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

on him like I did when I was younger. He started to pet my head and sang a song that I remembered he used to sing to me at night. I started to sing along with him a little bit after he had started. Around five, everyone was doing school work like math, art, and battle P.E. The Jacksons came over to see how I was doing, since they were the medical team for us. James was trying to learn knife throwing,but he almost took a kid’s head off with his first try and not hitting the target. My dad grabbed me and took me to an open corner to spar a little.

    We started out easy, because of my arm, but within five minutes into it we looked like we were trying to kill each other. I looked over to see James holding a ‘Go, Jessica, Go’ flag and went on with trying to win the match. Everyone started to put bets in with who was going to win and I could tell the both of us were getting tired. We grabbed each other's hands and judo flip each other at the same time. The match ended with two crunches as our backs hit the ground at the same time. It was a tie and I was so happy on how that I finally had tied with him.

“You got stronger and faster,”He said giving me a high five.

“Yeah,”I said getting on my feet,”My back hurts now from that.”

“That’s the longest you’ve ever lasted with him,”Grandma said.

  We laughed and started to talk with one another. I was surprise on how easy it was to talk to him and I was glad that it was. Being with him him was like I was a whole peace again. I told him about the last eight years of my life and he seemed to be surprised by it.

“So your mom didn’t want you to be a zombie hunter,”He said,”But you are one aren’t you, Alicia.”

  He said my middle name like I was in trouble. I only could simply just nodded at him for the answer. He looked at the other kids playing keep away with the dogs. I looked that way and run after to join them with my dad following after me.

Chapter 12

“She is doing WHAT behind my back,”My mom said,”I told her to NOT be a zombie hunter. She could die and I can’t lose my little baby girl.”

  My father had told my mom after she came down into the tunnels. He was talking her down and amazingly she calmed down enough for me to talk with her. I told her about my adventures with my team and she finally said it was alright. She was glad to see me fulfilling my dream of being like my dad like I always dreamed of. I’m so happy that I forgot that my shoulder was hurting and went ahead to hug her.

  Matt walked in with Rex and Righley running to me with big grins. Rex gave me a hug and went to practice fighting with Macy. Righley kicked me, so I had to chase after him. I ended up tackling the little punk and tickled him till he gave up. I looked over to see my dad talking with my step dad while my mom talked to James. It was just another day in my weird life.

“Well, Jessica, I’ve seem to have underestimated you,”said Mr. Mathew,”But then again you led me to the big prize.”

   I turned around and saw Amanda, Kay, Zack, Mr. Mathew, and my uncle standing before me. I noticed he was holding my uncle like a prize he had won while having a good time at the fair. My aunt scream for them to let her husband go as they stared at me. Zack walked up to me and said that I should come with them to protect the ones that I love. He took my hand like we had been dating for years.

“I would rather die,”I said snatching my hand away from his.

“Jessica,”Zack said,”You are out numbered here. One word and a flood of zombies will come down and destroy everything you know of. You just got to come with us.”

“Zack don’t even try to reason with her,”Kay said pointing a pistol at me,”If she wants to die, let her.”

   She shot at me and I grabbed a katana slicing the bullet in half. I then went to her and put the blade to her throat. Now I’m not usually like this but with her, I am always like this. I glared at her ready to finish her if she tried to do anything to stop me.

“Now Miss Jessica Marks,”said a voice behind me,”You don’t want to kill me daughter now. So move the sword away from her neck and let’s talk this out.”

“Mister,”I said not moving an inch,”I know that this seems wrong but why are you working for that Idiot.”

  He laughed and Kay and I stared at each other as she started her evil grin. I let her go and her father came over to me. He oddly looked a lot like Kay and Amanda. He had their brown almost black eyes and their black style hair. He although looked more built to do anything the world throws at him and the girls did a little bit. I didn’t know why I did this but I stared him in the eyes as if I was challenging to try something. He didn’t make a move, as that moment my hands were getting bond together.

“You stupid girl,”He said in the voice I heard that day,”I am him and my children are Amanda, Kay, and Zack. They are the last of their kind and I lost my wife, their mother. I made the cure to bring her back but it was unstable. Now, I have the one person who can make it perfect.”

  I was knocked out and heard my friends scream as I was toughted out. I’m put on a bed and I started to see my family and friends being put through Tartarus. Then I woke up in a room chained up to a wall. Kay and Amanda walked in with whips and started to beat the living Tartarus out of me.

“Awe, No more comebacks Jess,”Amanda says.

“Are you losing this fight,”Kay says as her whip hit my rib cage.

“Stop that’s enough,”Zack said letting me down,”She had enough for today. Go talk to Father about the plan.”

  They left Zack and me there as I laid down on the cold floor while Zack tried to ease the pain. I sat there and cried for everyone I had let down with this action. I wanted to fight but I was in so much pain and the images of my family and friends being abuse was stopping me from doing it.

“They’re not real,”Zack said still helping me,”We don’t have them you know.”

“Why are...you...trying...to...help me...,”I said in between my tears.

“Because, you weren’t afraid to stand up to Kay,”He said now petting my hair,”When something got hard you faced it. Your team follows you out of respect and not fear.”

  Zack told me how Kay is always yelling at them and how he would sneak over to our home to watch us having the time of our lives. He never talked to me till now and that is a long time to not have got to know him for me. I felt so bad that his sister ruled over his life and that he never had someone to be a true friend to him. Wow, I can be a big head person, if I hadn’t pay to much attention to Zack.

“Zack, I never knew you had that kind of problem,”I said now a little bit better,”I have a similar problem with my step father. He is always trying to mess with my plans. My mom said I had a twin brother but he went missing when I was a baby.”

“Well, I’m not even a real sibling to Kay,”He said which shocked me,”I was adopted when I was small and I’m not even spanish. In fact I hate speaking spanish.”

  We talked for hours that day and the same for a month. I would be knocked out and have images put into my head. Then wake up and get the heck beat out of me. It has been the same everyday.

 

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  Today I got beaten then got taken to another room. I was strapped to a chair and had a needle stabbed into my right arm. I saw Zack sat across from me with the same confuse and scare look on his face like me. He was also strapped up like me for some odd reason.Then Mr. Kelp came in with a picture in his hand.

“After sixteen years, I finally have both of the Marks kids to finish my plan,”He said showing us the picture,”Now let’s the fun begin.”

  Then I felt my blood leave my body. I looked over and noticed that he was my missing brother. He looked just like me and we acted the same. How did I not see this coming? He looked at me and apparently noticed the same thing as well. Before I noticed it, I was speaking a language the two of us had made up together.

“Kal ta ma,”I said, which meant to us I’m sorry.

“Me coo to la doo,”He said, which was I love you sis, OW.

“What are y’all talking about,”Amanda said as a dragon bursted into the room through the left wall.

Chapter 13

  Layne and James were staring at the machine we were hooked up to as the others fought. James pushed a button and the blood started to flow out faster than before. Zack and I both winced in pain from it. Then Layne pushed another one and we both started to scream from the pain we were feeling. Those two Idiots better stop that right now and go get Luke to look at it!

“You Idiots,”Luke said unplugging the machine,”This is why you leave this to the tech team.”

   They walked in front of me and wave their hands in front of my face. Zack and I were both as pale as a ghost and we didn’t move to there actions. Luke said the obvious fact that we were strapped down into the seats. They took out the needles and undid us both trying to help out us. I feel forward and blacked out in Luke’s arms thankfully.

 

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  When I woke up, I was in the Hospital. I could barely move because I had lost