Lockey vs. the Apocalypse | Book 2 | We Will Rise [Adrian's Undead Diary Novel] by Meadows Carl

Author:Meadows, Carl [Meadows, Carl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror | Zombies
Publisher: Chris Philbrook
Published: 2021-04-11T22:00:00+00:00

NOVEMBER 1st, 2010

ALPHA AND OMEGA

It rained for another couple of days, and I tried to spend as much time as I could in my room. Isaac and I have largely been avoiding each other. He’s been in broody sulk mode and snappy with everyone. He’s largely ignored me which I was okay with, but that means his sarcastic little nips have been targeted at everyone else.

Today, he went too far, and cut Nate’s exceptionally long fuse too short. There had been a couple of times where Nate had cut Isaac short with a hard glare of warning, or a quipped, “Hey!” when Nate felt he was going too far with someone.

After a couple of days of it though, I could tell Nate was starting to get pissed by Isaac’s petulance. Childish pique is not something a man like Nate Carter will abide from a so-called adult. I have a childish sense of humour, but I never throw childish tantrums.

Isaac finally crossed the line today and oh mama, did he get put in his place.

He had a bit of a headache, and the rule we’ve set down in the lodge is that if anyone needs any form of medication, we go through Maria. She’s the trained medical professional as a highly experienced Senior Nurse Practitioner, so even if you want an ibuprofen, you go via Maria.

Isaac said he had, “a bit of a migraine,” and asked if he could have something for it.

Maria chuckled. “If you’d ever had an actual migraine, you’d know there’s no such thing as a ‘bit’ of one. I’ll get you some paracetamol and we’ll see how you fare.”

“That won’t touch it,” he complained with a huff. “I need something stronger.”

“Isaac, I’m not giving you prescription painkillers for a headache.”

Maria’s tone brooked no further argument. As far as she was concerned, the debate was over.

“How do you know how fucking bad it is, eh?” he snapped.

“Language,” warned Nate from his seat at the table, coffee cup in hand.

He has a thing about bad language round Maria, Norah, and especially Charlie. He’s proper old school like that. An accidental “shit” can slide by without incident, but the F-bomb is the big no-no around them. Even I watch my foul mouth when those three are around, as I know Nate doesn’t like it. He swears like a trooper when we’re out and about, but neither of us would ever drop the F-bomb when little Charlie was in earshot because he’s a kid, and I don’t swear like a fishwife in front of Maria and Norah anyway. It’d be like swearing in front of my mum and grandma. You just don’t do it.

Isaac, however, had decided today was going to be a special day. A day when he did what no sane person would even dream of doing.

“Fuck off, old man,” he quipped. “It’s a free country.”

Well, shit.

Nate didn’t explode into motion, or even get animated. He deftly placed his cup back on the table, stood, turned his dark eyes to Isaac, and ominously moved towards him, slow and deliberate.

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