Chapter 1: Beginning
"Okay everyone!" I said loudly, banging my fist into the table, to catch everyone else' attention.
"Club time is up, we can go home now!". I left out a loud gasp. It was late afternoon and all the teachers and janitors were now gone. Only literature and debate clubs were present in school. I shuddered thinking about the debate club. Until recently I was a member of it, however I grew tired of fighting between the club leader, Bernard, and me. That's why I decided to leave it and create my own club. So far it had five members – me, vice-president Sayori, Yuri, Natsuki and childhood friend of Sayori, Xavier, who only recently joined.
The atmosphere in the literature club was much more chill than in my previous club. Yuri was mostly reading her books alone, Natsuki was in the closet reading her manga, Sayori was always snacking. Every meeting we brought poems and read them aloud to each other. There was no needless drama or anything like that. It was a peaceful life.
I packed my school bag and headed to the doors. It was already almost sunset, so I wanted to reach home before it got completely dark. I quickly ran down the stairs and towards the school exit, when I saw Bernard chatting with his twin, Michael in a corridor. They were both founding members of the literature club and close friends, despite differences in political views. I tried to sneak around, so they wouldn't see me, however Bernard noticed me:
- "Oh hi Monika" said Bernard "Are you enjoying your new club?" I sighed.
- "Please, Bernard, understand, I don't want to return to the debate club. Everything there is over for me. I don't want to get in conflict with you, let's separate like two adults and not bother each other again, okay?"
- "Oh, wow, sorry that I offended you, if you don't want to I won't bother you again, Mrs Monika"
Don't get angry, don't get angry I thought to myself. I didn't want to ruin another day, because of this infuriating guy, so I just swallowed insults and said:
- "Have a good evening, Bernard"
- "Good evening. Anyway I'm heading home. Bye, Michael!"
- "Hi, president!, Hi, Monika!" said Michael before going the opposite direction.
I went out of school gate and started heading home, when I heard loud shouting a five meters from there:
- "Ahh, get away from me!" exclaimed Bernard as if he was attacked by wild dogs. When I looked at him I saw someone was beating his teeth into Bernard's arm. I saw blood on his arm. He was fighting with him for life.
- "Monika, please help me, some crazy guy attacked me, oh God, my bone ahhh"
After a second of thought, I was convinced that his life was is in danger, I decided to come and rescue him. I threw my fist and punched him right into his jaw. He didn't say anything, just relaxed his grip on Bernard's arm, just in time to allow him to free his arm. When I looked at this guy, I noticed he looked really weird. His skin was partially green, there were signs of decay on his body, he moved like he was drunk and was smelling like a dead skunk. It was almost as if…
- "Quick, come with me" I heard Michael shout behind me "The entire school is surrounded with zombies!"
Author's Note" Hi! This is my first story. English is not my native language, so there may be grammatical errors.