Zombie Theater by Scot McAtee

Author:Scot McAtee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: horror, suspense, haunted house, creepy, spooky, undead, skeletons, classic horror

They passed some time in silence. Then she gazed at his mouth and he knew why she’d come. She wanted him the same as he wanted her.

“I can’t take advantage of you,” he apologized.

“No, you can’t,” she returned, leaning in to kiss him. It was a passionate snog and it awoke feelings in him he hadn’t felt for a long time. He kissed her back.

A noise broke them out of a passionate embrace. There was something happening down below, just out of sight.

“You didn’t bring anyone else with you, did you?” Skip asked Nadia.

“Now, think,” she scolded him playfully, “If I wanted to make out with you, would I really want to bring someone else with me? That would be ridiculous.”

Casually, he agreed. “Yeah, I guess that makes sense. Wait, you mean… you planned to come make out with me?”

She rolled her eyes and smacked his cheek playfully. “God, you’re just as thick as every other guy, aren’t you?”

A door creaked open somewhere in the backstage area. More scrapes. There was a thump or two. Something heavy hitting the floor.

Carefully, slowly, they dropped to the floor and crawled to the railing. Skip peered over the edge. “I don’t see anyone.”

“Could it be the wind slamming doors and stuff?” Nadia suggested.

“I suppose, but in all the time I’ve been coming here, that’s never happened. So I doubt it.”

More noises. They were coming from everywhere now. Skip kept an eye toward the stage. “Seriously, I think someone else is in here,” he whispered as the noises became louder and more pronounced.

“What do we do?” Nadia asked.

“I don’t know. Hey, you don’t suppose it’s your pot making us hallucinate or something, do you?”

She quickly dismissed that idea. “No, it’s not a hallucinogen. You’d have to get way beyond high to start seeing and hearing stuff from it.”

“I wouldn’t know,” he replied. “Never touch the stuff.”

She took that as a disparaging remark and shriveled her lips. Skip saw that he’d offended her and started to apologize but she cut him off.

Oh man, I’ve already screwed this up.

He decided the best way out of this dilemma was to tell the truth. “Look,” he started, flipping over and leaning against the low wall that separated them from a twenty foot fall to the floor below, “The reason I don’t touch the stuff is not because the guy that caused the accident that killed my parents was higher than a kite and drunk to boot. I haven’t touched any drug since. I couldn’t live with myself if someone else died because of my desire to get happy or stupid.” Oh Lord, shouldn’t have said stupid.

Nadia stared at him, determined that he was telling the truth and kissed him deeply. “I’m sorry, I didn’t know.” She reached into her pocket, pulled out a few more joints and tossed them over her shoulder. “None for me then, either,” she grinned.

They both wondered if it was just a gesture or if she could really kick the stuff. After all, the reason she’d failed out of school was because she had lost her ability to control her usage.

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