Prologue
Time passed slowly in the small town of Rosemont, Pennsylvania. Nothing bad ever happened. At least, not anything that happened in the eyes of the people that lived there. I moved there when I was sixteen, with my mother, my father, and our crusty old fat cat. My mother was a taller woman, thin- almost unhealthily so, so that her clothes hung off of her a bit. Her hair was a dirty blondish-brown colour, and came down to her shoulders in a kind of wild way. She had an expression about her that made her seem as if she was angry, or pained. My father shared my mother’s sullen expression, his skin pale and sickly just like hers. In many ways, I wondered if that was what had brought them together in the first place. For a tall man, his …show more content…
We were supposed to be in class, but while Duncan and Emily had decided that they were going to attend math class, and Abner has run off to try and get the attention of his beloved Maria, Tommy and I had agreed it was time for a break.
Tommy was leaning against the table beside the spot where I sat, mouth curling into a grin as he watched Faith and her posse pass by on their way inside. He let out a whistle, as smoke billowed out of his mouth.
Faith looked back at us, unamused and growled back at him. “Can’t you find anything better to do?”
Tommy only grinning at her as she disappeared inside the doors, before turning his attention back to his smoke. I sighed, pushing the butt of my cigarette down onto a bug that was crawling along the table towards me. Tommy raised an eyebrow, staring at the bug’s sizzling carcass.
“So…you’re a bug killer eh?” He said, a hint of amusement on his face.
This was the moment I became Bug. I would always be the beaten, insecure boy named Alexander, but I was more than that now. And little did I know, Bug was who I needed to be for what was coming next. …show more content…
The boys joined the military right out of high school. Kevin decided to go to medical school, wanting to be able to help wounded soldiers on the frontlines, whereas Nathan, the troublemaker of the two put himself into a position that made it hard for me to ever forgive him.
Nathan became addicted to the same terrible substance that led my parents into their neglectful ways. It wasn’t long before he was arrested and imprisoned, alongside his brother who had only been pulled into the situation by trying to help his brother out of it. I visited them as often as I could, despite how upset I was that Nathan had fallen into the one thing that I hated most.
It wasn’t until the summer of 2014 that things went terribly wrong. When the virus broke out and plagued the earth with its dastardly ways, I was left heartbroken. Sophie had become infected. Rather than being turned into a ravenous killing machine like her mother, Sophie’s smaller body could not take the fever it caused.
This is when I began to head north. I’d heard only rumours that it wasn’t as bad there, and that maybe there was a chance of survival in
Time passed slowly in the small town of Rosemont, Pennsylvania. Nothing bad ever happened. At least, not anything that happened in the eyes of the people that lived there. I moved there when I was sixteen, with my mother, my father, and our crusty old fat cat. My mother was a taller woman, thin- almost unhealthily so, so that her clothes hung off of her a bit. Her hair was a dirty blondish-brown colour, and came down to her shoulders in a kind of wild way. She had an expression about her that made her seem as if she was angry, or pained. My father shared my mother’s sullen expression, his skin pale and sickly just like hers. In many ways, I wondered if that was what had brought them together in the first place. For a tall man, his …show more content…
We were supposed to be in class, but while Duncan and Emily had decided that they were going to attend math class, and Abner has run off to try and get the attention of his beloved Maria, Tommy and I had agreed it was time for a break.
Tommy was leaning against the table beside the spot where I sat, mouth curling into a grin as he watched Faith and her posse pass by on their way inside. He let out a whistle, as smoke billowed out of his mouth.
Faith looked back at us, unamused and growled back at him. “Can’t you find anything better to do?”
Tommy only grinning at her as she disappeared inside the doors, before turning his attention back to his smoke. I sighed, pushing the butt of my cigarette down onto a bug that was crawling along the table towards me. Tommy raised an eyebrow, staring at the bug’s sizzling carcass.
“So…you’re a bug killer eh?” He said, a hint of amusement on his face.
This was the moment I became Bug. I would always be the beaten, insecure boy named Alexander, but I was more than that now. And little did I know, Bug was who I needed to be for what was coming next. …show more content…
The boys joined the military right out of high school. Kevin decided to go to medical school, wanting to be able to help wounded soldiers on the frontlines, whereas Nathan, the troublemaker of the two put himself into a position that made it hard for me to ever forgive him.
Nathan became addicted to the same terrible substance that led my parents into their neglectful ways. It wasn’t long before he was arrested and imprisoned, alongside his brother who had only been pulled into the situation by trying to help his brother out of it. I visited them as often as I could, despite how upset I was that Nathan had fallen into the one thing that I hated most.
It wasn’t until the summer of 2014 that things went terribly wrong. When the virus broke out and plagued the earth with its dastardly ways, I was left heartbroken. Sophie had become infected. Rather than being turned into a ravenous killing machine like her mother, Sophie’s smaller body could not take the fever it caused.
This is when I began to head north. I’d heard only rumours that it wasn’t as bad there, and that maybe there was a chance of survival in