Steven Konkoly by The Jakarta Pandemic

Author:The Jakarta Pandemic [Pandemic, The Jakarta]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2012-06-01T13:09:01+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Six

Saturday, November 24, 2013

Alex dialed Kate with his iPhone as he made his way across the McDaniels’ lawn. Ed Walker waved goodbye and nodded to Alex as he split off and headed toward his own home directly across the street.

“Open sesame. I’m crossing the street,” he said to her when she picked up.

“What took you so long?” she asked.

“I’ll tell you when I get in the house.”

He jogged up to the mudroom door as Kate unlocked the deadbolt and the doorknob. He took off a pair of surgical gloves and balled them up in his hand. Kate held the door open for him, and he walked in, careful not to touch anything.

“Can you do me a favor and open the door to the garage? I want to throw these in the trash,” he said.

Kate opened the door and he walked into the garage, right up to the town garbage container, used his elbow to lift the hinged green plastic top, and dropped the gloves into the quarter-filled container. Both this trash bin and the recyclables bin were located side-by-side to the left of the mudroom entrance inside the garage. The recyclables container was even emptier than the trash bin. The top of the recyclables bin was colored red to differentiate between the two. The town issued bins were about chest height to Alex, and under normal circumstances would have been full by this time of the week. Normal trash pickup was scheduled for Tuesdays in their neighborhood, but he wouldn’t even bother to put the bins out tomorrow.

Alex dropped the lid and walked back inside the open door, catching a glimpse of Ryan and Emily sitting at the island eating leftover pizza as he ducked into the bathroom off the mudroom to thoroughly wash his hands. When he was finished, he sprayed the sink’s hardware with a sanitizing cleaner, and wiped them down with paper toweling that was stored in the cabinet under the sink.

“All clean,” he said, walking into the mudroom.

Kate was waiting for him to hear what he had to say. She walked over to him and they both snuck into the library.

“So, what’s going on?” she asked.

“I didn’t want to freak you out earlier, but the reason I took longer than I expected, was that someone broke into their house through the back garage door and stole all of their food. Nothing else was touched, but every last bit of food is gone and shit was everywhere. Nothing broken, but clearly the house was searched for hidden stashes. Every room. I wanted to put the house back in order before we let the girls in,” he said.

“Gee, I wonder who did that?” she whispered sarcastically. “Do you think it’s safe for the girls to be over there?”

“The girls will be fine. I did what I could to patch up the garage door window. Their mudroom door has a dead bolt, so they shouldn’t have to worry about it. Those dickheads came back and finished the job. I am done messing around with them.

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