Dead Meat Box Set, Vol. 2 | Days 4-6 by Clausen Nick

Author:Clausen, Nick [Clausen, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombies
Published: 2021-01-03T05:00:00+00:00

EIGHTEEN

“Hello? Eli?” Claus’s voice in his ear, drowsy. “Why you calling so late? Everything okay?”

Eli isn’t able to answer. He’s barely able to concentrate on driving.

He’s staring in the rearview mirror. Staring at the backseat. The leather is bulging and moving where Axe’s hands are fondling it from the backside. It looks like he’s already torn out most of the upholstery, the only thing separating him from Eli being the leather. Luckily, his nails don’t seem sharp enough to penetrate it.

“Cl … Claus,” Eli manages to croak. “I … I need your help …”

“You sound terrible, buddy. Don’t tell me you used again?”

“No, it’s not that.”

“Oh, thank God.”

“It’s even worse.”

A brief pause. “How can it be worse?”

“Look, I really need to see you.”

“I’m sorry, buddy, but that’s not going to work.”

Eli is so stunned he forgets about Axe for a moment. “What? You said I could always call you if I needed help.”

“Wish I could, but you see—”

“It’s a matter of life and death!”

“I get that, Eli, but I’m just not—”

“You’re just not what? In the mood for my annoying problems? Well, I’m fucking sorry to trouble you, but I almost got killed two times this morning already! How’s that for your—”

He’s interrupted by a ripping noise causing him to look into the mirror once more. Axe is now biting his way through the leather, tearing at it like an animal. And it’s working. Within seconds, there’s a gash wide enough for his face to squeeze through.

“Oh, fuck, no!”

He didn’t look at Axe when they moved him; he made very sure not to. But now, his friend’s face is staring right back at him, protruding comically from the backseat.

“Eli? Eli?” Claus’s voice calls from somewhere nearby, and Eli realizes peripherally that he must have put the phone back in his pocket without disconnecting the call, because it’s not in his hand anymore.

Eli can’t get a word out. He can only stare at Axe.

Axe’s eyebrows are gone, his lips are blistered and pulled back in a snare, revealing the pink gums and white teeth, a string of black leather caught between two of them. His skin is mostly black and has been peeled off in several places, causing the white cheekbones to peek through. Also, his hair is mostly gone, or rather, it’s melted onto the skull like a wilted flower bed.

No wonder it stinks in here, a thought interjects in Eli’s mind, surprisingly clear. He looks like a pig roast.

Axe begins squirming eagerly, trying to push his shoulders through the seat.

Then, Eli is jerked out of his stupor, as the car bounces violently, making its way up onto the sidewalk, smashing a parking meter.

“Fuck!”

Eli jerks the wheel sideways just in time to avoid a light post. Instead, he crashes into a parked car. Something white covers his field of vision in a flash, and even before the sound of the collision reaches his ears, his face is slammed into something not quite soft.

Eli sinks back into the seat with a deep sigh as he slips away into a freeing darkness.

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