Dead End by Howard Odentz

Author:Howard Odentz
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
ISBN: 9781611948974
Publisher: Bell Bridge Books
Published: 2018-10-29T04:00:00+00:00

Trust me, we certainly hadn’t won against Diana, but I felt like we had won something. That knowledge gave me power and that power made me feel like, for the moment, nothing could touch me.

I pushed through the branches, heading toward my friends, not caring that I was being loud anymore, or that some of the branches were scraping against my face and scratching my cheeks. Hell, I didn’t even care that there were branches sliding along my bare legs and poking me in my underwear.

I was Tripp Light. Fantastic. I felt fearless.

Then I found my friends and every bit of fearlessness drained from my cheeks and I morphed back into the skinny sixteen-year-old wiseass that I had always been, except I didn’t feel sixteen anymore.

I felt six.

“What the hell was that?” Trina cried as she dashed up to me and grabbed my arm so hard that I was fairly certain that she was drawing blood.

“I . . . um . . .”

“You just freaked out and ran, you dumbass. We had a plan. Then you had to go and scream your name out like that. What an idiot,” she spat. “What a freaking idiot.”

Trina didn’t even give me a chance to explain. Before I could open my mouth, Jimmy rolled up to me with his chest sticking out like he was getting ready to rumble.

“Damn you, Tripp,” he snarled at me.

Yeah, that’s right. Jimmy James actually snarled at me.

“What . . . I . . .”

“Just shut the hell up,” he bellowed, almost jumping out of his chair. I involuntarily took a step back.

Why was everyone so mad? I didn’t understand. I had just figured out about the most important thing ever.

Then I saw Bullseye. He was crying. His eyes were all puffy. He kept balling up his fists and squeezing them tight. Newfie was standing next to him with his tail between his legs.

“What’s going on?” I whined. “I don’t . . .”

“No you don’t,” Bullseye spat out. “You never do.”

God, where was Prianka? I needed her to ground me, or smack me, or something so I could just get this part over with. My eyes looked pleadingly from Trina to Jimmy to Bullseye before I realized that Prianka wasn’t standing with them. Sanjay wasn’t standing with them.

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