Infection Z Beswick, L. (books for 8th graders txt) 📖

the room, I sigh “he’ll he okay he’s just sleeping for now" I reply, “how’s April?” I ask him, he’s quiet for a moment as though he’s deliberating whether to tell me the truth, “she’s quiet mostly, she seems completely shocked at her own behaviour like she wasn’t in control" he admits, “it seems like some sort of hallucination, I’ve never seen her act like that" my concerns over April’s behaviour continue to grow as the minutes tick by, “she’s a real risk" I mutter, “imagine if we’d been in a fight with those zombies, or she was on her own who knows what may have happened to her" Noah just nods in agreement, “what should we do?” he asks me looking as concerned as I feel, “for starters whatever relationship you two started to have can’t continue right now, and she needs to be isolated at least until we can figure out what triggers these attacks and how we can control them, otherwise she’ll be a risk to us and herself".

Noah agrees with a sigh, and leaves once again and silence engulfs the room again, I sit and watch Damon’s unconscious figure, watching the rise and fall of his chest, and listen to his deep breaths, I wish to be with April but I don’t know if I can face her yet, it may not be her fault Damon’s here but I still resent her for it, if maybe she had come to us or we had noticed something we could have helped her, was Damon’s tough love too much for her to handle so soon after losing her mum? These questions and a million more buzz around my head.

Finnian walks into the room and purrs around my legs letting off a few small meows, “I wondered where you got off to" I smile, the cat settles in my lap and peers up to me, “what are we going to do Finnian?” I ask with a sigh, he meows in response as though trying to answer my question, “just when things start to look up something else goes wrong" he meows again.

“You know that cat hasn’t got any idea what’s you’re talking about" Damon’s voice chimes in, I gasp in surprise “Damon you’re awake?” I ask and walk to his side, “where’s April?” he asks, “she’s in her room, did you want to see her?” I ask trying to hide my surprise, “I would but maybe later on when I feel more myself, have you been here this whole time?” he asks with a grin, “of course I have, I thought you were going to die!” I exclaim.

“That’s a little over dramatic don’t you think?” he chuckles and winces slightly, “you had a knife stuck in you I don’t think my reaction is over dramatic in any way" I pout in annoyance, “I’m worried about April, I know she struggles with mum passing and all but this is insane even for her" I nod in agreement, “maybe we should have seen it? She was a mess after your mum died, then she went psycho on the zombies when we first went back out, plus that news of your dad coming back, that would be hard for anyone to handle so maybe we should have been there for her more, maybe we could’ve prevented this?” Damon reaches for my hand, “we can’t change the past, now we know there’s a problem we can try and fix it or at least ease her pain in some way” he smiles reassuringly.

“What about your pain?” I ask, “I think they gave me something so it doesn’t hurt too bad” I shake my head, “I mean your trauma pain, with everything that’s happened how are you holding up?”

“I’m okay considering, sometimes it does all get on top of me, but I’ve been powering through and I’m dealing", I sigh in relief, “so no stabbing from you anytime soon?” I joke, he chuckles “no murderous tendencies here".

 

 

Chapter 6

April’s POV

I sit alone in my room angry and embarrassed at myself for what I’ve done, I can’t believe I stabbed my own brother, what has my mind come to that has made me do such a thing? One minute I’m being swarmed by zombies that were talking to me and the next Damon had a knife sticking out of his gut and everybody is just staring at me, Noah has come to see me a few times but I’ve struggled to hold much of a conversation, what is wrong with me? I started to feel a darker part of me, I started to even like it, but I never wanted to hurt anyone I love.

There’s a knock at my door, Noah walks into the room with a sympathetic smile, “how are you doing?” he asks, “better" I reply with a shrug, “Damon’s going to be okay, he’ll just be asleep for a while", I feel relieved and smile back in appreciation, “that’s good news, I’m glad", Noah walks into my room and sits on the edge of my bed, “with what happened I think for now we should hold off on whatever’s going on between us, and Sam thinks for now you should spend some time apart from everyone, I’ll obviously still come to see you, but they want you to just stay in your room until we can figure out what’s going on" the positive feeling I had starts to sink, they don’t trust me anymore, and why would they I nearly killed someone, I just nod in response feeling the loneliness seeping in again.

After some time Noah leaves again and I’m just alone with my thoughts, the worst part is this isn’t the first episode I’ve had, when Damon forced me to go out after mum died I had an episode when I was attacking that zombie, I thought mum was in trouble and I was trying to protect her, I’m