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Chapter One-Aaron
"Strange new virus infects a number of people in Texas."
I should have listened to that. I was thinking back then it was just a bunch of hypochondriacs freaking out. But I was wrong...the crows calling outside must've been trying to tell me what was going to happen next, and what would happen from now on. My name is Aaron Webster, and my children, Taylor, Jackson and Chip are the last people in our family..well, in this house anyways. See, Anna, my wife died of cancer...I miss her. It's been so long, but I've never seemed to get over it. I suppose my time in the military fueled some of that lasting scar on my mentality..I don't have the heart to tell this to anyone else, but I believe that you should know..
It started out fairly normal. Taylor went to high school, and Jackson went to Elementary school. Taylor wouldn't be home until eleven, there was a football scrimmage she was to play with the marching band at, and a dance at the school. That unnerved me to no end. Chip stayed home with me, and was currently sleeping on the couch. The phone rang, snapping me out of that haze that I was always engulfed in. I gingerly picked it up, chuckling to myself at Chip's inability to hear the ringing. "Hey, Aaron." The voice was extremely familiar. Dmitri. "Did you see the news today?" He sounded worried, but that was abnormal for Dmitri. He was always calm. I felt uneasy, maybe it was just paranoia. As I turned on the television, I switched it from the generic Monday morning baby cartoons to the news. "Several years ago there was a recorded outbreak of a virus among people in Austin Texas.." Dmitri continued. I laughed. "Dmitri, is this another prank?" I dropped the phone suddenly, gaping at the television screen. This time around, Chip woke up. "Zuh..?" His blonde hair was now all messy all over his head. He was the only one in the family who had his mother's hair. Blonde. Everyone else had brown hair. I had often noticed this the longer we stayed overseas together, before Anna died. "Chip, do you still have your gun?" His eyes were now wide, and he seemed wide awake now. "Yea..in the dresser..why ya need it, dad?"