Viro (Book 1): Viro by Taylor Barnaby

Author:Taylor, Barnaby [Taylor, Barnaby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombies
Publisher: Barnaby Taylor
Published: 2018-03-05T05:00:00+00:00

Family

Rachel made us go into Ellis’s room. Ellis was sitting up. She looked worried.

‘What’s happening?’ she said.

Rachel made us sit on the bed. She smiled at Ellis.

‘Don’t worry, Ellis, nothing is happening. We all got a little bit overexcited downstairs so I thought we could do with some quiet time.’

Rachel turned to us. The knife glowed in the light.

‘You all need to think about what I said a moment ago. Don’t worry about anybody else, I’m taking care of you now.’

Rachel closed the door.

‘We’re going to be one big happy family.’

The door slammed. Rachel locked it.

No one spoke. We were too frightened. We waited. Rachel might bring her knife back. Ellis spoke in the end.

‘What happened?’ she asked. ‘I heard the lift. It woke me up.’

‘Rachel has two young children locked in a bathroom downstairs,’ said Amber. ‘They’re viros now. She was going to kill them with that big knife.’

‘Viros?’ said Ellis.

‘Infected by their dad,’ said Amber. ‘Rachel pushed him out of the window because he had bitten their children. Rachel locked them in the bathroom while she looked for help. That was how she found us.’

‘She says that we’re her new family,’ said Abe.

‘Rachel is very angry,’ I said. ‘Is she mad?’

‘Yes,’ said Amber. ‘Normal people don’t push their husband out of a window and then try and kill their children with a knife, do they?’

‘But nothing’s normal,’ I said. ‘Normal has gone away.’

Ellis touched my arm.

‘It’s okay, Jake,’ she said. ‘It’s all going to be okay.’

‘Is it?’ said Amber. ‘We’re locked in this room with a crazy lady outside with a knife saying we’re her new family. How is that going to be okay?’

‘We’re going to wait for her to calm down,’ said Ellis, ‘and then we’re going to talk her. Surely, we’ll be able to get her to understand?’

‘I’m not so sure,’ replied Amber. ‘I’m really not so sure.’

Amber looked at the three of us.

‘She was going to kill her own children with a kitchen knife.’

‘They’re infected,’ I said. ‘She said she wanted to help them.’

I felt shaky. What happened if I saw Mum was a viro? What would I do? Would I kill her with a knife? Could I do that?

‘What if those kids downstairs aren’t hers?’ said Amber. ‘Then what?’

Amber pointed at the door.

‘Don’t forget, she found us on the street. She brought us home. She’s locked us in a room. We’re just like those kids downstairs. Maybe this is what she does? She drives around, collecting kids, brings them home and then kills them. What about all those clothes she has in those drawers? Where did they come from?’

‘She can’t’ I said. ‘She can’t …’

Amber interrupted.

‘Can’t what?’ she said. ‘Can’t do what she’s doing? She’s already done it.’

Amber was getting angry now.

‘What if the only thing she can’t do is let us leave?’

Abe went over to the window.

‘If she won’t let us leave then we’ll simply escape.’

Abe looked at his sister.

‘Just like we did before.’

Amber looked back at her brother.

‘Maybe, Abe, but last time we slipped out a back gate when no one was looking.

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