Infected

Chapter 26: Bite

I'm not sure how long I waited. Maybe two hours? I don't know, I'm just really agitated about Clarity. Diana told me that Dan will tell us if she's alright. I just need to be patient. Blaze is slowly growing up. He just learned how to crawl. It's night time now and Dan came downstairs. I instantly got up. "Is...clarity alright?" I asked, worried. Dan had a wide smile on his face and replied,

"It was a huge success! The bullet is no longer in her shoulder. She'll be alright as long as she gets rest."

I smiled as well, wiping tears away from my face and sighed in relief. "Th-thank you so much, dan." I said, sitting down again. Hours later, we all went to sleep. I soon woke up by the sound of the dogs barking. At first, I thought one of them fought off an infected or gotten into a fight. But, something seemed wrong. I slowly got up, placing Angel next to aizen, who fell asleep on me, and looked out of the backyard window. Nothing. But, I did hear dogs barking. I sighed, "Must be fighting or scaring a wild animal off..." I was going back to bed, until the dogs started whimpering. What the hell? I looked out the window once more, nothing. I grabbed Leo's gun, and went outside. I could feel myself shaking a little. I gulped and looked around. One of the German Shepard dogs noticed me and lowered its head, wagging its tail and walked over to me. "What's wrong, Ceaser?" I asked, petting the German Shepard on his head. He continued to cry, sitting down and soon lied down. I rubbed his stomach, trying to comfort him. Suddenly, one pit-bull dog growled at me. "Whoa! What's wrong, Buster?" I asked, quickly standing up. Buster continued to growl. Buster is always a quiet dog, he never growls at anyone unless...there's an infected nearby. Slowly, I turned around and saw an infected wolf, growling as well. Just before I could shoot it, it whacked the gun out of my hand and tackled me. I screamed, buster running after the infected. Before I knew it, everything went black when I hit my head on a rock. I only heard dogs barking and an infected screeching in pain. Minutes later, I woke up and buster was licking my arm. "Buster...what are you-" I asked, moaning in pain. Suddenly, I froze, I saw a bite wound on my arm. No...no...no! I quickly got up and looked at it. "I-I'm...infected?! No...please god no...no!" I begged. I started tearing up. I fell to my knees and started crying. Then, I heard buster crying, lowering his head. Why did he look guilty? "I...I better...clean this up." I thought to myself, walking back to this house, picking up the gun. I walked in the kitchen and searched for bandages. Suddenly,

"Cain?"

Startled, I turned and saw Clarity, rubbing her eye. God was I happy to see her. I wanted to hug her, but I didn't want her to see my arm. "What's wrong?" she asked. "Um...nothing. What are you doing up?" I lied. "Well...I got thirsty and decided to get water." clarity answered, opening the fridge to pull out a water bottle. I looked down at my bloody bite wound. I knew I had to tell her eventually, but not right now because I don't want to worry her.

Two hours later, the sun came up. I didn't get any sleep at all because I was worried that if I fall asleep, I'll turn. I got up from the couch and looked at my arm. Tears welled up and I wiped them away. Then,

"Cain...what's that?"

I suddenly looked up. Aizen was looking at my bitten arm.

"Shit."

I thought. I sighed and told him what happened. Aizen's eyes widen. "N-no...dude, you're my best friend! D-damn it...let me see." aizen replied, devastated. "Um...are you sure?" I said. Aizen kneeled down and nodded. I slowly unwrapped my bandaged and aizen saw my bloody bite wound. "Wait...an infected's jaw isn't that wide." aizen said. I looked closely, aizen's right, there's no way an infected's mouth can bite over my arm. If an infected didn't bite me...what did? Then, I remembered buster's guilt face. I got up, went outside, and saw other dogs playing. I looked around to find Buster. I saw him lying under a tree, alone. I walked up to him. Buster saw me and started crying. "You must've bit me by mistake, did you, boy?" I gently said to him. The pit bull dog whimpered, gently licking my hand. I started to pet his head. It makes sense. Buster must've bit me by mistake. And ow, he bites hard. I'm so relieved that I'm not infected. "Cain!" a voice called. I turned and saw dan.

"Aizen told me about our bite wound. Come on, let's clean it up before it really gets infected. Alright?"

"Sure."

I followed Dan inside the house and he fixed my wounded arm. By the time he was done, Clarity was still asleep. Wait until I tell her the good news tomorrow.