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Chapter 4
Ellie's POV
I woke up early today to get ready for my first day at the Jackson school and was a little nervous as to how the day would go. If it's like a pre-outbreak school I'm probably gonna be bored to death, but I have to go. I then went into the kitchen too see Joel getting breakfast ready as what now seemed to be normal. Normal. That word is still weird to me, I didn't think there was a normal in this world anymore but here we are.
"Morning," I said.
"Morning baby girl."
"Is Jake awake?" I asked as I sat down and then heard a door slam shut upstairs.
"There's your answer."
"Sounds like somebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed."
"Don't tell him that."
"I still think this is stupid," Jake said as he walked into the room and then sat down.
"Good morning to you too," Joel said and then brought us our breakfast and we then started eating.
"As soon as you're done I'll take you two there," Joel said and we all continued eating in silence.
We left the house and began walking down the street and at the end we saw a large brick building.
"Guess we're here," I said and a woman then walked up to us.
"Are these the two kids Tommy told me about?" The woman asked Joel.
"Yes ma'am," Joel replied and the woman looked at both of us.
"No threatening to slit people throat here. Understand?" she asked while looking and Jake and he pinched the bridge of his nose.
"Yes," Jake replied.
"Good. My name's Esther what are yours?"
"Ellie," I said simply.
"Jake," he said in annoyed voice.
"Well let's go class is starting," Esther said and directed us towards the building. I looked back and waved Joel of and he waved back. We entered the building and walked through a few corridors and then stopped in front of a door "Here we are," she said as she opened the door and I saw about twelve kids about our age sitting at some desks. "Morning class, today we have two new students that recently arrived here in Jackson. Why don't you two introduced yourselves with your name and where you're from?"
"Hi I'm Ellie I come from Boston," I said confidently.
"My names Jake Wilson, from Lincoln," Jake said in a monotone voice, that was the first time I heard his last name though.
"Great, so I'll tell you a little about this school. It isn't like the pre-outbreak schools where we teach you English and Maths among other things. We teach you survival skills and about the kind of jobs you can do here in Jackson because you'll need to help about here eventually," Esther explained and I breathed a sigh if relief in my head because if it were like a pre-outbreak school I wouldn't want to be here as much as Jake "Now can everyone go outside for the first thing we're doing today," Esther said and we all exited through a different door from the one we entered. Once outside I saw a shooting ranges "Everyone choose a lane," and everyone did with me and Jake at the end, each lane had a small table next to it with a knife on it. "Again to remind you all, none of the weapons we give you are to be used on each other but for practice. Now then today we're looking at knife throwing and other uses for a knife. First we'll start with throwing. Don't pick up the knives yet. I'll demonstrate first," Esther said but was stopped when she heard something hit a target we all turned to where it came from. It was from Jake's lane and a knife was inside the target slightly off the center of the bullseye.
"Missed,"Jake said.
"What part about don't pick up the knife first didn't you understand?" Esther questioned as Jake went up to retrieve the knife.
"It's still on the table," Jake replied and he was right the knife was still on the table he then pulled the knife out of the target and put a sheath on I and then put it around his neck and tucked it into his shirt.
"Ok no using your own weapons I should've made that clear," Esther said and then continued her demonstration and Jake muttered something in some other language.
We practiced knife throwing for a bit and I felt confident at it by the end, obviously Jake was the best one at it. Lunch was uneventful, everyone just kept asking me questions on where I'm from, the journey and other things. I tried to avoid the questions as much as possible because I wasn't sure whether I should tell them about my immunity or not. Jake just kept to himself in a corner and whoever had the guts to go over and try and talk to him got a death stare immediately and then walked away. Then people started asking me about Jake and what's the deal with him but i just replied with it's complicated because I didn't know what to say. After lunch we went down to the infirmary and got a basic lesson and medical care. And that was the first day. Me and Jake walked home in silence, Jake was acting a little bit strange, he was walking with his fingers locked behind his head, which is weird I've never seem him do that before. I was also getting more and more curious about what he said during that target practice and what language it was.
"Hey what language was that you used back during the knife target practice?" I asked.
"Bengali, my mum taught me it."
"What did you say?"
"I called her a bitch."
"That's so cool how you know another language. Can you teach me?" I asked but he didn't say anything "Please."
"No," Jake replied in an annoyed voice.
"Why?"
"Because I don't want to waste the time and energy to teach you and language that won't even help you in the slightest."
"Oh come on please," I begged but Jake wouldn't change his decision and didn't even answer back. When we were travelling I was able to get some things out of him from persisting like making him sing but now he won't give in. We walked home in silence the rest of the way and I was really getting anxious about when his memory will come back. When we got home Joel was in the kitchen.
"Hey there, how was your first day at school?" Joel asked as we entered and Jake shrugged his shoulders in response.
"It was okay," I replied and Jake went upstairs without saying a word and a knock came on the door and I went to answer it and saw Tommy and standing in the doorway.
"Hey there Ellie," Tommy said.
"Hey Tommy," I said in response.
"Is Joel home?" Tommy asked and then Joel appeared from put of the kitchen "Oh hey Joel, I hate to bother you but I have something I need to ask."
"No problem Tommy what is?" Joel asked in response.
"Well you see I need to send some people out on a hunting trip but we're really short on men so I was hoping that you and your two kids could go, they seem to know their way around a gun fight," Tony explained.
"Woah there little brother I'm not sure that's the best idea."
"I'll go," Jake said from behind us "With or without you guys, I'm getting kind of bored here I could use something to kill even if it is just animals. So yeah sign me up."
"You sure about this kid?" Tommy asked.
"Don't think I'm some kind of pushover," Jake said with a smirk "This is easy compared to other jobs I've done."
"Ok, what about you two?"
"Joel we don't have much choice, there's no one else available," I said.
"Fine we'll go," Joel said reluctantly.
"Great meet me in front of the main gate at around twelve tomorrow. Well I gotta go this town ain't go run itself," Tommy said then left.
"We'll be fine, as long as she can shoot and run," Jake said "Worst comes worst one of us dies, not that it would make much of a difference," Jake said then went upstairs. How could he be so cold, it's like he never had a heart and he's a completely different person.
"I'm gonna be outside Joel," I said to him and sat down on the porch of the house and a light spring breeze passed by.
"It's so nice here," I muttered aloud "like the infected never touched this place. I then began to smell smoke coming from somewhere and curiosity got the better of me and I decided to follow the smell. Turns it just led me to the did of the house where I saw Jake sitting on the window sill of his bedroom leaning forward with his legs hanging off the edge. The smoke was coming from a cigarette he was smoking.
I see no, hear no evil
Black writings on the wall
Unleash a million faces
And one by one they fall
Black hearted evil
Brave hearted hero
I am all... I am all... I am
I... I... I... I am
Go ahead and try to see through me
Do it if you dare
One step forward, two steps back
I'm here (One step forward, two steps back)
Do it... Do it... Do it... Do it...
Can you see all of me?
Walk into my mystery
Step inside and hold on for dear life
Do you remember me?
Capture you or set you free
I am all... I am all of me
(I am... I am all of me)
I am... I am... I'm all of me
I am... I am... I'm all of me
I am... I am... I'm all of me
I see and feel the evil
My hands will crush 'em all
You think you have the answer
Well I laugh and watch you fall
Black hearted evil
Brave hearted hero
I am all... I am all... I am
I... I... I... I am
Go ahead and try to see through me
Do it if you dare
One step forward, two steps back
I'm here (One step forward, two steps back)
Do it... Do it... Do it... Do it...
Can you see all of me?
Walk into my mystery
Step inside and hold on for dear life
Do you remember me?
Capture you or set you free
I am all... I am all of me
(I am... I am all of me)
I am... I am... I'm all of me
I am... I am... I'm all of me
Can you see all of me?
Walk into my mystery
Step inside and hold on for dear life
Do you remember me?
Capture you or set you free
I am all, I am all of me
That was the second time I heard Jake sing and this song was a lot darker than the one he sang to me the first time. But at the same time the song rang true to him, he's killed a lot of people and he kind of a mysterious and not many of the kids at school dare to get near him. He finally noticed me and as soon as he did he gave a the same murderous stare from when Tess died then makes me shake in my boots every time. If looks could kill this was definitely one of them. He then went back inside but I noticed that the black hoodie he was wearing was smeared red on the sleeves."What did you do?" I stood there asking myself.
"Remember quickly Jake, for me if not for you."