A/N I NO OWN L4D OR ITS CHARACTERS... except Aria... shes mine
I nearly cried posting this chapter because right when i hit save... my internet went out -.-
I hate editing :)
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Chapter 2: School is in session
*Flashback*
"Aria what frivolous antics are we doing today." My friend Jessica asked, "Hm I was thinking sneaking into the boys locker room and tying all the losers shoes together." "Genius." "Thank you, then I was gonna spitball Beth and Tom in chemistry." "Scandal." "Then I was going to hide spoiled milk in the chess teams lockers." "Wow you are absolutely malicious." She gave me a high five, Let s go to calculus. We headed to class. My friends Leslie, Angela, Melissa, Jessica, Mariah, Farrah, Noah (my Bf), Nathan, Lucas, Jason, Nicole, Marissa, Victoria, Brandi, Natalie, Allison, Austin, Angel, and Abness were all conversing in discussion table where we sat everyday, "Ooh oh oh here comes Xavier hah what a newb!" I stuck my leg in the aisle. He tripped and landed flat on his face breaking his glasses, the whole class broke out in laughter, "You know what Aria." He said getting up, "What?" I asked still laughing, "You're the reason I hate school."
*Reality*
"I hate school." Francis voice brought me back, "Right... who doesn't?" I asked. Francis laughed, "Wow this brings back memories." I said looking around the office/safe room, "Any good?" Zoey asked, "Haha, are you kidding, this place was like a second home to me." "Wait, you went to school here?" "Yep, Lawndale High, home to the Huskies". "What were you in here for?" Louis asked, "Are you kidding me? What wasn't I in here for, spitballs, hanging nerds by their underwear on the flagpole, spoiled milk in the chess teams lockers, stealing underwear from the boys locker room." I said laughing at the memories, "Oh good times." "Man, I'm glad I didn't go to school with you." Zoey said,
"Damn Aria, you sounded like a bully." Louis said, "Only to the nerds." "Come on guys we need to get a move on if we want to get out of here." Bill said, "Right." I said, "And NO running off, Aria." "I get it." I scolded him.
Francis took the bar off of the door and we walked out into the main hall with three other hall splitting off one forward, one to the left and one to the right, "Which way do we go?" Zoey asked, "It could be any of these hallways." Francis said. They all turned back to me, "What?" I asked even though I knew what they were going to ask, "Do you know how to get out of here?" Louis asked, "Sure I know, but I can't run off." "Why don't you tell us?" Bill asked, "Because you seem to know what you're doing so I don't want to interfere." Fine. Bill sighed, "You can lead the way." "Sweet, we go right but we should check the classrooms to the left for supplies." "How do you do that?" Francis asked, "What?" "Get people to let you do whatever you want." "I don't know, I just make smart ass remarks and they let me do whatever I want." "What happens if we go straight?" Louis asked, "Nothing, it's just the gym, nothing in there." I said walking to the left.
We walked into the first classroom on the right side of the hallway, it was my old calculus class, "Wow this place looks worse than when I was here last... It seemed like forever ago." I said looking around the dim classroom, "I don't see anything." Bill said, "You didn't have Mrs. Malone for a teacher, she was always hiding something... Always." I walked over to the teachers desk and opened the top drawer, "Exhibit a," I pulled out a pistol, "Never got caught with it, and she probably never will." I put it on the desk and opened the second drawer, "Exhibit b," I pulled out some molotovs, pills, shots, and pipe bombs, "And Exhibit c," I pulled out a box of ammo from underneath the desk. The others stared in shock, "Damn, what kind of people did they hire?" Francis asked, "I don't know, but this woman knew what was coming, she was prepared... but didn't know what she was doing." I gestured to the dead person in the corner of the room, "We all called her crazy, she kept saying the end is near, the end is near. We just all thought she was ranting about nothing." I felt bad for poor old Mrs. Malone. We all grabbed more supplies, "So Aria, where did you sit?" "I sat at that giant table with all my friends." I pointed to the table next to the door, "We wanted to get out of that class ASAP." I smiled.
After we checked all the classrooms we went back to the office, "'Kay, if I'm right there should be a door down that hallway." I said pointing to the right, "Let's do it then." Francis said. I led the way down the hallway past lockers, "This is the Freshman/Sophomore hallway, where I did most of my bullying." I said smiling, "All of the classrooms were on one side of the building... it was weird to me." I said.
We turned the corner, "Wait, hear that?" Louis asked looking around, I turned my head to the left so I could hear with my good ear, "Witch." I flipped off my flashlight, "All right, we just need to get around her and we should be ok." "But where is she?" Zoey asked, I shrugged, "I don't know but we'll find out." I proceeded forward. The crying got on my nerves to the point my eye was twitching, "Are you ok?" Zoey asked, "I'm fine, just a little pissed." I said through gritted teeth. There was a growling sound, "There's a hunter around here." Francis said looking around, "Be on your guard." I said cautiously walking forward.
Following the growling was a loud scream and Zoey was on the ground with a hunter on her, following the hunter was a smoker that grabbed Bill and pulled him in, "Help!" they both yelled, "It's an ambush!" I shouted as a horde came from both sides. I turned to start shooting and found myself face-to-ugly face with a boomer, I shoved him back but not far enough because when Francis shot him a shower of boomer bile fell on us, "EW! GOOD GOING FRANCIS!" I shoved the zombies back with my gun and shot, "They're getting smart!" Francis shouted, "I know!" I said shooting at something that was moving... hopefully a zombie.
Finally the horde died down and I wiped off my face, "Well... That was gross." I said helping Zoey up, "Where's Bill?" I asked looking around, "I'm over here!" Bill shouted but was not seen. Louis went back to retrieve him (leaving us in awkward silence) "Are you ok?" I heard Louis ask in the distance, "Don't worry I'll live." Bill said. The crying sound came back to my notice, my eye started twitching in frustration again, "I'M GONNA KILL HER!" I shouted, "Just go and ignore it... you seemed fine with it when we found you." Francis said. It was true when the infection first broke out I pretended to be a witch because commons never messed with witches... then when I needed to I would pretend to be a common to go get food... It was a routine,
"Come on let's go." I said waiting for the challenge that was ahead.
What dangers will the gang face in the future? what will Francis hate next?
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BTW I will always hate editing my stories... especially when the internet goes out on me!