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

possible, and why didn’t we meet Amaya sooner?” I ask finding what she was telling me impossible, and seeming as just an excuse to not seem like Sam cheated on me with her.

“In fact let’s just drop this, how about we go through her things together?” I suggest wanting to do anything except discuss our shared relationship with Sam.

We open her draws and go inter her bag and decide what items we wanted to keep, to remember her by.

April decides to keep the locket, as well as some scarves and hats, I keep some polaroid’s Sam took of herself.

We make her bed and leave the room how we found it, “will it ever get easier?” April asks, “losing the people we love?” She continues.

“It never gets easier, I think you deal in better ways over time, but it will never not hurt losing someone you love, I tend to push my feelings back or hide my grief but it makes it much harder to deal with, when you lose someone it hurts so much like you’ve lost a big piece of yourself, and it’s hard to want to live when that piece is taken away, but by living day by day it gets easier until you’re no longer sad when you think of who you’ve lost, you’re happy because you know they’re at peace” I explain, and I hope my words were enough to forgive my absence.

 

Chapter 12

 

April’s POV

I wake up to the alarm I set the day before, the first time in a long time I had woken so early to do my training with Colonel.

I dress quickly and approach his room, I knock lightly so not to wake the others that are still asleep, he answers looking wide awake as usual, it’s clear even when we’re not training he wakes this early.

“April you’re up early” he says with a smile.

“I wanted to train with you today if that’s okay?” I ask.

“You don’t have to, I didn’t wake you so you could have take some time for yourself, it’s only been a few days since…” he trails off with a sympathetic smile.

“I want to, I’ve missed it” I admit, he sighs in defeat knowing there’s no convincing me any different.

“Let’s go” he announces closing his door behind him and striding down the hallway and down the long staircase, I follow him jogging to keep up with his long strides.

We soon reach the secret training room, “today we’ll work on your strength, not only the strength to attack your enemies but the strength needed for escape when you’re surrounded with no way to fight your way out”, Colonel explains, he pulls out the training dummy and instructs me to hit it with the bat, I repeat this multiple times while he watches me.

He shows me different training techniques and different exercises to build my strength up, he advises when cornered to make a run for it as I am faster than the zombies, hide in an abandoned building, or climb a tree and wait, we continue these techniques for a few hours until Colonel decides we’ve done enough for the day.

As per our usual routine we head to the kitchen for breakfast, he makes me fried eggs and bacon and we both take a seat to enjoy our breakfast together.

“How have you been?” He asks me, I take a bite of my eggs while I think of how best to respond, “I’m okay considering, I have been finding just getting up in the morning kind of hard though, it’s trying to find a point in continuing to survive, every time I start to relax someone dies, it feels like being happy is impossible” I sigh while continuing to eat breakfast.

“I can’t imagine how it must feel to lose so much in such a little space of time, but I’m proud of how well you’ve handled it, you’re still here trying your best and that’s pretty amazing” Colonel replies, I try to hide my smile at his words despite losing my mum, my best friend and the girl I loved so quickly I still have someone who I can depend on besides Damon, it’s starting to feel that the man who was absent my whole life really has come back.

Noah’s POV

I watch as April and Colonel return to their rooms, things were so much better before April and her friends turned up, without her Colonel wouldn’t have attacked me, we wouldn’t have had an almost zombie infestation, all these people are is trouble for me and everyone else here.

I know I can’t just kick them out, Colonel wouldn’t allow it and neither would the others here, but I have to separate them from us somehow even if that means endangering everyone here.

I sneak into the security room where the gate and cameras are controlled, I sigh knowing if anyone found out what I was doing I would be so dead, I click a few buttons until all our security systems turn off disabling the gate, I take a look outside and see a few zombies starting to walk through the now open gate, I smirk knowing my plan is in full swing, there’s no way we can go against a whole swarm of zombies.

I wait a few moments until there are crowds of zombies in the garden and sneak back out the security room, once the zombies start to bang on the door and windows I know it’s time to get everyone out, I rush to everyone’s bedroom banging on their doors.

Everybody leaves looking groggy and annoyed at the early intrusion, “sorry to wake everyone but somethings gone wrong, there are zombies in the garden!” I announce trying to sound as panicked as possible, “how could this happen we have a reliable security system” someone says, “are we going to die?” someone else