There was a deep silence in the classroom, most people had their pens to paper and heads down but not me, I just sat at my desk with my jaw resting in my hands.

I looked to my left and saw Hadrian sleeping and rolled my eyes, he wasn't even going to attempt the test that was laid before him.

I glanced to my right and saw Sophie texting someone under her desk.

I looked back at my own paper and sighed. I knew the first answer, but for some reason my hand wouldn't write it down, it felt weird, like I was betraying my friends by doing the test.

"Scott, stop tapping your foot please," Mr Brown said as he crossed his arms.

I hadn't even noticed my actions and quickly stopped my foot.

It wasn't fair that I had to pick between myself and my friends, something at the back of my mind told me that if I passed my tests, Hadrian and Sophie wouldn't have anyone to help them.

I wish I could just pick myself sometimes.

...

"How did you find the test?" I asked Hadrian as we waited for my sister beside my car. He raised an eyebrow at the question.

"There was a test? Damn it, I feel asleep." He said.

"I know I saw you, but you really need to get your act together if you want a future, aren't you worried about it?"

"I guess, but I'm more worried about now, just getting by each day-

"What about the future Hadrian? If you don't do well you'll be living out on the streets, you almost are now." I cut in. He sighed.

"I know, I'll try, but it's hard, I can't study, I can barely go in my own room, I feel safe when I sleep at school."

"But if you sleep at school you won't learn anything-

"Hey guys." A voice cut in.

"Hey Witch," I said with a smile when I saw my sister walk over to us. "You sure took your time."

"Sorry, Sophie was talking to me, she wanted me to help her study." My sister said as Hadrian's face lit up.

"Could you help me too?" He asked. "I'm a little behind."

"Of course, but remember I'm a couple of years behind you-

"That's fine." He cut in. "Scott, could you help out too?"

"Of course."

Hadrian suddenly tensed and my sister opened her mouth to speak, but was cut off by him.

"Oh crap, I have to run," Hadrian said as he waved. "See you tomorrow."

We waved him off before I got into the car.

"How is he?" My sister asked as I started the car.

"He's fine at the moment, his dad's not drinking." I said as I frowned.

I couldn't help but feel angry at the question, no one ever asked if I was alright, but of course why wouldn't I be, there was nothing wrong with me, I was perfect.

I thought back to a couple of weeks ago and shuddered.

Hadrian and me had gotten into a small fight, he kept telling me that I wouldn't know pain even if it punched me right in the face, but I was sick of people telling me that my life was one to be envied, I felt trapped all the time, big decisions kept getting thrown at me and I didn't know how to respond.

"Scott, are you okay?"

My sisters words jerked me out of my thoughts like a lightning bolt. If everything right in the world was made into a person that person would be her, she was like my rock, but I would never tell her that, and she would never know, but sometimes without her I wouldn't know what to do.

"I'm fine Waleria." I said as I made a turn on the road.

"You called me Waleria, not Witch." She said as I laughed.

"You know what I meant."

I saw her smile out of the cornor of my eyes and I smiled too.

...

I pulled up at our house and quickly jumped out of the car. My sister did the same and we walked to our front door.

"Mom, dad, we're home." Waleria exclaimed as she opened the door.

"Did you guys have a good day at school?" Our mom asked as she hugged Waleria and me.

"A normal day." My sister replied as she walked up stairs.

"Honey aren't you going to eat?" Mom called out to her.

"No thanks, I already ate, so I'm not hungry."

"How about you Scott?" She said as she turned to me.

"Sure." I said as I walked over to the table where my dad was sitting.

"Hey dad, how was work?" I asked him as he laughed.

"Boring as ever, son you better do better than me, that way you aren't stuck selling stuff."

"But it's good pay isn't it?" I asked as he nodded.

"Of course, but it's no fun."

"Here you go Scott." Mom said as she placed a plate full of food in front of me.

She pulled her brown hair back and tied it up before doing the washing up.

"Do you need help?" My dad asked as my mother nodded. "Oh and Scott we're going out tonight so you're going to have to take care of your sister."

"Sure thing dad." I said as he placed a hand on my shoulder.

"I know that no matter what happens you'll always be there for her, and that makes me proud." He said as he walked over to mom.

I smiled at the comment, but it was a sad smile, I don't know what was getting into me, but if it came down to it, I'm sure she would be the one there for me in the end.

...

"What do you mean you're going out, you can't, mom and dad just left." My sister exclaimed as I ran my fingers through me hair.

"Listen I'm sorry, Hadrian needs me, stay here, and call me if you need me."

"But-

"But nothing, see you soon."

I walked out the front door and locked it behind me. It was finally night, but I was worried, scared.

I had just gotten an email from one of my dad's friends who said that they could easily get me into law, something my parents were keen for me to do, all I had to do was get good grades on my tests.

I was upset for two reasons, the main one was because I hadn't been answering any of my recent tests to my full ability, I had been too worried about my friends. The second reason I was upset was because I didn't even want to go into law, I wanted to be an artist, it was a silly dream but something that I loved doing.

I felt bad about lying to my little sister, but somethings she wouldn't understand, I wasn't really going to see Hadrian.

I had walked down the street and sat down on the side of the road in the dim light of the lamp post.

I reached my hand in my pocket and felt for something. Once I felt the cigarette packet I pulled it out.

I knew it was wrong, I knew if my mom and dad found out I would be in big trouble, but I needed something to get away from the real world, my perfect life, which had been set-up and laid out in front of my eyes.

I thought back to Hadrian, he had no force, no pressure, he could be what ever he wanted, he could do what ever he wanted to do.

I knew that he must hate his life, how unperfect it is.

I pulled out a cigarette and lit it before bringing it to my lips.

I had smoked many times before this, and I knew that I shouldn't be smoking, but something just made stopping impossible, there was no reason to stop.

"Scott, what are you doing?"

Horror flooded through me as I turned my head to the familiar voice.

Even though she was standing in the shadows I knew it was my sister, she had followed me.

I quickly looked at the cigarette in my hand and held my breath. The smoke lingered around me like haunting clouds and I knew she had seen me, she knew what I had just done.

"Why, Scott?"

Those were the last words I heard from her before she ran back towards the house.

"Waleria wait!" I exclaimed as I got up and followed her but she only ran faster.

I only caught up to her when I reached our front door which was locked. She must have climbed out the window to follow me.

"Just listen to me-

"Unlock the door, or I'll tell mom and dad." She said as she held back tears.

"Waleria-

"Do it, now, please." She said as placed her face in her hands. I sighed as I unlocked the door.

"Waleria listen-

"I don't want to talk at the moment." She exclaimed as she marched up the stairs.

I followed her, she tried to shut her bedroom door but I stuck my foot in it.

"Please let me talk-

"How could you?" She exclaimed angrily as she turned to face me. "How selfish of you! You might not care about your health but I do, smoking kills, everyone knows that, I can't stand the thought of you dead!" She screamed at me, tears streaming down her face. "If you're worried about the future you should worry about that, and you should worry about me, what would I do without you?"

I stood there, speechless. I moved my foot and she shut the door on my face.

It looked like I had just found my reason to quit.

...

I had been sitting in my car, waiting for my sister to hurry up, if she didn't we would surely be late.

I beeped the horn and leaned back in my seat, I knew it was going to be an akward car trip and this wasn't helping.

I hadn't seen her since last night, she hadn't come downstairs to eat or even to see our parents.

Finally I saw the front door open and sighed.

She made her way over to the car slowly and got in.

"Took your time." I said as she ignored me and stared out the window.

"Listen, Witch, I swear that was my first time, and I promise I'll never do it again."

I didn't like lying to her, but I wasn't going to tell her that I used to smoke everyday.

"I don't believe you Scott." She finally spoke up.

"I promise-

"Pinky promise," she cut in as she held up her pinky. "That you'll never do it again, for me."

Without hesitation I wrapped my pinky around hers.

"For you, I'll do anything."

...

I felt sick, mentally, I was scared.

It was lunch time and Mr Brown had asked Sophie, Hadrian and me to stay back, I knew it was about the test.

"Sophie, Hadrian, like usually you've both failed." Mr Brown said with a sigh. "What do you have to say for yourselves?"

"I'm sorry, I'll try harder next time." Hadrian said as Mr Brown folded his arms.

"Sophie?"

"It's not my fault, it's not like I'm going to need to know this in the future."

"I'm disappointed in you Sophie, I'm putting you both on lunch detention, until you can both gets C's, is that understood."

"No, you can't do that, I have friends!" Sophie exclaimed.

"Thank you sir, I really will try." Hadrian said as Sophie growled.

"How can you be okay with this Hadrian?" She asked as he shrugged his shoulders.

"He's giving up his lunch to help us, and I really need help." He said as Sophie sighed.

"Fine." She said as she stood up. "Can I go now?"

"Yes, you and Hadrian can go." He said as Hadrian raised his eyebrow at me.

I felt tense when they left, scared.

"Scott." Mr Brown said as I flinched. "I'm disappointed in you too."

He flicked through some papers on his desk until he found mine and placed it down in front of me.

"You don't just go from a B+ to a D- for no reason."

I sat there silently, not knowing what to say.

He removed the piece of paper from my desk and placed a blank one in front of me.

"I want you to redo the test, but try this time."

"You're letting me redo the test, but what about-

"I'll let your friends redo it when I know they can improve, I know why you didn't answer the test properly, I'm not stupid."

I pulled out my pencil case from my bag and Mr Brown smiled.

"You have a big future ahead of you Scott, I'm not going to let you throw it away just because it's easier for you to do so."

I looked at the first question and knew the answer straight away.

"You need to stop worring about others, put yourself first for once."

I quickly scribbled down the answer.

"When it comes down to it the only person who can keep you alive is you, if you put others first, they might be the ones to kill you."

...

A/N: Finally the next chapter, sorry for the wait ! It's Scott time to shine in this chapter :)

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.