Infected
Chapter 16: Joy
We walked back home, wait until Linda sees Chance, Aizen's father. Excited, I knocked on the door. Linda answered it and she instantly gasped when she saw my father. "Ch-ch...chance?" she said, her hands covering her mouth in shock. Chance walked to Linda and hugged her, feeling her big belly touching his. "Hi, Linda." he said gently, giving her a kiss on the forehead. Linda burst into tears. "Let's leave them alone." aizen whispered, going upstairs, maiko following him. Angel was tired, so he slept in his bedroom for a while. Ian was wrapping tank's wounded eye with bandages we found at the school. "Who's that?" lakey asked. "That's aizen's father, chance." I answered, sitting down as Ava wrapped my injured arm, leg and tail. "Wait, I'm confused. Where did you guys go?" ian asked, confused, biting the strip of the bandage off. "W-well, it's a long story," I said, starting to explain what took place. I even mentioned that we ran into the scissor bear again, this time, an alligator killed him. Ava was shocked, but relieved that he's gone for good. "So! You're amy?" ava asked, turning to amy. Shyly, amy nodded her head yes. "Say, want to change into some new clothes? Maybe Linda has something good for you." ava added, grabbing amy's hand and wet upstairs. "Oh! U-um..." amy stuttered. The two girls ran upstairs as Thomas yelled,
"STAY FAR AWAY FROM MY ROOM! TWERPS!"
I growled at him. I do NOT like that guy one bit. Then,
"Cain!"
I turned to see shadow happily running to me and gave me a hug. "I was so worried about you!" she said, not breaking the hug one bit. I hugged her back and she noticed my injured tail wrapped up. "What happened to your tail?" shadow asked. "Well...let's just say, shadow, don't play with scissors." I said, chuckling as I pet her head until she purred happily. An hour later, everyone went to sleep. Ian started to look out of the window, he's been dozed off since we arrived here. I started to get worried about him. I put the sleeping kitten down and walked up to ian. "Hey," I said, putting a hand on his shoulder. Ian flinched a little. The blue-haired orange cat turned around and saw me. The only thing I noticed about ian is that his eyes are bloodshot...from crying.
"Oh...h-hey cain. What's up?" he asked, wiping tears from his eyes. "I should ask you the same thing. Why're you crying?" I asked, sitting down next to him. "Me? Crying!? How absurd! I don't cry!" ian replied, quickly getting up and trying to hide something from me. I gave him a skeptical look. "C'mon, ian. Don't lie to me." I said. Ian slowly backed away from me to the stairs. "D-d...d...don't worry about it! Everyone cries! You cry, I cry, lakey cries, everyone!" ian said, stuttering. Ian ran upstairs to a room, just before I could say anything else. I sighed, "What is wrong with that guy?" I sat down on the couch, next to lakey. Then,
"I know why ian is crying..."
Lakey replied. I quickly turned to lakey. "Oh! I thought you were asleep! Sorry, lakey..." I whispered. "It's alright, dude. I woke up 10 minutes ago," lakey said, turning to me.
"But, you wanted to know why ian is sad?"
"Yeah, I just want to see him happy for once."
"Well, before raven and rai were brought into prison, ian and I were captured first...or second, I think shadow was hiding from us. Ian had his parents and little sister with him. My mother was the only family I had...but she turned into one of those infected monsters."
"Sorry..."
"It's okay! I'm over it now."
Lakey gave me a warm smile and continued,
"Anyways, Ian's parents and his sister was with him. These dusk soldiers tried to separate his parents from ian and his sister. But, ian fought back. He kept on screaming and scratching them, yelling to let go of his family. But, with one shot from a gun, the dusk soldier tried shooting ian, But, his father took the bullet to the heart. Shocked, I stood there, paralyzed with fear. Ian's mother was next, these dusk soldiers started to brutally murder his mother right in front of ian and his sister. Ian was so frighten, his body wouldn't stop shaking. Finally, his sister was taken away from him, and she was screaming for ian to save her. But, ian was being held down by two soldiers and knocked him out..."
Lakey paused for a moment, then continued. "Honestly, I couldn't remember what happened next because they knocked me out as well." Lakey finally said. I felt bad, I guess aizen's family reminded ian of his own. "God...now I feel horrible." I said, lying down. "Don't worry buddy! Ian's my best pal! He'll be okay tomorrow." lakey replied, resting his red cap on a table near by and lied down on the arm of the chair. "Well...g'night cain." lakey said, yawning. "Night..." I said back, closing my eyes. Just as soon as I did that, a loud snore was coming from the corner of the living room. My eyes widen as Thomas, mean grandpa, started to snore loudly. I could NOT sleep that night, so I stuffed my ears with two pillows, but that didn't work.