Zombie School by Aaron Jenkins

Author:Aaron Jenkins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: death, school, humor, zombies, apocalypse, teenager, undead, intelligent

21. Breaking In

“The Stiff was huge! I mean gigantic! You should have seen him!”

“Bigger than you?”

“What do you think?”

“And you brought him down all by yourself?”

“Practically. I’m telling you, man, there’s nothing like it! My first kill. I shoved the knife into its head and twisted it, and it was dead meat. One lame Stiff.”

“Man, that’s something else.”

Big Jake puffed out his chest proudly. He parted his black lips, grinning. “It was nothing.”

I slammed my locker door, allowing the reverberation against the metal to echo through the hallway. Big Jake and his captivated crony stared back at me for a moment. I picked up my backpack and turned away from them, stomping down the hall. Big Jake had been on about that story all week, and each time he rehashed it, the Stiff got bigger, his involvement became more prominent, and the kill became more monumental. It was sickening. I kept replaying the events of that night in my head, counting and recounting the number of Stiffs I had disposed of. One in the forest. The one in the creek bed. One on the way back to Revenant. Not to mention the countless number that I had escaped from. And I had done it on my own. Big Jake had taken down one Stiff, with five Advanced kids holding it down. For all his bluster, anybody could have done what Big Jake had done. I had seen real action, fighting for my life against hordes of Stiffs. And Big Jake was acting like what he had done was the most amazing thing in the world. And I couldn’t even brag about my exploits without risking expulsion.

School days were becoming almost as unbearable as my home confinement.

“Hey, why so terminal?” Trevor met me as I tramped down the hallway.

“Big Jake and his big mouth,” I muttered, shifting the strap of my backpack up on my shoulder.

“I know, man, he’s been on about that Stiff he snuffed all week. I wanted to say something so many times. All he did was stick its brain. Any corpse with brain activity could have done that.”

“Tell me about it,” I answered as we stepped out of the school’s main doors. “I took out three Stiffs that night, and I didn’t have anyone helping me either.”

“Hey, you never did tell me all the gory details. I didn’t want to ask since you seemed so bummed.”

“Yeah.”

“Come on, man. Spill. I’ve been undying to hear about it. What happened with this human?”

“She was hiding out from the Stiffs like me,” I replied. “I tried to bring her into Revenant.”

“Thriller. Man, I would have just left her for Stiff-bait. I guess you are more cut out for human tracking than I am.”

I shook my head. “Not really.”

“What do you mean?”

“I let her escape,” I replied. “Into town.”

Trevor’s eyes went wide. “But you got her. Right?”

I shook my head again and looked away. “She’s still out there. If my mentor finds out that I let her escape. If something happens, I’m Stiff bait.

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