The Apocalypse Revenge 9 by Peter Meredith

Author:Peter Meredith [Meredith, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie
Publisher: Black House Publishing
Published: 2017-02-22T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 22

Jillybean

The only adventure they had leaving the area was when they went to find Matilda. After Jillybean had dropped the iPad, Matilda had crashed. She was unresponsive and the video feed showed a steady shot of part of a highway with a strip of black behind it.

“That’s the river,” Jillybean said and, after looking over the map of the area, checking the drone’s last known height, and factoring in a four mile-an-hour northwesterly wind, she led Chris right to the machine. It was stuck fifty feet in the air, far out on a tree branch.

“Hold my gun, I got this,” Chris informed her and then launched himself at the tree.

He was twenty feet up the trunk before she could say: “There’s an easier way….and a much less dangerous one,” she added under her breath.

“What danger?” he asked. “Trees are our friends. They won’t let you fall if you treat them right.”

She smiled up at him instead of answering and made sure to keep her smile plastered on her face just in case he could hear that too. If she had her way, no one would have gone out on a dwindling limb five stories in the air to get a drone that could be replaced with just a little bit of searching. As much as she liked Matilda there were more just like her in most cities and large towns.

But he’s getting the drone for me, she told herself and again the idea of a crush presented itself to her. It left her a little dizzy and confused. If he likes me then why won’t he come to Colorado with me? She had no answer to that. As smart as she was, she just couldn’t get into the head of a boy. Sometimes she considered them to almost be a separate species.

They were all crazy, but this boy was crazier than most. He went further and further onto the limb until it had bent far over and it wasn’t long before first one foot slipped and then the second. He was hanging by his hands alone. Jillybean began to feel a pain in her stomach as instead of retreating back to the safety of the trunk, he went on until he was only two feet from the drone.

Then came a sharp crack as the branch broke. Matilda came free and dropped to the ground where three of her propellers broke. Jillybean couldn’t have cared less. Her heart was in her throat as Chris held on as the branch swung down and towards the tree. Thankfully, the branch was a living thing and had not snapped straight off like a dead branch would have. The rough layer beneath the bark peeled back as the branch swung, but didn’t tear away completely.

Chris hit the trunk with a jarring thud but managed to hold on. A moment later, he began laughing. He laughed so hard that he had trouble keeping his hold and ended up slumped over the broken branch. He laughed so hard that two monsters came lurching out of the gloom to eat him.

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