(Joyce)
If the burglar alarm goes off, who'd even care anymore? Well, maybe just a few hundred of those dead things.
This was what flitted through my mind as I held the flower clippers I had randomly grabbed off the shelf in the Gardening section of Walmart steady. It was poised delicately over a blue wire peeking out of the electrical box that Josh had gotten lucky at finding.
Why the heck am I doing this? Oh right. I lost at rock, paper, scissors.
I snipped the wire before the consequences of it being the wrong one could fully enter my head.
Nothing happened.
I let out a breath I had been unconsciously holding.
"That should be it." James looked confident.
"And how did you know that this was the one?" Josh questioned. My thoughts exactly.
"It usually is the blue wire. Don't you watch movies?"
"I can't believe I put my life on the line for some video freak. Let's go in now." I started walking and was pulled back by my backpack straps.
"Right through the front door?" Josh hissed in my ear.
"What? Even if they couldn't see us, I'm sure they'd smell us. So it wouldn't be any different either way."
"But let's not leave such an obvious way in for them." James replied.
I kept silent after that.
We spent the next hour or so searching the place as discreetly as possible for another entrance.
It was decided eventually that we'd use the air vent system since that was what "always happened in the movies" as James said with such conviction.
We spent another hour climbing through air vents. It was ladies first. My backpack got stuck countless times and I swore Josh farted along the way. And I smiled because James got what was coming.
"Hey, I think this is a good place to get out." I whispered. Who knew what was listening?
"Well yeah. It's a dead end." James snapped. He was still recovering from Josh.
"Not quite." I lashed out with my fist and punched out the metal grille from where I could see the outline of bodies in the lighting. Not a single one had moved. Good. "I can't believe they'd waste electricity like this." I couldn't help but criticize. I tended to be such a conservationist sometimes.
"Nice one." Josh said as he climbed down after me.
"Arm yourselves. And remember, with the lack of bullets, aim is crucial." James himself loaded the one gun he had.
"The door is in the fetus section." Even now the image of those unborn children were etched into my mind. Now I would get to see them once more.
I saw Josh gulp visibly out of the corner of my eye.
 shoyou100 · Tue Feb 16, 2010 @ 05:03am · 0 Comments |
