Clean hands save lives.

I studied the orange poster many times but the words remained the same. Maybe I was reading it wrong? Or maybe it was just a joke?

I had been seeing many strange posters around lately but I hadn't been expecting to see one glued down onto the front door.

I had gone outside to grab the newspaper when the bright orange notice had caught my eye. The company name on the poster was familar; Ceda.

"Witch, do you have the newspaper yet!" I heard my brother's deep voice call out. I couldn't help but roll my eyes before picking up the rolled up paper at my feet before retuning inside.

My brother and I have always been close but not in a mushy way, more of a lets punch the hell out of each to show our affections way. Ever since mum and dad have been sick he has been taking care of me and the house while still attending school, he's eighteen and basically a life saver.

For a reason unknown to me him and his friends call me Witch, it used to hurt but I got used to it, it's just a stupid nickname after all, it's not like everyone calls me Witch.

"I got it." I said as I placed the newspaper down on the small kitchen table where my brother was eating toast.

"You ready for school?" He asked me as I sat down next to him and buttered my toast.

"Yep, I just have to get changed."

"Why say yes you're ready then say you need to get changed?" he asked with a laugh before picking up the newspaper.

"Why do you want the newspaper?" I questioned him.

"Are you really asking that?" he asked with a shrug of his shoulders. "It might have something about the sickness our parents have."

"I thought that was just a bad case of influenza?"

"Yeah but the hospital hasn't contacted me about it, and there has been heaps of deadly germs spreading."

"Speaking of which, Smoker do you know what Ceda is?" I asked him as he gave up on reading and threw the newspaper on the table.

"Don't call me that, I only did it once and I haven't done it since, I've learnt my lesson."

"You mean I've only caught you once, and you regret being so careless?" I asked him.

He ignored me as he patted down some of his dark short hair. I wish I had my dark hair back. In a dumb moment I decided I wanted to have blond hair and dyed it however it failed and decided to turn a terrible white.

"The name Ceda rings a bell, why don't you look it up online?"

"I would but-

"If you don't hurry up we are going to be late for school."

I rolled my eyes again, it was like he could read my mind. "Alright, I'll go get changed." I said as I stood up and ran upstairs.

Ever since my parents had been taken to Mercy Hospital the house has seemed to be too quiet, empty.

I always leave my bedroom door open a crack, just to know that I'm not alone, I couldn't stand the thought of being alone.

I picked up my sleeveless tennis sweater and pulled it on over the singlet I had on. Since my brother had forced me to accept the fact that I wasn't allowed to do any housework (I don't know why, he said I should enjoy being a teenager) I had try to lessen the load of washing by wearing singlets with jumpers that didn't need to be washed that often.

I grabbed a light blue skirt and stepped into it before running a brush through my horrible hair.

I heard my brother beep the horn from his car as a hurry up and quickly left my room and jumped down the stairs. I saw my brother's green jumper on the back of his chair and quickly grabbed it before running outside to his old car.

"Finally the Witch is here." he said as he got out of the front seat to open my door.

"I'm not a princess you don't need to open my door." I said as I passed him his jacket.

"That's true, but you'd be helpless without me." He said with a chuckle before his smile quickly faded.

"What's wrong?" I said as I followed his eyes to the bright orange poster on the door.

He threw his jumper in the car before running up to the door. His eyes scanned the poster before he ripped it off and walked back to me.

"Who stuck this on our door?"

"I don't know, Ceda, I guess whoever they are-

"Is this some kind of joke? Do they think it's funny to stick this on our door. Clean hands save lives, just because our parents-

"Scott calm down, It's just a warning poster, they just don't want people to get sick."

My brother ignored me and ripped up the piece of paper before letting the breeze take it out of his hand.

"Scott-

"Hurry up or we'll be late." He said as he got into the car. I let out a sigh before getting in as well.

...

"Witch, wake up, we're here."

I really didn't want to leave the comfort of the car seat but after many punches in the arm from my brother I decided that maybe it would be less painful then staying here.

I opened my eyes and slowly undid my seat belt. Just as I was about to open the car a hooded figure smacked against the window and I heard myself scream. I saw him fall into fits of laughter. I slammed the door opened and smacked it into him and he fell back in pain.

"Don't startle me! You know I get scared easily!" I exclaimed at him before holding out my hand to help him up.

"Looks like my sister owned you." I heard my brother say with a laugh as he shut his own car door.

"I should have known not to mess with the Witch." He said as he gave me a smile. I however rolled my eyes.

The guy in front of my was Hadrian, he's best friends with my brother and me and only wears hoodies, it's rare just to get a glance at his face, which I know for a fact is quite good looking, even if he trys to hide it.

"Hey Scott have you heard the news?" Hadrian asked my brother as he shrugged.

"What news?"

"School's going to be canceled tomorrow, how cool is that?"

"Wait, what, why?" I asked as Hadrian laughed.

"You sure love your alliteration," He said as he simple shook his head. "I have no idea why, they're going to tell us at an assembly."

"Hey Scott," I heard a feminine voice call out as we all spun around to see who was there only to see Sophie. She had her brown hair in two ponytails and had decided to plant bright red lipstick on today.

"Hey Sophie," he said as she walked over to our small group.

"The teachers want us all in the hall." She said with an excited look on her face. "This is the last day of school."

"Why?" I asked as she raised an eyebrow.

"Who cares, it's great!" She replied as she patted me on the head.

Whenever I was around her and Scott I always felt like an ant, they were both so tall, at least Hadrian didn't dwarf me.

"Anyway we should go to the hall." She said as she linked arms with me.

"You boys go save us seats." She said.

"Aren't you coming with us?" Hadrian asked as she waved her hand at him.

"Gives us time," She said as they took the hints and walked ahead.

"What's wrong?" I asked her when they left. She unhooked her arm from mine and sighed.

"I'm just worried about you, that's all, about your social standing in your year." She spat out some bright yellow gum that she had been chewing and I couldn't help but cringe.

"Um well thank you but I'm fine."

"How many friends do you have besides your brother, Hadrain and me?"

"Um, Does Mr Brown count?"

"Listen, you need to stop being shy, I know you're only sixteen while we're eighteen but you need more friends."

"I don't want anymore friends, I'm happy when I'm with you guys."

"Don't you get lonely?" She asked as I paused to think.

"I'll never get lonely, I have the people in my life that I need- well minus the parents at the moment but they'll be back soon."

"Ok, whatever you say, but if you ever need any friends just tell me, I'm popular, I can work my magic."

"Uh-sure," I said with a laugh as we walked up to the Hall.

When we entered I saw about ten rows of chairs filled up.

"Where is everyone?" I asked her as we walked over the where Hadrian was waving at us.

"I don't know." She said as I slipped into the row of seats and sat next to Hadrian while she sat on the end next to Scott.

"Students can I have your attention." A voice in the microphone called.

I turned my head to the front of the hall only to see Mr Brown. I could help but smile, Mr Brown was such a happy and friendly teacher, a little bit overweight-ok alot overweight but that only made him more funny. He had his usual brown sweatpants on and wore a small smile.

"Most of you have probably heard that school will be canceled for awhile, which is indeed correct, this information had been sent to your parents by email and by a letter."

I glanced over at Scott who was seated on the other side of Hadrian and saw his stone like expression.

"Why you might be asking? Well as you know there has been an illness going around, and until it has settled down, school will not be on. Most of your peers haven't even turned up to school today as you can see."

The row infront of me started clapping like idiots and Mr Brown quickly told them to be quiet.

"School will be back as soon as possibly so keep an eye out for a return date on the website. You all may stay seated here under supervision for the rest of the day."

As soon as he stopped talking I heard what seemed like millions of conversations break out.

I stood up and Hadrian quickly grabbed my arm.

"Ouch," I said as I pulled away from him. "Do you ever cut your nails?"

He laughed. "Sorry," he said. "Where are you going?"

"I'm just going to see Mr Brown." I said with a smile. "Don't worry I'll be back."

"I wasn't worried Witch," he said as I laughed.

"Now you're the one in love with alliteration."

I slipped back out of the row and walked to the front of the Hall. Mr Brown smiled when he saw me.

"Hey Mr Brown, do you know what the illness that's spreading around is?"

He shook his head. "Sorry no, we were only told that the school had to be cancled due to illness, which rarely ever happens, so I'm guessing it's a bad one."

"Oh," I said as I looked down at my feet. Maybe my parents were worse than I thought.

"What's wrong?" he asked me as I shook my head.

"Nothing," I said as I noticed how pale he was.

"Hey are you feeling okay?" I asked as he nodded.

"Of course, I feel like I'm going to explode though, I must have had to much of that pudding." He said with a laugh. "You better get back to your brother, he looks worried."

I nodded. "Thanks."

I walked over to where Scott and Hadrian were standing.

"Where's Sophie?" I asked Hadrian as he pointed behind him.

"She's being social." He said.

"Oh and Hadrian's staying out our place for awhile, I hope that's okay." Scott said as he whispered in my ear. "His dad's drunk again, Hadrian doesn't want to be around him."

"Of course, that's fine."

...

The day had gone by slowly, like a slug trying to cross a big pathway, I was glad when the bell went and we left. The car ride had been quick though, we turned the radio up and did very bad karaoke.

When we pulled up I was jumped out of the car and pulled the frontseat down so Hadrian could get out.

"Scott-

I looked around only to see that Scott was already at the front door peeling an orange notice off. I only caught a quick look at it which said something about a wearing face mask before he teared it up casually and entered the house.

"Thanks for letting me say." Hadrian said as I shut the car door.

"You should be thanking Scott." I said as we walked up the front door which Scott had left opened.

"Witch hurry up and get inside." I heard Scott call out.

"Yeah whatever Smoker," I shouted back with a laugh however Hadrian was not smiling. "Let me guess, you knew about him smoking?"

"Of course," he said. "But he stopped as soon as you caught him."

"Did he? Or are you just saying that for him?"

"No I'm serious, he stopped because of you, he didn't want to hurt you." He said before raising an eyebrow. "So his nickname is Smoker?"

"Well it's not as bad as Witch." I said as we walked into the kitchen where Scott was making something for us to eat.

"Well I need a nickname, something cool."

"Like Hungry Hadrian?" I said with a laugh.

"How about Hunter? That's cool isn't it?" Scott said as Hadrian faced palmed.

"Yeah, cool for a werido, My nickname should should be Hadrian the awesome."

"I'm calling you Hunter, Hadrian the awesome is lame." Scott said and I nodded.

"Yep, I'm calling you Hunter too." I said as Hadrian shook his head.

"Call me what you will but I will only reply to Hadrian the awesome."

The phone suddenly rang and I screamed and fell out of my chair.

"Gosh you get startled easily." Hadrian laughed as Scott picked up the phone.

"It's not funny." I said as I picked up my chair.

I looked at Scott who looked like he had just seen a ghost.

"What's wrong?" I asked him as he hung up.

"That was Mercy Hospital, they want us to go there right away."

...

A/N: Hey everyone, here's the first chapter of my fanfcition, thank you all for reading :)

I would love your opinons on it, feel free to send me a message or review-though nothing critical please-this is just for fun, though if I do have grammer or spelling mistakes it would be great if you let me know so I can fix it up :)

I've had this idea in my head for ages and I just couldn't hold it in anymore, this chapter is more of an introduction to the story. I haven't named the Witch yet but I think I might leave her un-named, just because it adds the mystery to her. More Special infected will appear in future chapters. List of characters are below:

Narrator/?: Witch

Scott: Smoker

Hadrian: Hunter

Sophie: Spitter

Mr Brown: Boomer