Chapter 4: Final Infection
Devi picked up her bag at Logan airport and walked to the exit. Except
there was yellow police tape blocking it off. A sign on the door read "THE
AIRPORT HAS BEEN QUARANTINED DUE TO A POSSIBLE SMALLPOX OUTBREAK."

"What?!" she thought to herself. "Why does this stuff always happen to
me?!" But then a voice she didn't recognize replied.

"I don't know. Maybe it has something to do with that jerk Johnny you've
been hanging out with."

"What? Who are you? And why are you talking from inside my head? How do you
know Johnny?"

"I'm Stan. And I'm a virus. A mutant strain of smallpox if my memory still
works. And Johnny killed me in a past life."

"But what do you want with me?"

"Nny has a little plan. He's going to come here and try to apologize. If
you don't accept, I expect him to get very depressed. I know if he dies
again, he won't come back. All the more reason for him to end it for the
last time."

"I would want him to do that, but then I don't. I want him out of my way
forever. But there's something that won't let me. No. I won't help you."

"You will. You'll see." A beep came from her pocket. She took out her cell
phone and saw it was a payphone from the airport she left.

"Hello?"

"Devi? Okay, don't pick up your bag! Some crazy kid named Tim coughed on it
while he was chasing Johnny and he has smallpox and he says that a voice
named Stan told him to do it and Nny is probably going to go there
and..Devi? Are you there?" It wasn't willingly, but Devi dropped her phone
and walked away.

There was supposedly some vaccination thing going on, but Nny had some
memory of already having received one. He knew it wasn't chronologically
possible because of his age. Or what he thought his age was before reading
the missing person poster. But he didn't have time to think about that now.
So he just went straight to the exit, guarded by two inept police officers
having a smoke. As if this wasn't annoying enough, one of them asked if he
had another cigarette after theirs went out. When Nny said he didn't smoke,
they laughed and commented to their friend "Skinny freaks don't smoke?" Nny
stared for a few seconds, hoping they would start to use their brains again
before he had to make them.

"I was going to just go and save my rage for that idiotic Tim, but I know
I'll have plenty left over for him anyway." They didn't seem to pick up on
what he was saying because they kept laughing. That is until they were
being strangled with their own intestines. "Your disgusting habits would
have let you kill yourselves eventually. I just thought I would speed up
the process." Surprisingly, there was no one else out there to stop him as
he got into his car and drove in the direction of Logan Airport. Or the
direction he thought it was in.

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"The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out. In your stomach and out your
snout. Your eyes fall out, your face turns green. And your drool looks like
shaving cream!" Pepito was making everyone on the bus sick again with his
rendition of "Sickening Horrors from Beyond the Grave, the Musical" while
Squee, who recently escaped from the Crazy House after one of the dream
analysis patients killed all of the doctors and then set it on fire. He
looked kind of familiar, but Squee was too busy running to ask for his
name. He was sitting quietly, trying not to vomit out any vital organs. And
he was looking at Melanie again. He was far too young to see anyone in a
romantic way, but she seemed nice and would probably make a good friend.
The traffic had slowed almost to a complete stop going around a highway
under construction that was supposed to be finished five years ago.

"Some Big Dig. Where do they keep the shovels?" Squee turned around and saw
Melanie, a little girl with dark hair and eyes the color of that really
fake looking chestnut hair dye that old men on TV used. It looked repulsing
as a hair color, but eyes have a way of making any color look more
brilliant and captivating than any rainbow.

"It's on the front of the sleeping cow thing."

"You mean the bulldozer?"

"Yeah! That thing! Wasn't this supposed to be finished five years ago?"

"It was. But Pepito said his dad, Satan, bribed the construction workers
with jelly beans."

"Oh! I never heard that story before! All I heard was my mommy yelling
about the government and saying they were high on Mary someone. I can't
remember her last name." The teacher Ms.Bitters stood..or floated, no one's
really sure if she's human or not, in the front of the bus.

"Due to the possible smallpox outbreak at Logan Airport, traffic has been
re-routed as to delay your imminent DOOM by microscopic pathogens, eating
at your flesh and skin and preparing you to rot in a shallow grave for all
eternity! So in other words it will take a while to get to the Aquarium. I
hope you brought snacks because all I brought was Skittles. And they
expired."

Squee wondered where Nny was. He hadn't seen him for a while and was
starting to think he moved away. He said he was going to do that, but still
left creepy drawings in Squee's room. Just as long as Nny didn't hurt any
of his friends at the Aquarium.

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"Nny. You're lost." The voices in his head were bothering him again. He had
just about given up at being rid of them although they never ceased to
annoy him and manipulate his emotions. "Why don't you just stop and ask for
directions?"

"I'm not lost."

"Really? That's the third time we've passed that two headed cow jumping
into the ocean."

"The sun is rising over there. At least I got to the right ocean."

"There are hundreds of miles of Atlantic coastline. You could be in Florida
for all you know."

"No, it's too cold here."

"Cold? It's 50 degrees in early spring. You just don't want to get out and
ask for directions. You should probably stop now."

"I'm not stopping."

"No, not for that."

"No."

"Stop."

"No."

"Car!!"

Nny looked ahead and stopped only a few inches away from the back bumper of
a 60s multicolored van that was last in a long line of traffic. A sign over
the highway read "Boston ahead, Logan Airport right, Aquarium left". Nny
waited as patiently as possible for a few minutes, but his attention span
was never the longest. The traffic wasn't going anywhere. He turned right,
not noticing the several roadblocks he knocked over.

"Odd." He thought as he pulled into the parking garage. "There's no planes
taking off." The doors were barred so he went in a floor level window in
one of the bathrooms. A little old lady came out of one of the stalls. She
obviously was having some vision problems.

"My you do look wacky young lady. Oh dear, I should stop smoking tampons."
He was about to do unspeakably horrible things with her spleen when he
almost stepped on a cell phone with Devi's number on it.

"Do you know whose this is?"

"Yes. Another wacky looking girl has been in here all night. She was
itching a rash on her arms and kept talking to someone named Stan. On crack
if you ask me."

"Look, I'm not in the best mood right now. Either you get out of the
bathroom now, or I kill you in ways you can't even imagine."

"Oooh. Someone has PMS." She finally left after hobbling out of the
bathroom with a long string of toilet paper stuck to her shoe.