Well, that was eventful, wasn’t it? After this, the story picks up a bit more, but I just wanted to introduce some people first. Anyways, just give me some time to catch you up cause you’re still four months behind me. I don’t want you not to know the details, though, right? As you can see, I’m starting to hate the whole ‘half-zombie’ thing. It gets worse as I stay there more. Life changes for me even more after this day. Is it bad, or is it good? You’ll never know. I’m just kidding; you’ll see for yourself after this. 

I realize that I might seem dramatic, but you’ll see that’s all I got to say.  

*STILL FOUR MONTHS*

“ Mr.Thorne, may I come in?” he says. 

“Yes,” I say reluctantly. 

*Ace opens the door*

“ So you like eavesdropping, huh?” he said while smirking. 

“I have no idea what you’re talking about,” I say. 

“ Phoenix, I know you were listening,” he says. 

I shook my head, and he closed the door behind him. 

“ So we’re going to lie?” he says as he gets closer to me. 

“ You should get back, you know? I could infect you or whatever,” I say as I back up on my bed (maybe I was blushing, you don’t know). 

He laughed, “ The test results came back. You can’t infect anyone,” he said. 

Damn it, I don’t have anything to say. Welp, time for my trap card. 

“ Well, what if I was eavesdropping? What difference does that make, Dr. Snow?” I say, raising my eyebrow. 

“ We’re not around people, Phoenix. You can call me Ace. But anyway, I like you obviously, so?” 

“ So? It’s not like I like you,” I said, holding back my smile. 

“So you kiss people you don’t like?” he says with a smile. 

Now, did I get up and kiss him again after that? I wanted to, but it got interrupted by a knock on the door. 

It was Olivia, and he opened the door. 

“We need the both of you asap. You know how to fight, right, Mr.Thorne?” She says.

I nod and am a little disappointed. We walk to the place she’s talking about. She asks if we can handle it, and we both nodded. It’s fucking terrible. Zombies attack each other, not even for food. Then, a doctor was in the mix. 

“ Well, well, if it isn’t the damn half-zombie, you think you’re better than us?” someone says. 

“ Definitely no better than any of you. We’re all stuck here and feel like we’re fucking monsters. Singling me out doesn’t do anything for you as it does for me. Attacking a doctor that’s left home and stays here day in and out isn’t gonna heal you,” I say. 

“ They don’t care about us, and you’re just their guinea pig to them,” he says angrily. 

“ If I have to be a guinea pig for all of us to be healed, then so be it. They can stick every needle they ca-” I try to say before one of the security officials hit me. 

I defend myself, and some doctors look at me like I'm a monster. But he didn't. He tried to call them off, but he intervened when they didn’t. 

“ When I tell you to stop, you stop, or you’re gonna lose your job. Do you understand? ,” Ace says

“ Fire me? Please, the fact that you’re defending one of “them” is disgusting," the security guard says. 

“ Take him out of my site and process him,” Ace says.  

“ Yes, sir,” some familiar faces say in unison. 

All the zombies were surprised. 

“ If they ever try to hit any of you, they’ll end up like him. I care about all of you,” he said while helping me. 

He talked to everyone, got them bandaged, and then went to talk with the doctors. Everyone looked at me kind of weirdly as I got my food and sat down, where I saw Jade. 

“ So I heard they’re putting a team together to investigate the places where it all started. Are you thinking of going?” she says, looking at me. 

“ I haven’t heard about it, but if it’s possible, I’ll go. Anything to find a cure, finish this, and come back to some type of normal,” I say. 

“ Me too,” most of the table said. 

“ If you guys want to do that, go ahead. Just because that one doc is on our side doesn’t mean anything,” someone said down the table. 

“ You know he’s the head doctor, right? ” I said, and everyone was super surprised. 

“ Really???,” Jade says. 

After I nod, everyone asks me questions about him and the other staff. I just tell them what I’ve heard or observed. After that, they introduced themselves….

“ Thanks for the info, Im Violet, beside me is Nora and Ben, and the girl in the back is Cora,” They all waved in unison. 

“ No problem. I'm Phoenix. This is Jade beside me and Theodore beside her,” they also wave. 

It was nice to not feel so alone in this place. I thought everyone would look at me weird for the whole ‘Half-Zombie’ thing. Sadly, my lunch was short-lived when Ace called me. I said bye to everyone and headed out. 

“ So, what am I needed for? ” I said while we were walking. 

“ We’re setting up a team to investigate, and I wanted to ask you to join it?” Ace said. 

“ I was just talking about doing it, so sure,” I said. 

He nods and opens the door to this unfamiliar room. 

“ Before you go out, though, you’re going to train because we don’t know who’s going to stop us from getting the info, ” Dr.Snow says as he nods at some people. 

“ We’re ready for him, Sir,” Ms. Fin says. 

He nods. “Okay, I’ll leave you with them for now, Mr.Thorne. After you’re finished, please come to my office,” Dr.Snow says. 

Nodded towards Dr. Snow as he left. Ms.Fin then took my height, weight, etc... .Then she had me put this thing on my head ( it looked like a VR Headset) and a fake weapon so it could calibrate to me. I tested it and saw everything was good to go, and after, she told me my training date and times. As I left, I saw Nora, Violet, and Ben ask about their times. I waved and headed to Dr.Snow’s office. 

I lightly knock on his office door, “ Come in Mr.Thorne and close the door behind you,” Dr.Snow said. 

“ Something was needed?”

He sighed, “ Yes, I’m sorry, just been swamped. I’m going to be the leader of the investigation group, and we need to go to the gun range as a group because you guys are going to need guns,”

“ When?” I said. 

“ Tomorrow, so make sure you’re up bright and early, I told the others. Also, you’re going to need to take a shot to defy the hunger for a bit. You’ll only need one for obvious reasons,” he said. 

I asked more about the training, got more info about the shot, and went to my room. I feel like this might be amazing or a trainwreck, no in between…..