E Virus: The Diary of a Modern Day Girl by Ward Jessica

Author:Ward, Jessica [Ward, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Jessica Ward
Published: 2014-07-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15 – The New Recruits

We looked out onto a mass of plywood hills. The outer walls of the dark skatepark were covered in intricately designed graffiti. The third teenager, a short skinny boy threw his skateboard down onto the concrete floor and skated towards the various ramps, unfazed by our sudden arrival.

"How long have you been here?" Ryan asked the tall boy.

The boy shrugged. "Dunno, as long as those things took over I suppose." Came his cool response.

"OK, and how long might that be?" Ryan pressed.

"I don't know. Couple weeks maybe?" He answered.

We all stood around, not quite sure what to do. How had these kids stayed here that long? I was amazed at how the infected didn't seem to faze them in the slightest. How had they remained so cool?

"What's your name mate?" Nick asked the boy.

"Jared" he answered. "That's Sarah, and the dude on the ramp is Nathan." he finished.

"OK Jared, how have you guys managed to stay here for so long?" Leon asked.

"Not sure, we just came here when it all started kicking off. Things were pretty bad around our end, so we came for a skate to let off some steam. Those things blocked our way out. We just stayed here ever since." Jared told us.

"By the sounds of it you did the right thing." I told him. "It's not great out there, that's for sure." I added.

The boy looked at me and nodded.

"Well, you can't stay here forever, sooner or later we're all going to run out of food and water." George piped up.

We looked over to the smashed up vending machine in the corner of the room. It wasn't hard to figure out; that's how they kept themselves fed. A diet of crisps, chocolate and fizzy drinks wasn't going to do them any good, but they were teenagers. Even before this whole chaotic mess began, that was probably all they lived off.

"How long are you staying?" Sarah asked. She obviously wasn't that keen on newcomers.

"Not long, hopefully." Lacey replied. She wasn't exactly keen on teenagers at the best of times. It wasn't their fault; it wasn't that long ago we were their age, looking back at how we were back then, still makes me cringe. I had already been there, done that and got the postcard. I was a rebellious teenager; I snuck out the house, even climbed out of bathroom windows to go to parties. I got drunk... A lot. I did nothing but argued with my mum, I always thought I knew best. Turns out I was wrong, I was a complete nightmare growing up, and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

"Can we come with you, when you go?" Jared asked hopefully.

Duckface screwed her face up. She stayed attached to Andy this whole time. She never spoke a word. I don't think she dared.

Sensing her reluctance he spoke "It doesn't matter if not, I just don't think we can stay here much longer. Like you said, we'll be running low soon." he added looking over to the vending machine.

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