Chapter 3
Writing as Carla
We were told to stay put in the library until they fix the bus, “Colid and Charles, you two look after the girls while we fix the bus,” Said Kay. I stared at his back as I watched him leave, I didn’t want him to leave, I was scared, and things were just happening too fast. As I drifted among my thoughts I heard something growl and when I looked back…
I saw a crawler moving towards a little first year girl who was crying softly in the corner, she was the only one making any sort of noise. The sight of the crawler reminded me of Tina, I froze, and my mouth was shut closed, I was too scared to speak. Moments before I could do anything she turned her head and stared right into the crawler’s lifeless eyes, her mind tried to keep up with what her eyes were seeing and after realizing what’s going on, she screamed for help at the top of her voice.
The crawler immediately dug its teeth into her throat and her screams faded into the silence of the room. The scream had caught the attention of the other girls and when they turned their heads to the scene it was already over, with hands over their mouths and tears going down their cheeks they began staggering away from the gore in front of them. Words of regret kept echoing in my mind “I could have warned her… I could have saved her.” Tears flooded my eyes, everything was blurry, “I am so useless” I whispered to myself. Charles and Colid rushed in and smashed the head of the crawler and the head of the girl that was bitten with their metal rods on the head, to keep her from waking up as a crawler.
“What the…where did this crawler come from and how did we not notice it.” Said Colid in a confused manner. Then Tang moved closer to the body of the crawler and with a puzzled look on his face he said, “Guys look at that girls shoulder, it has a bite mark on it”. They began talking about the virus but I didn’t hear a word, my heart was aching, my breathing unsteady I placed my hands on my face and cried with my back against the wall. Kay finally came back and when he saw me in a sorry state he came over to me and placed his hand on my head and I rose my head in response, he saw tears run down my cheeks and he put my head on his chest and said, “Don’t worry everything will be fine.”
The guys began to discuss why zombies act this way and Kay said, “Crawlers are walking corpses with only one animal instinct remaining… and that is to eat.” “But how the hell do corpses not stay dead?” Dz asked. “Well am sure we will find out eventually.” Kay replied. “I hope you didn’t get those statements from anime, cause that’s a bit too cool for you.” “Come on dude, don’t ruin my moment.” Said Kay. Everyone began to laugh, the mood had lightened up… for now at least.
Dz: Umm everyone could you listen to me for a second… there has been a change of plans… we are leaving tomorrow because it’s becoming too dark so we are spending the night here but before we sleep we have to check each one of you for any bite marks (I wonder how smooth their legs are, hell yeah am a genius).
Me: How exactly are you going to check us?
Dz: As thorough as possible (I hope I’ll check you first).
Me: No way, I’m not letting you look at my legs and boobs (Why am I stuck with this pervert)
Dz: What if you’re infected and you kill someone.
Me: Then let us check ourselves instead of you perverts.
Dz: What if your best friend has a mark will you rat her out?
Me: She’s dead you jerk!
Dz: Oh…sorry I-I- didn’t know (I’m a dumbass)
Me: Its fine whatever.
Kay: Okay you love birds am gonna tell the others to begin, if you need me am I will be walking around watching over everyone and Dz you check Carla (Well his been fantasizing about it) ([chuckle] (And I get to look at every girl in site)
Dz and Me: Hey it’s not like that,
Dz: Will you let me Carla?
Me: Okay (I don’t even know why I’m letting him).
Dz: (she actually said yes- yeahhhhh)
Me: Don’t get any funny ideas or I might rip off your balls.
Dz: Yeah sure… wait what?
Me: You heard me.
He was standing behind me and since I was wearing a bra I reluctantly took off my top to show him my back, “There you see there is nothing.” I said but I got no response so I turned around and blood spurted from his nose, I put back my shirt while he was still on the ground with a bloody nose, I began to laugh as he woke up and asked if he was okay. He said he was fine and after a little bit I heard him whisper to himself, “Thank you God I’ll save it to the gentlemen’s section in my brain.” I continued to chuckle.
Writing as Dz
After having an amazing moment I went to see how the guys were doing and I noticed that they had the same day as me. They all had a little blood on their noses and big smiles on their faces, but they did say that convincing the girls was hard. Charles then told me what he said to convince them, (whilst looking at the two dead girls in the library) He said to them, “You girls want to argue with us sure go ahead but nobody is entering the bus without getting checked and if you want a reason for it look at these two dead girls… I’m not about let anything like that happen again… I can’t kill and I won’t kill another little girl again.” After Charles said that there was a moment of silence before they all said okay excluding Carla who took a bit of convincing. Finally Kay showed, “Dude where were you?” I asked. “I was surveying the area.” Kay replied but we all knew that wasn’t the only thing he was surveying. We all looked at Kay with a little grin our faces and Kay sat down, chuckled and said, “No comment”.
Kay: Okay guys listen up here is the plan. Dz and I are going to stand watch north of the fence which is near the gate, Colid and Fox I want you guys to patrol the east side of the fence, Bara I need you to handle the south side, Charles handle the west side and Tang I need you to be the middle man, you will be in charge of reporting to everyone about the situation on every side so you will be on the move constantly. You are our only way of communication I know you can handle it. Okay any questions.
Charles: Actually Kay I found this whistle since you patrolling the front line you can signal us if anything goes wrong and Tang can make sure everyone heard it so that we can rush over to you.
Kay: Thanks that’s actually a pretty good idea.
Me: Charles is actually using his head for once. HAha
Kay: [Chuckles] Okay okay lets head out.
We all moved to our respective area and to my delight the night seemed to be quiet whilst Kay and I patrolled the north side of the fence…well except a few crawlers that kept growling at the gate trying to get through. Looking at them annoyed me so I told Kay I was going to look for something sharp to use as a weapon. Unfortunately my search was pretty unsuccessful I could only find broken pieces of glass, a broken broom (At least it’s a little sharp) and an old rusty knife.
Whilst continuing my search something came into my line of site, a red G-string, my nose bled a little as I began to daydream about some girls wearing it, without me noticing it Carla came from behind and asked, “What you looking at?” I leapt from my spot and grabbed I the G-string from the washing line, I was panicking, sweating while saying, “Uhhhh Nothing…what are you doing out here in the middle of the night? You should be sleeping.” And she replied saying, “Well I couldn’t sleep so I decided to take a walk then I saw someone holding up a torch and just wanted to find out who it was and well what I found was rather unexpected a young man staring at underwear.” She was giggling whilst looking at my embarrassed expression. “What’s that sound?” Asked Carla. I listened closely it was a whistle, something bad just happened, “Damn!” I grunted as I quickly dashed towards the gate. Kay and the other guys were holding up the gate it was falling...
Looking at the current situation I looked at Carla and said, “Go back and tell the girls to move to the back of the hostels, I’ll be right there.” “But…” She hesitated and I shouted, “Noww!” Then she finally dashed back to the other girls. Carla had seen sweat drip down my face and knew the situation wasn’t that simple. I ran to the guys and told them that everyone except us is at the back of the hostel and Kay replied, “Good, okay here’s the plan cause we can’t hold on forever, Dz get the girls in the bus and get the bus ready while the rest of us hold them off, but keep in mind we can only hold out for like 10mins so you better get going. We are gonna run over these mindless beasts!” All of us all nodded our heads. Kay then tossed me the whistle and said, “You know what to do.”
I then ran to the girls and told them the plan whilst getting out of the hostel I noticed a hole on the fence big enough to fit through and told the girls to hurry up and get to the bus. And whilst I was crawling out I could hear footsteps, “I hope it isn’t the crawlers.” I thought to myself. Rushing out of the fence I dropped the knife I was holding on the ground but I paid it no mind, my job was to get the bus ready. When I finally reached the bus to get it started I looked back and realized it was the guys that were running, “We gotta move! There are too many to hold off!” A swam of crawlers were closing in on us and they were still some girls inside the fence…
Writing as Kay
The gate was completely overwhelmed by crawlers. So we began making our way to the back of the hostel when Bara said, “While patrolling I found an opening on the fence am sure Dz used that as an exit.” We sprinted like Olympic athletes towards the fence but then I heard noises so I glanced back and saw a 1st year girl running towards us and she was being tailed by a swarm of crawlers.
The others had not noticed so I stopped as they kept moving towards the hole on the fence but when I looked in front of me Charles had also stopped, He looked back and said to me, “I got this, GO!” As he began running towards her she tripped and a crawler pounced on her as she struggled to get free, tears began to run down her cheeks, she was terrified of death, as it was about to sink it’s horrid teeth into her neck time seemed to slow down as I got to the fence I saw an old knife on the ground so I slide through the opening and grabbed the knife and screamed, “Charles!” as I threw the knife to him He grabbed the Knife with his right hand and kept the momentum he had and slid towards the girl, stabbing the crawler right on its forehead, wasting no time he picked her up and told her to run towards us.
Charles shouted, “Go! I will distract them, get to the bus now!” He began banging the polls close to him with the knife he had, to draw the attention of the crawlers to him. When the girl got to us Charles had already disappeared into the hostel leading the crawlers away, after getting the girl through the fence I stared back at the hostels in anticipation. For what you may be asking, for my friend’s survival.
We caught up with Dz at the bus and told him what happened, worry flooded his face.
Colid: When are we taking off?
Dz: Soon as Charles gets here.
Colid: We should go now before the crawlers come, besides Charles may be dead for all we know.
Me: And what if he’s alive and we just left him to die. Do you not care about your friends?
Colid: Of course I do but, what if the crawler’s get to us first…We can’t afford to wait.
Dz: They won’t get to us.
Colid: How can you be so sure? It’s not like we know how they find us, for all we know they may be able to smell us.
Dz: I just do.
Colid: You’ll get us all killed.
Me: Both of you SHUTUP! Let’s think this through, we know we can’t leave Charles here and we don’t want to get eaten.
Tang: Kay why don’t we wait an hour, if some crawlers show up we just kill them as silently as possible to avoid alerting the other ones. If Charles doesn’t show up we can leave.
Me: That’s not a bad idea. If anyone has a problem with this plan, we are open to ideas, if not lets go with it.
Everyone :…….( Silence)
Me: I will take your silence as an approval.
Am sure everyone was shocked to get such a good idea from Tang of all people and we weren’t the only ones who were impressed by him. A second year girl confronted Tang and she said, “That was a pretty good idea Tang.” Tang replied whilst scratching the back of his head, “Huh… you know my name.” But after hearing that the girl just giggled and said, “I’ll see you later.” He was speechless he turned to us and we gave him a thumbs up.
An hour flew by relatively fast and there was still no sign of Charles, so Dz started the engine and got going slowly and when we were about 200 metres from the library we saw a group of crawlers coming out of a building behind the library with Charles in the forefront. Everyone seemed relieved to see him, I began smiling, and “At least I haven’t lost a friend today.” I said with a sigh of relief
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