When The Dead Rise (Book 1): The Outbreak by Fraser D.K

Author:Fraser, D.K. [Fraser, D.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Published: 2020-01-29T05:00:00+00:00

Nick

Nick lay there exhausted, staring at the ceiling of the hotel room. He’d been awake all night just lying there. He originally wanted to get some sleep maybe just a couple of hours but that didn’t happen. Not with everything that was going on inside of his head. So much had been running through his mind all night. From his wife and baby girl to how crazy people had been last night.

The homeless guy being shot and seeing the two bodies on the ground below his hotel had really disturbed him, what was the world coming to?

The noise of what was going on in downtown Seattle had kept him awake, too. Sirens had been pretty much a constant all night then there were gunshots. He’d heard glass smashing, metal grinding as cars hit each other. It had been a long night, but Nick forced himself not to go to the window as he knew there was nothing he could do.

He hadn’t heard any sirens in a little bit, and it was starting to get light outside. He knew the first train was around 7:00 am. So, he figured he should probably get to the station before it opened. He needed to get in then exchange his ticket as quickly as possible. The sooner he was on his way home to his girls the better. He sat up and swung his legs off the edge of the bed.

Nick had laid in his clothes all night and still felt a groggy from his lack of sleep. Getting up, he walked over to the window rubbing his tired heavy eyes. Opening up the blinds, he looked outside to check for any signs of what had gone on last night. What he’d heard all night definitely hadn’t prepared him for what he saw outside. There was a haze of smoke lingering between the buildings with dark plumes of smoke rising up in the distance. He looked down and saw the street below littered with trash, glass, and even a car had mounted the sidewalk. The car’s hood was smoking but there was no one around it. There was no traffic at all, and he laughed to himself.

He pulled out the business card of the cabby who’d brought him here. The streets were a mess, so he didn’t want to risk getting swept up in any rioting or protesting. The only focus he had was getting home. He dialed the number; it rang then someone picked up.

“’Ello?” boomed the loud familiar cabby’s voice.

“Hey! Hi, it’s Nick the guy from yesterday, are you working?” he asked, not sure if it was just the immediate downtown area in tatters or the rest of Seattle, too.

“I always work, my friend, no matter how much shit storm it is...” the cabby said.

There was a pause “-but I still don’t know who you are?” the cabby asked.

Nick thought to himself, he had not given the cabbie his name.

“It’s the grilled cheese guy!” Nick said with a small smile to himself. He could tell the cabby knew who he was when the man let out that big deep laugh.

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