louder, a thump then a clink as the locks of the drawers broke and the undead was crawling out of its early grave. I ran to it and shoved my hand up its mouth as it tried to bite it and drove my hand all the way as I did the fawn, straight to its brain and closed my fist to it. The body limbs and I breathe. Jeremy storms inside asking what I was thinking.
“What am I thinking you tried to accelerate the fucking process? That is what!”
“What do you even mean?” he asked as he nudges his shoulders upward and confusion in his face.
“Look at me, really look at me. Why the fuck you think I have a hand up this guy’s mouth.” that’s when I saw him and it was J ane, the passenger of the yellow car, the one with the snorting laughter.
“Do not let that woman see you.”
“What would she say, that I violated a corpse by its mouth, get real. He was the first to wake so the other will be close by. We need to take care of this before all of them start spreading it.” I said still my hand on Joan mouth and jerked three times just to let it be free.
The sound of other clinking and rapping on metallic walls was heard and I looked at Jer emy. He knew that time was closing to deal with what is coming from the first row as the red rim glasses woman said, snow white, were a total of six corpses were coming back. There were six animated corpses rising to a hunger they could never comprehend. If they could they would talk and be like you and me. Yes I am dead as for human standards, I don’t have a heartbeat. Yet I think and I have a more glacial life than most living people I have encountered on my drifts.
Jeremy runs to the box next to mines and holds it shut as I got my hand off the brain of J ane and my red glove reappeared.
“You still got it Sara.” Jeremy said as Max and the girl came forward, Max now with a Johnny shirt and covering his nakedness, which I was glad.
“What is all that sound?” said the woman
“Stay away!” Jeremy screamed as the first of 6 drawer busted open and the mindless beast tried to wither away from the closed room he had. Max runs and grabs the corpse by the head and rips it off, clotted blood fall to his face and he licks it off.
“Max, control,” Were the only words that came from me as he laughs and sits and the woman with the red glasses screams at the sight of Max’s action.
“Well, you are in trouble, let me see, six wakers or more over five now, one revolver with what, six bullets? I wonder how much of a sharp shooter you are.”
“Max this is no game.”
“I know, I know just Alex told me it took three days, and it only has been one.”
“We need to have a chat as soon as we take care of this.” I said as Jeremy took out his gun and with every broken and flying door of the morgues drawer, one by one that got out he took the shot, taking one in the head as they got out from their enclosing.
“I am that good.” He said glaring at Max.
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Once the bodies were left ‘re-dead’ we talked to the woman and found her name was Jenny she did not had her name tag cause she just had started her shift and it was still in her pocket when we came in. We told her not to say a word of what she just saw, that everyone was still in danger and if there was any other victim we did not heard of. She nodded her head ; her eyes still opened wide her face full of fear. I went to a sink next to the red doors and washed away my red glove. Max had already started to dress with a pair of jeans from one of the victims that were clean enough while looking for a shirt inside a bag, my bag.
“Hey,” I screamed taking my gaze of the mirror in front of me and looking at Max, “that ’s mine stay away.”
“O, sorry Miss Sara, did not want to i ntrude.” He lifted himself from the crouched position he was closing the bag in front of him. I turned my head forward again looking at the mirror a hot flashed struck my body and I wobbled a little, backwards and left, closing my eyes
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