Jessica Marks - Abbie Davis (young adult books to read TXT) 📗

of my father and me in the room. I wanted to ball up and cry my eyes out, but that’s when the helicopter landed in my backyard. So we all grabbed our things and got on the helicopter. Chapter 3

Once we got back to New Orleans it was eight pm. My mom and the eight year old twins, Rex and Righley, were there waiting for me. James’s dad was there waiting for a story. Rex came to me first, the blacked haired one, with Righley, the brown haired one, right behind him. James ran to his dad and told him what had happen. Mrs. Phyllis took the others inside leaving me and my family.

“Jessica you are ok,”Rex said crying,”I missed you!”

“I missed you more,”I said giving him a big hug.

“Did you get to beat up the bad guy,”Righley said kicking in the air,”Or did you cut him with your knife.”

   I laughed and ruffled his hair. Then my mom came up to me in tears. I started to cry and gave her a hug trying to cheer us both up. Rex and Righley took my bag and grabbed two fake weapons and started to play fight.

“I thought I lost you,”My mom said,”Don’t do that again. You had me scared to death.”

“I’ll try not to,”I told her,”But I got this.”

   I handed her the picture I found. She took the picture and started to laugh. She told me how me and my dad would go out for a walk and come back covered in zombie blood. She seemed so happy talking about me and my dad, I didn’t want to tell her I knew that.

“Ow,”said Rex,”That hurt really badly.”

   We turned around and saw Rex on the ground and Righley pointing the end of his knife to Rex’s throat. I laughed and went to join them. I just didn’t think I would lose against two eight year old boys. Rex was on top of me and Righley was tying me down. James and Layne had to help me out. Then we left to go home.

 

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  Once we got home, I went to my room. My room was blue like the sea with fish on the ceiling. I had a bunk bed, a life size white tiger, and a dog bed. When I went in Ace, our white alpha wolf, was in there on my bed asleep. I climbed up, pushing Ace out of my way, and punched in my code to my secret room. Then my room transformed into a hightech zombie tracking and defense system.

“Hey Jessica,”The computer said,”How was your day?”

  I made sure the system was still up and running correctly and putting it up before my mom came in. She carried a tray of cut apples, cookies, and a Dr. Pepper. She sat it up on my bed and laughed when she saw the wolf up there with me.

“Big wing is outside,”She said,”Did you tell anyone about your secret?”

“No,”I said taking a chocolate chip cookie,”Did he bring the note tube?”

  Big wing was our bald eagle and he was trained to deliver messages between the people. She handed me the tube and I twisted the tube’s lid off and read the letter. I had to translate it because it was in the ancient language:

Dear the Marks,

  We are planning to have a meeting on the 16th of December. We need to discuss how to protect the children       of this generation. Also we got to make a plan on how we are going to make the zombie population go down. So     as chief y’all better be there.

     North American Zombie people

  I was scared to tell my mom I had to go, but she told me I had five months to prepare. She left and Ace woke up to the door shutting. I started to pet him and we headed outside.

   I got outside and threw the bouncy ball, so Ace could chase it. I got a scoop of bird seeds to give to Big Wing and I started to pet him. Ace came back with the ball in his mouth. He dropped the ball and began to growl at something behind me.

“What is it boy?”I asked turning around.

“I think Ace doesn’t like me,”said Luke, my boyfreind.

  He had an axe in his hands as he walked over to me. He was tall with black hair and had a scar on his right eye where he hit a bare wire fence. He was one year older than me and from the same tribe as me. Ace stopped growling and started to howl at us.

  Rex and Righley ran out of the house and took Luke down. I grabbed a stick and started to play with them. Our fun didn’t last long because six zombies came out and Luke and I had to protect my brothers. Ace even got into it by taking a zombie’s leg off. Righley and Rex was yelling out where the zombies were every other second.

  After six minutes I snapped the last zombie’s neck. Luke and I were covered in blood from doing all the work. I started to chase the twins while Luke went home to clean up. I caught them and gave them both a hug and covering them in the blood as well.

  We had to hose off and then went inside to get change. The boys went to bed and I helped mom clean up outside. It was around eleven before I had went to bed and got ready for the next day.

Chapter 4

   I had the weirdest dream last night. It was so bad that I woke up and stabbed my own leg. So I had to make a bandaid for it, good thing I knew how to. The dream went like this:

  I was running for my life. Zombies were chasing me, that means both humans and animals. I was trying to stop my dad from getting bitten. I was at the door with my knife drawn. I opened the door and was about to kill it, when I was bitten at the same time my dad was.

  So I basically woke up screaming “NO” with my knife in my hand stabbing my leg. That morning, I had to explain to my family why I had a bandaid on my leg. I knew my mom would understand, since it wasn’t the first time it had happened. Then I head off to school with James, Layne, Slade, and Mrs. Olivia. Mrs. Olivia was going to be our new combat teacher for mainly bows and arrows.

“What’s that?”I asked James, pointing toward his backpack.

“It’s my family sword,”He said bringing it out,”Did you stab your leg because of that dream.”

“Yep,”I said,”I think I need to put my knife somewhere beside my hand than in it.”

   We laughed and James told us about his new toy. It could cut through anything and was never dull. Everyone wondered why Slade had said nothing to anyone. We started to ask him questions to get him to say something, but Slade just handed me a note for every question. We all tried to make him talk but all had no luck. I asked Slade if he knew who I was and he handed me two notes. The first one said, Yes, you’re Jessica Marks. One of the greatest zombie hunter. The other had my secret on it and he was one too.

“You do know,”I said,”I think you’re going to be a good hunter too.”

  Slade showed us his weapons, which were just a gun and a really big hammer. The gun made no sense to me but the hammer did. So we came up with nicknames for everyone.

“Slade, we can call you Thor,”I said.

“Jess, you can be Black widow,”James said.

“James, can be The Snipper,”Layne said.

“Layne, can be The Woodsman,”Mrs. Olivia said.

   Slade wrote that Mrs. Olivia could be Katniss, since she loved bows. We started to laugh and called each other by our nicknames. We reached the school and head to class. Lindsey was with Mrs. Phyllis and kept her eye on Mrs. Olivia. We walked to the gym for our first class, Fist Fighting and Mixed Martial Arts.

 

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  When we got there, we had a test. Coach Frank was seeing who could take him down in a fight and then graded us on how well we did. Layne was first up and his fight got him a B+. James went next and got a C- on his performance. Slade was after him and got a B, but hey he is a giant compared to us.

“Jessica Marks you’re up,”Coach said,”since I know your father, you should take me down.”

  I took my spot on the mat and waited for Coach. He then started my test by charging at me. I spined out of the way and kicked toward his head. He caught my foot, so I used that to my advantage. I propelled myself off of him, freeing myself. He charged at me again and I swept his legs, making him fall. He got up and I put his arm in a chicken wing. I push his arm taking him down while he was telling me to stop. My time was one minute while everyone else was two minutes.

“A+ Marks,”Coach said,”Also I need some ice.”

“Sorry Coach,”I said,”I think I had to prove myself.”

“You did that Marks,”Coach said heading off to the nurse.

“Show off,”James said,”What is your secret to it?”

  We laughed and headed to spanish. Mrs. Phyllis gave us a free day, after she shot a zombie, beside Lindsey, with her mechanical leg. People kept asking us what had happen two days ago, but I really didn’t listen to them. I just kept to my book while they asked away.

“Well, well, well,”said someone I knew I didn’t want to hear,”Little Jessica finally decided to come back. Were you running from zombies again?”

“Kay, you know I fight zombies as a hobby,”I said putting my book down,”At least I don’t freak when I get blood on my clothes. Also you don’t say what I do.”

   Kay was the girl who thinks she runs the everything. Her brother, Zack, was her partner, because no one else want to be it. Their team was the Slayers. There are five teams in all, The Slayers, The Hunters, Bombers, The Savers, and The Heroes. Each team had two pairs of field workers, or killers, and a tech team of about twenty people. The Slayers and my team, the Hunters, were the top two.

  Kay and I were the top female killers. Her father was the 2nd most famous after my dad