(Zachary Beck, continued from What a Lovely Day) It had been a major test of patience for Zach to reach this point. After a day spent in the cabin, talking about this and that, and when the girls decided to leave the village, he complied and followed, staying wary in case one of them (namely Willow)...

Zach looked back and forth between the girls and the guns they had. Zach needed something better than this billhook. Something that can match others in fire power and range. Something to give him an advantage over other students. He needed at least one gun. Willow and Katrina asked Zach if they coul...

“Er, Thomas, Thomas Buckley,” Zach responded to Willow, “We didn’t get along much, but, you know, it still hurts.” Zach struggled not to stammer through his sentence, considering he couldn’t really call Thomas a friend. The only way he could have is maybe if Zach made more of an effort, and tried to...

“Oh yeah, I get ya,” Zach said. His grip on the billhook lessened slightly. He didn’t know if one of them would suddenly go back to holding him at gun point. “Some of the announcements came as a shock to me,” he continued, “One of my, er, friends, got shot by his girlfriend.” “Friend” was definitely...

Shit. This was not how Zach wanted things to go down. He should’ve kept his fucking mouth shut. Zach stood his ground, but he couldn’t think of what to do next. He glared at Willow, trying not to lose the brave face he was putting on. She clearly had the advantage in terms of range and fire power. H...

“That depends,” Zach responded, standing up, “Are you?” Brilliant comeback, genius. Zach looked at the bike, the bags hanging off the handle bars, the rifle around Katrina’s shoulder, the gun in Willow’s hand. Zach was clearly at a disadvantage. Now was definitely not the best time to pick a fight. ...

Zach looked down at his sandals. The soles looked totally worn out from all these days of walking. How they managed to keep intact, plus how Zach had gone so long without getting a blister, was anyone’s guess. Just then, Zach heard the pleading of a girl nearby and looked up. He could see two female...

(Zachary Beck, continued from DRUGS SAVED MY LIFE) Zach took in the news as the announcements blared across the island again. He was sitting on one of the cabin porches with a disappointed expression on his face. The first announcement caught him by surprise right away. Thomas, who Zach had tried to...

As Zach was about to run for it, he noticed Abe aiming at him. Shit! Do something quick! He then noticed Forrest tumbling a bit in front of him. With quick thinking, Zach grabbed the collar of Forrest’s vest and tugged her in front of him. There was a shot. Abe had fired. Did Zach get hit? Forrest f...

Zach’s blade dig into Forrest’s shoulder, staining it red. She had called out for Abe, and when she did, he pulled out a gun. There should have been a gunshot, but it seemed Abe was hesitating. Zach’s instincts kicked in, telling him to run. Quickly, but clumsily, Zach pulled the blade from Forrest’...

(Zachary Beck, continued from my face above the water, my feet can’t touch the ground) Zach lamented his lack of direction. Somehow, he ended up in some surrealist art exhibit from hell. As he walked onward, eyeing up the weird and fucked up art, he began to hear voices. One male and one female. Zac...

"See ya," Zach said as he waved Paloma goodbye. Rejuvinated, he took another deep breath and exhaled, trying to get into a calm mindset. All that was left for Zach was to survive. For how much longer? Ideally, until everyone else but him was dead. In reality, who knows? Zach turned back to...

“So I guess, we got nothing to lose,” Zach said. What Zach was getting at from the girls were saying, is that even if they become a hot topic for a hot minute, things wouldn’t change fundamentally. The youth were expendable to the media and the government. Once the controversy died down, the general...

As soon as the masked girl mentioned how the news would judge them, Zach’s mind went back to his parents. The disappointment on their faces from that dream were burned into his mind. Zombie Brandon’s words cropped up again. You can’t run from what you did. Zach’s worst fears after somehow surviving ...

“Sean,” Zach replied to Paloma, “Sean Leibowitz. He was on the announcements this morning.” The tears began to flow down his cheeks. “I did something stupid, and right after he offered me a chance to redeem myself,” Zach said, his voice welled up. He wiped his eyes as he continued. “I lost control o...