Just Another Day in the Zombie Apocalypse (Episode 1) by Mortimer L.C

Author:Mortimer, L.C. [Mortimer, L.C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2016-10-14T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

“She’s coming back to life,” Alice whispered. The fear in her voice shot straight to Mark’s cold, dead heart and he closed his eyes.

“Come on,” he murmured, pulling her away from the window. Neither one of them was going to go outside and kill her. They were inside for the night, whether they liked it or not. He wanted to barricade the rest of the house, to do something about the windows, to stabilize the back door, but there was no time for any of that anymore.

The infection had reached them and now it was time to hide until morning.

“Go upstairs,” he whispered to Alice. “Go upstairs with Kyle and wait for me there.”

Thankfully, the little sprite didn’t argue. She just went, scurrying up the stairs. Mark ran a hand through his short hair and down his face. His day-old stubble stung his hand, scratching him, and he wished he had shaved. He tried to distance himself from his military days in many ways, but shaving was one thing he couldn’t seem to stop. He needed it. He needed the routine, the predictability. He needed knowing that when he woke up, he brushed his teeth and shaved, and then he began his day.

Mark went into the kitchen and carefully moved all the crap from the kitchen table to the counter. Then he lifted one end of the table and carefully dragged it across the floor to the back door and pushed it in place. When he was finished, he piled all the crap back on the table.

It wouldn’t do much to keep anyone from breaking in, but it would be loud, and that was what mattered. Mark didn’t plan on sleeping much, but just in case he dozed off, he wanted to know if someone – or something – was trying to get into the house.

They would be hidden away upstairs, carefully tucked into the room with the bunk beds. He doubted anyone who broke in would go upstairs at all. Why would they? If someone broke in, they’d be looking for food, supplies, or blood, he realized.

He couldn’t think like that, though, couldn’t be so overwhelmingly negative. Besides, he had more pressing matters to worry about.

Like what he was going to do if he had a nightmare. For the first time in ages, he didn’t have a drink or five to help him fall asleep. He had grabbed the bottle of sleeping pills from his cabinet, but did he really want to take those? What if something happened? What if the Infected broke in and Alice and Kyle needed him to keep them safe?

He liked the two of them. He really did. They needed him, though. He knew that much. They were both quick, both smart, but neither one of them had seen the things he had. Neither one of them had been in war. And as much as Mark hated to be the one to break the news to poor Kyle, playing war simulation video games wasn’t the same thing as holding your brother-in-arms as he died.

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