Death Sucks by Andrew Mallen

Author:Andrew Mallen [Mallen, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781712081112
Published: 2019-12-14T05:00:00+00:00

13.

“You have to kill me,” Maria said it so casually that Bobby was sure he’d misheard her.

“What?”

They had just returned from Roger’s two-year anniversary meeting. Lenny had given him his coin. The two men had become inseparable, their friendship was the best and brightest part of both their lives. After deciding the world was ready for the ultimate bachelor slash gamer pad, they decided to move in together a few months earlier. Roger added the last of his ill-gotten, freezer-burned cash to Lenny’s hard-earned savings, and together they managed put down nearly fifty percent of the hefty asking price on a newly-built townhouse in New Rochelle.

The place was a lot nicer than either of them had ever lived in before. Two bedrooms and two bathrooms split the second floor atop an open staircase rooted in a wide open living room. The kitchen was white and clean and modern and the two roomies vowed to keep it that way. A formal dining room had no place in either of their lives and was quickly converted into a gamer’s paradise. Two 60 inch OLED hung on opposite walls with a PS4 Pro and an Xbox One S hooked up to each one. Matching desks stood side by side. An Alienware laptop, customized for optimum graphics and performance, sat on each one. An official movie poster from each of the Lord of the Rings movies covered one wall. A massive bearded Viking axe crossed a broad sword over a shield depicting two battling dragons decorated another. A colorful, glossy poster of a universe where no man had ever gone before and an original cartoon rendition of Yoda sitting on the toilet reading his species version of Playboy adorned the last. At the door a life-sized Darth Vader complete with a motion activated light saber (Lenny had sold his entire collection of comics to buy it) guarded the entrance. The room was their pride and joy, their escape, their little slice of heaven on earth.

Maria sat on one of the four comfy kitchen chairs staring into the thick border of woods that surrounded the development but her mind was a lot farther away. Bobby sat on the opposite side of the round wood table, studying her for any signs of insanity.

“It’s the only way,” she said without turning to look at him.

“No it’s not. We have a way, we have a plan. It’s taking a little longer than we imagined, sure, but it’ll work,” he didn’t even sound convincing to himself.

“The ones that listen think I’m crazy or corrupted. The others won’t listen to a word I say, it’s like I have the plague or something,” she accurately summed up their progress over the past eighteen months.

Bobby couldn’t deny they were failing but there was no way he was giving up. “You mean the ones that run like you’re a zombie and they’re the last fresh meal on two legs?” he asked with a grin.

Maria frowned. “Listen Bobby we tried, we really did but it didn’t work and we could run out of time at any second.

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