12:19 pm: June 12, 2011: Day One of Containment Process

"So, how's your summer been so far?" Benny Jarvis reached out across the diner table and picked up the tall glass of Dr. Pepper. Across from the twenty six year old sat Kathy Jarvis, his younger sister. They had met at the diner to hang out like they usually did on Sundays after Kathy came back from church with her parents. Benny used to have to go, but now that he was out of the house, he found every reason not to be able to go since his parents couldn't really make him anymore.

"Eh, you know. That one party of the summer in this small town. I've been at the pool a lot with my friends." Kathy looked up to her brother after taking a bite of the burger on her plate. "What about you. Any new girlfriends?" She smirked at her fairly lame comment.

"No, actually. I'm still trying to find that one special girl."

"Whatever Benny," said Kathy rolling her eyes. "When was the last time you were with a girl for more than two weeks?"

Benny shook his head and laughed. "So, do you need a ride home?" he asked, noticing that they were both pretty much finished with their food.

"Well, Kelsey gets off soon, so I think I'll wait for her."

Benny nodded and finished paying. "See ya sis," he said and stood up to walk out of the small diner. Benny walked down the sidewalk to his old, red truck a few yards down the street. He moved around to the drivers side and opened the door when he noticed someone across the street in the corner of his eye. Benny turned around and looked across the street.

It was Jerry, an older resident of Orem Valley who owned one of the larger farms in Orem. He had lived here ever since Benny could remember and was always about town, meeting with other people and having fun despite his old age and frequent farm work. Benny would have usually smiled and waved to him, but Jerry didn't seem normal. Jerry usually had a big smile on his face, but today he had a dead facial expression. His eyes looked glazed over and he was stiff, with no movements. Also, not to mention Jerry was staring directly at Benny.

"Uh, hey Jerry," he said to the old man across the street. He made no anwer torwards Benny and didn't seem like he was planning on it. "What the hell," he said under his breath. That was weird. Jerry never acted like that. He almost seemed like he was in a trance or something. Benny ignored it and put his key in the ignition, took one last look at the man, still in the same position, and then took off back to his house.

Sam woke up with the sun shining brigltly in his eyes. He glanced at the blonde woman beside him, then at the clock.
"Shit. I'm late. AGAIN" he said jumping out of bed, pulling a pair of jeans on, a t-shirt and a cap.
"Where are you going?" retorted the naked woman, waking up.
"Work. Don't call me..I'll call you" and with that he ran to his Toyota truck and drove to a construction, in the centre of town.
"Bill...I'm sorry man. This is the last time" he excused himself to his boss.
But for the first time Bill did not give the usual answer "You always say that, Sam". No, instead he pushed Sam into a fence and yelled"One more time and you're fired"
Sam knew Bill was fed up with him being late and his lies, but he wasn't expecting that reaction. He noded and went off to work on the new building. He glanced back at Bill who's tan complexion seemed to be fadeing to a light gray, but he shruged it off.

It was mid afternoon when Nina arrived in her homtown, Orem Valley. The buss dropped her off in the centre, so she had to walk to her house, which was a couple of blocks away. Her mother did not know she was coming, so she didn't know what to expect. She glanced at the few faces that were wondering the streets that afternoon, int that dredful sun. Although being born and raised in Orem, living in Moscow for the past years, made Nina hate the sun. Nobody seemed familiar, but they were all staring at her.She was wearing a white dress and dark brown boots. Soon she reached her house, opened the door and saw her mother.
"Привет, мама"( Hello, mom) , Nina dropped the luggage and hugged her mother. She smiled at her, but her face grew sad as her mother did not look well at all.
"Mom...are you alright?
" Yes deary I'm fine, it's the sun. I missed you so much" and they continued catching up.

Kelsey was exhausted. She had been working double shifts and taking over other people's shift ever since a few of the girls had seemed to have gotten sick. She swear they're probably out somewhere with boys or just being downright lazy, who gets sick during the summer anyway? She had grumbled as she bustled through the busy diner, pour glasses of water and juice to everyone that has come through here. She couldn't complain though, most of the town swept through here and had most of their orders memorized and besides, her shift would be ending soon much to the delight of Kelsey.

At spotting a familiar face, she slid over to the table to clear off the empty dishes while smiling at the female that occupied it. "Hey there Kathy! How have you been? Well I'm guessing?" She smiled with an arm full of dishes as she reached to grab the money on the table and stuffed it into her apron pocket, slipping her pen behind her ear as she began to wipe down the table, minding her friend's burger and drink still on the table.

"Haven't you heard though? Some kind of bug is going around, most of the girls have called in sick, not to mention some of the people in town are acting kind of strange. Whatever this bus is must be serious but it'll probably pass soon enough" She gave a soft shrug, glancing at her watch before holding the dishes in both hands. "Hey look, I get off in like 2 seconds. Let me take this back and change and we can hang out somewhere?" She offered with a smile before turning to hurry back to the kitchen to get the dishes washed before taking off her apron and quickly changing into her street clothes in the back that served as a locker room.

She slipped on her favorite jean shorts, her black flip flops and tossed on a blood red tanktop before snatching up her mini backpack and tossing it on as she made her way out towards Kathy. "Ready!"

Kathy looked out the window, as Benny left the diner in his truck. He hadn't left yet though, and it looked as if he was talking to Jerry across the street. Jerry looked really odd, however and it kind of creeped Kathy out. What was he doing, just standing over there, staring blankly in front of him. She slowly looked away and forgot about it.

"--most of the girls have called in sick, not to mention some of the people in town are acting kind of strange. Whatever this bug is must be serious but it'll probably pass soon enough. Hey look, I get off in like 2 seconds. Let me take this back and change and we can hang out somewhere?"

Kathy got into what Kelsey had been saying about halfway into her speaking. Kathy had been so distracted by Jerry, that she had blocked out anything else. She looked up to Kelsey and smiled to her best friend. "Ya, ok. We can go back to my house if you want. Or the pool?" That was pretty much the only place they had here. The pool, the bowling alley, and the small little movie theatre that has one theatre only. She grabbed her purse from next to her and then looked up back at the window.

"Oh my fucking god!" she yelled covering her mouth. At the window right outside of her was Jerry staring into the window. She moved away from the window and stood up. He wasn't doing anything except looking in the window, but it still freaked her out. She watched him as she called to Kelsey. "Hurry up Kels." What the hell was wrong with this guy today?

Sam, taking a break saw Jerry, a local that always seemed to get along with everyone staring into the window of the local restaurant He approached the man.
"Howdy Jerry. Would you mind kindly stepping away from the window and not to freak that pretty little lady out."he noded towards Kathy.
But Jerry did not move. Being hot headed, Sam pulled him away from the window, only to see a strange looking Jerry.
"Oh man, I think I just lost my appetite." and he went inside the restaurant.
"Afternoon, m'am. "he took his cap off, greeting Kathy. "How's my favourite lady doing lately? Who's your brother?" he kind of sucked at making conversation. He likes the girl, well....he likes every girl.

"Mom, I'm going out to get some shopping done,, alright?Need something?
But Nina's mom didn't reply so she took it as a No. Little did she know her mother was going through hell.
Nina had changed into a pair of short jeans and white vest, hair loose and sunglasses on.
While walking trough town, she saw people looking as pale and sick as her mother. 'I guess it's got something to do with the air, or the sun" she shruged it off
On her way to the shop, she passed by some of her old friends house "Wonder how Kathy and Benny are doing and if they're still here" she smiled looking back at her high school years.

Emma sat in her small store, bored as always. Surprisingly, though she owned the only pharmacy in the town, which also sold small knick-knacks, not many actually came in. She barely made enough to keep it running, though she always managed to find the funds to save it. She sighed, blowing a piece of blond hair out of her face. She played with one of the teddy bears she kept around. If there was anything Emma loved, it'd be teddies. She sold them, hoping to attract small children coming out of school so that she could easily make a profit off their whimsical spending of allowance money.

The bell above the door rang as a customer walked in, but she wasn't a small child. Quite the contrary actually. She was a tall, thin girl. She had pale skin and her raven black hair covered her face, not to mention she wore a long black hoodie and she kept her hood up shading her face, and her sunglasses covered her eyes.

Emma raised an eyebrow. Was she being held up? Not sure how to deal with whatever seemed to be going on, she spoke up, her fragile frame and light voice not at all intimidating, not to mention she was wearing a frilly pink dress. "May I help you, Ma'am?"

The girl looked up, but then quickly looked back down to her black converse. "I'm not sure anyone can help me," She said sarcastically, presenting a small smile at her own joke.

Emma just bit her lip. "Well, okay then... You just, uh, tell me if you need me."

The bell dinged again, and Emma filled with hope that maybe the sheriff was here to protect her from this creepy chick. But no luck, it was Richard. He'd always come, hit on her, buy absolutely nothing, then leave.

"See the sign?" Emma asked, beginning to get sick of his ways. "'No loitering'. You know what that means?"

"Is it... like a weird way to spell 'littering'?" He asked, scratching his head and doing his best to flex his muscles.

"No. It means buy something or get out... please." She was never really mean to anyone, but everyone has to make a living.

He just smirked. "Nice to see you too, doll-face." He then glanced over at the other customer. "Who's your friend?"

"I'm not her friend. The name is Janessa." The raven-haired girl growled.

"New around here?"

She snorted. "Hardly."

It only took Benny about two minutes to get back to his small house at the edge of town, and he only went through about three streets, but could notice something odd. Odder than usual. The fact the people that he never thought would be out in this kind of weather were out. Tons of people were walking about town, even though they would usually be working on the farm at this time. And not to mention, they had that same, sickly, and a bit crazy look on their faces. Something weird was going on, and Benny didn't like it. Nothing ever went on in this small town, and it wasn't the time for that to happen. They were having a horrible drought the whole summer, and the crops were dying. They didn't have the time to take their attention away from work on the farm to handle everyone getting sick.

As Benny drove down the rode to his house, he almost turned into the driveway, but noticed the bright orange hair of the tall woman ahead and drove ahead instead. He sped up to get next to her and called out, "Nina Kerinina. What in the world are you doing here?" He had gone to high school with her, though she was a year under him. Even then, he still would hang out with her from time to time. There was only about 150 students altogether in Orem Valley High School.

"So... Orem Valley, Utah...." He looks at his laptop inside a silver steel briefcase. "I wonder how such a small town could get a deadly virus.... heh." He begins typing in different codes to see the containment processes. "So... we'll quarantine them from all entry and exit ways by setting up heavy checkpoints... and set up a containment camp at the small football stadium. We should take blood samples... find out if they're infected before it fully takes over. If they are infected, we should put them behind fences... and continue on with the decontamination process with the non-infected so we can evacuate them. Right sir?."

Voice on phone said, "Yes.... that is right Agent Vartoz. We do not need to fail this... the Government is counting on us to wipe out the town... take no survivors. You know what it could to do if we did... if they slipped by our fingers infected. They could spread it."

"Yeah, I know... I'll do all my best sir. Just let me know when the U.S. Army is ready to deploy for the containment and quarantine procedure." He hangs up the phone and continues looking at all the satellite feeds of the virus spreading and seeing the lines of how the quarantine procedure would go and the containment process also. He begins talking to himself, "This is going to be one hell of a task... trying to keep this secret and trying to keep it under cover from the media.... I hope the Government has a good damn well back-up if this fails...." He stopped looking at laptop and looked up at his inside mirror to see a picture of his wife and him with the U.S. President.

His Partner(Which won't last long) began talking to him. "So... whats the orders?"
Agent Vartoz responded, "We wait... till the U.S. Army is ready to deploy and to start the quarantine and containment procedures. Until then, we just try to keep our cover and secrecy of this virus spread."

Partner Derrick looks, "I see.... it'll be hard but we can do it. This small town wouldn't mean much to the people anyways.... can't hurt, right?" He chuckles and looks outside from their Black bulletproof government escalade. "Not much to do in this pathetic town... but stare at people and be perverts...."

Agent Vartoz looks and gives a weak smile, "Yeah.... I guess so." He looks at the children and starts to feel a little pressure because they can't let no one be evacuated but thats their lie to have support of the people... once the quarantine and containment begins. "Well, we should stay alert... watch out for anything."

Derrick nods, "Yes Sir. You're the boss." He gave a slight chuckle.

Emma picked up her bag, hoping that she didn't just make a huge mistake in leaving this moron with her shop, but she saw the sun come out and nothing could stop her from bathing in it for as long as she wanted. She gave him a warning on not to hit on the customers, trusted that he understood how to work a cash register, and quickly took her leave.

Outside it was bright and beautiful, just as she had imagined. Of course, Emma wasn't the greatest decision maker and wasn't sure what would happen to her shop while she was gone, but she didn't care. She quickly set out on finding someone else to share this day with, though, seeing only a few people that she knew, and they all looked a little different, yet somewhat the same, she got the feeling she should stay away. Instead she decided to sit on a bench and just wait for a familiar person that didn't look insane.