Hola! Hey I'm back with another story! This story is made by me and my friend, she actually doesn't have a FanFiction account, but she's the best writer ever! So weve been making this story for a while now, it's started in a car ride we were actually playing a game, and it turned out really good! So now here we are writing a story, and I decided to post it on FanFiction so others beside us can see the story and enjoy it, trust me it's an awesome story! Well I hope yall like it! Especially you Forever-Fangirl-PJO-HP! She does have a wattpad and her user is: rozannabye, go check her out she has this story on there too, so check it out!
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Prologue
It's 10:34pm on a Friday. I'm sitting on my bed listening to my music with my headphones extra loud to drown out the sounds of my parents yelling at each other and the yelling that's coming from outside. Surprisingly I'm already used to the yelling. Its quite sad actually. Ever since the whole virus thing went down we haven't been able to stay a family. 'Kenzie's always in her room reading books, and my parents are always behind closed doors doing who knows what. All I know is that before the virus spread everyone in this family, or even on this planet, had a nice life. But now, everything's changed. A virus spread across the nation, wiping out state by state, country by country. Everyone lives in isolated buildings now, and rarely ever go outside. People who need jobs work as Bringers. Bringers bring people food, clothes, books, ect. Bringers get paid a lot of money be,cause they have to go outside into the virus infected areas to get the supplies to give to the people who need them. My dad is a bringer, so far he hasn't been infected but I'm scared for his life. We used to be a normal all american family who spent a lot of time together. Now its considered lucky to even have a full conversation with any of my family members. One day we'll all be infected and die. The goverment says they have started to construct a cure but I don't think they'll make it in time. The world is falling apart and I believe that everyone on this planet with catch this virus within the next year. It's a virus that can only be caught by touch or if any bodily fluid of a sick person touches you. The news says that it might be going airbourne soon. Anyone who walks outside has a chance of getting it and that's not even what scares me the most. What scares me the most is that I might not ever see the world as it used to be. Bright green grass, light blue skies! I can even say I miss seeing the red ants walking across an ant hill. Now all I see is nothing but gray skies and dirt. Just dirt. No grass, no nothing. Just dirt. I suppose there's trees and grass in other places but there's been so much bombing that it'll dwindle down. I just know it. The virus makes the brain go completely nutso. First you get incredibly horrible headaches! Then you start to cough up blood, then you just turn into a totally different person. You wanna eat people. Hurt people. Kill people. My aunt got infected a couple months back and I had to shoot her in the head. My own flesh and blood, the lady I've known my whole life. I had to shoot her. It all happened when I was walking up the stairs one day when I saw blood marks leading up to my room. I quickly grab a gun from a safe behind a painting on the wall and slowly walk into my room thinking it was a murderer. And there she was, my aunt was eating the insides of a woman I've never even met before. She starting running after me so I shot her. Ever since then, I've had no faith in humanity. Life on earth had become so horrible you'd rather die than live. "Amira!, quick! Somethings wrong with dad!" 'Kenzie yells which pulls me out of my deep thoughts, as she runs down the stairs. "Oh god" I say in my head, then run out of my room and down the stairs as quick as I can. Before the last step I hear grunts and groans, its my dad. He's in pain, a lot of pain. I almost hesitate walking to him but I force myself to. I walk into the room and my eyes shoot wide open. My dad is holding his head with two hands and yelling something inaudible. His eyes were bloodshot and his body was bruised. That's when I realized he was one of them. One of the Mindless. "Oh god! Rob please! No this cant be happening!" My mom yells with tears in her eyes. 'Kenzie just stares at my dad in fear. Soon my dad coughs up a whole lot of a and blood. "Blood! I need blood!" He yells while trying to grab my moms leg. That's when I knew that, that, wasn't my dad anymore. That was a monster. "We need to get him out of here, before he contaminates us!" I yell with no sign of remorse. 'Kenzie just standing there unable to move, she must be completely traumatized. My mom just nods slightly and she picks up the phone. "Hello, we have a Mindless in our house and we need to get him out right now before-" she stopped talking. I turn to her and she had dropped to the floor. I almost run and help her but I knew better. She could also have the sickness and if I touched her I could contract it too. "Mackenzie, slim it and pack your things right now." I tell her while backing away from the now highly contagious parents we now had. 'Kenzie just starts crying more. "KENZIE! Go pack your stuff right now we can't stay here. We need to go!" I yell as loud as I possibly can. She runs upstairs and I hear a door lock. I soon follow her. Kenzie compared to me is very shy, and very scared, of everything. I don't blame her. She spent most of her pre-teen years hearing about viruses being spread and it having a horrible affect of the brain. She grew up scared and she pushed everyone out. She was scared that If she stayed close to anyone she would miss them even more if they caught the virus and died. Which made sense, but she went a little extreme and didn't talk to anymore for months. I did the exact opposite. I spent as much time as I could with every one of my family and friends because I knew that time was of the essence and that I needed to spend my life surrounded by people who love me. Most of my friends and family have already died, and honestly it hurt Kenzie more than it hurt me. It wasn't because I was heartless it was because I already told everyone everything I needed to tell them. That I loved them and other things I've been meaning to tell them for years. But Kenzie, she didn't tell anyone anything and that didn't make her a coward. But it did make her very selfish in more ways than others. I've noticed my mind seeping back into my deep thoughts, I pull myself out of it. I notice myself standing behind Kenzies door frame and I try to open the door. "Kenzie it's me, unlock the door and let me in! Hurry!" I say then soon after I hear the door lock turn and the door swings open. A hand soon pulls me in and I am now standing in her room watching her cry. "Stop crying. That's the last thing we need to be doing right now. Did you pack your stuff? The system will be here to take us to another buildi-" she cuts me off by saying "I don't wanna go to another building." "Its not you're choice! We can't stay here in this now infected house." I yell back. "No, I know. I just. I heard there's a common area in California. People made a secure city where the virus can't get in! Its one of the only ones in the US right now and we need to go there." Kenzie says to me still crying. "Look we now have no parents! and who knows how long we have left until we also catch the virus considering we havent already! We need to take this chance and actually try to save ourselves if we even can! Okay? Just please think about it. We dont have much time." Kenzie says and then starts to pack more stuff into her backpack. What she said surprised me more than ever. She wants to leave New York and travel to California? She knows how much plane tickets cost these days so she knows we would have to take a road trip. Would she really want to risk taking a car through the virus infected roads and cities? Has she gone crazy too?! "Kenzie." I say with a short breath. "You're not gonna change my mind ya know." She quickly says back. And that's when I knew that she was right. We had no one left but each other and if there's a way to live a normal life again then I'd risk anything to have it. "Okay." I say quietly. "Okay?!" Kenzie says back almost in a happy tone. "We're going to Cali."
