The Truth Will Set You Free
This is part 2 of “Zombies are Everywhere”
We join our intrepid hero, Brian, one month after he killed Kevin’s family who were, incidentally, not zombies… yet…
I decided that it was time to talk to Kevin again, to really apologize for what had happened. I mean, his family really had fit the zombie mold. But, Kevin was my friend, and I owed him at least this much. So I invited with to meet me at the docks of the local Lake Marina, it was a nice public place where I was pretty sure Kevin would not come after me with an axe.
“Hey Kevin, glad you decided to come and talk with me.” I looked over Kevin as I said this. He still had that vaguely distant look about him.
“Yeah Brian… Not so glad I could make it.”
“Listen, I’m sorry about the whole family/zombie thing. That was really, uh, my bad.”
“I hate you Brian… And you really really need to think through your apologies better. You know, have something a little more comforting than ‘my bad’ ready.” Kevin had an angry look, but Brian was glad to see his friend still had witty comebacks.
“You’re right. But I did go to the cops, I told them what happened.”
“Wait, you told the cops you killed my family and you didn’t get thrown in jail!?” Kevin stood us while yelling this. “What kind of fucked up town am I living in!”
“You might want to take it down a notch man… When I told them the whole story of your family being all looking like zombies and such… Well… I think they thought I was trying to cover for you.” Brian was fairly embarrassed to have to talk about that part of his confession.
“Trying to.. cover for me? Worse yet, you told the cops you killed my family because you’re some kind of flunked out zombie hunter??”
“Yeah. I figured the truth was going to be the best policy. I actually think you’re their primary suspect now. It really suprised me. I mean, I really did try to explain.”
“Great. I’m going to go to prison because my best friend turned out to be insane and killed my family because he thought he was a zombie hunter. That would be a great story to tell the grandkids I would have had if you hadn’t killed my family.” Kevin was sobbed through most of this.
“You might want to leave town for awhile. I’m sure they’ll straighten things out. Anyway, I was going to be leaving to. I had time to think about being everyones favorite prison bitch. Decided it might be best to leave before they decide I was telling the truth.”
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Stay tuned, as Brian learn to watch for evil on the Greyhound bus network.
