The walk home from the settlement to my house would normally take a regular human more than a few hours because of all of the zombies, but for me, it only took twenty minutes. The undead tended to be more active at night and I saw a lot of them out on the streets. However, the fact that there were so many didn't slow me down in the slightest. Sometimes my strength still surprises me and my intrusive thoughts; Erin, kept making me wonder what it would be like if I were to use it on a living human. The thought of it scared me from how much I was interested in trying it.
I hopped from roof to roof in order to avoid the traffic below, and I wasn't really in the mood to make zombies explode tonight. My head was too occupied with what had happened that day. I couldn't stop thinking about how Molly admitted that she was doubting her relationship. I had to know why. the guy seemed like an outstanding boyfriend. There was nothing I saw in him that would be doubt-worthy. I started to think of the possibilities. "Maybe she doesn't find him attractive?" I suggested as I hopped onto another roof. 'Are you kidding me? The kid's a twink, but he has quite the apocalypse build and a jawline that could cut glass.' Erin pointed out.
I raised a hand to my chin as I thought about it. "What's wrong with my jawline?" I always thought that I was all good in that department. 'I think the thing with yours is that it isn't in everybody's face. But turn your head to the side, and that thing could cut titanium. I was just saying that I can see James being attractive.' Erin explained, and then John jumped in with his own idea. 'I would say he is a handsome young man as well. Perhaps it is his stubbornness?'
I shrugged. "I don't know, Molly is pretty stubborn too. I can see how that might cause a problem, but I know Molly isn't a hypocrite and wouldn't allow herself to be bothered by something she does herself." Mary felt as if we had run out of options and suggested the last resort. 'Sometimes people just aren't right for each other. Nothing has to be wrong with one of them.' I clenched my teeth. "Then why doesn't she break up with him? Besides, James sure acts like she's right for him." After a moment of silence, I exhaled angrily. "I will find out. I just have to get Molly alone again. This time, knowing that no one could interrupt us."
After a while, I arrived back home to my magazine house with my rich guy wheels sitting in the driveway. I didn't drive anymore since my car had run low on gas, so now I mainly used it as a nice lawn decoration. I had debated on whether to siphon the fuel from other cars to get it started again but decided that it would be too much work. I didn't like going to get gas back when it was convenient, let alone carrying a tube down a street while dragging my poor car from the outside for who knows how long until I could get a full tank. To be fair, I might have been able to rip the other cars open and take their whole tanks out, but I still didn't think it was a good idea to destroy all the neighboring cars when I could just walk wherever I wanted to go in the same amount of time.
Once I reached the doorstep, I opened the door to see that the house wasn't as clean as I left it. It wasn't ransacked, but it looked like someone walked in one direction and didn't care what they ran into along the way. I raised an eyebrow and followed the mess to see a zombie running repeatedly into a wall by the kitchen. I then felt a breeze and saw that the window in front of me was broken. I sighed. 'I told you to board up the windows.' Mary said in a motherly tone. "Yeah, yeah. I'll do it sometime this week." The sound of my voice made the zombie stop running into the wall and turn to me.
Her face was half ripped open and her eyes were white and dead. She screamed and charged toward me with her arms out and ready to rip me apart. Once she reached me I grabbed her wrists with one hand and held her out in front of me. She struggled and tried to bite me, but I was stronger. I was about to take her outside so I could avoid getting zombie flesh all over my house when Erin said one of the worst things he had spoken in a while. 'Hey, she's not half-bad looking, why don't you fuck her and pretend she's Molly?'
I had to stop moving for a second so I could fully process what he had told me to do. "The next time I pass by a gas station, I am NOT getting you a Mtn. Dew." Erin gasped as I dragged the corpse through the back door. 'Hey! Come on! We all know Molly's never going to let you score! This is the next best thing.' Mary seemed a bit confused. 'Wouldn't the next best thing be doing that to another woman who is still alive?' Erin scoffed. 'Yeah if you want to hurt her feelings once she finds out he was picturing someone else. Admit it, Kane! You were thinking about it!' I shrugged one shoulder as I hopped over my back fence. "Sure, but I already know it wouldn't be the same." Mary was utterly baffled. 'And diseases!' At this point, John was done with this conversation. 'Just kill it, Kane.'
Without another word, I ripped its head off clean, and it dropped to the ground as it sprayed the remaining blood in its body all over the grass. I was surprised at how quickly I had obeyed John and assumed that I wanted out of this conversation as much as he did. There was a mere second of silence before Erin spoke again. 'Hear me out... Now there won't be struggling.' I nearly gagged. "Oh my god, Erin!"
After I got Erin off the subject I went to bed in the upstairs bedroom that I liked best. As I laid down on the king-sized bed, I wished that Molly was here with me. But most of all I wished I knew why I was so obsessed with her. I pulled the covers over me as I turned to my side and whispered to myself. "Hey, Penelope? Do you know why I like Molly so much?" It took a moment for her to respond. '...You are attracted to suffering.' She didn't say anything else and I thought deeply. "...She is suffering?" There was no response. I was lucky that Penelope had told me that much. Once my mind grew tired of thinking, I allowed myself to fall asleep and soon the sun had risen to start the next day.