Chapter 30 Ahhh Zombies!

Iziah;

Three o'clock in the damn morning I was pulled out of bed by the random thumping and constant swearing, at first I thought it was Dad coming home drunk but then I remembered that he didn't drink, and it was my lovely sister's voice. I padded down the hall towards the kitchen, Raven had been like this ever since she came home, random night terrors would make her sleep-walk, or as I called it, sleep-act, she could and would do pretty much anything in her sleeping state, she wouldn't remember it in the morning, on more than one occasion we had found her randomly sleeping on the table, or under it or outside on the rocking chair, there wasn't much we could do about it, she was already pumped to the max with drugs, all we could do was keep her safe. Now she was on the table, freaking out at something only she could see.

"Raven?" I knew it was useless to call out but one could hope it could work, the only thing that would wake her was a jolt to the system. I didn't really want to hurt her but sometimes I had no choice. I got on the table with her, as she started muttering about flames and zombies. I could only guess but I'm picking she was dreaming that a hoard of zombies on the floor reaching for her, trying to eat her. "Raven?" I touched her arm, barely.

"Ahh zombie!"

The bitch punched me right in the face, blood spurted out like a river. Gingerly I tested it, it wasn't broken but I was still pissing out with blood. She went to the other end of the table, teetering on the edge, "Zombies!"

I pushed her off the table so she landed on her back, that was a serious jolt to the system, I didn't want to hurt her but the bitch just smacked me in the face, I wanted to inflict a little bit of pain, did you really expect anything less from me? Moving on.

"What the hell?" She looked up at me, "What happened to your face?"

"You punched me" I got off the table and helped her up, "Apparently I was a zombie and you were trying to take my fuckin head off"

"Sorry" Raven said sheepishly, she couldn't help it so I wasn't gonna hold it against her. Raven took a look at my nose, "I really am sorry, I didn't mean to punch you"

"Well it was my fault, I probably shouldn't be a zombie"

"So you deserved it? And here I was, feeling bad"

"Keep feelin bad as you go on upstairs to bed"

Raven rolled her eyes but dutifully clomped up the stairs, when need be I was mother hen, with the way we were, we all needed to take a turn at it, and with Raven's night terrors I was the best one to get up and put her back to bed.

Randy;

When Raven came into Maths, last class before lunch she looked like crap. Her face was drained, her eyes drooped, the poor girl looked as though she had been awake for days straight. She didn't say anything as she took a seat next to me, she pushed the window open and took off her jacket. As Mr Long started going over basic eqations, Raven laid her head on the desk and shut her eyes. As the class took off, no one but me noticed she was asleep. For an hour I watched her carefully, making sure that she was still breathing and that no one tried to mess with her. Finally the lunch bell rung and everyone got up to leave, except Raven. She merely mumbled something and tried to bury her head further in her arms.

"Is she alright?" Mr Long asked, I wasn't sure if he noticed or not, he was noticing now seeing as how Raven hadn't moved yet.

"Yeah, I'll keep an eye on her Mr Long, I got some work to catch up on"

He nodded at me and left me to look after sleeping beauty, she looked quite pretty laying there at peace. I pulled out my English assignment and started work, ok I didn't do much work because I was too busy staring at Raven and wondering if she would notice my hand touching her. I know, shouldn't be thinking it but in my defence, I was a guy. Just as I reached out to touch her face, her eyes sprung open and I jerked my hand back. Raven got up, singing under her breath, skipping around the room.

"La-la-la-la-la-la" Raven kept skipping in small circles, grabbing at things that weren't there. Yeah, I'm as freaked out as you are right now. Suddenly she stopped and turned slowly to look at me, her eyes widened.

"Zombie!"

"Raven" I got up making her retreat towards the window, "Raven come away from the window"

Last thing I wanted was for her to jump out the window and down the long flight to the painful concrete waiting below. She held her fingers out like a cross,

"Back zombie, back"

I stepped towards her again, her whole body was in freak out mode, the closer I got the closer she inched towards the window. I had to stop moving, I hated it but I made my body stop.

"Ok, I'm moving back"

Raven let out a high pitched giggle, one that just didn't belong to her. "Zombies everywhere" Raven started to tug at her hair in distraught, "Must stop them, zombies and hannibal clowns," She started thrashing at her legs as if she was on fire,

"Ah it burns! Flames burning me!" Raven threw open the window and climbed out it to the ledge, in two strides I was there. Raven jumped. I just managed to grab her slender hands, she screamed louder, struggling in my hands. It was hard to pull her up while she was struggling but I tried anyway, I wasn't about to let her drop. I pulled her with all my might, her tiny body crushing into the wall, suddenly she was awake. Raven let out a scream, I couldn't blame her, she was dangling out a fucking window with me of all people standing between life and death. I pulled with all my might and thankfully she crashed in through the window, right on top of me.

"What happened?" She asked like she had no bloody clue. Raven hadn't made a move to get off me yet and I wasn't about to move her, firstly it was nice and secondly, the wind had just been knocked out of me and my balls were still in my throat.

"You tried to jump out the fucking window"

"And you tried to pull me back in?"

"Yeah, what the hell was that?"

Now she got off me trying not to look me in the face, I pulled myself up and latched onto her wrist. "Raven, what the hell just happened?"

"Nothin. Thank you I guess" Raven got out of my grip and went to her desk, I wasn't about to let this go, even though I probably should.

"Raven, what happened?"
She didn't say anything, she just pulled on her jacket and pulled up her hood.

"Raven?"

"I'm a freak alright" Raven snapped, her silver eyes growing dark. "I have night terrors, they make me, well you saw what happened. It happens whenever the hell it wants and as you just saw, a jolt to the system is the only way to wake me up. So run along to your little buddies and share the latest news, I'm a freak that suffers from nightmares, who knows maybe I said or did something that you can terrify me even more with"

She looked so close to breaking down and crying that I did the only thing I could do, I wrapped my arms around her and hugged her. I wasn't gonna tell anybody, anything, except maybe her sister, I'm an only child so I wasn't quite sure if this was something her sister to know, but I figured I should at least tell one of them that Raven tried to jump out the window.

"Your not a freak Raven, night terrors don't make you a freak of nature"

She pulled away from me, "Thanks I guess, for the weird comfort and the, you know, savin my life"

"Anytime princess"