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anti-zombie though. Don’t suppose I’ll be selling it anytime soon now anyway. I have lunch meat, chips, and a few cold beers I’d brought for my stay. You are welcome to make a sandwich,” Dax offered.
“We’d appreciate that, but do you mind if we talk as we make it to go. I’m on a tight time frame,” Chase added.
“Yeah, I bet you are. Quicker you give me the details, sooner you’ll be on your way,” Dax smiled.
Chase relented and filled the guy in. They were out in no time at all, only they had to take gun-man, Dax, with them.
Chapter Twelve
“I wish those things would stop banging on that damn door and wall and whatever,” Sherri huffed, then sighed.
Jayda gave her a sympathetic look, then took a deep breath to calm herself. The sound of whatever guttural groans they made, and the constant knocking sound that was just them continuously walking into the door and walls of the house, did tend to wear on one’s nerves, even when it hadn’t been going on that long.
“I’d suggest music to go with our fancy dinner, but it would probably only encourage them. I don’t know what their hearing is like, but they haven’t seemed to follow us, as in they haven’t come around to this side of the house just because we changed rooms. Maybe they just hear a sound or pick up a scent, like a bloodthirsty dog, and keep at it. Any home would smell of humans,” Jayda thought out loud.
“Here is your fancy dinner ladies,” Richard said as he sat down at the table with a steaming plate of microwaved chicken patties.
“Yum,” Jayda exclaimed in a soft voice.
“We couldn’t risk the banging of pots and pans. We don’t want them surrounding the house. I’m not sure how the wood on the windows will hold for one,” Richard said in disgust as he kept glancing through to the living room. “And as they seem to multiply out there, I meant just given the sound increase I’m guessing they have, I don’t even know how the house will hold. I can’t imagine they’d come busting through a wall, but a few days ago I thought the dead stayed dead and meningitis was just a nasty disease, not a supernatural one.”
“I really want to get out of here,” Sherri sobbed lightly, her assembled but uneaten sandwich poised at her lips.
“We need to wait for Chase. He’ll have answers, I’m sure. We don’t even know what it’s like out there. Can a car outrun them? Do they just overtake the car?” Jayda asked no one and then took a large bite of her sandwich.
The patty was hard to chew. Her already dry mouth moved the mush around as she willed her throat to swallow. She’d had fresh hamburger buns in the house, but that didn’t seem to make the food more palatable.
“We need to eat,” Jayda encouraged. “No matter what happens once Chase gets here, I’m sure we’ll need our strength.”
“I don’t get why you trust him,” Richard grumbled as he chewed. “You just forgave him for all he did to you.”
Jayda jumped in her seat to turn her body squarely at Richard as she rebutted, “There was nothing to forgive. Accidents happen. People do the best they can in the horrible situations they’re put in. I try to keep in mind that whatever happened, and I’m fuzzy on details, Chase would never have intentionally hurt me. He loved me.”
“Obviously, in his own deluded way, he still does,” Richard said to her, his blazing eyes looked right into hers. “It’s been how long you’ve been divorced from the guy? Wait, let’s count back from the years we’ve been married.”
“I won’t have you treating him bad when he gets here. He’s risking his own life to save your hide,” Jayda spat, though her voice remained stifled for the sake of those whom it seemed lived again only to harm them.
“He doesn’t care about my hide. He only cares about yours. A little too late if you ask me.”
“Well, I didn’t,” Jayda added as she chomped on another big bite.
“How can you just forgive him? You
“We’d appreciate that, but do you mind if we talk as we make it to go. I’m on a tight time frame,” Chase added.
“Yeah, I bet you are. Quicker you give me the details, sooner you’ll be on your way,” Dax smiled.
Chase relented and filled the guy in. They were out in no time at all, only they had to take gun-man, Dax, with them.
Chapter Twelve
“I wish those things would stop banging on that damn door and wall and whatever,” Sherri huffed, then sighed.
Jayda gave her a sympathetic look, then took a deep breath to calm herself. The sound of whatever guttural groans they made, and the constant knocking sound that was just them continuously walking into the door and walls of the house, did tend to wear on one’s nerves, even when it hadn’t been going on that long.
“I’d suggest music to go with our fancy dinner, but it would probably only encourage them. I don’t know what their hearing is like, but they haven’t seemed to follow us, as in they haven’t come around to this side of the house just because we changed rooms. Maybe they just hear a sound or pick up a scent, like a bloodthirsty dog, and keep at it. Any home would smell of humans,” Jayda thought out loud.
“Here is your fancy dinner ladies,” Richard said as he sat down at the table with a steaming plate of microwaved chicken patties.
“Yum,” Jayda exclaimed in a soft voice.
“We couldn’t risk the banging of pots and pans. We don’t want them surrounding the house. I’m not sure how the wood on the windows will hold for one,” Richard said in disgust as he kept glancing through to the living room. “And as they seem to multiply out there, I meant just given the sound increase I’m guessing they have, I don’t even know how the house will hold. I can’t imagine they’d come busting through a wall, but a few days ago I thought the dead stayed dead and meningitis was just a nasty disease, not a supernatural one.”
“I really want to get out of here,” Sherri sobbed lightly, her assembled but uneaten sandwich poised at her lips.
“We need to wait for Chase. He’ll have answers, I’m sure. We don’t even know what it’s like out there. Can a car outrun them? Do they just overtake the car?” Jayda asked no one and then took a large bite of her sandwich.
The patty was hard to chew. Her already dry mouth moved the mush around as she willed her throat to swallow. She’d had fresh hamburger buns in the house, but that didn’t seem to make the food more palatable.
“We need to eat,” Jayda encouraged. “No matter what happens once Chase gets here, I’m sure we’ll need our strength.”
“I don’t get why you trust him,” Richard grumbled as he chewed. “You just forgave him for all he did to you.”
Jayda jumped in her seat to turn her body squarely at Richard as she rebutted, “There was nothing to forgive. Accidents happen. People do the best they can in the horrible situations they’re put in. I try to keep in mind that whatever happened, and I’m fuzzy on details, Chase would never have intentionally hurt me. He loved me.”
“Obviously, in his own deluded way, he still does,” Richard said to her, his blazing eyes looked right into hers. “It’s been how long you’ve been divorced from the guy? Wait, let’s count back from the years we’ve been married.”
“I won’t have you treating him bad when he gets here. He’s risking his own life to save your hide,” Jayda spat, though her voice remained stifled for the sake of those whom it seemed lived again only to harm them.
“He doesn’t care about my hide. He only cares about yours. A little too late if you ask me.”
“Well, I didn’t,” Jayda added as she chomped on another big bite.
“How can you just forgive him? You
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