ParaNorman by LAIKA

Author:LAIKA [KIMMEL, ELIZABETH CODY ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction / Media Tie-In, Juvenile Fiction / Horror & Ghost Stories, Juvenile Fiction / Humorous Stories
ISBN: 9780316209830
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2012-06-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

At the moment Mitch was screaming and drop-kicking a zombie head into the woods, Alvin and Norman appeared on the road, racing back toward the van.

“Did you see that?” Mitch shouted. “That thing was just a head!”

“Just ahead of what?” Courtney called from the van. “So does he want us to call him a cab or not? Was he going to a soccer game or something?”

“That was his head, dude—I kicked it, like, a hundred yards!” Mitch cried. “A hundred yards is really far!”

“Uh, Mitch?” Neil said nervously. “I think he wants it back.”

Mitch whirled around to see the headless body stagger to his feet.

“Guys, we have to get out of here!” Norman yelled as he approached them. “Start the car!”

“Norman?” Courtney called. “Where have you been? You are going to be so grounded!”

“Zombies!” Alvin screamed, clutching the back of Norman’s shirt as they ran to the van. “Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!”

Then he threw open the door of the van and jumped in, hitting the floor with a thud.

Mitch was still standing, paralyzed, watching the headless figure flail around with his arms extended, feeling blindly for his head.

“This is not normal,” he whispered.

“Mitch, come on! We’ve got to drive!” yelled Norman, climbing into the van behind Alvin.

“Wait, we don’t have room for you two,” Courtney said. “Why don’t all three of you get out, and Mitch and I will go home and call all of you cabs.”

The night was pierced by a chorus of yowls and groans that set Norman’s teeth on edge. On the road beyond Mitch, he could see a group of zombies closing in on them, lurching unsteadily on their rotting feet.

“They found us!” Norman yelled. “Mitch, we have to get out of here!”

Mitch took one look at the small dead crowd shuffling his way and immediately saw the logic in Norman’s suggestion. He sprinted to the van and jumped in, locking the door behind him.

“What is going on out there?” Mitch asked.

“Drive first, questions later,” Norman said.

“Okay, that’s kind of rude, because it is Mitch’s van,” Courtney pointed out, because everyone knew boys liked people to remember stuff like that.

But Mitch was already starting the car and gunning the engine. The tires squealed and the muffler belched exhaust as the van careened back onto the road and away from the approaching creatures.

“Okay, talk,” Mitch said. “What were those things?”

“Zombies,” Norman said.

“Oh please,” Courtney snapped. “Norman, you are so immature! Mitch isn’t going to fall for your stupid Dawn of the Dead crap.”

Mitch gripped the wheel tightly. “That guy’s head came off in my hands,” he said. “And the head looked at me, and then the body got up by itself.”

There was a silence.

“Okay, fine, so they’re zombies,” Courtney said. “What’s the big deal—live and let live, right?”

“They’re not alive, Courtney,” Norman snapped. “That’s what makes them zombies. They’re the living dead, and they’re after us. They almost got me and Alvin at the graveyard.”

“Who?” Courtney asked, turning around in the seat to stare at Alvin for the first time.

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