1 Chapter One
"They found him in a bathroom. He said he was trying to take a shit until he noticed one in the stall next to him, he started screaming, then it was chaos."
I snort,almost choking on the water in my hands.
The scouters had gone on a few runs for supplies yesterday and they found a guy,late 30's,held up in a toilet stall with roamers banging on the door. They saved his life but didn't save him the humiliation.
The story has already been scattered throughout half of the city.
I look around, investigating my fellow peers. Everyone in our school cafeteria seems to be talking about the same thing. Their spoons clattering on their plates as they eat, body shifting towards the edges of their seats as they listen in on the new 'story of the day'.
Beryl wanted to be the one to tell us first. He always says that he never wants to miss the chance of giving us a good chuckle.
"Damn,we can't even take a shit in piece."Flint chuckles, popping a cucumber into his mouth and slowly chewing away with a disappointment look adorning his face.
"Should've checked the stalls before he did it. Probably would've avoided that from happening."
"Not everyone's an intellectual like you,Soraya. The man was probably in a rush"Ruri counteracts,continuing to pick at his food.
"Is this all that we have to talk about?" I ask, already feeling bored by the conversation. I slouch back into my chair, trying to relax,with my newly full stomach.
"James and Ida brought in some supplies today. They raided a comic store,said they'd give us a batch to keep us entertained." Beryl says, his hands clapping together in excitement.
"They raided a comic store. Why would they do that?", My eyebrows raise in question.
"Entertainment,- " Flint suggests. He smiles slyly at me before continuing, " -probably for people like you, The kind that gets bored faster than you can blink."
I roll my eyes at his comment. A lie, That's what it is!
"That's very funny but no. There's about 726 of us. I'm surprised that anyone gets bored. We even have book stores in the city" I state. He has the audacity to laugh at my defensive response.
There's a huge number of book stores. Stores that have board games, video games, DVD's,albums and CD's.
Shit! I even remember going to a few for some albums and books. I have a room full of them now. There's alot of shit inside the walls.
Soraya shrugs, "The Internet is still up and running but some people want plain,old books."
"So the scouters are basically risking their lives for a bunch of traditionalists." I retort.
"It doesn't matter. The runner's job is to get any and everything. There's less and less roamers out there everyday. Let's just focus on school and that's the most entertaining thing we can have right now." Flint says. We all look around at the other students chattering away.
" I guess you're right. Coach Jefferson brought in a rotter for Training. He had us running laps for thirty minutes. You remember right,Jade?"Ruri smacks at my hand to get my attention.
"Don't even remind me." I say.
After sitting there for five more minutes while talking about our coach's crazy antics,I finally finished the salad.
What's going on?
Currently, the world is overrun by the undead and we call them alot of thing; zombies, roamers, biters.There's alot of names for the brainless freaks but 'fellow human' definitely isn't one of them.
Mankind didn't go extinct. Not technically. Cities across the world were walled and secured a few weeks after the zombies started showing up. It took about a year and a half to be exact.
We have guards.Some protect the wall or they walk around the perimeter of the cities and kill as much roamers as they can. The outbreak took away a whole chunk of the population but we're still here. Alive.
We're okay and we hope to continue that way.
"Cecilia is getting on my nerves." Beryl mutters. He groans as he rubs his forehead.
"What'd she do now?" Soraya says.We all chuckled at Beryl's obvious frustration.
Cecilia was a nuisance to Beryl. He's her only entertainment and she's an annoying little chatterbox.She can go on and on about her unconditional love for potato chips and about how much she misses the ones in the bags other than the one's her mom makes for her everyday.
"She's so ungrateful. Her mom made her homemade chocolate cookies - that aren't even that bad - and she complained to me about them for the whole of biology class." Beryl sighs, resting his head on his hands. Ruri patted his back in sympathy.
"Seriously,our world is overrun by zombies and that's what she complains about?" I ask,in disbelief .
We already finished eating lunch by now but we just sat back and kept conversating until lunch was up.
Beryl,Flint,Soraya,Ruri and I are friends.It was hard growing a bond with other after the outbreak but they're worth it.
Any friends that I had before were either dead,outside taking and endless stroll in another city. I don't know which.
Beryl's a social butterfly.
He's a walking news article. He knows everything including his school work.
His dad, his little sister and Him were already in here when the Army started building the walls.
He still knows what it was like, the horrors of the apocalypse. Roamers were in the city at first, so, he and his dad had to defend themselves. They mostly hid but sometimes they would get into 'messy' situations.
Flint was,and still is, a video game fanatic,his cousin was a gymnast and his father was a soldier.They were all, suspiciously, prepared for this kind of outbreak. His father, his cousin and him were about twenty miles from here, locked up in a cabin with some food,when some scouters found them and brought them here.
Soraya was also in the city. She w
as found in a café with six other people.
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