"I really don't know, what are you talking about?" Noah tried to defend himself almost crying. The female teacher didn't stop and questioned him, "That girl, Laura, pushed you into the zombies. How are you alive? And why are you here now? Two months later?"

Noah had a helpless look on his face, his eyes already glistening with tears, "I don't know. I just woke up a few hours ago, in a classroom on the first floor. And I had a stab wound rather than a zombie bite."

The female teacher didn't believe it one bit, "Really? Why don't you show it to us then? After all, Laura showed us a bloodied wound and said a zombie bit you."

Noah was fidgeted, so it looked like he was nervous, "Okay." Noah was folding his pantleg up and his bandaged leg was showing. Slowly he got off the bandage and made a hurt expression as if to make them feel a little guilty about it. Of course, it didn't work, since it was the apocalypse but Noah thought it was worth a shot and maybe he was also a little too much in his role. Seeing that Noah's leg was a stab wound since a bite would definitely not look so straight, the teacher knew that Laura had lied. The red-haired dude, who Noah thinks that he's Ben, sat down again and relaxed.

"So why are you only here now? And how are you alive within these two months, without us ever seeing you?" The redhead, Ben, asked.

Noah looked embarrassed while bandaging his leg up again, "I really don't know. I just woke up there, nothing else really comes to mind."

The female teacher looked panicked and pointing with her finger at Noah, she screamed, "Don't lie to us. How could you still be alive? Why are you not a zombie? That girl quite literally pushed you into them."

The white-haired person rolled their eyes, "ZEANA! If you could shut up? It would be quite delightful"

The female teacher looked at that white-haired person with a death stare, "I'm sure, that I've said this before, but if you don't remember let me remind you again. Just because they're zombies out there doesn't mean, that I am not an authority person. I am still your teacher."

"Yes, of course. A teacher who keeps whining all the time, while giving us lectures about why we should give most of the food to you," a girl with blond hair and a dirty, ripped, frilly pink dress said.

"This is not the time to search for fault in one another and Zeana just because you are a teacher doesn't mean that you are on top here. Understand?" The redhead said as he looked at the teacher. Zeana, the teacher, looked quite unwilling but nodded her head.

The redhead looked towards Noah, "So now to you, I don't know why you're not a zombie, nor do I know why you're just here after two months have passed. But what I do know is that the three have brought you here, so you're their problem. What I can say is our names. I am Ben, the crazy teacher lady, as you've most probably listened to this, Zeana. That girl in the pink dress is Cindy, the person with the white hair is Ted, the guy over there by the locker is named Roy and the girl that has been staring at you angrily is Loraine. Look for a place to sit down, but close the door."

Noah nodded, he closed the door and sat down on a table near the window. Noah thought to himself, 'The dynamic of this group is very unstable, if I'm seeing this correctly. The teacher, Cindy, and Ted have beef apparently and I think the trio and Ben are closer than it first seemed. At least those four joke with each other, in here it's more of a blizzard.'

Noah wanted to get some stuff out of his backpack while keeping most of his findings to himself. He looked at Ben, "Ben? I have searched through some stuff while I was going down." Ben came over to him and wanted to pour out all the things in the backpack, but Noah stopped him with his hand.

Ben gave him an annoyed side eye, "What? Want to keep everything yourself?"

Noah shook his head, "It's just that I got a few chemicals from the science laboratory and if you pour my backpack out, these chemicals could break and the whole table will dissolve."

Ben looked surprised and quickly pulled his hands away, "Well get it out yourself. But be sure not to get any chemicals, on the food you got in there."

Noah chuckled and put out three of his five snicker bars, two of his three water bottles, two pairs of gloves from his original four, and two medical masks from his five masks. Noah now had two Snickers, one water bottle, his First-Aid kit, three bottles of the chemical substance, one little bottle of disinfectant, his safety goggles, a flashlight, two pairs of rubber gloves, three masks, the lunchbox filled with the crystals and a pocket knife, left in his backpack.

Ben looked suspiciously at Noah's backpack, "Are you sure you don't have more? It looks so full."

Noah looked at it, "Well those four bottles of mixed chemicals, do take up a lot of space. And I thought that maybe the First-Aid Kit would stay with me for a while since I am kind of hurt?" Ben nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

The girl who glared at Noah obviously didn't think so and hysterically asked, "That's the funniest thing I've heard for two months. The little, dumb, lamb Noah knows something about chemicals. The only thing he knows is how to hide in the toilette." Loraine and Zeana laughed a little.

Noah looked innocently at the two, "Do you want to test it out then?" He pulled out the fourth bottle from his trousers, swinging it a little while looking at them.

Ben chimed in, "Yeah, could we test it out? It could prove very useful, the second floor still has a few uncleaned classrooms. If that works, we get a new classroom to scavenge. If it doesn't I guess only Noah dies since he doesn't really have any ability."

Loraine shook her head in contempt.

Ben nodded and then grabbed Noah's arm, "He is coming with me. Since you trust me, you can wait for me to bring him back. I will tell you if he is a liar or not, but if you want to come with then get your butt over here."

Ben was about to drag Noah out when he freed himself and put on his backpack.

He looked sheepishly at Ben, "Sorry, I'm coming." Ben nodded and went out ahead, Loraine bumped into Noah looking very smug, and went after Ben.

While bumping into him, she whispered, "I really hope that you'll die."

Grabbing the straps of his backpack, he walked to Ben and Loraine.

Noah thought, 'So that girl is probably one of the originals bullies. We'll see, who dies.'

Going to the classroom door, which Noah banged on before, only to hear growling. Noah brought out his safety goggles and his mask and put both on. Ben then directly broke through the door with his electro ability. Noah got out his bottle and opened it. While Ben was frying the hell out of them, Noah put a little of the fluid on the unconscious zombie's face. As to not melt the crystals. The fluid quickly melted their face away, so they were lying there beheaded. He did that to the other ones, who were fried by Ben as well. Loraine was standing there like a statue as soon as she saw how fast it melted through the zombie's face. She now looked at Noah a little bit more guarded. Ben looked very impressed and gave Noah a pet on the shoulder.

"I guess a good brain is also worth something in the apocalypse," he said and looked at Noah with mischievous eyes.

Noah gave him a confused look and Ben smirked, "Get it? A good brain?Apocalypse?"

Loraine got out of her dumbfoundedness and said sarcastically, "You're so funny, Ben." She turned around and walked downstairs.

Ben looked at Noah, "She just doesn't know what fun is. it was hillarious. Right? Noah was it?"

Noah nodded, "Yeah."

Ben then put his whole arm around Noah's shoulders and was about to walk down with him, when the trio walked by. Jay looked a the intimate gesture between Ben and Noah and then he gazed upon the molten zombie faces.

"What exactly happened here? Does the new guy have some kind of acid ability?" Jay asked confused.

Zenix smirked, "What do you mean? There is obviously something more important going on. The bromance between the two. Ben, how dare you cheat on me? I thought we were special."

Ben let go and dramatically fell on the Floor, "I'M SORRY ZENIX. You're right we're special and a new guy isn't going to change that."

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Zenix dramatically fell on the floor with him and hugged Ben, "I'm your only best friend you can have a bromance with. Understand?"

Ben hugged him back, "Of course. BEST bromance forever."

Noah watched that unfold and then looked at Jay and Lea for answers. Lea and Jay saw the look from Noah, they looked away in embarrassment.

After that, all five of them went down, when they entered the door, Teacher Zeana turned around and screamed at Noah, "YOU LIAR! THEN TELL ME OF WHAT COMPONENTS YOUR LITTLE MIXTURE IS, MAYBE I'LL BELIEVE YOU."

Ben walked around Noah with a finger in his head while looking at Zenix, "Come, my love, we'll leave this to them. But I saw what I saw, whatever the new guy was using is very potent and useful." Zenix chuckled and walked to Ben.

Zeana was looking at Noah as if to say, 'Why don't you talk?'

Noah smiled and rubbed his neck, "Its components are aqua regia, hydrochloric, and nitric acid."

Zeana was out of herself, looking at Noah, "Then this mixture is not only dangerous to the Zombies but also to us. This chemical is so potent it can melt human flesh, even iron. The only way it could be contained would be in a glass bottle." Noah brought out the bottle full of the chemical, the bottle was indeed made of glass.

Zeana had a thoughtful face and then looked at Noah menacingly, "As long as you keep this away from us, it should be safe. Looking at your goggles and your mask, it should also be dangerous to breathe in. Just keep it away from us." Then Zeana strode off to Loraine, who now had a guarded look on her face.

Ben then came back with Zenix, "So Zenix told me you found some food and some bottles of water. By the way, new guy take these goggles off and the mask too. You will not be handling the chemical in here, are you?"

Noah took off his goggles and his mask, then he proceeded to put them in the back of the backpack. Jay and Lea put their bags down and rummaged through them. Jay got out about twelve candy bars, four half-drunk bottles of water, five closed bottles of water, one mountain dew, and a First-Aid Kit. Lea put out a few masks, three scissors, two bottles of seven-up with two-thirds remaining, a few crackers, two bags of beef jerky, and a whole water jug.

Lea looked pretty proud, "I found that jug in the science laboratory, along with a few masks." Zenix let go of Ben's shoulder and also emptied his bag. Zenix had two pencil cases, a diary of someone, three candy bars and a half-eaten one, some crystals, and like five closed bottles. Two of them were Coca-Cola and the other three were orange juice.

Ben looked really skeptical at Zenix, "Bro, why do you have a diary with you? And pencil cases? Are you sure that orange juice is okay to drink after two months? Shouldn't it be expired?"

"I know right? But Zenix said those pencil cases will be useful if we want to write something, the diary is the one of his crush and he wanted to know if she loves him too and the orange juice is for sure expired but he wanted to bring it with him anyway," Lea explained to Ben. Zenix secretly grabbed the diary, and before he could walk away with it, Ben grabbed his hand with the diary in it.

"Where do you think you're going?" Ben asked menacingly. Zenix looked at Ben trying to look innocent, but it was really just nervousness.

"So why don't you give me Melissa's diary?! It would be much safer in my hands don't you think. Especially since she has passed, I don't want this to fall into the hands of a lunatic."

Zenix was offended and got out of Ben's hand and hugged the diary tightly, "Lunatic?! Just because she was your older sister doesn't mean that you can deny our love!"

Ben's hand had momentarily electricity in it and he smiled at Zenix, "You know if you don't give it to me, I will have to destroy it. You wouldn't want me to hurt you too, now will you?"

Ben smiled evilly at Zenix. Zenix ran to the door trying to save himself and the diary. Ben slowly walked after him as if enjoying the chase.

"Now that that's over, I'm sure you've met Noah. He will be joining us, we have found him indeed very useful. You have met everyone, have you? I'm sure, Ben introduced them to you." Jay told the other people and then looked at Noah, whilst grabbing his shoulder with one arm like a half hug.

Shaking it a little bit, Jay let go and looked at Ted and Ray, "You guys, do you want to clean the rooftop? It should be clear to go there now." Ted and Ray looked at each other and as if there was a telepathic connection, they nodded to each other and then to Jay. They got up and walked out the door to the rooftop.

Noah looked confused Jay, "Why do they clean up the rooftop? Do you expect help to come here?" Jay watched Noah and he had to admit, Noah was a little bit cute.

Though only a little, looking away embarrassed, "A few days ago, we heard on the radio that forces are sending out to get those with special abilities and of course who have been useful along the journey. That's why I said that before if you aren't useful you can't be rescued." Looking very serious at the end, Noah made it seem like he was shocked and with that, his green eyes widened. He looked like a frightened bunny, a little bit like it would be fun bullying him. Jay really had to stop his sudden urge to pet him.

"Well don't worry, now that we know that you're quite good at chemistry, you will be useful," Jay assured him and walked to Lea.

Seeing that Jay was preoccupied with Lea, Loraine walked to Noah with a wicked smile, "You can relax for now, but be sure that once we're in that base, I will let everyone know just how useless you are. And your pathetic bunny appearance won't help you either."

She smirked at him and left. Noah thought that that thread of hers was very funny. How old is she? She will probably sleep her way through the man there and complain about how she was bullied by him. That is such a low-life way to take revenge. Noah didn't really put her in his eyes, after all, who is she to threaten him? He knew a thousand ways to kill her and a hundred ways to get rid of her, unnoticed. Of course, he would never use them since his mother wouldn't want him to kill anyone and when he got back, he was sure that his mother would see him in another light.

Although he remembers that his Mother shot him and said those words to him, she was in tears so it must have hurt her to do that. So in that conclusion, she had to shoot him, because of a special circumstance.

'She also said that she hopes I get what I deserve, so it will definitely be a better life under better circumstances,' with that Noah set a goal to not only fulfill these wishes but to also live crime-free this time. So his mother can be proud of him.

Seeing that it was slowly getting dark outside, Jay told the group to go to their sleeping rooms. He also grabbed Noah's arm and guided him there. The sleeping room for the boys was the secretary's office and the headmaster's office since they were connected anyway. The girls sleeping room was the classroom right across the room they were just in. Noah wondered why the janitor's closet had Ted's name on it.

He asked Jay and Jay smiled, "Ted is Non-binary, so of course they have to get their own room." Noah nodded and thought to himself if they're that open about gender identity, he doesn't have to worry about being beaten up when he comes out to them that he's gay right?

Jay continued after seeing that Noah was okay with Ted's gender identity, "By the way if you're looking for a girl or boyfriend. I am bisexual and so is Ted and Loraine. Lea and Cindy are Lesbians. Ben, Zenix, and Zeana are straight and Ray is Gay. What are you? Of course, you don't have to answer if you don't feel that confident yet. But it's just a nice info to have." Jay winked and waited for Noah to answer.

Noah blushed a little and answered with a silly smile, "I am gay and don't worry, I am comfortable sharing it."

Jay looked at him and the more he looked at him, the more he knew that Noah was exactly his type.

By now Jay had long put the thought of leaving Noah, to the back of his head. Instead, he wondered how he could make Noah his Boyfriend, after all the apocalypse is quite lonely and Noah was his type so there is a need to hurry before someone else got him.

He smiled at him calmly and cleanly and petted his head, "Don't worry, we're all very open about it." Noah internally was disgusted by the sudden touch on his head, but externally showed a little puppy smile. While thinking, that if he doesn't get his hand away, he is very willing to chop his hand off, his mother couldn't possibly get mad since Jay is basically molesting him right? Okay not molesting, but it was too much physical contact for someone he met an hour or so ago. Unbeknownst to Jay, who just thought that Noah's hair was soft and fluffy. Jay didn't sense the danger.