Lock In by Hayley Lawson

Author:Hayley Lawson [Lawson, Hayley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombies
Published: 2018-12-08T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THREE

With a clamber of barstools and sloshed beer, everyone leaped away from the window. Benjamin wasn’t fast enough, and the Ted’s fingers seized his wrist. With a shrill, girl-like shriek, Benjamin grabbed one of the tiny drink umbrellas tucked behind his ear and stabbed the Ted in the eye. Although the Ted screamed in rage and pain, its grip didn’t lessen. Benjamin struggled as the zombie hauled him closer. He tried grabbing the zombie’s arm and prying it loose but to no avail. Sara, wielding a knife, brought the blade across the Ted’s wrist. The Ted screamed and loosened its grip enough for Benjamin to pull his arm back. Then Sara shoved Benjamin aside, and buried her steak knife into the zombie’s head. She drew it out and pushed it in. In and out, again and again. Blood flew and spattered across the pub’s floor.

“I guess that all my years on the farm are finally paying off!” Sara exclaimed, rubbing the bloodied knife off on a napkin.

“Definitely! You go, girl!” Daisy exclaimed, going for her baseball bat.

“That’s probably the hottest thing I’ve seen all week,” Elijah said, whistling between his teeth.

“Yeah!” Alex exclaimed.

“Thanks for—uh—saving me,” Benjamin said.

“No problem,” Sara replied, shrugging.

Glass crunched beneath Darnell’s tennis shoes as he approached the Ted. “I can’t believe he smashed my freaking window out! That son of a gun!”

“You have insurance, though, don’t you?” Alex asked.

“Have you ever tried to get money out of an insurance company? I’ll be lucky if I get a new window within a year!” Darnell exclaimed.

“Well, I doubt that guy is paying up,” Benjamin said, nodding towards the dead and bleeding Ted.

“Oh, he’s paying up,” Darnell said, storming towards the Ted.

Darnell gingerly reached through the glass and fumbled through the Ted’s jacket and then reached further back into his jeans. Finally, Darnell found a worn, leather wallet. “Ha! Dead or not, he’s paying for that window!”

A chorus of groans filled the air as more zombies, seeing the broken window, tried to force their way into the pub. Their decaying limbs flawed around the now dead Ted. One climbed over the fallen Ted, causing more glass to fall onto the floor. Benjamin screamed and hurled his cocktail at the Ted, hoping to deter it as it crawled into the bar.

“They’re in!” Alex yelled. “We have to fight them!”

Daisy swept into action with her baseball bat. With a resounding crack, she brought the aluminum bat over a Ted’s head and sent it to the ground. More streamed in. Benjamin grabbed a beer bottle off the bar and threw it. The Ted didn’t seem very deterred, but still, Benjamin reached for whatever was at hand—bar stools, chairs, glasses, discarded bottles—and threw them with all his strength at the Teds that were creeping in.

Alex broke a table over one’s head. Elijah smashed a bottle of rum over another. Sara and her friends tore into the zombies, sending them back with knives, baseball bats, and glasses. A full-fledged brawl had broken out in the pub, and Darnell futilely tried to minimize destruction.

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