2012 Zombie Apocalypse: through eyes of four teenagers TJ LAWSON
I'd like to take this time to say thank you to my editor, Xorik. Thank you for putting up with my horrid spelling, poor choise of words, lack of grammer, and my innate since of verb placement witch could be better.
Prologue
Part 1
DING DONG DING DONG!
Though bleary eyes, T.J read the time, 6:00. He moaned as he rolled around in his bed, trying to regain conscience. The young fox slapped at the snooze button a few times before successfully hitting it, finding solace in the silence. "Five more minutes..." He muttered as he turned back into a more comfortable position.
"T.J.!"
His mother called from behind his closed door, "T.J. it's time to get up, dear." The fox, drifting back to sleep, couldn't hear the calls, he murred, half asleep. His mother, standing outside the door pounded on it, futilely attempting to rouse the sleeping teen.
"T.J.! Wake up now or I'll get you little brother in there and he just ate his favorite sugary cereal." She said with emphasis on the word sugar. At this point, T.J was just starting to have another wet dream about this one otter girl that sits next to him in his class. Right before the climax of the dream, his mother opened the door, T.J.'s younger brother clinched in her paws, and flung him onto T.J's bed. The young fox let out an exited "WEE" as he flew through the air and landed, kicking and squirming, on his older brothers' muzzle.
This alarm did not have a snooze button, and T.J. jolted back into consciousness, yelling at his brother to get off of him, and demanding to know why his mother tossed his brother at him.
"I told you I would, but you didn't believe me, did you?" a playful smile on her face.
"It's not that, I just didn't hear you." He muttered as he shoves his brother off his bed. His mother gave a 'boys will be boys shrug' and gestured for the little fox to follow her back down stairs. T.J. laid his head back on his pillow and put his paws on his face to wipe off as much of the morning as he could. He was still tired but not enough to go back to sleep, he figured he could get the rest of it off in the bathroom.
T.J. by all appearances is a normal, seventeen year old fox; however, he has a bluish tint in his brown fur that doctors could not explain. He has normal, short brown hair and a long bushy tail. On his way to the bathroom, he ran into his mother in the kitchen.
Glancing up from her paper, she said "Oh, and T.J., Todd and I are going to be leaving early today."
Taken aback, T.J. said "Why?"
The vixen looked up from the paper, turning her attention to her oldest son.
"Why what?"
"Why are you leaving so early today... and with Todd and not me?"
"I got called into work early at this today and Todd's school starts before yours, so I thought you'd be ok with walking today." She looked back down at her newspaper and took a swig from her coffee.
T.J. nodded his head and continued to the bathroom to get ready for the day. He examined himself in the mirror thinking ~Damn! You lookin' good fox.~ He gave a vain sigh of approval before washing off his face with warm water.
~Uh oh....Gotta pee...But I don't wanna pee in the toilet. Something...Easier.~ He thought for a second, and the untied his pajama bottoms, pulled them down, and started to wiz in the sink. ~Just like when I'm on the Xbox.~ He reminisced with a sigh in relief. Just before he finished, Todd barged in and, seeing what T.J. was doing, glares at T.J., and T.J did the same to Todd. A long awkward silence ensued. Only broken by Todd's screams of...
"MOM! TJ'S PISSIN' IN THE SINK AGAIN!"
"AM NOT!"
"Are too!"
"Am not!"
"Are too!"
"BOTH OF YOU BE QUIET! T.J.! I've told you a thousand times: DON'T pee in the sink! Todd! Would you kindly stop swearing until AFTER I'm out of earshot! I would like to pretend that you are still innocent."
T.J. waited until he was done, then he said "Ha! Back fire much?"
Todd stuck his tongue out and ran back to the kitchen with their mother, who was now waiting for Todd.
After T.J. finished in the bathroom and put on some worm clothes. He picked up a plate that his dad had made for his family before leaving for work.
"Mmmm, bacon." He sat next to his mother before she got up and grabbed her keys off of the table top and headed for the door with Todd following like the puppy he was. Her exit was interrupted by a breaking news warning flashing on the television, a severe looking old dragoness appeared on screen.
T.J. said something under his breath about the news and cut her off before she could say anything by changing the channel. His mother popped him on the head and took for the remote. "Hey!" T.J. exclaimed, annoyed, he hated the news because it always interrupted his shows just as they came on. The reporter flashed back on the screen with paper in her hands and a serious look on her face.
"-nd this flu has now infected more and more of the continent as we speak. And I remind you the symptoms of this virus are an irritable cough, sore throat, dry maw, severe fatigue, and in some cases, blindness. Scientist and doctors have yet to know what type of person or species it targets the most. Everyone is advised to exercise cleanliness, by washing you paws, hooves, wings, and/or fins with warm water and soap. And now back to your-"
T.J. took advantage of his mom's engrossment of the report to swipe the remote and changed the channel before the reporter could finish. T.J.'s mother gasped and held her paw to her hand.
"Oh my....I hope this isn't going to be a major epidemic."
T.J. gave his mother with a annoyed look. "Come on mom. It's not like those other so called 'epidemics'," He said nonchalantly. "Swine flu, avian flu, HYBRID flu.... This is nothing. They can't even find a species to blame it on."
"Well... I hope your right" His mother turned and walked for the door again with Todd in her hand. She grabbed for a name tag that read 'Mrs. Lawson'.
"I'm off to work sweetie, Don't forget to turn out the lights and turn off the TV."
She blew him a kiss and walked out the door with Todd in her hand who flipped T.J. off before he slammed the door. T.J threw a pillow from the chair at the door even though, he knew he was going to miss anyways.
Almost half an hour passed before he actually started to get dressed for school. He paced back and forth in his closet and couldn't find exactly what he wanted to wear, mostly because he had not washed his clothes in two weeks. Finally he started digging into the dirty clothes, sniffing and picking through which ones looked good and didn't reek that he could wear.
Eventually he found a black long sleeved shirt and some ragged blue jeans. He slipped on his watch, glancing at it, and saw the time. When he noticed what it read, he made sure it was still working... it was. He gave a double take, the time still read 8 o'clock!
"SHIT! I'm so late!!!" He grabbed his jacket, turned out the lights, and sprinted out the door toward his school. He did not want to deal with another lecture about "The Virtues of Punctuality" from the principal... again.
Fortunately for him, the actual time was 7:23. Some people are better off with thinking what they know is right, rather than knowing what is true.
End of part 1
I hoped you enjoyed this little intro of Tj. Next; Morroco