One of Them (Year of the Zombie Book 11) by Matt Shaw

Author:Matt Shaw [Shaw, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Infected Books
Published: 2016-10-27T21:00:00+00:00

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By the time Andria reached the dining room, Bob was nearly finished with his own breakfast.

‘Was wondering whether you’d fallen asleep again,’ he said.

‘I just needed a bit of time to myself.’

‘Bad dream.’

‘Could say that.’

‘May I ask what happened?’

‘You said yesterday that if I still wanted to go, you’d let me leave. Well, I still want to go.’

Bob showed no emotion as he said, ‘Why don’t you sit down and have breakfast first. We need to have our strength if we’re to be travelling for the full day, otherwise we won’t get very far at all.’ She didn’t move. ‘Come on, it’s important. We have plenty of time.’

Andria hesitated a moment. Bob watched. He could see her working things out. Keep Bob sweet, get freed. She sat down opposite him. Another hesitation and then, finally, she started eating her breakfast. Bob smiled. He was in control.

‘What was the dream about?’

‘I don’t want to talk about it.’

‘You know, people say that dreams often work in reverse. So, if something bad happens in the dream, something good is due to happen in reality.’

‘Who said that?’

Bob shrugged. ‘People.’

‘Then they’re wrong. Something bad already happened. The dream was about that.’

‘I often dream about my father. You know, that final moment. Those last words...’

Andria knew what he was doing. Or what he was about to do. A final, last ditch attempt to convince her to stay with him.

‘We’re leaving just as soon as I finish this,’ she said so that there were no crossed signals. He answered with nothing but a smile as silence set in between them once more.

‘So what was the dream about?’ he said, disturbing the quiet and pushing her for an answer.

‘If you must know, I dreamt about my family.’

‘Surely that would be a nice dream?’

‘My husband and kids,’ she explained. ‘I dreamed about what happened to them. I keep seeing it in my dreams. The whole day, everything that happened and usually - no matter how much I want to - I can’t wake up until the story is complete. I relive it at least once a week. At least.’

‘Maybe it would help to talk about it?’

‘I told you, I don’t want to talk about it.’

‘But if you did... it might help. Might get it off your mind to talk it through with someone else.’ Bob sat back. ‘I’m not going to force you but, if you do want to talk about it, I’m here for you. No judgement.’ He continued, ‘I shared about my dad and you listened so it’s only fair...’

‘It was the day when the announcements first came on the television, before the channels went dead. Rob came out of the caravan where we lived to tell me the news. He was in the middle of telling me how everything was kicking off when my children arrived.’ She paused a moment as she went through the events in her head. ‘I don't even know how they came to be together, but there they were. My eldest had driven them in.

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