Population: Katie by Connor Penelope

Author:Connor, Penelope [Connor, Penelope]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombies
Published: 2020-05-12T04:00:00+00:00

After lunch, I spot Kyle sitting down in the common room with a book. He’s not on the cleaning or food preparation lists, and Derek and Erin have already left with their teams to exchange some medical supplies with another small group, so I know that he has the rest of the day free.

“Hey,” I say by way of greeting as I approach.

Kyle looks up, smiles, then folds in the corner of the page he’s reading and sets the book down on the floor. “Hey Katie, what’s happening?”

I sit down in front of the boy. “I want to talk to you about something.”

He pats the ground in front of him, inviting me to sit and continue.

“I want to join the field teams, and I thought that if I practiced a little more, then maybe I could do better in class.”

“Cool!” Kyle says, grabbing the book from where he dropped it on the floor, and placing it on top of the small shelf that he must have retrieved it from. I take this as a good sign even before he adds, “How can I help?”

“I was hoping to get some help with the, um, fighting stuff?” I’ve no real idea what I need help with, but learning to kick and punch seems like a good place to start.

“Really?” Kyle asks, sounding surprised by my request.

“Yeah... but you don’t have to.”

“No, no,” Kyle says. “I want to help. It’s just... I’m surprised that you want to work on stuff from Derek’s class. I thought you hated it.”

“I do,” I say, “but maybe if I was doing better, he’d leave me alone.”

Kyle laughs, running his hands through his scruffy blonde hair, then stretching out his arms. He cracks his fingers loudly, then looks back at me. “That never worked for me, but we can try.”

I smile. “At least if I could go on field missions, it’d be worth enduring him.”

Kyle nods. "I've got the afternoon free."

I nod back and start to get to my feet. "I was hoping you’d say that.”

Kyle jumps up after me, looking all too happy to help out. Either the boy has a people-pleasing complex, or he’s not looking forward to an afternoon of lazing about. I make a mental note to challenge him to a board game or something the next time I see him sitting around doing nothing. Kyle leads the way into the training room that Derek usually uses, and begins helping himself to his brother's duffle bag of supplies. To my great relief, he chooses the bag filled with items from the street, as opposed to the one filled with the guns that caused me so much trouble the day before.

"Are you allowed to do that?" I ask after a minute of watching Kyle rifle through the bag. "Derek doesn't exactly strike me as the sharing type."

Kyle laughs at this assessment, but continues to dig in the bag, "No, he'll probably flip if he notices that someone’s been in here. But that's the magic of being the little brother - I can get away with a lot with him.

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