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August 12, 2010

Georgia sucks ass.

Especially the weather.

I examined my finger nails as I was sitting on the worn down leather couch, "Jane, of all the places you could've moved to, why Georgia?" I called out to her, and she didn't even answer me. What a jerk.

I sulked deeper into my seat while crossing my arms and pouting my lips as if I were about to throw a tantrum, hoping Jane would peek out of the bathroom and see the disapproval written all over my face. Jeez, what was taking her so damn long to get ready? I checked my phone for about the hundredth time that night.

"Jane you look fine!" I yelled without looking up, and I was mostly likely right. She always does, and it doesn't even matter because we're going to a bar tonight! Everyone will be drunk and you'll look like a fuckin' supermodel to them anyways.

I finally heard her exit the bathroom, and I assumed she was standing there waiting for a compliment from me. I assumed this because I was pretending not to look by examining my hands some more to get on her nerves, that is, until a pillow met my face.

"Isabelle!" She whined, "Do I look okay?" I rolled my eyes in response, she looked fine! I didn't want to give attitude though…not tonight when she was going to be my ride to get drinks.

"Yes you look beautiful, Jane," I wasn't lying either, I wouldn't lie to my best friend, as much as she got on my nerves, "as always. Can we go now? It's almost 8." I checked my phone again, it was 7:48 PM.

"Yeah, just let me leave a note for Luke."

I groaned in response and tugged my face out of frustration, "I thought you already left one!" I really need a drink.

"Calm your tits, Isabelle, just let me write this. You know how Luke gets when I don't leave a note…" she trailed off as she left to her kitchen.

She soon returned, and we both left to solve our problems the good 'ol fashioned way: with alcohol.


The bar was pretty quiet that night, no one interesting to talk to and no good looking men to look at. I could tell Jane was just as bored as I was, but hey I was just there for the drinks.

I sat at the stool tapping at the counter, and Jane sighed as she watched the news. Man, nothing happens in Georgia. The bartender turned to us several times and asked us if we wanted anything, but we said 'nah' each time. I guess we're just not feeling it tonight.

I turned to Jane and noticed her very bored look on her face, "I think we should go. I'm pretty bored."

"Yeah…I'm not really feeling it right now. Go wait outside, I'll be there in a little bit."

I didn't think anything of it, she was probably going to go to the bathroom or something like that. So I listened and just waited outside, it was a little chilly too.

I checked the time, it was almost 10, well at least we killed about two hours of time. I wonder what's on tv right now…


I woke up to the TV on and with a little headache that made my temples ache. I looked over to the other side of the couch to see Jane's sleeping form. It's been a pretty boring week so far, especially last night. We just went home and watched Netflix on the couch until we both passed out.

It'd been…what? My second week? Damn, already? As much as I hated this state and its weather, I still didn't really feel like going home. I wanted to buy more time, I didn't want to leave yet. I didn't want to find out where I'd be getting deployed off to yet. Unfortunately, I would have to leave soon so I could at least visit my family back home before leaving off to god knows where.

I heard a slight grumble coming from across the room along with some mumbling. "Mmmm…I'm hungry."

"Yeah? I'm tired. Can't we just stay here all day and watch TV?" I asked her as I turned on the TV, which was on the news. Boring, like anything happens in Georgia.

"Nothing to do…" she mumbled as she got off the couch, I chuckled as I saw her stumble because of her grogginess.

"Where ya going?"

She rubbed her eyes for a moment and looked at me, still half awake, "Gonna get coffee, wanna come with me?"

"Sure," I sighed, "Let me get some clothes on." As much as I wanted to lay on the couch all day, I got up and went to the guest room upstairs to change into more comfortable clothes. The weather wasn't too bad, so I just threw on some t-shirt with jeans.

I went back downstairs and met with a concerned Jane, "What's up?"

She seemed to be studying something outside the window, so I spoke again to get her attention, "Jane…what's up?"

Her eyebrows were scrunched together, "Huh. Luke's not here."

I joined her in looking out the window, and she was right. Luke's car wasn't there, which was a little odd, but nothing to be really concerned about.

"Let's go?"

"Yeah, let's."

We left her house and made out way to the coffee shop that was a several blocks away, the streets were kind of quiet, but it's probably since it was an early Sunday morning so maybe everyone was at Church.

The 'open' sign on the coffee shop wasn't lit up which was rather…odd. I started to get this weird feeling in the pit of my stomach, until Jane interrupted my thoughts by knocking on the front door.

The owner, who looked very disgruntled, came to the door and pointed to the "closed" sign that we somehow missed. I took notice of the gun in his holster…wonder why that was there. I've never lived in Georgia or this city so I'm not sure if that's a norm around here or not.

"Why are you guys closed?" I could tell she was starting to get annoyed, I learned the hard way before to never get in between my best friend and her coffee.

Instead, the coffee shop owner completely ignored our pleas for a nice, hot cup of coffee and closed the blinds to the store. He could've been more polite, but whatever. Jane, on the other hand, was rather irritated. She started to try to pull on the door to open it, but it was locked, and it looked like she was close to breaking the damn door. The last thing I was is us to get arrested for vandalism, so I grabbed her shoulder and pulled her back, "Jane, it's not a big deal! We can just make coffee back at your place…"

"Fine." She said with a scorn tone to which I just rolled my eyes.

I noticed a man who was probably in the same coffee deprived state as us who was approaching the door to the coffee shop. He looked…what I assumed to be homeless. His clothes were a bit ratty and he looked as if he were just in a scruffle.

Jane and I began to back away from the door to let the man pass by, and we turned our backs to leave when the man lunged for Jane's shoulder and bit into it.

What the fuck just happened? One moment we're at the door of the shop, and the next…

Jane's screeches nearly caused my eardrums to explode, but I was quick to react. I grabbed the man who was…trying to eat her? It didn't matter either way, he was still attacking my best friend.

I reached for his shoulder to turn him around and throw him to the ground so we could get away and call the cops, but he turned and sunk his teeth into my exposed forearm.

"Fuck!" I screamed while pulling my arm away. Why the hell did he just bite me? Is this guy a fucking maniac? I bit my lip at the pain and focused on the man in front of me, who was still coming at me, so I started to back up quickly.

I was at a safer distance, and his attention wasn't on me anymore. It was on Jane, who was now leaning against the wall of the shop while applying pressure to her bleeding shoulder. I ran up behind the man and kicked him in the back so I could throw him off his balance. He landed face first into the sidewalk, which had to hurt and had to have kept him down.

I then turned my attention back to Jane, who started to run towards me and yelled, "Isabelle! Your forearm!" I looked down to see my arm was bleeding, I had completely forgotten that I was bitten due to my adrenaline rush. Blood was pouring out the wound and it wasn't severe, but that wasn't what I was worried about. I pulled off my shirt to tie it around the wound; I really need to get back home now to clean this.

Suddenly the door to the coffee shop burst open and the owner stepped out with his gun pointed at us, screaming. I couldn't make out what he was screaming, everything was happening so slowly as I saw the man who I had just kicked into the sidewalk a moment ago get up and lunge at the coffee shop owner. I turned looked to Jane, who was staring in horror at what was happening before her, things I never want to witness in my life.

"Jane we have to get back to your house now!" I yelled to her, and pulled her to started running away with me.

We both took off and didn't turn our heads back, we couldn't. I have no fucking clue what just happened but I knew I had to get both of us back to her house to take care of our wounds, especially hers first. Jane's shoulder was bleeding more than my forearm; it appeared that the son of a bitch took some flesh out of her.

Jane's run was beginning to slow down, but fortunately we were a safe distance from the shop and not too far from her house. I ran to her and I could feel my heart sink when I saw the wound; it wasn't that it was a lot of bleeding but because of the high risk of infection from a human bite.

"Jane, please, listen to me." I cupped her face and spoke slowly for her to understand as I could see she was in shock as to what just happened, "Jane, we have to get to your house right now to clean both of our wounds. I know you're in shock, I understand, I am too, but we have to get home now." She kept nodding her head as if she was trying to shake herself awake out of this nightmare and slung her good arm around my shoulder to lean on me.

It was only a couple more minutes until we would reach her house, and I could see Luke's car parked in the driveway which almost made me scream in excitement.

I desperately banged on the door, "Luke! Luke! It's Isabelle! Jane's hurt open the fucking door!" I screamed, my frustration growing as I knew he was home but wasn't opening the door.

The door swung open and I'd never been happier to see anyone in my life.


I'm not very good at action scenes…sorry guys. Also I apologize for the slow chapters/updates, the reason for the slowness at the beginning is to build up to the future chapters. Let me know what you think though!