No Hope
Seven Days Alone
Elton J. Williams
Copyright © 2020 E J. Williams
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ISBN: 9798660084461
DEDICATION
I would like to dedicate this book to my late grandfather Daniel Elliott. It was through him that I learn to appreciate the value of books. He used to love reading the old western and fiction books. I always told him that I not only want to read books but create them myself. I hope this does him proud.
CONTENTS
1
Day one: Everything Lost
1
2
The Carwash: Roy
Pg 5
3
The Apartments
Pg 12
4
Skinny Girl
Pg 19
5
Day Two: A Safe Place
Pg 24
6
A Safe Place: Two
Pg 29
7
Day Three: The Hooded Stranger
Pg 34
8
Watched
Pg 41
9
Day Four: Stalkers
Pg 48
10
11
12
13
14
15
Lifeline
Day Five: A Show Of Faith
Tip Toe Past The Devils
Day Six: Surviving Three Predators
A Pound Of Flesh For The Butcher
Day Seven: Homeward, The Hollow Log
Pg 56
Pg 64
Pg 71
Pg 81
Pg 91
Pg 97
1 Day one: everything lost
We drive away from the hospital I look at my little brother, Eric, as he is sulking in the passenger sheet. Thor is laying on the back sheet he looks at me with his head slightly turned, with a look in his eyes almost like he can ask me if he could speak, “where are mom and dad?”. I feel a rush of emotions going through my body. I want to cry, but I can’t my little brother is next to me and I can’t show him that I am emotional, he is already in a state and he will just cry more if he sees me crying. My only ambition now is to keep him safe and protect him from now on, It's only me him and Thor I hope James is okay because this outbreak is everywhere. But I think he should be safe where he is because he's behind high electrical fences and steel concrete walls. He went to prison on a drug charge and I believe that he almost beat someone to death. So I don’t think we will be seeing him soon. As I drive and look back in the rearview mirror, I see a swarm of the dead running towards the hospital, “that people in there are standing no chance against those things I say to myself”. And it looks like the whole city will be overrun with those things and no one will be safe. We must get out of here I have been driving all around the city every exit is blocked with cars people trying to get out of the big city and it looks like we in for a long day. We stand on a narrow road and people are running out of their apartments packing their belongings and bags in the vehicles. A man standing on the roof of a building we are parked next to with a big sign tied to the front of his body standing with a gun in his hand and the words on the sign says in all capital letters “THIS IS THE END THERE IS NO HOPE”. He corks the gun place it in his mouth and I quickly placed my hands over Eric’s eyes. I hear the gunshot going off “BANG” as I turn my head back to look, I see his body tumbling over the edge of the roof and falls to the ground.
People screaming and running guns shots getting fired and it sounds close to where we are, in normal times people would run to where the shot got fired just to take a look but not today. I see one of the dead grabbing a man by the arm and by his clothes and clawing into him and biting the blood is flowing everywhere. I quickly drive away in fear this is getting worse and there is no sign of the police or the army. I saw a fire-truck passing by driving to a building that just burst into flames. Down the street I see a woman pointing a gun at two of the dead that’s approaching She is shouting in a panic, I have a gun stay back. They approaching and growling clawing she shoots the one in the head it drops down. Then I heard her scream as we drive past. Maybe the other one got to her but I still hear a few shots getting fired from that street we just passed as we drive further away. A man is shouting, “Maybe we deserve this it is our punishment for our many sins”. He gets attacked by four of them like a pack of lions they get on him and just ripping him into pieces. It's getting worst around here, I quickly drive past and one stands up trying to grab at the car smearing his bloody handprints on the side of the doors. I drive away and we can still hear him screaming, Eric, takes his hands and presses them against his ears to block out and not hear the awful sounds and he closes his eyes. I can see the terror on his face, I’m looking around to see if I can find a nice secure place to stand and park the car but everywhere we drive and turn people getting attacked and eaten. No one is helping each other everyone seems to be too worried about getting away from all of this. I told Eric, to climb over to the back seat and lay next to Thor and keep his head down. I don’t want him to witness all the horrible things that are happening he has seen enough of the bloodshed. No kid has to go through such trauma he has gone through. We arrived at a carwash it has apartments above it, Eric asks, “where are you going, Pete?” I replied, “just stay here I want to check something out”. He replies, “What if something happens to you? you will need some back up”. I replied, “Don't worry about me Eric, I will be fine plus the place looks deserted, I’m just going in and out it will take me a few minutes, Then I will come back to get you and Thor if everything looks safe”.
Eric replies, “Okay then”. I get out of the car looking around, I see people running far in the distance. Some buildings are burning but are far away from us. The gun is on the side of my pants and I take it out to check it there are only two bullets left. As I look around to see what I can use for a weapon, The only thing that I can use is a loose brick from a pavement. I pick up the brick and walk into the carwash cautiously, I walk around and look if everything is clear to proceed. Finally, I come to the office of the carwash looking through the windows checking for any signs of movement before I can go inside. Suddenly something moves inside the office, I cant seem to see what it could be, the paint on the windows is making it hard for me to find out what's moving inside. I start to talk to myself saying, “Come on Pete, You can do it, just go inside and find out what or who it is”. I take out the gun again and say, “If it is someone then they are not going to try anything and if they see I have a gun in my hand, it would mean I'm serious and mean business”. I walk to the door slowly crouching down by it, the door is slightly open. I look inside and see a shadow near to the door, I quietly step back again and look through the keyhole, I see a figure of a man walking around inside the office the place looks trashed, my head touches the door nob and it swings open.
2 The carwash: roy
As the door swings open I fall to the ground the brick falls out of my left hand, but the gun is firmly in my right hand laying on my back, I point the gun straight to his chest area. The man turns around he is sweating and his skin complexion is pail there are bloodstains over his shirt, I see the carwash company name over the pocket of the shirt with his nametag on the other side. He grabs his arm and collapsed to the ground in front of me as he tries to take a step forward. I stand up quickly aim the gun at him for a few minutes, just to make sure he does not attack me. And I drag him back in the office and lay him against a couch.
I look at his nametag it says manager Roy, he seems to be out cold the
sweat is dripping from his forehead as he lays there like someone that is in a coma. I rush out quickly to pull the car in the back next to the office. I pick up the brick because I can hear Thor is barking as I come around the corner. I see one of the dead scratches against the windows of the car, I run towards him and throw him with the brick right in the head it goes down. I pick up the brick again and smash his skull in he lays on the ground and I can see he has the same shirt on as Roy I open the door and ask, “Are you okay Eric”. He frowns and replies, “Yes, I’m okay but you took too long, I was worried something has happened to you”. I replied, “I am trying to help a man he is badly hurt and in the office at the back of the carwash, so I must pull the car around back so that no one can see we are here”.
I start the car up and drive to the office, I told Eric, “Wait here quickly, I just want to check if the man is still okay”. I walk into the office, he is still laying in the same position I left him. I bend down and take my finger and place it by the side of his neck, to check if he has a pulse, it is faint but he has one. I look around the office for a first aid kit I got one in the cupboards but it is empty, so I wet a piece of cloth and wipe the sweat and blood from his arms and face. I saw a bite mark on his arm it must be the reason for the sweat and he has a fever. I look around the office for loose cable or some rope to tie him down, because I don’t know when he was bitten. He can become one of dead at any moment, so I look through the cupboards and draws I find a long skipping rope and called Eric to help me get Roy on a chair to tie him down.
Eric comes in the office and says, “Look at this place”, as he stairs around and looks at all the papers laying around. I told him “ Quit staring, and help me get him on the chair”. He takes Roy by the arm and we lift him and put him on the chair, I tie the end of the rope on the chair and around Roy’s upper body area. Eric asks me, “Why are we tying him up, isn’t he hurt?” I reply, “Yes, he is hurt, but he is bitten so we can’t take any chances he might turn into one of the dead, then we will have a problem on our hands, he is a big guy so it will be hard for me to stop him if he tries to bite us”. Eric says, “Why don’t we kill him now, because he is asleep and its much easier now than to do it later when he is one of the dead”. I said, “No! We don’t kill people only those things”. I’m thinking my little brother does have a point, but I told him to help me look for a first aid kit any way cause he is still a man and still human. We look at every door in the cupboards Eric says, “Mom always put our first aid kit in the bathroom whenever I had a scrape or scratch, she would get a band-aid out of her first aid box she kept in the bathroom”.
He went to the bathroom to go look, Eric tries to open the bathroom door but it feels stuck suddenly we hear a growling howling noise coming from the bathroom. “It's one of the dead!” Eric yells. “Get away from the door” I shouted, as I hurry over to him to get him out of the way. The door goes open slightly, I see a figure of a woman in the reflection of the mirror and blood against the walls it seems as the person that was in the bathroom did lay against the door. I quickly ask, Eric to hide behind the couch so that he can be out of my way when this thing approaches me. He runs and hides behind the couch I push the door open, it walks out slowly growling and looking around.
I try to lead it to the door, it follows and comes closer in a crooked limping motion it comes out the door of the office walking slowly toward the steps, it moves forward and misses its step and falls. Thor barks from inside the car, I grab the gun at the back of my pants and runs quickly to it before it can attempt to stand up and smash it’s head several times with the handle of the gun brain matter flies onto my shirt and blood splatters everywhere. I turn around and walk back in the office Eric, comes out from behind the couch and goes to the bathroom I told him to stop!
He asks, “Why!” “Because there is a lot of blood in that bathroom” I replied. He looks in the bathroom and says, “Yes, You right, you better go look for the first aid kit yourself”. He turns around and asks “So, what are we going to do with Roy?” “We going to help him and make him comfortable” I replied. I go into the bathroom and look in the cupboard, there I see the first aid kit. I told Eric to get some water in a fishbowl, that has been laying on the ground for some time and a little goldfish lying stiff on the ground. I pick up the goldfish by its tail and throw it in the trashcan.
I open the first aid kit and Eric comes with the fishbowl full of water and put it next to me. I wipe off the dry blood stains from his arms and face again to see what other wounds may have and took out some band-aids and close the wounds on Roy's arms. He wakes up and says, “What are you doing to me?” Eric says, “Relax Roy, my brother is trying to help you”. I take out some painkillers and say “Here, drink this two painkillers”, Eric, comes over with water in a cup. Roy asked, in a nervous voice “Why did you tie me up?” I replied, “It is only for our protection if you fine by tomorrow then we will cut you loose”. He looks around and says, “Why is the bathroom door open?, Mitchelle my co-worker was in there, she was the one that bit me and she got bitten by Ted that works upfront”. I told him that I took care of Mitchelle.
He asks, “What about Ted? he is still out there”. Eric said, “My brother did throw him with a brick against the head and then hit him again when he tried to get up so he took care of the both of them”. He asks, “Who are you kids?, you are brutal they were just sick that’s why I did put Mitchelle in the bathroom and Ted outside”. I ask, him “Roy, do you know whats going on outside?” He says, “It is just a virus, the government is going to sort it out”. I replied, “Listen, Roy, the government is not doing anything because, if they did the army or the police would have been here in the city and a biker guy that I asked at the hospital said it's like this everywhere, Roy so no help is coming and it looks like there is no hope”. He asks, “So, what are you guys doing here and where are your parents?” I replied, “Our parents are not here anymore and this is the only place that's is not burning and it looks safe”. Eric looks down with a sad face. Roy replies, “Sorry to hear about your parents, well if you going to stay here take these keys and go lock the gates so that someone those not come walking in here.
I took the keys and went to go lock the gates, I came around the corner to the parking lot of the carwash and I see five people running pass. “Must I help them?” I ask myself. They look desperate and it seems like they looking for a hiding place. I want to shout and tell them to come and hide in here but my gut tells me no, as the people run past the carwash I heard a group of the dead growling and they are after the people that just ran past. I hide behind the wall and they walk past, one walk near the dead corps, and stands still looking at it and growl and turn his head towards the carwash and approach the entrance gate. He growls and I pick up a flower pot that's made of concrete it feels heavy, he walks past me but he does not see me.
He looks around and I wait till he is around the corner, so he would be out of the way from the view of the street. I come up behind him lift the heavy flower pot and smack him right in the head he falls to the ground and I smash his head in, I quickly ran to the gates and lock it all before anyone or thing comes walking in again. I return to the office Roy ask me, “What’s wrong with your brother?” I ask him, “What do you mean what’s wrong with Eric”. Roy replies, “He just told me that he wanted you to kill me”. I said, “Yes, he did”. Eric says, “Do you see if you get bitten, we must kill you before you bite someone else”. I replied, “He is right”. Roy, he looks around and says, “Is that how it spread?” We replied, “Yes and that's why we tied you up so that you cant be a problem for us when you turn into one of the dead, but let us hope that does not happen you look fine to me but let's just wait till tomorrow and see if we can untie you”. He says, “This is just a flesh wound Mitchelle, tried to bite me but she did not bite into my flesh”. Eric replies, “Roy, don’t worry you will be okay”.
I said, “Eric, that's enough he is not going to be okay you've seen first hand what a bite c
an do we lost mom and dad in a matter of hours”. I hear Thor barking outside in the car, then Roy says, “Its just a mark”. I replied, “It is not just a mark Roy, we will see by the morning if you are okay”. I went out of the office and got Thor out of the car to take him inside so that his bark doesn't attract any of the dead, as I walk back in I can't help to think how Eric’s attitude changed and how he was talking to Roy. Normally he is very shy and he is very soft-spoken, I have to take him somewhere quiet and have a serious talk with him, it seems that the death of our mom and dad made him an angry person.
We walk into the office Thor races to Roy to check him out and walking around him smelling everywhere he can. Roy got nervous and quickly says, “Guys, can you please tell your dog to get off me”. I called Thor he turns and looks at me down boy I said, he walked to me smelling around the office. Eric laughs as walked around and said he only smelled you cause he loves to meet new people. I called Eric and said I want him to come and check if everything is closed up around the carwash and to see if the place is secure. He did not know I wanted to talk to him, he can be a very close book, and just as stubborn as our father. He replied, “Yes, “I will come”. Roy said, “Before you go can you give me some water? my throat feels dry and scratchy”. I got him the water put a straw in the glass if he wants to drink more he can just tilt his head to the side and drink. I put Thor in the bathroom and gave him some water in the fishbowl and close the door so that he can't bother Roy. We walk out close to the office door and went up to the apartments, we saw earlier on top of the carwash.
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