Accident; [n.], an undesirable or unfortunate happening that occurs unintentionally and usually results in harm, injury, damage, or loss.
Tess was right. He knew in the bottom of his heart, in the back of his mind that she always was going to be right. She had said the words before she died, and he had committed them to memory. Our luck had to run out sooner or later. Tess had been the first to run out of luck. And he was the second.
The girl was asleep on the ground, curled around her backpack as if it were a pillow. She didn't know, and he wasn't entirely sure how he was going to tell her. She had been too good to him, become too much to him, and now there was no way to explain the situation to her without breaking her heart. He closed his eyes. The tree he was leaning up against was rough and uncomfortable, but it was a link to nature, a way for his body to once again be as it had been before the world had gone to shit.
It was an accident. It was nobody's fault. His luck had simply run out.
He looked down at the bite on his leg and covered it with his hand. Sooner or later.