You Would Too- [Part 9]
They started the VCP a week or so before Rach__l showed up. The government set up a special force in every town and city to stop zombies and set them afire in those huge bonfires like the ones I watched from my windows. Victims of Cinderella Patrol was what they called it. It had some other more important sounding, official name, but I never bothered to remember what it was. I call them Zombie patrol. It sounds like something out of a comic book.
I read on the news that the VCP was going to start going door to door, checking residences for zombies and their victims. Robert and I waited for a visit, so they could take the two putrid masses from our back porch and put them in a big fire and we could be done with it. We waited two days, and then both Nathan and Rach__l came barging into the apartment at 8 in the morning. Both Robert and I had been dozing (neither one of us ever really slept….I don’t think anyone in the world does anymore). I heard them shuffling around first, because I was closest to Nathan’s room. I rushed out to the kitchen in time to see Nathan’s door and all the boards nailed to it splinter and crack, and then give way. Robert came out a few seconds after me. We both just stared and stood, frozen at the sight of Nathan and Rach__l, the zombie couple from hell.
Robert’s shoulder was still horribly damaged, and it looked like it was becoming infected. He wasn’t in any condition to fight. And there was no way I could take them both alone. If we ran away, we’d probably be caught by another zombie in the street. But it was a chance. We ran. As we neared the front door, green and yellow lights flashed outside the windows. We gave little thought to them as we rushed out the door and down the first flight of stairs. Zombie-Rach__l and Zombie-Nathan followed us. They smelled worse than ever, Robert and I had to hold the necks of our shirts over our mouths to keep from passing out. As we were rounding the second flight, Rach__l grabbed out and caught my right forearm in a vise grip. I have no idea where she gets any strength, since it seems all of her muscles have been eaten away by maggots, but she caught me anyway, and my feet went flying out from under me.
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