Falling For My Bully

Chap.12*Feeding The Zombies*

“Are we at the G-square?” Hila asked in a murmur, looking from both sides of the windows. I recognized the place but I didn’t add anything to answer her since I have not told them about the few hours that I had spent before meeting them in the school. Those few hours had a lot hidden in them and I was afraid they will panic once they will know the ugly truth about the apocalypse.

“Yes, this is it,” Ricky announced but his tone lacked the enthusiasm. The sight was devastating to see, there were mainly two questions in their heads.

1.       Either this place was not the safe G-square.

2.       Or, the zombies had already found out about this place before our arrival.

“Are you sure?” Irene sounded stressed out, they were all examining the place with their eyes wide open and a frown drawn across their foreheads.

It used to be an open ground with a tall building on the side that would usually be acquired by the staff members and the people boarding the helicopters. Once the apocalypse started, they have sealed the area with metal wires and doors, but everything looked destroyed. The wires were on the ground, the doors fully ajar and a weird silence surrounding the atmosphere.

My heartbeat wasn’t regular either but I was not making it apparent. I knew exactly what had happened here, but my silence was going to be a bliss. This was the place that had made me keep going, I thought it was going to the end of our misery and we will be transferred to a safe city while they fix things in our town.

“I don’t think any helicopter is coming here to save us,” Kai, who had his hands tightly wrapped up around the steering wheel, announced, peeking over the steering and looking around anxiously.

The silence in such a place was not a good sign, but we still wanted to keep our hopes high and give it a chance.

“Somebody has to go inside the building and see what’s going on. Maybe ask around.” Caz spoke for the first time after minutes of remaining in silence.

“Vivi can do that.” Irene didn’t waste a single minute into suggesting that they push me out of the car, “She loves to take risks,” when Ricky turned to watch her face, she added with a shrug.

“It’s fine, I will go and check it.” I too was a bit curious as if this was the soldier’s idea to maybe disguise the place from the zombies or did something really went down here. Once I have shown my concern in her idea, the silence once again took over them.

“You can’t go alone,” Kai parked the car in front of the building and in a very low murmur, he showed his disapproval to the idea.

“I can tag along with her,” Rickey suggested but soon his lips got sealed when Caz cleared his throat. I don’t blame anyone for being too cautious, everybody was scared and totally lost.

“No! I will go alone. We only have one legitimate weapon and bringing two people along means distraction.” I swirled a little so that I could look at Ricky and nodded, appreciating his offer in help.

“Are you sure?” Ricky continued to ask, sounding guilty of not being able to join me as his friend refused to let him.

“I am sure. Thanks!” I gave him a nod by blinking my eyes before I straightened my back in the chair and looked ahead to scan the area. Through my shaky hands, I held the knife tightly in my grip.

“I am ready!” I announced to myself, taking a deep breath before holding onto the door clutch. The moment I opened the door, the putrid smell blocked my nostril.

“Argh!” Kai complained, covering his nose with a flexed elbow to avoid sniffing in more of the rotten smell from the outside. The attention I had decided to glue to the outside of the car broke and I unintentionally turn to Kai, just to make sure he was fine.

“I am fine,” his voice came out in a muffled gist.

“Can you hurry up and shut the door?” Irene was a kind of a girl who wasn’t abashed to express her hatred for someone, she wouldn’t mind speaking her disgust for the person and later act innocent.

I have been avoiding her jabs and right now, I decided to do it again. I wanted to save my energy for the worst, I wished there was no worst.

I jumped out of the car to land on my foot and instantly shut the door to avoid any troubles. The air seemed to be contaminated, a kind of a smell one would notice in the presence of the zombies. Maybe the staff or people around this area came up with a plan to fool the zombies. It could still be their way of disguising the place, it might work in many cases. Well, at least it worked in movies so many be that’s why they adapted this method?

I nerved myself and lifted my hand carrying the knife closer to my chest, ready to attack if needed. With my every step near the building’s entrance, I was at a constant lookout at my surroundings. Any single noise and my head would already be turned to the direction.

Slowly, my heartbeat begun to sound louder to my ears than the noise from the surroundings, it seemed like my heart was doing flips inside my chest, not a very pleasant feeling.

The entrance seemed lonely as if nobody has used it in ages. The building inside was engulfed in darkness; I couldn’t see any lights on from outside. Pushing the main door to be slammed against the wall, I wanted to make sure there was no one behind the door to jump scare me.

I turned my body around towards the car and gave them a thumbs up, a signal to express it was fine till this spot. I then swiftly gathered myself and turned attentive to the front office after the entrance. The reception area seemed to be abandoned, the keys from the key hanging board were all messed up, the guest mail-handling register was torn apart like somebody was using it when things went down. I shoved the knife behind my back in my pants and picked up the pieces of the register. At this point, the way everything was messed up in the front office, there was no way it was a disguise.

I was wrapped up with the details of the reception when suddenly I was put in a rear naked choke. A scream left my lips when the person from behind me tightened his arm around my neck and the other hand behind my head, making me to drop on my knees. My heart rate accelerated and my body shuddered beyond control, this wasn’t a doing of a living dead, it was a human.

“Argh!” I tried to move but from the size of the arm, I could tell the person was huge and muscular. I had no idea what this man’s intentions were but I knew I was in danger when he forcefully turned me around and faced me to a glass door, the door from where I could see hungry zombies waiting for a meal.

“Time to feed my babies some meat,” his rusty, heavy voice trembled my skin and my eyes widened in surprise when I was able to see him through the reflection of the glass door ahead.