Chapter 6: No time for dead goodbyes

T started to remember more about her life. Her sister swam into focus inside T's mind. (It was a warm summer day. They were laughing sitting on a bench in the park. Her sister leaned over and said "Tif what do you think of that guy jogging over there? He's cute in those pants right?" the sounds of dogs barking and children playing on the grass.)

An intense migraine interrupted T's memories. Her name was Tif something. Looking at her sister, Tif knew she had to save her from their fate.

C looked worried as she saw T's face. Normally she would leave this person behind but something was nagging at C. Seeing a tear run down the sisters face, C started to get a headache. She didn't have time for whatever this was.

Tif started to write down her plan to get Sister out of here.

"Do you remember me at all sister? Anya, my nickname you gave me was Anya. We used to be so close, doing fun things together. Come on, give me any sign of recognition Tif." Anya said to her sister.

Not even bothering to look up T slowly wrote down on the piece of paper her plan. it was simple, get anya to stay in her room until she heard the signal. 3 loud knocks, pause, 2 knocks, long pause, 1 loud knock on her window. Then sister would run out after Tiff and c

lead her family and the others outside away from the house.

Such a simple plan couldn't possibly go wrong, right?

Several minutes passed as tif agonizingly wrote down her plan. C's headache intensified. She started to feel like she was being pulled

underwater inside her mind.

As if sensing it was taking too long, loud shuffling noises started coming from the back bedroom in the house. Tif stopped

writing to gesture to C to go check on them. C was not feeling so hot, but she went to the hallway anyways.

"what is this pain? This sense of losing myself." C though as she walked to the door at the end of the hallway.

Mother and sister were clearly agitated behind the door. the sound of movement was head as well as low

moans. Something had gotten their attention.

C got to the door and wonder how to calm down the two. Maybe if she got some meat from the kitchen they might calm down. This seemed as good a plan as any to C. She went back to the living room to go to the kitchen. The sight of an open refrigerator door was not promising.

The smell coming out was rotten and eye watering. Not feeling the odor C glanced at the fridge contents. The sight of rotten fruits and vegetables was not a good sign. As if defying common things like logic the meat drawer had hotdogs and deli meat looking still

edible.

Grabbing the hot dogs, C did not bother closing the fridge door. She shuffled back to the waiting pair. C noticed they seemed to quiet down as she got to the door.

C opened the door and pulled open the hot dogs from their plastic tomb. The sight of the meaty offerings seemed to

wake mother and sister up somewhat. They came towards C with hunger in their eyes.

The pair stated to slobber as they lurched towards the food. It seemed like in their hunger the two couldn't see the difference between C and the more appetizing offer of pork byproducts.

C started putting the hot dogs down on the end table next to the door. A broken alarm clock and some garbage

paperback novel were on the floor next to the table. Now covered in hot dogs the end table seemed to shudder as the starving pair descending on the hot dogs.

Not wanting to watch something so gross C started to leave the room. The sounds of a feeding frenzy reached her as

she closed the door.

Meanwhile, Tif had written down her plan and handed it to anya. Anya seemed to barely be able to read the

crude and blotchy handwriting. To say it was written poorly seemed an understatement.

She nodded her head and said, "Okay sister, I'll wait here for the signal and run into the woods away from the others. Later on though you have to explain to me what is going on with you and everyone else. I'm frighten."

Seeing C coming back hands cover in what looks like pink slime, Tif just shook her head. Another memory started coming back

to tif. (A stray ray of sunlight beamed down upon two girls. They had just gotten out of detention. Tif looked at her new friend and laughed. "we sure fooled MR K. He think we got scared straight after his long lecture about prison. Good thing we aren't those type of girls right Carri?" A familiar face looked back at tif grinning. "Yeah, lets hurry back though. That sickness if spreading and I don't want to catch it.")

How could tif have forgotten her best friend? She turned to Carri and tif cocked her head like in the memory. C suddenly got a migraine.

Her head throbbing C seemed to fade away on a black tide. Fragments of the past swirled around her as

another humanoid like figure dragged C further into the darkness.

Tif started worrying for her friend. Carri seemed to be suffering some sort of seizure. Seeing the other girl react violently, Anya closed her door and locked it.

A loud growling emanated from carri. Her eyes slightly milky before started to fill with black blood. Something was definitely wrong with tif's friend.