Infected (Book 1): The First Ten Days by Thomas Jack

Author:Thomas, Jack [Thomas, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: zombies
Publisher: Jack Thomas
Published: 2015-02-18T05:00:00+00:00

Old Timer’s Apartment

To our luck, the apartment the man walked us into had a window that faced the building Marcus was on. Lizbeth and Mara ignored the rest of the apartment and went straight for the window. They spotted Marcus on the roof of the building across the street and waved at him to get him to see which apartment we were in. At first Marcus didn’t notice the girls but Lizbeth lost her patience. “HEY!” she yelled. Marcus locked onto the location of the sound and knew they were safe which for all intents and purposes meant we were too.

“Make yourselves at home. Don’t be shy,” the old man said as he took a seat on one of the couches in his living room. “It’s been a few days since I’ve seen a single person that hasn’t acted so monstrously towards the people around them. It’s a breath of fresh air to know I’m not alone.” The old man rested his back against the couch’s backrest and he took a deep breath before he looked around the room.

Edwin and I sat on the couch across from the old man.

“Thanks for the help, mister. We were pretty jammed up back there. Not sure what we would have done if you didn’t show up to our rescue, the way you did,” Edwin said, his holiday picture perfect smile hung up on his face.

I scanned the room; everything looked age appropriate for the old man. Figurines his wife probably put up, pictures of family such as children and grandchildren. The home also looked spotless clean; four and a half days indoors could drive someone to madness and boredom. He most likely cleaned the place to keep himself busy. At least that is what I would have done.

“How did you know when to go to the roof and save us?” I asked.

The question arose from the old man’s precise timing when he saved us. Did he watched us the whole time before he decided to come to our aid? He did mention other people that behaved monstrously. Maybe he first waited to see if we were hostile too before he decided to help.

“Son, I had no clue I was going to run into so much youth when I went out,” the old man began. “I was going to feed the birds that stop by every day. That’s when I saw you were in trouble and I did what I could.” So our whole survival was due to a mere coincidence, but I won’t argue. I take what I can get.

“I think I left the bread up there too. An hour…” He rambled on. “I have enough time to feed them.” This man managed to keep his cool to the point that he still kept the birds he wanted to feed in mind. “Oh, before I forget, my name is Trevor.”

The condition of things: I believe that things were looking up around this point. Although we were separated, we managed to cover some time and stay alive all the way into another day.

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