Tom And Alice by K. Bartholomew

Author:K. Bartholomew [Bartholomew, K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-04-26T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

We ran through the Arndale Centre, a large city centre shopping mall which connected various parts of the centre of Manchester. The Arndale Centre occupied two floors, each running circular around a central atrium containing dozens of stores.

Yet, again we found danger at every turn. We were no safer here than we were outside, or at Piccadilly station.

We’d managed to escape the train station, but only because we had advanced warning from the other carriage of what awaited us when the doors in front of us opened. Several men with blood on their faces had leapt at us from the open doors. We were trapped, all except for one escape route. We hit the ground. As those deranged men flew into the people behind us, we crawled along the side of the train and dropped onto the tracks as those we left behind died horrible deaths. I realised then that something inhuman had struck these people and that we’d need to be careful how close we came to those we didn't recognise from now on.

Now we saw those same deranged lunatics once again, attacking people at random and for no reason at all. What happened to these people’s sanity? Had everybody started taking some kind of a new drug? Or was it something to do with all the mobile phone signals that had finally sent everybody insane. The best explanation I could come up with was that I was in fact dreaming.

That thought was cut short when I saw two policemen attempting to taze a tall tattooed man in a Manchester City football shirt. It had no effect on the man as he continued stumbling towards them, dragging his foot along the ground. The policemen backed up and reached for the pepper spray. The tall guy took a huge dose in the eye balls but was not deterred in the slightest. I bet they wished they had guns I thought, as the guy in the football shirt lunged at one of them, biting off the front of his face.

"Don't look at that Alice," I covered her eyes and led her away.

We walked around the perimeter, or at least we tried. Three men had evidently looted the DIY store and had taken a sledge hammer, a hacksaw and a DeWalt cordless drill. They approached a cash point embedded in the wall before the one with the sledgehammer took a giant swing, cracking the head against the screen. He beckoned forward his comrade with the drill who took a turn at trying to get to the riches.

I thought a weapon might be just what we needed, but as soon as that thought entered my mind, I realised that speed was probably our best weapon, after all, I had Alice to think about.

The need to find a safe hideout was greater now than ever, but where to? It would simply be a matter of running as far as possible, avoiding the obstacles and holing up somewhere until whatever was happening died down.

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