Oh my gosh I almost forgot the Authors Note, I can't forget that! Its like a small diary where I write out my thoughts, anyway, Here is Aria's Story, some of you may have read Sophia's story, some of you have not, you definitely dont need to read Sophia's first because they're not in any real sequential order. Sophia's story's a good one though, so I mean, after this you can go and read hers... Please?
I wont waste anymore time, Happy 2018 to all my readers and hope this year is a good one for uploading!
Enjoy!
~ZombiesXBrainzz~
Chapter 1: Down with the sickness
"...And that's why you should always wash your hands." The CEDA rep finished his presentation, it was stupid, the whole thing. I didn't mind that college wasn't a thing anymore, I hated going to classes anyway, but it was stupid that they made the campus the safe zone, blocking the students off from the sickness outside, while bringing healthy people in. We were let out of the auditorium out into the courtyard, it was a dismal cloudy day, the kind that made you feel depressed, the sun hadn't shown in weeks but the gray fit the occasion. I headed back to my apartment, my roommates were there making dinner or just talking. Chelsea and I originally lived in the apartment, but when they brought the non-college students onto campus, they were moving more people into the apartments, at least they were my friends.
Jessica came into the room, "Hey Aria, where did you go?"
"I had to go to that stupid recommended presentation bullshit."
"Yeah that was stupid wasn't it?" Her twin brother Jared agreed.
I grabbed the bag of chips from the counter and sat on the couch, "Where's Chelsea?"
"Her and Brendan went out to get some food rations." Jess said, sitting next to me.
"Seriously, this is some real bullshit." I said,
"I think we can all agree, but what are we going to do about it? It's not like we can control the virus."
"Yeah, I heard CEDA is working with the chemistry department to find a cure." Jared said,
"Those halfwits couldn't tell an alkane from an alcohol." Jessica laughed, but only her, "You guys suck." She said.
I stood up, "I'm going to bed, there's no use in griping all night."
"Night." They said as I went to to my room.
I woke up a few hours later to a commotion in the living room, I got out of bed to see what was up. Jessica was yelling at Brendan and Jared was dead on the floor and Chelsea was bleeding, "What the hell happened!?" I asked,
"He killed my brother!" Jessica cried,
"He was bitten and he bit my girlfriend!"
I looked over at Chelsea and noticed she was holding her neck where blood was gushing out. "Shit..." I put my hands on my head, "We have to do something... We have to tell someone!" I said,
"We can't just kill her!" Brendan said,
"Why not? You just killed my fucking brother!" Jess argued,
"Guys, shut up! We have to do something that isn't arguing!"
"We can't help her! She... She's gonna turn into one of those things."
"Not if we get her help now." Jess said,
"Even if we do get help she will bleed out before then." I said,
"Aria's right."
"Then what are we going to do?" Jess said,
"I don't know, we are going in circles now." Something pushed me down, "Holy shit!" Chelsea had me pinned down, she was snarling and trying to bite me. I screamed, "Guys! Get her off me!" I struggled to to push her away. She was stronger than me, a lot stronger, I heard a gunshot and she fell on top of me, dead, "Holy shit..." I gasped,
"Aria are you okay? Were you bitten?" Jess asked,
"No... I don't think so." I checked myself over,
"She's fine..." Brendan said, holstering his gun.
I looked at them, "We have to get out of here." I said,
"Yeah, if Jared was bit then there has to be someone else bit too." Brendan agreed,
"Grab your stuff, we're getting out of here." I decided. They nodded and we went to our rooms, I only had a small backpack to carry a limited amount of stuff, I dumped my textbooks onto the floor with a loud 'thud'. A few shirts and jeans were thrown into the bag along with some sweaters and warm clothes, I grabbed the picture of me and my family. It saddened me that I didn't see them before shit went down, I didn't want to think about if my mom and dad made it out, or my sister. I took the photo out of the frame and put it in the inside pocket of my jacket, Brendan and Jess were waiting for me in the living room,
"We grabbed some food from the cupboard." Jessica said,
"Let's split it up." I said. We split the food as evenly as we could and were just about to head out when we heard a commotion in the hallway, someone was yelling, "I'll go check it out." I said, leaving the apartment.
In the hallway there was a military man standing at a doorway down the hall, "Mam, I need you to return to your room immediately." He said to me,
"No way! One of those... Things just bit my friend and turned her and she almost bit me."
"You were in contact with the infection? You need to be quarantined right away." He grabbed my wrist and dragged me down the hall,
"What are you doing?!" I exclaimed trying to pull away,
"We can't risk more people getting infected."
"I'm not the one you should be worried about! There's one of those things in here already!" I kept trying to break free as he led us out of the building. He had an iron grip on me so it was impossible to pull away, but the scenery around us was enough to get him to let go. People were running around screaming as those things... Those zombies chased them. The soldier left me to help some other people, "I gotta go back." I turned to go back to the apartment but there were zombies blocking my path, and I was unarmed. I looked around, I had to find a way out on my own, I started running.
The zombies were everywhere, some eating people, others chasing them. It was like hell came to campus. I was looking back at the mess when I ran into someone, "Ow! Hey!" She said as we fell to the ground,
"Shit, sorry." I got up and helped her up, "Were you on your way out of here too?" I asked,
"Yeah, I just saw one of my roommates turn into one of those things."
"Yeah, my best friend did too and I got separated from my friends."
"C'mon, I think I saw an opening out this way." I nodded and followed her.
We had gotten far from the campus and made it into a building, "We need to get weapons, we can't defend ourselves bare handed." I said, "I'm Aria by the way."
"Zoey... I think we had a class together last fall."
"Yeah, uh... precalc I think."
"With ?"
"Yeah, that class sucked." We both laughed for a second. I looked out at the darkening sky and the burning buildings in the distance, "It's getting late, we should stay here for the night."
"Is it safe?" Zoey asked,
"Probably a lot safer than travelling at night with no weapons." I said,
"Good point." We blocked off the door as well as we could and sat in the dark, "Where do we go now?" She asked,
"I don't know. I thought the campus was safe but look where that got us."
"Yeah... Let's get some sleep. It'll make time pass quicker."
"Alright. Night." I shifted in my corner and closed my eyes.