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"Is she dead?" Trev asks
"Yeah," he croaks, getting up, wiping tears fro like ht hand - his knife hand - is steady as the blade itself
"How can we be sure?" Stagger Lee asks
"I destroyed her brain," the black kid grunts
"That works in movies, but we don’t know for sure that it happens that way in real life," I note, eyeing the dead girl nervously "What if she cohs edgily "Then we’re screwed"
I look up, shocked, then laugh with hio mad
"How’d you sneak in the knife?" I ask
"I never leave hoed too many times"
"If the teachers found it"
"That lot don’t kno to find their own arseholes"
My smile spreads "I’m B," I tell hiirl’s name?"
"Short for Cassius After Muhammad Ali’s real name"
"Sweet" I show my knuckles and let him knock them
"We killed her," Suze cries
"We had to," Cass says, then takes a deep, steadying breath "We’ve gotta get out of here"
"But - " Suze says
"Shut it," Meths snarls He’s still holding the ball, which he aht?" I ask Pox
He’s bleeding, shaking like an old geezer with Parkinson’s, even worse than Cass was, but he nods "I’ll live," heit to wipe blood froers
"But as what?" Cass says, blade still extended, pointing now at Pox
"What do you mean?" Pox frowns
"We’ve all seen zombie films You’ve been bitten If you turn into one of thelares at hionna let hilance at the others but nobody meets my eye, happy to leave the decision to me now that it’s been placed in my hands Bloody cowards
"B?" Pox wheezes, real terror in his eyes, fresh tears trickling down his cheeks and gathering in the pockonna?"
"No," I ht? And if we think you’re starting to change, we’ll have to cut you loose"
"But - "
"No tiue, Pox Accept the rules or it’s the knife" I turn to Cass "What do you reckon - make a break for one of the exits, or find a place to hole up and wait for help to arrive?"
"Nobody helped those buggers in Pallaskenry," Copper says "The only ones who ot out early The soldiers surrounded the place once they hit the scene and shot anyone whowith the zombies"
"Run?" Cass asks
"Run," I agree
And we’re off