Ophelia by Rain Briana

Author:Rain, Briana [Rain, Briana]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Apocalyptic | Zombies
Published: 2019-10-23T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22: Spaghettios

There was laughter up ahead. Like actual, not totally forced laughter. It sounded like Vi and Lucky were having a blast. I found the two groups smooshed together in a break room. Wires had gone ahead, almost running away from me, or maybe Roger. The twins were begging him to continue whatever he was doing before he had to leave. He laughed, and continued some sort of sleight-of-hand magic show, making jokes about his baldness while he was at it. He looked somewhere around forty. About Mom’s age.

Once I’d left the bath room, I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw my mother. She had been there the whole time, listening, but not able to do anything. She had tears on her cheeks and in her eyes, and her hand covered her mouth, so that she wouldn't make a sound. I wanted to hug her. I wanted her to hug me. I wanted her to tell me that everything would be okay.

But it's wasn’t. Death was coming for Juliet Astor’s oldest daughter, and there was nothing she could do.

Roger stopped me from going in, and told me that if anything started to feel off, I should inform him immediately.

Someone handed him a can of SpaghettiOs, the food of the Apocalypse, apparently, and a beer. The can had a plastic spoon sticking out of it. He handed it to me, making sure not to touch me, and kept the beverage for himself. He nodded inside the room and took a swig out of the bottle.

I quietly, entered the room.

There were conversations going on around the room, all of which stopped when I walked in. A lot of people were standing along the back wall and sitting on couches. Like, almost twenty more guys that I hadn’t seen before.

All of them stared at me and about half of them reached for the weapons on their hips.

Carefully, I walked past the men and sat down at a table next to Mom with my half full can. The southerners also sat across the same rounded table, their chairs moved closer together than to the rest. Clyde was doing that weird secret serious-talk thing with Addeline, but stopped and stared at me with pity when I approached.

Mom was done with whatever had been in her bowl, probably the other half of my SpaghettiOs and was watching the twins crack up at coins mysteriously appearing from Wires’s nose. I started eating the SpaghettiOs, a name that I'd always found funny. Ha. SpaghettiOs.

I remembered seeing multiple cans of the stuff at Addeline's apartment. This can was just the ringed noodles and sauce. No meatballs. Which was good, I think, because I didn’t think my stomach could’ve handled weird canned meat at the moment.

Viola seemed to almost have a handle on how Wires’s disappearing card trick worked, and demanded for him to do it again so that she could figure out that last piece of the puzzle. Wires glanced at me, still pale, then repeated the trick.

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