Aroactive

Chapter 1 Kayla

" Hey can I borrow a pencil ", I say gesturing to my friend Alex. " Yeah sure". He reaches into the side pocket of his gray backpack and pulls out a #2 pencil. " Here" , he says as he points the pencil in my direction. I grab the other end of the pencil and start working on my assignment. " Thanks ", I say not even bothering to look up. " Whatcha doing for your project ", Ethan says. I look up to meet his face at the other end of the table. He is way taller than me but since we are sitting down, it balances out our height. " Solar System ", I say meeting this Chocolate brown eyes. " Same old same old", Alex says butting in. " Yep. You know me." " Why are we even working on this assignment ", Alex whines. " It's a Saturday. We should be hanging out having fun instead of doing this stupid project". Me and Ethan look at him with serious faces. " You know this is half out grade", Ethan says. " If we fail this project we fail this class", I add. " Yeah I know but there was a party today", Alex says as he backs up his point." And I really wanted to go". " Well guess what you can't ", I say in a stern voice. " But.. but.. but Kayla-". " No is a no and she said no", Ethan says backing me up. I don't need any backing up. I don't need any backing up at all. But I let him have it. And I don't even have a reason. Alex starts to say something but thinks better of it. "When is this project-", Ethan starts to say. But he never finishes his sentence. The ground stars to rumble. Throwing out books from book shelves that were part of this library." Whaaaaaats going onnnn", Alex says. His words full of fear. We all start to stand up balancing our selfs with the table. " It's a Earthquake you idiot ", I yell over the screams of everyone in the library. I know it's not a earthquake though. We live in Texas. It is rare that we even get tiny earthquakes not to mention earthquakes that reach the scale. About 10 feet away from us a huge beam from the ceiling plummets to the ground. " Under the table!" Ethan gets there first safe from all the destruction. He is lucky. But not the rest of us. " Alex", I yell. He is unconscious. Knocked out by a flying chair. " Kayla", Ethan yells. " Hurry!" I grab Alex under his arms and drag him towards safety. All around us people are screaming. More ceiling beams come loose and fall to the ground. This one beam, about 30 feet long and rusted with age plummets to the ground. It hits a young girl no more than 13 years old. She had her whole life ahead of her. Now it's gone.
" Ethan!" " Just stay put!" " Not that!" He follows my gaze towards Alex. His eyes widen at the sight. We both know he isn't unconscious at all. But dead. His head bleeds bright scarlet blood from a gash along the side of his face. His eyes bug out and I can tell that his limbs are about to go slack. " What happened", Ethan yells. There are still screams in the library but not much as before. People have been put out of there misery." What happened!" " I don't know", I start to say. " All I know is that he got knocked out by a chair!" There are fear in our eyes. For Alex his family. And mostly for each other.

       Last thing I remember was Ethan screaming at me to get out of the way. Now I lay before him.  He looks down at me, his eyes are tried from fear. His  hair is all ruffled and blood oozes out of freshly cut wounds while old ones dry out. " Someone finally woke up", he says. His voice is gentle, like he is talking to a scared animal. " What the heck happened?" I sit up to look around. My arms also have the cuts and wounds that Ethan has. But much more. I wasn't so lucky. I notice that we are still in the library. This time by the computers. But there is something wrong. Very wrong. I glance up by the computers. They all say WARNING AROACTIVE in big bright red letters against a black background. " Some Big thing knocked you in the head." I turn around to see this kid that I vaguely recognize. In the same grade as me, but very stupid from what I here. He has dull green eyes on a rectangle face. His eyes match his hair. Dirty blond. The rest of him matches of what I have heard of him. A jock. He is very tall but firmly built. Kinda like Ethan. Except Ethan is taller and less muscular. Grayson Bell. I turn around to face Ethan giving him this confused look. " When did we get this muscle head?" He answers with a bland response. " A few hours ago". " How long have I been unconscious?" " Almost a day". The thought of being unconscious sends  shock through me and my veins. " Yeah", Ethan responds. " We never took a eye off you while Grayson was gone searching for survivors." " We??!!" Grayson walks towards me and Ethan and plops down in between us. " Yeah. We found twins. I think you know them. Henry and Alexia?" Yes. Yes I do know them. I got Henry for half of my classes and Alexia for gym. " Yeah I know them", I say. " Where are they at?" " Once again looking for survivors ", Ethan says. " And Alex?" " Who the heck is Alex", Grayson says. " A friend", Ethan responds. " He is- ....gone", Ethan says with sorrow. I try to hold in my shock but barley succeed. Something is wrong. Terribly wrong.