Pulse by Eloise J. Knapp

Author:Eloise J. Knapp
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2014-02-09T06:00:00+00:00

22 Sadie

Sadie was good at keeping a happy face even when everything in her life was at its worst. As Dom asked if she was okay, she told them just enough of the truth to make the lies easier to say. The truth was, she did know what was going on. She had a smart phone—God, she did have a smartphone! What did they take her for?—and read all the updates and watched all the gruesome videos. She knew exactly what was going on.

And the real truth was, if Dom wanted to enter the apartment under any circumstances, and neared Jon’s room, they would’ve smelled it. They would’ve known an infected was in the building.

Sadie paid an extra hundred dollars a month to have one of the apartments that had a small patio. She had a green thumb and loved to grow things, so she’d maximized the space for a tiny year-round garden.

Jon loved to play outside. They had a bird bath and he liked to play with his action figures in it. He didn’t understand why she said it was off limits, and while Sadie was making lunch he slipped out to play.

She heard him scream and when she came out, saw him holding onto a thin worm trying to burrow its way into his calf. It was impossible to grip. Her nails dug into it, blood and pus seeping out from the crescent shape they left.

It only took seconds to pull it out and toss it over the balcony. She carried Jon in, pouring rubbing alcohol into the wound despite his ear-piercing screams. His crying died down as she bandaged it with a Tranformers themed bandage and she rocked him in her arms.

Her own tears flowed down her cheeks. This meant her son was infected. The worm hadn’t gotten in, but wasn’t that all it took? Just a bit of contact? She put Jon in his bed, bringing the mini DVD-player in so he could watch a movie. Eventually he fell asleep, his breath deep.

Then the sickness. The coma. The sweat.

Jon was her only child. The only good thing in her life, even if it came from a bad decision with a bad man. Whatever happened to him, she would be there.

She would be his mom.

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