Chapter 12 Second String Sees Some Action

Chapter 12 Second String Sees Some Action

Point of View Parker

Watching Aaron and the others leave me behind felt strange I had been beside them since the whole crazyness thing started. They had given me the keys for safe keeping and I don't think that the others were to pleased about it. I smiled at Kevin who walked slowly up to me and wrapped his arm around me, "It'll be fine. They'll be fine." he said as we walked back to the cafeteria. We all just sort of sat there looking at one another Isabella kept Iyari on a tight leash not letting her get particularly close to anyone. Bomani looked lonely but hell if I was going to comfort him I mean please, I'm not running a loser out reach program. Then all of a sudden we heard a loud squeal and the lights went out. I heard Isabella scream and Iyari was suddenly at my side with Kevin.

"Stay calm." Kevin shouted, "The generator just ran out of gas." he whispered.

"Are you sure I mean Lacheya said that it would last us another six hours." Bomani said standing up from his seat and walking over to Kevin and I.

"Yeah, well. . . that was a guess and if you think it is something else why don't you stick your head outside and take a peak, asshole." Kevin hissed sharply.

"Fine." I said standing up from my spot on the floor and brushing the dirt off the back of my pants. "I'll go. It'll take what five minutes tops if I don't come back then you have one less person to worry about." I joked walking toward the double doors.

"Wait, I will go with you." Isabella said looking at her daughter clinging to Kevin's leg.

"Coolsness girl power." I said and then turned to Bomani, "Could you come with us I'd feel trey safer with a guy coming out there too."

"I'll go." Kevin said and Iyari eyes bulged from her head her grip tightening on his leg.

"I don't think so stitches." I said winking at him.

"I'll go its okay." Bomani said and nodded at me. The three of us walked out of the cafeteria and to the double doors that exited the school. I took the keys out of my pocket took a deeep breath and slid them into the lock clicking it open and then pushing the doors. The swung open loudly and I jumped. Bomani put his hand on my shoulder and then stepped out ahead of me taking the lead. I grabbed his arm lightly and then Isabella reached out for my hand. The three of us walked out of the school slowly. When the three of us walked out I stopped turned and locked the door.

"What is you doing?" Isabella asked me.

"We don't want a repeat of yesterday do we? I mean espeacially since Kevin and Iyari are alone." I said and locked the door sliding the keys in my pocket. I took another deep breath and then clung to Bomani again. We walked over to the side of the school where the generator was, a huge fence surrounding it.

"Eww." I squealed as we reached it and finally seeing what had stopped the machine. A cat had some how crawled into the machine and had wiggled its way into some part of it mangling its body in the generator.

"Dios Mio." Isabella said turning away.

"I think I can fix it if I pull the poor thing out." Bomani said, walking to the fence, when Isabella tugged on my shirt.

I turned to her and then I saw them all watching us there had to be at least fifty of them. Just sitting there, looking at us. "Bomani." I whispered and when he turned around he saw all of them too, the cats.

"Maybe we should wait for the others to get back." he said as I walked away from the pack of felines.

"Come on." I said as Isabella and Bomani stood there staring back at the cats. "Come on." I repeated walking backwards toward the school entrance, which now seemed far. The cats started to stand one by one and thats when I took off. My arms sashaying from side to side. My legs pumping hard to get to the locked doors. I turned to see Bomani a few feet behind me and Isabella falling to the pavement, but to hell if I was going back for her.

I slammed hard into the doors and reached into my pocket grabbing the keys and the cats started to jump on top of Bomani and Isabella. Bomani was so close to me and Isabella was trying to get them off of her. I dropped the keys as a cat that Bomani flung hit the wall close the me. Picking them up I opened slid them in the keyhole and unlocked the door. I ran inside and shouted, "Come on!"Bomani dove into the school with about five cats still clinging to him. I went over to him as he slid one off of him and toward the door. I opened the door and closed it on the hissing animal, locking the door keeping it in place and crushing it in half. Kevin came out of the caf and I could see Iyari looking in horror. Kevin swung the pipe that had been pulled from my aunt the day before connecting it to the ribs of one of the cats it meowed loudly as I kicked one off of Bomani who now stood up and the other two hissed and ran off into the school. "Don't let them get away!" I shouted as Kevin through the pipe to Bomani and sank to the floor clutching his side. I went to him and placed my hand on his forehead as Iyari ran from the cafeteria.

"Are you okay?" We both asked.

"Yeah just... Its nothing. Just go with him." He told me when a bang on the door made me jump. Kevin stood slowly clutching Iyari for support and walking back into the caf as I walked over to the door. The cat that was pinned in place was dead. I looked up out of the small glass window in the top center of the door and saw Isabella near the door, the cats all around her. She was dead.

Chapter 11 We're Going Shopping!

Chapter 11 We're Going Shopping!

"Yeah!" Kevin shouted clapping his hands together loudly as Iyari skipped around the cafeteria.

"Yippy!" the little girl shrieked over and over again. Parker giggled and Bomani punched his fist up in the air. I smiled and Scotty walked into the caf. I got up from my seat and walked over to him.

"Hey." I said and he raised an eyebrow at me, shrugging me away. I stopped in my tracks, as he walked over to the seat Kevin had just gotten out of and spooned mac and cheese onto an empty tray. Mallory who was about to leave the caf when the lights turned on had seen Scotty's reaction to me and gave me a puzzled look, that to me said Aaron, wada fuck? I walked over to her. She placed her hand on my shoulder as Scotty started to shovel food in his mouth. Warren and Laceya walked into the caf next followed by Alessandro.

"We have enough gas to run it for about another six hours." Warren said.

"How do you know?" Kevin asked.

"The bar I worked at had a generator we ran it a couple a times last year during that snow storm. This is a bigger model so I'm guessing we got more time." Lacheya said walking over to Kevin and flicking him on the forehead and then hopping onto the table that we had all been eating on minutes ago and closer to Scotty then I liked.

"Para Iyari eso o te voy a sonar haste que tu culo se pone rojo!" Isabella shouted grabbing her daughter who was skipping past her at the time and grabbing her arm roughly. I had no idea what she said but Iyari seemed to because she suddenly looked like she was on the verge of tears.

Lacheya placed her hand on Scotty's shoulder and for a second I thought I would pounce on her. In my head I was leaving her stranded in the middle of no where instead of Isabella. Howeve I quickly regained my self respect and left the cafeteria. Mallory followed me out and i wanted to scream.

"What was that?" Mallory asked obviously as shocked at Scotty's behavior as I was.

"I don't know and do you wanna know why I don't know its because I'm a complete idiot. For real I fooled myself into thinking that Scott was starting to have feelings for me and you wanna know why?" I asked.

"Sweetie not really your starting to get a little loud." Mallory said and turned around to look in the cafeteira to see if anyone was looking at us.

"You know what you're right." I announced throwing my hands up in the air, "I am just gonna forget it I mean it was a great night peaceful and one I will rememeber till I die which could be sooner than I planned but that's besides the point. The point is that I am going to march back into that caf and be unphased." I took a deep breath and walked back into the cafeteria. I had that creeping feeling in my gut that everyone had just been talking about me so I sat down at a table near a corner and Mallory sat next to me. I smiled at Parker and she flashed me a pearly white grin.

"So," Warren started, " I was thinking that we should probably head out and get some supplies I mean other people are going to start to soon and the sooner we go the better chance we have at finding things that will be some what helpful." he looked at all of us and then went on, "So here's the plan I was thinking that it would be me, Alessandro, Scotty, Lacheya, and Isabella. The rest of you guys stay here."

"No way, my wife stays here!" Alessandro shouted.

"Um I'm sorry what about me?" I asked standing from my seat.

"I'm not leaving my daughter alone with a bunch of people I just meeting yesterday." Isabella screamed out.

"I mean I think I can hold my own way better than Lacheya can." I said.

"No you would never leave her alone, like last night in the nurses station with Kevin, Parker, and Aaron." Mallory spat.

"Shut the hell up you don't have clues what your talking about!" Isabella yelled. Mallory stood up.

"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Lacheya questioned looking at me.

"It means I only had to save your ass yesterday." I said fiercely.

"You did not just go there!" Lacheya yelled starting to walk toward me.

"I know you're probably thinking I didn't go there but I so totally just did. Bitch." I said not backing down as she got in my face.

"My wife is not going!" Alessandro shouted.

"Well I am!" Mallory shouted back trying to out shout everyone.

"Okay! Okay!" Warren screamed and then whistled sharply getting everyone's attention, "I see we aren't happy with the plan. Thats fine. Isabella your stayng Aaron you're coming does that settle it."

"No." Mallory snapped folding her arms.

"Fine Mallory you can come too, Christ." Warren said caving.

Nobody said anything for a while until Parker opened her mouth, "I kinda wanna go shopping."