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and ushered in my new life. “She was on top of me snapping her teeth, trying to bite me. I held her neck to keep her away and my fingers sank into the gaping hole in her neck. The blood was seeping from her neck wound and dripping down my arm. I was yelling her name ‘Laura! Laura!’ but she was like a wild dog. I was able to roll her over on her back. I jumped up and ran to the kitchen. I had a block of knives near my sink. I grabbed the biggest one and when she rushed me I stabbed her in the chest. It slowed her down for like two seconds and she rushed me again. I ran from her. She was chasing me around the island in the kitchen with a huge butcher knife lodged in her chest. I grabbed another knife and stabbed her again in the chest. That time she didn’t even miss a step. I turned to run. I knocked the knife block over. I grabbed another knife. It was a little steak knife and I just turned around and stabbed her in her forehead. She fell.”
    “ That killed her?” He asked.
    “ Yeah, that finally killed her.”
    “ You have you separate their brains from their bodies or you have to injure the brain in some way.”
    “ I had to learn that for myself.” I took a drink from my beer can. Talking about my first encounter with a deadie made me hot with nervous perspiration.
    “ So what happened next?” Nick seemed intrigued with my story. I’m sure his first deadie encounter story was better than mine.
    “ I looked up and saw my front door was open. I dragged Laura’s body out my house and into the hall. Then I run back in and closed and locked the door. I put a chair under the door knob and I turned on the TV. The TV had only white noise on every channel. The voicemail on my cell was full. I couldn’t make a call. I couldn’t dial out. I couldn’t get on the internet and my landline was dead.”
    “ Everything went haywire the first few days when this shit started happening.” Nick explained.
    “ Nick, I never asked you why you were on the road today. Where were you going when you saw me running for my life?”
    “ I was just driving around. Sometimes I need a break from these people. You know I never realized how nice to was to be alone until this freak shit happened to the world.”
    “ So are you the leader of this group?”
    Nick grabbed another beer from under his chair. He slowly opened it. “This group don’t got a leader.”
    “ It seems like everybody listens to you.” I truthfully observed from my limited time in the house.
    “ Maybe today, but believe me, tomorrow it could all go the other way. I’m not going to be responsible for everybody.”
    “ Looks to me like you’re looking out for the group.”
    Nick leaned in close. He appeared from the darkness and the moonlight made his face appear crystal clear with a luminous glow. His eyes gleamed in the light with a seriousness that lured me in. “Listen, I know you may want to make me out to be some kind of hero. I’m no Clark Kent. I’m not afraid of death but I will fight the fuckin’ reaper tooth and nail. I look out for myself first and foremost. If any of you guys get bit I will put a bullet in your brain with no hesitation. Does that sound like the crap heroes are made of?”
    I took it as a rhetorical question. I sat back and guzzled my beer down until there was just an empty can. I was exhausted. My eyes grew heavy as I watched Nick watch the deadies. I had seen enough of the walking dead for one day. There was no way I was looking out the window.
    “ Go on lay down on the mattress.” He commanded.
    “ I’m okay.” I lied. I was beat and that one can of beer knocked me on my ass.
    “ Go to sleep. That’s an order from your non-leader.”
    I smiled in the dimness. I’m sure he couldn’t see my smile and that’s just how I wanted it. I got up and walked over to the center of the room and sat down on the air mattress. I removed my shoes and curled up on my side. I looked over at Nick. He was staring at me. I could see