The Walkers Avalanche

Chapter two : Virues and tickle wars

Kissing my mum good bye. She was on a business call. I decided to let her be. Shutting the door behind me, I unplugged my headphones, tugging them into my bag.

I fixed my lip gloss, my lips felt a little chapped, looking down at my outfit, I straightened my skirt. Sighing as I stood in front of our school gate, kids running forward to embrace their classmates, teachers greeting each other, moving of tables and chairs and some other stuff was happening.

I stared in the sun, my nightmare giving me bad creeps. I squealed as I heard a loud call.

"Hey! Hey Dekemi" I heard a cherry Testimony call, feeling a blush creep on my face,

I turned back to face him. I scrunched up my face due to the direct sunlight.

"Hey Tes"

I smiled. I really missed him, he wasn't home for the holidays. He and his family went on a vacation trip with his family to Dubai, so we haven't seen each other in a month. Throwing myself at him, and my hands around his neck, he huffed due to the impact, but hugged me back, patting my back.

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His mom owns the school I attend but the scholarship was granted by the state government. I picked Crissen so I could be close to Tes and, of course, home. He was a prefect too, so he had a couple of early morning duties to carry out.

He chuckled, looking down at me as we broke the hug

" How are you D?" He raised an eyebrow, clearly checking me out, and he wasn't hiding it. His eyes did a full one over looking at me from my head to toe, it was annoying to feel my toes curl in my shoes, ,. The dude likes to do that even when he i'm on uniform, I think its cute but i tell him it creepy.

"You are doing it again" he coughed without taking his eyes off me. I smirked, trying to poke his eyes.

"Eyes up here hun". I rolled my eyes and he returned the gesture.

"Want me to walk you to class? He gave me a hand taking my backpack.

" How was your holiday?" I started a conversation. As we started walking. We picked up a conversation. He told me how he pranked a guy who tried to beat him at football by cheating, " That's not a prank, that's you being bad at football and you cheated. Not all of us can be as skillful as I am."

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"You did not do that" he gasped, and I smirked. I laughed out loud.

" Oh! yeah I did, I was.." he was interrupted by Feyi

"Hey love birds", She yelled from the other side of the reception. We both chuckled.

" Hey Feyi what up" Tes waited, while I smiled. I adore both my best friends. She threw me into a hug, it was my turn to huff,

"Hi Fey, how was your holiday?" I rolled my eyes, ignoring the fact that she just called us love birds.

Leave it to Feyi to be a tease. Arguing will only make it worse.

"It was boring, so glad its over" she groaned.

"Am guessing your parents decided it would be smart to spend the holidays working" .Feyi grimaced, "I'm used to it now". Tes and I both chuckled, giving her a reassuring smile.

" Mine was fun" Tes added, clearing the mood, then he went on and on about how his holiday went, killing us with laughter. We got stares but most people are used to it by now. We could already see our class room coming into the picture.

"Alright D, how was yours" I sighed.

"Mine was uneventful, just me and Netflix for two weeks and the other two I was grounded." I cringed , my holiday was really uneventful.

"Grounded what did you do?" Tes raised an eyebrow.

" Well, you know how I got a power bike for my birthday gift? Right well, mum sorta caught me speeding. In my defense, it was a race. She got mad and took it out, harsh! She took away my bike and driver's license"

"You deserved it. "They both chorused."

"Wow thanks for the comfort, note the sarcasm ".I made an eyeroll, they chucked, I made another eye roll.

"Do that one more time and it's goodbye to your eyes" Feyi threatened. It was an empty threat but I wasn't taking any risks.

We got separated and went on with our duties, preparing for a new session.

It was now the end of a hectic day. We cleaned, arranged and had mathematics. The worst first day ever. I was even way too busy to meet anyone new.

"Hey Dekemi, wait "Tes called. I stopped in my tracks, waiting for him. We walked out into the school fields to where his car was packed,

" Just happy to go back to work" I sighed as he intertwined our fingers. I felt a dumb blush creep into my face.

"Hey, do you need a ride? To work?"

"UHMM.. Yeah, I paused, you ain't coming to my place today, right? Yeah, I know you ain't coming, you already told me that, and I need a ride, of course. I should stop talking now". I blabbed on while Tes gave me the you-are-such-a-weirdo-look. I punched him, getting an 'oooff' in reply.

"You know its weird when you do that right"

He bumped my shoulder and I shrugged. We walked to his car. I soon spotted his black Toyota Camry . That was I am sorry, but that's all you can get from me. I am not much of a car lover. His dad gave it to him a while back.

" New paint job? Cool" I complimented him as we walked towards his car." Yeah, just got it done last week." He opened the seat for me.

"Gentle man," I teased. He made an eye roll.

"You know I can push you out". He threatened

"You know I can kill you, right?"

"Huh you wish"

I stuck out my tongue at him. He made an eye roll, before trying to grab my tongue. I Ducked hitting him in the ribcage.. He glared at me, holding his hand.

" Monster," he muttered.

" You love me that way", I teased.

"That does it, I am tickling the hell out of you" he growled.

"Oh no " I gasped.

"Oh yeah" he mocked.

I reached for his car door but my face fell as he locked it. "I hate being tickled". I whined. "I know". He smirked.. Hovering over me, he tickled my sides.. I started throwing a fit.. Laughing really loudly as I tried to fight him off.

He holds me down, tickling harder if that was even possible.. "Pl.. Please.. Plle....eee please please" I say in between laughs.. " He stops for a while,

"Oh thank.. God" He looks at me " Nope" was all he said as he went back to tickling me.

" Fine , i'll .. I I.. I'll do your homework", I forced out.. He stops again, thinking" "And you cook dinner for me today". He said, raising his hands up to show me he could continue.

" But this is so unfair" I whined, pouting.

"Life is unfair" He mimicked my tone, also pouting. I groaned

"Fine". I forced out " Deal, he says, getting off me..

He tripped, causing him to fall back, leaving our lips only a few meters away from touching. His eyes waver to my lips and mine to his. I hate awkward moments like these. That's what you get for being best friends with a guy we both got of each other clearing our throats.

"Well, that got awkward fast" I joked, he chuckled too.

" You are still going to cook though", he said in a sing-song voice. " I freaking hate you" I mimicked his tone.. He started his car, driving me off to the building of the Institute of Science.

It was only a few blocks away from school, the ride there was short.. The only sound playing was Love Yourself by Justin Bieber. And Tes whined that he wanted to change the song while I said no, turning the volume up a bit louder.

" Thanks T " I smiled as I got down, " You welcome hun". He returned it with his full dimpled smile, which I'm not gonna lie, love, kissing me on the forehead. He drove off while I walked through the hallways, greeting some other workers.

Grabbing my lab coat, safety goggles and rubber gloves, I snuck into a lab room. I had a spare key anyway, my mind had been on the experiment we did last session.

Mixing some chemicals, I tried to recreate the process. It was an experiment I have been writing about for a while, to create a virus that might be able to increase certain characteristics in the cell of a living thing, like super speed, strength and more. I know its not possible to actually be a success but it was fun to dabble about with chemicals.

We were taught at the last session on how to create living viruses, and that was the final link in the experiment. Picking out my notes, I continued the jotting as I started the experimental aspect of my research. I was in the lab for about an hour, mixing and jotting down, something wasn't right because it was not working. It had killed three lab rats already.

Sighing I gave up dumping the lab rat, may they rest in peace. Part of me feels guilty. I promised everyone I would stop this, but old habits die hard. I made a stupid mix-up and I hissed annoyingly. I have been working on this for a week. Who am I kidding? I sound smart right now, but all I did was in hypotheses and without my note I have no idea what was in the solution in front right now.

Packing the mix up, it spilled. It burned as it touched my skin. That was a result of the acid, I guess. I noticed a slight change in my skin color, a bit green, but it was way too brief. So I shrugged it off.

I was about to pack up the rest of my experiment, then I heard a voice.

Worker or not, I would be in trouble if I was found here without a proper supervisor. We have already lost three students to this. Leaving my notes, I slipped out, opened the window and jumped out of the room. I might have sprained my ankle.

"Ouch!" leaving as quickly as I could, I walked up the stairs. Good thing my name was not written on the jotter and I hope no one

and tell it was mine.

"Hey Dekemi"

I saw a figure retreating from the room I was formally using. It was the back of a man. He was a little short, but my eyes were still blurry from the wind so i missed him, so I couldn't tell who it was but i know i was caught I mean they won't find out i did anyway.

They would probably just leave the less and hope the miscreant which was me comes back to clean it up, i made a mentThe shadow tal note to clean that up after work today, looking around i noticed a shadow, my nightmare came bacik in flashbacks.

I panicked, turning to meet with my other co-worker Martha. We ended up catching up on all the holidays without having any work done.It was hard concentrating on what she was saying, My mind kept drifting up to the chemicals.

"Hey Dekemi are you okay" I nodded.

"Hey Martha promise to keep a secret" I whispered. She nodded,

" Come on" I dragged her down the lab I used. Walking in confusion charged through me, The solution was gone all that's left is my jotter with a note saying THANK YOU in block letters, I hid the note from her view in my pocket..

Fear was the second emotion, then sadness and back to confusion, I stumbled a bit grabbing my head as I was spinning too much

"Hey you okay?" Martha helped me stand up..

" Yeah" I mumbled, tripping as I walked back to my downstairs leaving a confused Martha behind.

It was closing hours already so I just took off my lab coat, I was still in my uniform walking to my desk, I collected my phone and bags and left the building. I would walk home, the rain was pouring heavens but I can't be around Tes right now.

I couldn't face anyone right now.. Especially Tes, he hates it when I rebel against laws. Especially chemical laws.

So this has to be a secret from him, he would no doubt be mad if he finds out. Kicking through the mud, sneezing, sniffing and coughing, I finally got home after twenty minutes of walking, which wasn't good for my health. I avoided seeing anyone is I snuck Into my room.

"Am home". i called out dashing upstairs to my room, I took of my clothes and check the pocket the jotter was all wet and sticky, bub I could still see it.

THANK YOU.. I Stare at the note over and over, the hand writing was awfully familiar. I sighed what do i do now, as I walked into my bathroom. Ripping it apart I dumped it into the trash..