Truth or Death?

Road rage

Sitting in silence, frozen with fear in my car, I stared at what I just hit. A corpse lie in front of my Black Kie.

Holy shit! I began to tremble and tried to decide whether I should get out or not. What if it comes after me like the last one did? Sure enough it began to stand up, Bending and twisting with every snap of its bones. My face scrunched up in disgust as he was fully standing and I studied him.

The corpse had blonde hair that was covered in dirt, He was about five foot nine, but probably would have been a little taller if his legs weren't practically broken. His lip curled at me and I could tell he was groaning. He slammed his fists onto the hood of my car and I screamed.

I pushed on the gas pedal but to my surprise I was in reverse. When my car flew backwards I stomped on the brakes, making them squeal. When he stood up again, he flung his arms out and began running towards me. What the fuck kind of zombie runs?! I put the car in drive and floored it. Ramming into the zombie he broke in half from the waist down. I cringed at the cracking sound he made under my car and stuck my tongue out. I'll be dammed if I have to clean that shit off my car tomorrow!

As I sped down the road by Tessas house, I pulled into her drive and sat there in silence for a minute. What the hell just happened?! I know that was a zombie! but how will I explain that? All my friends think I'm crazy already!

I took in a deep breath and sighed.

'Calm down Ronnie.'

I stepped out of my car and began walking to the porch when the front door opened and Faith walked out.

"What are you doing here?" She asked.

"Tessa told me I could come over. Someone broke into my house."

"Really?" She said not sounding the least bit concerned. "You know this little charade for attention isn't getting you anywhere Ronnie. Tessa can't be there for you all the time."

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"Nothing. good night."

She stalked off past me and I stared after her as she turned the corner. What the hell did she mean? I'm not a fucking attention whore!

When I walked inside I shut and locked the door behind me.

"Tess?"

When she didn't answer I crept down the stairs trying not to make any noise for I might wake her parents. "Tess?" I whispered.

I walked in her room and saw her sleeping on her bed. Out of all the years I've known Tessa she was never the one to be sleeping so early. I nudged her softly and she groaned.

"Tess I'm here don't freak out okay?"

"Mmmhmmm..."

I smiled. Tessa was a known sleep talker. Once when we were five, she had a full on conversation with me about a boy she liked, and the next morning, couldn't remember a thing.

I walked to her dresser and threw off the torn and smelly clothes I had on me. She won't care if I borrow some sleep wear. I threw on some silk pants and a blue tank to match it. Then walked out and into the study across the hall.

It wouldn't hurt to do a little research before I slept. If I could sleep that is. I hit the power button and the monitor pinged to life. Hitting the internet I searched, 'zombie ethics and hit search.

A whole bunch of zombie sites came up, but the one that caught my eye read, how to know when and if your being attacked by a zombie and how to defend yourself. I clicked on it and read.

'If your being attacked by a groaning, smelly, undead looking corpse, it sure as hell is a zombie. Most zombies have regular eyes, unless their rogue, then their red. They smell pretty bad to. Don't get any dirt on you or you will definitely stink. Next, how to defend yourself. Their is such thing called a "pax frater corpus" spell, which is Latin. But it won't work unless you say the whole thing while striking the undead. Next, there's the reverto terra spell, which means return to earth. Strike the zombie, and it will return to its grave or wherever it came from.'

I rolled my eyes at the computer screen. who in their right mind has 'powers' to do spells? this shit was, well shit.

I Turned off the screen and went to lay in bed next to Tessa and closed my eyes. That's when I thought to myself.

I shouldn't tell Tessa about what happened tonight.