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[[start]]
I awake, staring at the ceiling of my bedroom, i sit up and hit snooze on my alarm, but little did I know my life was about to change forever.
I stand up and throw on some colthes that were lying on the floor, with that you hear your mum call.
"honey, breakfast is ready"
I make my way across my crowded room, messy, the floor scatted with papers, I do love to write, but I always seem to change my ideas half way through...
I stop in front of the mirror, eyeing my slim figure, pitch black hair, thick eyebrows and piecing blue eyes like saphires incased in glass.
"Margret, get done here now!!!" your mum yells up the stairs.
"I'm coming!" i yell back
do you:
[[run downstairs for breakfast]]
or:
[[stay looking at yourself]] I hear the slight moaning of what i know is my worst nightmare, i sit up in the back of the truck, and i see them...
ahhh! whats happening!?!?
you have been teleported back in a memory loop of what happened up to this very moment.
[[watch your memory]]I awake, blinking in the sunlight, my ears still ringing from the explosion that destoryed my home and everything that i love, but this is a little too far into the future...
Would you like to go back a little?
[[yes]]
[[no]]I hurtle down the stairs, knowing whats coming, the same old lecture...
I see my mother standing with that disaproving face that she wore so often.
My mother has blond, bleached hair and grey eyes that eye me suspicousley, while being short and stumpy, I look more like my dad, with his height, hair and eyes, i always think my mum was jealous of our connection...
"[[margret]]-" she started.
"don't call me that" you mutter under your breath.
I hate my name, even thought i was born margret, everyone calls me maggie, mags or peggie.
"don't use that tone with me! now get on the bus or else your going to be late!"
I sprint up the stair grab my drinkbottle, phone and throw them in my bag, grab a bannana, and run out the door to the bus stop at the corner of my street.
Reaching the corner of my street, pixie lane, even with the pretty name it was far from that, every house the same, each lawn perfect, and yet even if that was comsidered nice, it was almost hellish, how every thing was the same, the only way you could tell the difference was the little gold numbers stamped on our mailboxes.
I see the yellow school bus coming around the corner, heat waves distorting its windows.
I spy my small hole i made in the fence across from me, that would lead me to my secret place.
Do you
[[skip school and go through the hole]]
[[catch the school bus]]i stand their, slowly turning from side to side, looking at all my curves and then my mum burst in.
"[[margret]]-" she started.
"don't call me that" you mutter under your breath.
I hate my name, even thought i was born margret, everyone calls me maggie, mags or peggie.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" she screamed.
My mother has blond, bleached hair and grey eyes that eye me suspicousley, while being short and stumpy, I look more like my dad, with his height, hair and eyes, i always think my mum was jealous of our connection...
"sorry mum" i say "i was coming down now"
"well hurry up! and get on that bus your going to be late!"
I grab my drinkbottle, phone and throw them in my bag, grab a bannana, and run out the door to the bus stop at the corner of my street.
Reaching the corner of my street, pixie lane, even with the pretty name it was far from that, every house the same, each lawn perfect, and yet even if that was comsidered nice, it was almost hellish, how every thing was the same, the only way you could tell the difference was the little gold numbers stamped on our mailboxes.
i pull out my phone and check the time, 8:45am it reads...
"shit!" i yell "i've missed my bus, my mums gonna kill me"
"only if you tell her" said a familiar voice behing me.
i turn to see him, all 6 feet of him, his brown eyes staring down at me, thin lips curled into a smile...
"[[monte]]!, you scared me!"
"sorry" he said sheppishly "i didn't mean to"
"should we?" i say gesturing to the hole.
"ladys first" monte said with a little bow.
[[go through the hole in the fence]]
[[walk to school, with monte]]I awake, staring at the ceiling of my bedroom, i sit up and hit snooze on my alarm, but little did I know my life was about to change forever.
I stand up and throw on some colthes that were lying on the floor, with that you hear your mum call.
"honey, breakfast is ready"
I make my way across my crowded room, messy, the floor scatted with papers, I do love to write, but I always seem to change my ideas half way through...
I stop in front of the mirror, eyeing my slim figure, pitch black hair, thick eyebrows and piecing blue eyes like saphires incased in glass.
"Margret, get done here now!!!" your mum yells up the stairs.
"I'm coming!" i yell back
do you:
[[run downstairs for breakfast]]
or:
[[stay looking at yourself]]
I fit my head through the hole and slowley but surley slide the rest of my body through the hole.
i stand up and look around the large willow, steeping in the corner, a running brook brings sound and light to the cove.
I spot a figure sitting on the banks, i walk over, weary, only myself and s few of my closest friends know about this place...
"[[monte]]!" i exclaim "what are you doing here?!?!"
"escaping" he says with a little laugh "life is hard"
"tell me about it!"
I lay down next to him head in his lap, looking up at the clouds, monte is looking down on me, eyeing my face with his brown eyes, he looks out to the brook and a glassy expression falls over his face, he's the best day dreamer i know, always lost in his mind, imagining adventures for me to write.
I continue to stare up at him, then a loud noise startles us, we sit up and stare at the hole in the fence, two identical faces, with two identical amber eyes and two identical grins stare back at me.
"sorry to interrupt the love fest" said the first
"yeah we wouldn't want to disrupt the marraige proposal" said the second
"oh shut up you two" monte yells, we look at each other and burst out laughing.
[[meg and mya]] stand up, short, with ear length wavy blonde hair, identical to each eyelash.
[[get up]]
[[stay seated]]I jump on the bus and watch out the window as it pulls out of my street and in to the coldesac, i see one of my bestest friends in the whole wide world [[monte]] as he clambered on the bus taking his seat next to me.
"we should go to the cove" he whispered in my ear
he gestured behing him to [[meg and mya]] sitting near the back, waving at us.
"i already talked to them, i don't fell like going to school today."
"ok, but my mums going to kill me"
"only if you tell her" he says with a wink.
Me being the bravest of us all, i look around and then shout.
"AHHH SHIT!!! I FORGOT MY EPI PEN!! STOP.THE.GODDAMN.BUS!"
the driver slams on the breaks and we sprint down the steps and take off down the road, running and laughing, pleased with our efforts.
we reach the hole in the fence that leads to the cove, I fit my head through the hole and slowley but surley slide the rest of my body through the hole.
i stand up and look around the large willow, steeping in the corner, a running brook brings sound and light to the cove.
Monte comes through next, then tackles me to the ground, as we both laugh meg and mya doggy pile on top of us.
I push them off and get up and cross to the
[[brook]]
[[willow]]monte has this vibe where everyone seems to like him, but he only like a few of them.
6 feet tall, with brown eyes, short brown hair, tan skin and a thin grin, you can almost always find him lost in a daydream.
coming from a broken home he finds his comfort in his friends [[margret]] [[meg and mya]], he lives at the edge of the clodesac with his dad, who is never home (either getting drunk at the pub or at work) so he spends most of his time either at the [[cove]] or at maggies house.I fit my head through the hole and slowley but surley slide the rest of my body through the hole.
i stand up and look around the large willow, steeping in the corner, a running brook brings sound and light to the cove.
Monte comes through next, then tackles me to the ground, as we both laugh i find my self laying in his lap his hand on my head, slowley stroking my hair.
I continue to stare up at him, then a loud noise startles us, we sit up and stare at the hole in the fence, two identical faces, with two identical amber eyes and two identical grins stare back at me.
"sorry to interrupt the love fest" said the first
"yeah we wouldn't want to disrupt the marraige proposal" said the second
"oh shut up you two" monte yells, we look at each other and burst out laughing.
[[meg and mya]] stand up, short, with ear length wavy blonde hair, identical to each eyelash.
[[get up]]
[[stay seated]]i take off down the road, but monte grabs my arm and spins me around.
"can we just go to the cove please!" he pleads "i don't want to go to school"
"fine, but my mum can't know, ok"
"i won't tell" monte says with a smile
I fit my head through the hole and slowley but surley slide the rest of my body through the hole.
i stand up and look around the large willow, steeping in the corner, a running brook brings sound and light to the cove.
Monte comes through next, then tackles me to the ground, as we both laugh i find my self laying in his lap his hand on my head, slowley stroking my hair.
I continue to stare up at him, then a loud noise startles us, we sit up and stare at the hole in the fence, two identical faces, with two identical amber eyes and two identical grins stare back at me.
"sorry to interrupt the love fest" said the first
"yeah we wouldn't want to disrupt the marraige proposal" said the second
"oh shut up you two" monte yells, we look at each other and burst out laughing.
[[meg and mya]] stand up, short, with ear length wavy blonde hair, identical to each eyelash.
[[get up]]
[[stay seated]]Meg and Mya, identical in looks and sense of humor, they are short in stature but not personality, with ear lentgh blond hair and amber eyes, they are always in trouble for something.
their parents the carrelsons are parents to every kid on pixie lane, as living on the end the street every one knows where they live and points out their house while saying "hey thats the carrelsons, they're so nice!"
but with meg and mya they seem to have got more than they bargained for in the kid front, like someone hit copy and paste in mrs carrelsons womb.
With no siblings the girls have a house all to them selves to cause all types of mischeif, their parents constantley laughing, everyone wanted to be part of their family and monte and [[margret]] got that privaliege as we called them mum and dad as if they were our own. i get up and run to the hole and start to pull mya through the fence, as meg gives her a shove from behind they fall on top of me giggling i push them off and walk over to the...
[[brook]]
[[willow]]I lay back down in his lap his hand find my hair and he begind to run his hand through it slowly.
Meg and Mya flop down at my feet.
"oh Monte" mag starts to mya in a high pitched girly voice "will you play with my hair, and marry me right now!"
"of course, babe!" says mya in a low mansih voice, they procede to rub their hands up and down their back making loud sloppy kissing noises.
"I don't sound like that!!!" monte and i say in unison, i look at him and he starts blushing and i look away.
"and we are not in love!" i exclaim
"now i know meg and i are the humorous type and not the hopless romantics but..."
"learn to read a room!" meg finishes
"jeez, oblivious" mya mutters
I proceded to...
[[push them over into the leaves]]
[[slap mud on their faces]]Maggie, Mags or Peggie are margrets preferd names.
Like her father she is tall, slim, with straight, pitch black hair and blue eyes like the ocean.
she lives with her mother as her father passed away to an explosion at the [[lab]] where he used to work and they couldn't find his body, mags feels like her mother always was jealous of their connection and misses him so much that she takes it out on mags.the cove is our little hide out, you go through a hole in a fence that mags made in a fence across from our houses, the is a runnning brook and a willow where you can usally find mags sitting under writing.
monte is mostly sitting at the brook daydreaming and the twins are most often coming up with new schemes of mischeift.i walk over to the brook and stare in to its waters, something strange was happening, it was turning green?
i let out a scream and monte comes rushing over, the twins at his heels.
"do you smell that?" asked meg
'chemicals' i thought
"the [[lab]]!" mya said out loud.
"quick everyone to"
[[margret's]]
[[the twin's]]
[[monte's]]
I walk to the willow and flop down at its roots, pull over my bag and start to write on the pages i always carry with me...
'she stared at him face full of longing' i began
"guys! guys! get over here now!!!" monte starts screaming
I sprint over to him and see what has horrowed him, the brook has started to turn a greenish-brown...
"do you smell that?" asked meg
'chemicals' i thought
"the [[lab]]!" mya said out loud.
"quick everyone to"
[[margret's]]
[[the twin's]]
[[monte's]]
I push them into the largest pile of leaves and them walked back over to the [[willow]]i bent down to pick up mud from the brook.
i let out a scream and monte comes rushing over, the twins at his heels.
"do you smell that?" asked meg
'chemicals' i thought
"the [[lab]]!" mya said out loud.
"quick everyone to"
[[margret's]]
[[the twin's]]
[[monte's]]
the lab is the where most of the families work, they do chemical testing and it haunts most young childrens nightmares.
their was a large explosion one day at the lab killing mags dad and breaking alot of other famillies in two.
it hasn't been very popular since then, but it still open because of the lake of jobds in [[sunny side]].we sprint out the back door of the twins house and jump over their neingbours fence, than the next, and the next and, the next finally reaching number 18 pixie lane, mrs clump, my horrible, grumpy, old hag of a neighbour, having not come across a zombie in any of the gardens yet, i was feeling confident.
spoke too soon...
there she was mrs clump, was just that, a clump, of fat, anger and pure dead, yep she was as zombiefied as mr clive and the bus driver.
but before i could say anything thing, i heard it, the loud, sharp sound of the automatice going of in my ear.
ears ringing i look around to see meg, lowering her gun, looking oddly normal consdering she jsut shot someone.
"no one is dying, or not dying, today" she finally said, mya looking at her in awe.
i turned to mrs clump, headless, green limbs sprawled at weird angles, a pang of guilt shot through my stomache...
'she was already dead, and plus she was a cow' i thought to my self.
we jumped down from the fence, i slowly approached what was mrs clump, and nudged her stomache, she rolled over...
"dead" i said
we took of at a run, jumping the last fence, I wrenched my backdoor open and raced down the hall and up the stairs my friends close behind me.
i slam my bedroom door behind me.
"what the hell is going on!" monte exclaimed
"I don't know, this is some crazy stuff thats going on here"
"well you would know all about crazy stuff wouldn't you, maggie" said mya twirling her finger next to her temple.
we all stared at her.
"just trying to defuse the tention" she said quickley.
i walk over to my wardrobe, pulled out a small pack, and went for the door.
"what are you doing?" said monte, grabbing my arm
"getting surplies" i say
"ok well mya you go with her, i don't want anyone to get bitten" he said "ok"
"ok" we all say
[[go down the stairs]]monte runs to his room down the hall, and comes back 5 minutes later bag in his right hand, torch in the left.
"suplies" says monte eyeing my puzzled look "you know just incase"
we run up to the end of pixie lane, looking behind me i see a plump figure, stumbling towards me, a groan escaping her lips, it was my bus driver, but she looked dead...
"ZOMBIE!!!" meg and mya screamed
we ran as fast as our tired legs would carry us, we ran inside 24 pixie lane and slamed the door, as monte bolted it shut and turned to us.
"what do we do?" he asked
"the chemicals from the lab is what's causing it, i know it" i explained
"my dad keeps guns, for sport, you know" exclaimed meg
"and we can shoot!" mya finished "we can teach you if you like"
"there isn't anytime!" i exclaimed " we have got to go now!!!"
the twins jog of to their basement, leaveing monte and i alone.
suddenly their was a a banging at the door, loud and slow...
"mr and mrs carrelson?" monte says
"no it can't be their on holiday with my mum" my mother had left this morning to the bahammas with the carrelsons. "good thing to, this seems to only effect adults"
the twins returned, each with a large automatic rifle in hand, both with a small pack slung over their sholder, the banging grew louder, we ran to the living room at the front of their house, and peeked between the blinds and saw my bus driver, dead as could be, but something else was with her.
I turned to my friends, all with the same look of shock on their faces, mr clive, our history teacher was with her, but he was dead too!
we sprint to the back door, we couldn't stay here, my house was the safest.
run to [[margret's]]we sprint down to the end of the coldesac and burst through the front door his dad probably out getting drunk somehere.
"what happens when your dad gets home?" i ask
"i don't know, he'll probably go rage and start breaking stuff" monte exclaimed
"well lets got ours" mya suggests
"yeah we can hide there" says meg
"ok"
[[the twin's]]the cheerful town of sunnyside, hides a deep, dark secret.
with a chemical lab that has had more than just one accendient, killing half of its workers, including margets dad, sunny side like most small towns has a very corrupt mayor, who is more interested in money than his people.
Mya and I, peek around the corner of my door, nothing.
we crept down the stairs, mya ahead, gun at the ready, we reach the kitchen, i grab water bottles, food, a flashlight and first aid kit.
we go back up the stairs to our friends...
"who knows how to drive?" i asked, holding up my dad's keys.
as it turns out monte, knows how to, we make out way to my garage and climb into my dads old, red, ute, monte and me in the front, the twins in back of the ute, guns pointed.
"you ready to do this" monte asked, his hand finding mine.
"if you are" i mumble, blushing.
"HURRY UP LOVE BIRDS" the twins yell from the back
we giggle, he turns the key, the ute sputs into life...
"full tank!" i say relieved.
I open the garage, with the clicker, light came into the dark garage, monte hits the gas, gathering speed, we make our way up pixie lane, the odd bang would alert us that the twins had taken out another zombie.
"how do they do it" i say, thinking out loud.
"what" monte replies
"the twins killing those zombies, i mean we know these people, i could never"
"fear can change people, plus they're just another animal to them you know"
I turn to face the wind screen and i see a figure stumbling down the road.
i reconise it as the school libarian, a zombie, and monte isnt slowing down.
do you
[[hit the zombie]]
[[tell him to stop]]I stare, but say nothing he hits the gas and a loud squelch, meaning we had hit the zombie.
As the day was coming to a close we pull over in the bushes on the side of the road, hidden.
"we should be safe for the night" explains monte "but we should take turns staying up"
"i'll do first watch" meg said raising her hand.
she sat at the edge of the ute, i found my way onto monte's chest, snuggled in tight.
[[start a new day]]you scream for him to stop, he swerves just missing the zombie.
"i couldn't let you hit it!" i say
"hey its ok" he says soothinly
As the day was coming to a close we pull over in the bushes on the side of the road, hidden.
"we should be safe for the night" explains monte "but we should take turns staying up"
"i'll do first watch" meg said raising her hand.
she sat at the edge of the ute, i found my way onto monte's chest, snuggled in tight.
[[start a new day]]I awake, ears ringing, monte was shaking me, and yelling my name.
"Mags, c'mon wake up!" he yelled
"whats happend" i say, coming to my senses.
"the labs exploded" says mya
" yeah it killed most of the zombies" said meg
you sit up and see brownish liquid, slowley running down the road.
I look to each of my friends, terror on their faces, and i knew, this was not over yet...