Chapter 11

“Stop that! Take your hands away from Boris’ neck, Aidan. Killing him won’t help.” Jackson said, pulling at Aidan’s arms.

“Who the hell is this maniac!” Boris yelled. “And why does he speak so strange?”

“He’s Drew’s… friend.” Shae said. “Please calm down!”

Finally Aidan let go of Boris’ neck and sat back in his seat. They were still parked outside the mall.

“Like I said, I need to drop the present off at my mom’s place.” Boris said. “Please, I haven’t seen her in 3 weeks.”

He looked so sad that Jackson could not withstand him. “Ok, let’s go to his mom. I t won’t take long.”

Aidan looked at him for a while, and then he sighed. “Fine.”

They started driving. It was not hard to get out of the city, and it took them about an hour to get to the town where Boris’ mom lived. Unfortunately Boris seemed to have forgotten the way. They drove around aimlessly for half an hour before Aidan stopped, refusing to drive an other inch.

“Suit yourself. I’ll walk.” Boris said and slammed the door as he left the car. “It’s somewhere nearby here, I’m certain.”

“Ok, We’ll wait for you here.” Jackson said.

“No way! We have to get going!” Aidan said.

“We will wait for an hour, Boris. But then we leave, ok?” Shae said.

“Muh.”

Boris started walking towards the street that looked most like his mother’s street. She had moved there quite recently, so he hadn’t quite learnt the way yet. The street however, was not the right one, so he turned left after a while. This was not the right street either, but it looked very familiar. At the next crossing he looked in all directions for a few minutes. His memory told him to keep going straight ahead, but his gut told him to take a left. He decided to trust his gut.

At the end of the street he did not find his mother’s house, but a small street shop. He recognized the shop very well, they had delicious hamburgers…

Apparently it had not been his gut, but his stomach, speaking. Oh, well. He knew where he was now, so he turned around and walked back up to the cross and took a left. Soon enough he arrived at his mother’s place, and walked up the stairs and went inside.

Meanwhile, the others waited for him in the car. It was a bit cold so they decided to get out for a short walk. They walked slowly in a circle on a small field next to the road.

Suddenly they heard a sound from a group of trees. They froze and stared. After a few seconds a man emerged. He was covered in dirt. He looked like he had been rolling in mud. His jeans were torn and he had what looked like dried blood on his face.

As soon as he saw them he started running towards them, making some odd noises.

“Quick, get in the car!” Aidan said in a commanding voice.

They had no problem outrunning the man and jumped into the car and locked the doors. The man ran up and started banging on the windows.

He looked horrible. His face was indeed covered in blood. He was screaming, but not words - just guttural sounds. And his eyes were red.

“He… he’s a zombie!” Aidan said in astonishment.

“Boris!” Shae called out in terror

“We have to find him, he doesn’t know about them!” Jackson said

Aidan started the car and sped off towards the corner where Boris had disappeared. At the first cross he stopped and looked desperately in all directions. They had no idea of where Boris had gone.

Aidan was just about to turn to the right, when he saw someone in the distance up ahead. It was Boris.

“Hurry!” Shae screamed. “There are more of them coming!”

From all around dirty looking people were moving towards their car.

Aidan started off towards Boris with the wheels screeching. The zombies ran behind them. He halted beside the surprised Boris and opened the side door.

“Get in!” Jackson said

Boris looked at the horde of people running towards the car and quickly decided to do as they said. He had been on his way to tell them he would stay at his mother’s house. But when he saw the people outside, he reconsidered.

“Should we get your mother?” Aidan asked

“She’s not home. She left a note on the table. Apparently she went on a last minute trip to Spain last week.”

“Ok. Let’s go north now.” Jackson said. “It’s about time we went to the safe zone.”

“You didn’t tell me there were zombies. Zombies! I can’t believe it!” Aidan screamed

“We didn’t know.” Shae said quietly. “We thought…”

“Don’t worry, we’ll be fine.” Boris said with a smile. “What are you waiting for? Go!”

Aidan did so.