Surviving When the Dead Have Risen by Jeffrey Littorno

Author:Jeffrey Littorno [Littorno, Jeffrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Published: 2014-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Kelly, Lawrence, and I stared at the message on the screen for a long time.

“Whoa! Things are worse than I figured,” Kelly said. “I absolutely made the right choice in staying underground.”

“Looks that way,” I agreed and looked over at Lawrence who was still looking at the television. “You okay, Lawrence?”

He slowly turned toward me. “Yeah, I guess it kinda knocked the wind outta me. Things have gotten worse than I figured.”

Ever the optimist, I replied, “At least now we have some idea about what happened and what we’re facing.” I looked over at Kelly and noticed a clock on the table. It was a little after seven. “Crap, I didn’t realize it was so late! We’re gonna have some hungry and worried kids waiting for us.”

“There’s others with you?” Kelly asked.

“Yeah, there’s a teenage boy and a little girl,” I said without considering my words. Immediately, I sensed Lawrence’s disapproving stare.

“So we gotta get upstairs, but we’ll be back tomorrow to start clearing out bodies,” Lawrence said.

“Sounds good,” Kelly answered and opened the door for us to go out into the main basement.

As soon as we were out of the basement and back on the first floor, Lawrence stopped and said, “I get that you wanna trust that there’s good inside everybody if you look hard enough. But me, well, I’ve dealt with too many douchebags and shit weasels to trust anyone.” He looked at me but found only confusion. “What I’m sayin’ is you really need to get in the habit of telling people only what you have to.”

“Are you saying Kelly is a douchebag or a shit weasel?” I asked and was unable to stifle my snicker.

“I’m only sayin’ we don’t know him from Adam, so we don’t need to go letting him know everything about our situation.”

I must have been in a pretty good mood, because I felt good enough to needle Lawrence a little about his lack of trust in people. “The way I see it right now is that the number of people in the world has taken a big cut. Judging everyone according to the legal system of the past might be a luxury we can no longer afford.” Lawrence was looking down as if he was a little embarrassed. “It may be smart to trust each other a little more in order to survive.”

“I guess you’re right,” he apologized. “I guess I’m too--”

“Hey, I’m only messing with you,” I interrupted. “I have no idea whether we should trust the old hippy or not, but I don’t mind having someone else to help get rid of bodies and anything else we need to get done.”

“Yeah, it’s good to have another set of eyes to keep everyone safe,” Lawrence said as if trying to convince himself. “But I’m not gonna lie and say I trust him.”

“Me neither,” I agreed, knocking on the door to the apartment.

The door jerked open, and I was immediately facing the end of a baseball bat.

“What the hell,” Taylor yelled.

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