LEFT ALIVE (Zombie series Box Set): Books 1-6 of the Post-apocalyptic zombie action and adventure series by Laszlo Jeremy

Author:Laszlo, Jeremy [Laszlo, Jeremy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Sable Publishing
Published: 2014-07-31T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Three

“They’re taking him out back to bury him,” I say to Lexi as she blindly rummages through our father’s items. It disgusts me to look at her as she tears through them like some kind of feral hyena tearing up a bloated corpse, looking for the juicy good pieces. I want to slap her and tell her to snap out of it. I don’t know why she’s being so irrational. Lexi has always been stubborn and reckless, but she’s never been such an emotional storm before. Maybe this is the straw. Maybe this is what shatters all of her barriers and all of her defenses once and for all. She’s been crying a whole lot more than I have been. Am I dead inside? Is she acting exactly how I’m supposed to be acting? “Lexi, come on. We’re going to go bury him.”

“Fuck off,” Lexi lobs at me like a live grenade. I stare at her with absolute confusion. I am not her enemy. I am not the one who put a bullet through our father. I’m not the one who she should be shouting and freaking out at.

Truthfully, with every passing moment, the rational side of my brain tells me that I shouldn’t blame Henry. It whispers to me like a viper, telling me that there was no way Henry could have known who my father was. There was no way that he could have known anything standing before a man with a blade affixed to his stump. Sure, he should have waited, but I can understand the fear. We haven’t heard from or seen anyone from the outside world since shortly after we all made our sojourn to this place over a year ago.

Since that day, we’ve lost more than two thirds of our group and we’ve lived in isolation like an apocalyptic monastic order. Henry thought that my father was a threat and he did exactly what we all would have deemed as heroic and smart-thinking had it been some deranged killer. I will never forgive Henry, but I understand his actions. That’s about the best offer that I can give him. If he kills himself in the middle of the night, I’ll say so at his funeral.

But my sister, she’s beyond forgiveness. She’s in full vengeance and madness territory. The world ended and we were never given a time or period to adjust to things and told how we should handle them. In fact, we were given the exact opposite. We were tossed the keys to chaos and told to do what we will down the road of anarchy. No one wants that. No matter what the movies, the books, and the television shows said about the end of the world, it was not something to be desired or enjoyed.

I’m sure there are a bunch of psychopaths in heaven right now, living the dream, but I’m not one of them. From the looks of my father, he wasn’t either. But the burden of survival has weighed heavily on all of us.

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