Free WorldLost- Week 1: An Infected Novel by Unknown Page B

said that it wasn’t like that, that he
was trying to get some morning action and got a little rough. Anyway, I rolled
up the other sleeve and drew the blood. I  took the bloody bandage off and
cleaned out the wound and put a new bandage on.” He shook his head. “Dude, the
bite mark looked like it was rotten and had this smell to it. I told her she
should go have it looked at by the doctor. I mean, we’re an OB-GYN office, not
the emergency room for a wound like that.”
    Butch and I clinked our glasses together and took another
shot.
    “Anyway, I’m cleaning up the lab and I hear this screaming
out in the front office. So I head out there as Melanie runs past me screaming.
Normally we have three staff at the front, but as I said, one of the front desk
staff, April, had called in sick today, so that meant that Vee and Melanie were
manning the front desk. I got there and Vee wasn’t around.”
    I poured us another drink. I was intrigued by his story and
wasn’t paying attention to how many shots we were having.
    “I was about to turn around to go after Melanie to see what
had her so freaked out and all of a sudden the pregnant woman stands up on the
other side of the front counter. She’s got all this blood all over her face and
down her blouse. She was literally chewing on a piece of flesh.”
    Another clink of the shot glasses, another shot down the
hatch and another pour.
    “Shit dude, I’m thinking what kind of sick prank are people
pulling on me  today. I mean, I like a good prank in the office, but this was
over the top.”
    “You think,” I stated as I downed another shot. “Keep up.
Down the hatch.”
    “The pregnant women reached for me from across the counter,
but I stepped back before she could get a hold of me and I tell her that this isn’t
funny. She looked at me, her eyes are still all bloodshot, but she couldn’t
seem to focus on me. Then she moaned. It was like an animal, deep from her gut
and I knew that something was wrong with her.”
    He drank his shot and put his shot glass upside down on the
counter. This was the signal that he was done drinking for now. I was feeling the
booze, a little light headed, that warm booze feeling flowing through my body.
    The timer went off on the oven so I pulled the steaks out and
flipped them over placing them back into the oven and resetting the timer.
    “Anyway, I turned away from the pregnant woman and headed to
the back of the office to find Melanie and Doctor Griffin. I found them in the
break room with Doctor Griffin holding Melanie as she cried. He was trying to calm
her down. I explained what I had just seen and that’s when the doctor pointed
to the TV screen hanging on the breakroom wall. There was a news program on and
they were showing all kinds of video of people attacking each other and all the
destruction from around the world.”
    “The TV news anchors were saying to stay indoors and not to
go outside.” He rubbed his eyes and stretched his neck. “The doc went out to
the lobby to see what was going on so I followed him. We found the pregnant
women on the floor attacking another woman. Vee was also on top of the new
women and was tearing out chunks of her flesh.”
    “The office door was open because the woman on the floor was
blocking it from closing. A scream came from outside the office and the two
flesh eating freaks got up and stumbled out the office door. I took this
opportunity to jump the counter, push the newly dead women out into the hallway
and close the door, locking it from the inside.”
    “The doc had picked up the phone and was calling 911, but he
got a busy signal. We went back to the break room and found Melanie. She had
calmed down and told us what had happened. She explained that the pregnant woman
convulsed while checking out like she was having a seizure. She fell to the
floor and started to seizure. Vee rushed out to the waiting room to help her
while Melanie tried to call 911. Vee was on the ground trying