised the whole neighbourhood didn't wake up.

As I started walking my ankle gave way and I fell face first into a puddle.

"For goddness sakes I frickin suck!" I shouted as I stood up and tried to hold back tears. My hoodie was soaked but I knew it would dry off before school started.

I opened my backpack and reached for my moblie.

I knew I had started crying when I searched through my contacts, it took me some time but I finally found the one I was looking for.

Mother. I held my breath as I I reached towards the dial button. I had found her contact in my dad's phone and had quickly scribbled it down and put it in my own.

I couldn't remember her, I didn't know what she looked like, my dad didn't have any photos, but I knew she had left me because she was scared of my dad, but I was scared too.

Just as I was about to press the call button my phone started beeping, meaning that someone had just texted me.

I looked at my text.

Good morning,

Hope you slept well.

-Waleria

I smiled and rubbed my eyes. One of my best friend Waleria always knew when I was upset. I punched in a reply just to let her know I was slightly okay.

You too.

-Hadrian

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I had been sitting on a bench, just waiting for people to start arriving at school, after sometimes the school started to fill up.

I had time to look at my ankle, which had blown up like a balloon and turned purple. There wasn't anything I could do to help it so I just left it alone.

Finally I saw a familiar car and tried to stand up, as soon as I put pressure on my ankle though I felt pain surge through my body. I sat back down.

"Hadrian, there you are." I heard Scott call out as he got out of his car.

I had two best friends in this sad life of mine, Scott and Waleria Georgiana, they were siblings, though they couldn't be more different.

Scott was tall with dark brown hair and green eyes while Waleria was short with sparkly blue eyes and blond hair, she had dyed her hair blond though, it used to be like Scott's.

"Hey stop staring." Scott said as Waleria finally got out of the car. The pair strolled over to me.

"Hey Witch." I said with a smile. "Hey Scott."

She crossed her arms at the name and I couldn't help but laugh. Witch was a nickname for her, Scott had asked me to call her that and the name had quickly stuck to her.

"Oh my god what happened to your ankle." Scott said as I shrugged.

"I tripped."

"It looks like you jumped off a building for goddness sakes, we should get the school nurse-

"I'm fine, really." I fibbed as Waleria raised an eyebrow.

"Are you sure." She asked as I nodded. I stood up and stumbled, she quickly caught me.

"Scott go get the nurse." She said as she pulled some ice from her bag out and pressed it against my ankle.

I let out a small scream and Scott quickly ran to get the nurse.

"It's fine, I don't need help-

"Yes you do." She said. "Give my your hoodie, if I wrapped it around the ice it'll sting less."

"Can't you take off your shirt?" I asked as she laughed. I pulled off my hoodie and gave it to her. She gasped when she saw me.

"What happened?" She asked as I looked down.

When I had fell off the roof my shirt had gotten caught and ripped, along with some skin, I was too caught up with my ankle I didn't even notice.

She looked down at my hoodie that was now wrapped around the ice.

"You should have told me, I wouldn't have-

"It's alright, just put it on my ankle already."

She pressed it down on my ankle and I felt my nails digging into my palm from the pain.

"So Witch, why do you have an ice pack in your school bag?" I asked her.

"Well I didn't want my yogut to go cold."

"She's on her way." Scott said as he saw Hadrian. "Oh god Hadrian what on earth have you been doing?"

Scott pulled off his short sleeved green overshirt and handed it to him.

"Put it on, you can't walk around school like that, people will talk."

I took the jumper and put it on just as the nurse arrived.

"Now lets take a look at you."

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"Sophie? What are you doing here?" I asked the girl as she twirled her brown ponytails around her fingers.

"I'm in trouble-

"You? In trouble?" I asked. "You never get in trouble."

"Well maybe I'm not as perfect as everyone thinks." She said as she shook her head. "I'm sorry, I'm just upset."

"That's alright." I said as she raised an eyebrow.

"What are you doing here?"

"I'm waiting for the nurse to come back." I said.

We were sitting in the school office, the nurse had told me to wait here before running off. The bell had gone so everyone was in class.

"So what did you do?" I asked her as she shrugged.

"Nothing serious, well, nothing."

"If you did nothing then why are you here?"

"Because I took the blame."

"But why? your record's perfect, all the teachers love you-

"That's why I took the blame, you don't understand, being popular is a cruel, people have noticed that I was perfect, they started bulling me."

"Then why do you hang out with them? Just tell the truth."

"I can't."

"Sophie, I am ready to see you." A man called out.

"I have to go." She said as she stood up.

"If you ever need any real friends, Scott, Waleria and I will be waiting for you." I said as she froze.

"Thank you." She said before walking away.

"Sorry I took so long, I found what I was looking for." The nurse said with a smile. "Now lets fix up your ankle."

...

The nurse had let me leave early and for that I was thankful, all day I had been sitting around the office, being told not to walk but to rest my ankle, it was ten minutes before the end of school but the nurse said I could get a headstart to the bus, I wasn't going to tell her that I was walking home and not catching a bus.

Just as I had made it out to the car park I heard a voice call out my name.

"Mr Brown?" I said as I spun around. The teacher smiled at me as he waddled over.

"Hadrian what are you doing out of class?" He asked as I pointed to my ankle.

"Oh my, you aren't walking home are you?"

"Well-

"My wife is picking me up, surely we can drop you home, there is no way you can walk."

"That is very kind sir, but is that allowed?"

"It's my wife's car, it's no problem."

Suddenly a white car pulled up and Mr Brown smiled.

"Honey, can we drop one of my students home, he's hurt his ankle."

"Of course." I heard a woman's voice call out.

"But remember don't get into the car of a stranger." Mr Brown said as I laughed.

"Yes sir."

I climbed in the back of the car and the woman turned to face me.

"Who are you then?" She said with a smile.

"Mrs Brown this is Hadrian, Hadrian this is Mrs Brown."

The woman looked older than Mr Brown but was equally large and had short white hair.

"Nice to meet you." She said as she turned back. "So where am I dropping you off?"

...

As we pulled up I suddenly felt sick, my hands started shaking again.

"Is this it?" Mr Brown asked as I nodded. "Well let me walk you to the door."

"You really don't need to do that." I said but he shook his head.

"It would be rude not to, come on Mrs, you're coming as well."

The overweight couple stepped out of the car and I relucantly followed them out.

"My dad won't be expecting me home."

"It's alright I'll explain." Mr Brown said as I opened the gate.

The front door was shut and I hoped that he wasn't home, even though I knew he would be.

Mr Brown knocked on the door.

The door flew open, and my dad did not look happy.

"Who the hell are you? I'm not interested in whatever you are selling!" He said as he tried to shut the door. Mr Brown quickly stuck his foot in it.

"Why hello, you must be Hadrian's father? I am Mr Brown, his teacher-

"Did he finally get kicked out of the place?"

"You mean school? Of course not-

"Then why the hell are you here?"

Mr Brown went quiet for a moment.

"Hadrian hurt his ankle, we dropped him home-

"Tell him to grow a pair, he should learn how to walk without hurting himself the stupid goat."

"Excuse me sir, but your son is right here." Mr Brown said as my dad shrugged.

"Then he can speak for himself, can't he?"

I froze up, I never liked speaking to my dad.

"So son, how did you hurt your poor foot?"

I was tempted to correct him and tell him it was my ankle, but I just couldn't.

"I-I tripped." I finally said as I slipped my phone out of my bag. I was getting ready to run for it as soon as the Brown's left.

"If you don't mind, I'll let myself in and help Hadrian into a seat." Mrs Brown finally spoke up.

She used her weight and pushed my dad to the side. He stood there with a shocked look on his face as she dragged me in and sat me down on dad's chair.

When I was seated she gave me a smile. "I hope you feel better soon."

On her way out she gave my dad a death glare before shutting the door.

There was silence. Fear raced through me. I was sitting in his chair, and he hated me touching his things, however he didn't shout. Instead he was staring out the window.

Why was he doing that? Unless he was waiting for the Browns to leave..

I shot up. "I'm sorry, please don't hurt me, I'll leave right now."

"How dare you, how dare you do that to me!" He screamed as he faced me. "You made me look like a complete idiot!"

"No I didn't, you did that yourself, you didn't need my help." I whispered as I saw anger rise in him.

"You and your big mouth, you little-

I ran for the door. It flew opened and I was gone, I didn't look back, adrenaline made me forget about the pain in my foot.

As soon as I was out the gate I pressed the call button.

"Hello?" A female voice spoke.

"Mrs Georgiana, I wondering if I could stay the night, please." I begged as I ran.

"Of course Hadrian, where are you? I'll send Scott and Waleria to get you."

...

I was still shaking even in the back of Scott's car, they had been quick to get me which I was thankful for.

"Are you-

"I'm fine." I said as I cut off Waleria.

She turned around and handed me a chocolate ice-cream.

"Hey don't spill that in my car." Scott said and I couldn't help but laugh.

"I'll try."

...

We finally pulled up and Waleria jumped out. I had finished the ice-cream and still had my phone tightly wrapped in my hand.

"I just have to make a call, you guys go in." I said.

Scott gave Waleria a look but she shrugged her shoulders, those two didn't even need words to talk.

"Okay." She said as she dragged Scott inside.

I quickly scrolled through my contacts and found my mother's.

I pressed the call button and crossed my fingers.

"Please pick up, please." I whispered to myself.

"I'm sorry, the number you have called is no longer in service please try another number or try again."

I hung up.

"I love you mom."

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A/N: The end of the first chapter, I think I'll do Scott next, but these stories are one shots so they aren't connected in any way.

I hope you enjoyed it.

I would love your opinons on this story, feel free to send me a message or review-though nothing critical please-this is just for fun, though if I do have grammer or spelling mistakes it would be great if you let me know so I can fix it up :)

List of special infected:

Narrator/ Waleria: Witch

Scott: Smoker

Hadrian: Hunter

Sophie: Spitter

Mr Brown: Boomer

Mrs Brown: Boomette

Jack: Jockey

Tony/Tommy: Tank

Kallus:Charger

Thank you all.