Dawn of the Zombie Apocalypse by Murray Lee;

Author:Murray, Lee;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: IFWG Publishing International
Published: 2019-06-23T08:09:36+00:00

CHAPTER 13

On the deck, Darren perched on the orange computer chair we’d left there overnight, while Talia took a seat on the swing chair. Kicking the paddling pool carcass aside, I flopped on the deck, my back to a pillar. Then I plunged my hand into the box of Honey Puffs and pulled out a big fistful.

“Thanks for backing me up in there,” I said to Darren, stuffing sticky Honey Puffs into my mouth. “Grandma theems to think it’s a weal epidemic,” I said, accidentally spitting Honey Puffs onto the lawn. I handed Darren the cereal box.

“It is a real epidemic,” Darren said, taking the box. “Just not the sort your grandma understands.” He jammed his hand in up to his elbow. The box was nearly empty.

“It’s what I told the residents at Sunnynook,” Talia said. “I said the staff were infected by the epidemic so the centre had had to be quarantined, which meant the residents would have to look after themselves for a few days.”

Darren rolled towards her, the castors thrumming on the boards of the deck. He offered her the Honey Puffs. “They believed you?”

“They did, actually,” said Talia, putting her hand in the box and coming away with two measly puffs. She took the empty box from him and put it on the floor. “To be honest, I think they liked the idea of being more independent. They said it’d be like going to camp.”

“Yeah,” said Darren. “I guess.”

There was a pause while we crunched on our dry Honey Puffs. No one wanted to ask the next question.

The 64-million dollar question.

“They’re all fine by the way,” said Talia eventually. “The residents. Everyone at Sunnynook.”

Darren kicked back the computer chair onto two castors, his hand on the wall for balance. “Well, they’re not exactly the target market for the Dawn of the Zombie Apocalypse.”

“Then we agree it was the game that’s caused it?” Talia said.

A wave of anger hit me. I stood up and folded my arms across my chest. “Okay, I admit it, I said. “I did it. I’m the Nasty Bad Person who let the game escape into the universe. What difference does it make how it happened? The thing is, how do we make it stop? How do we get back to normal?”

Now it was Talia’s turn to fold her arms. “Of course, it matters how it happened, you goofball!” she said.

Darren coughed. Talia clamped her lips in a thin line.

“What Talia is trying to say,” said Darren, “is that knowing how it happened could be important to reversing the effects, or at least stopping the virus from spreading.”

I dropped my arms. “It’s too late. It’ll be everywhere. I wouldn’t be surprised if aliens on distant planets have been listening to the Earth’s broadcasts and now they’re zombies, too.”

“Well, at least you saved the world from that invasion,” Darren said, grinning.

I cuffed him on the shoulder, nearly making him fall off the chair.

“Come on, guys. Stop mucking around. We need to think. What are we going to do?” said Talia.

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