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Chp 1 - Good Riddance, Sucker!
Adam Smith thought his day was already bad enough as he walked home dejectedly. His ears were still ringing with the slaps and the stinging insults that his boss’s wife had hurled at him, right before she had her husband sacked him.
The injustice of being sacked from the job he had laboured so hard to keep weighed on his mind, but nothing was as damning to him at that moment as the look of disappointment that he was sure to get from his girlfriend, Anastasia.
Gone were the days when those eyes were filled with love as they gazed into his.
Lately, Ana’s temper was always short with him, and she had even banned him from sleeping on the bed with her since she started paying for their apartment six months ago.
“Since you are no longer man enough to take proper care of me, and I even have to pay for our rent now, you don’t deserve to touch me!” She yelled at him when he tried to talk about her coldness since things had worsened for him at his workplace.
Adam sighed long and hard as he looked up in the direction of their unit in the old-looking building where they lived. Then he gathered his resolve to go in after all.
He heard shouts and chaos from a far distance down the street, but at the moment, he couldn’t even be bothered to care about whatever was happening around him. He had a bigger problem to face inside. Ana.
“She would understand. Ana would understand,” he muttered to himself in a litany as he trudged up the staircase, leading up to the third floor, where they stayed.
He didn’t even bother to check out the elevator since he knew what he would meet there anyway. It wouldn’t work. The elevator had only functioned once since they had started living there. Another thing that Ana had been complaining about.
Scents of garlic and chilli filled the hallway as he neared their room, and Adam knew that their Creole neighbour was currently cooking again.
The woman seemed to always be cooking something. If she was not cooking, then she was yelling at one of her legions of children.
Adam’s stomach rumbled painfully and he remembered that the last meal he had was the carbon-tasting burger he had had for breakfast the day before. He was currently saving his meagre earnings so he could pay Anastasia back for the rent she had paid.
“Oh, yes. You are so hot, baby. ahhh!”
However, just as Adam was taking out his keys to open the door, a rather faint and suppressed moan reached his ears.
Adam’s head snapped up as he heard the unmistakable, throaty sound of his girlfriend’s moan through the door.
His mind was blank for a second, but then, the next moment, a wave of pain crashed into his chest as he realized what might be happening.
He kicked hard against their door, partly thinking it would be locked.
To his surprise; the door swung open and in his blinding rage, he tripped over a pair of well-tailored trousers on the floor.
He lost his bearings for a while and almost fell atop the couple on the brown vinyl couch, he had bought before he was demoted, and his pay got cut in half.
“Who the hell is that?” yelled the blond man, who was currently gripping a woman in doggy style on the couch.
“You?!” Adam yelled in excruciating pain as he stared at the shocked face of his so-called best friend, Jean Van Claude.
“Adam?” Anastasia called his name in disbelief. The haze of passion was still on her face as she tried to rise up beneath Jean’s grip.
Jean seemed to remember that his hands were still on her at that moment, and he released her as annoyance crossed his face at the interruption.
“What are you doing at home at this time?” Anastasia snapped at Adam as she tried to cover her bare breasts with her hand. The initial shock was gone from her face, and it was obvious that she wished Adam to hell at that moment.
“What am I doing at home? You think that is the right question to ask me right now?” Adam asked in disbelief as he finally took in the state of their one-room self-contained unit.
The bed he had joyfully bought and helped Ana pick the bedsheets was currently rumpled, and the clothes of his girlfriend and best friend were all strewn over the floor.
It was apparent that they had already had a session on the bed before they moved to the couch.
His azure blue eyes sparked with animosity when Anastasia only snorted at him and said, “And so what? I am not going to bother myself to explain what you can already see with your eyes. Jean is more of a man than you will ever be. If you do not like what you are seeing here, you can just pack your belongings and leave. After all, I paid for this apartment!”
She pulled on her bra and pulled her pants up without bothering with her clothes as she glared at him.
Adam felt as if the floor should open and swallow him, but then a movement at the corner of his eyes snagged his attention.
“Where do you think you are going?” He directed all his frustration at Jean, who had pulled on his shirt and was currently pulling on the trousers that almost tripped Adam earlier.
Jean raised his hands as if in surrender, even as an arrogant smirk showed secretly on his face as he saw the way Ana was talking to Adam. “Adam, man. Sort this out with your girl. I don’t want any trouble,” he said with a shrug and continued to button his trousers.
“You bastard. You dared to..."
They all turned towards the door as they heard a shrill cry in the hallway, followed by a thud, then someone shouting, “Hold the door tight! Gale, bring that iron chair. Don’t let that...don't let it get in here!”
The voice stopped, but the thud continued.
“Adam, don’t just stand there like a moron! Check what is happening outside!” Ana yelled at Adam.
Immediately after she spoke, the thud stopped.
Then a strange, shuffling movement of feet could be heard in the hallway.
Though Adam has had it with Ana and couldn’t believe that she still dared to order him about even in such a situation, his curiosity got the better of him, and he moved out the door to check what happened to his neighbours.
He got knocked back as a snarling man with half of his face torn out of his head tackled him!
“What the…”
Adam’s intended words got slammed back into him as he quickly rolled away from the spot where the gory creature in front of him tried to pin him.
Mouth gnarling and teeth snapping, the thing that was once a deliveryman stood up from where it fell and started moving slowly towards Adam again with arms extended.
As the thought clicked in Adam’s mind, he heard Jean shout, “Zombie? What the fuck?! Zombie in real life?!”
The zombie turned his head sharply towards Jean, then back towards Ana as she screamed. Ana’s scream increased as she saw the horror in front of her.
“No! No! No! Don’t come for me! Eat him!” she mouthed silently and threw a bottle at Adam’s direction. The sound successfully distracted the zombie from her.
“Run!” Noticing what happened, Jean gestured, and darted out of the open doorways as he was the closest to the door.
Ana, on the hand, also realized the importance of keeping quiet to avoid attracting the zombie’s attention. She quickly grabbed her clothes and ran quietly after Jean, still in her pants and bra.
Adam wanted to make a run too, but when the zombie first came after him, he had retreated far back towards the bed and now, the zombie was right between him and the door.
And to make matters worse, Jean had reached for the door.
He mouthed "Good riddance, sucker" with a devious grin.
Then he firmly shut it behind them.
Adam swore he would never forget the mischievous and cruel smile on Jean’s face, but it wasn’t the right time to cry over spilled milk
Like a hellhound, the zombie sniffed the air and then let out a gnashing sound from his teeth again.
Silky black saliva clung to his teeth as he opened his mouth wide and jumped at Adam.
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THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM AUTHOR'S NOTE
I can’t thank you enough, dear reader, for turning the pages until this point. I really do appreciate you for checking out this book, adding it to your library, unlocking chapters, voting for this book, giving this book your gems, and for your amazing and inspiring review and in-chapter comments as well. You are the reason I kept going to this point. You are my strength. I appreciate you a lot. Lots of love and blessings to you! I assure you that there will be more improvement in my writing style, plots, settings, and the way I portray the characters in my subsequent books. I would like to have your comments and suggestions on what you would like to see in my other books. I will appreciate that a lot, and I assure you that I will work hard to infuse your wants into my books. You can check out my other stories on this platform. I assure you that they are quite interesting and much more satisfying too. Thank you so much for being here. KABIRAT ALEEM
Last Updated : 2024-04-25
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Epilogue - The Art Of Survival
Adam left the house after Theo was buried.Even though Lisa was not happy with the idea, she respected his decision after warning him to stay away from danger and call her from time to time.Layla paid him no attention as he left and in a way, he knew she might never really forgive him.Reminding himself of how much more important the art of survival was to them at the moment than the matters of the heart, Adam became a scavenging nomad.Layla was right in a way after all, if Theo had not been with him, he wouldn’t have died.So he thought of the best plan.To travel alone from place to place, helping those he could and educating people more on how they can beat this thing.He gathered men from place to place, and trained them in ways they could get food, avoid attacks and how they can survive.Soon enough, Lisa and the others made out the first batch of the new vaccine they were working on.It was a vaccine that could mask people’s scent when they are near zombies.They had been able
Last Updated : 2024-04-25
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 227 - Good News
“Please tell me you were not out here all night.”Adam threw the soil off the shovel and swiped at his sweaty brows before looking back at Lisa.She stifled a yawn as she peered at him through bleary eyes. “You really have been here all night?”Adam smiled as he said, “Pot. Kettle.”“Well, excuse me. I have been trying to think of ways to save lives. What is your excuse?”Adam’s smile was gone as he said, “I have been trying to do what I can to preserve the body of the life that was taken because of me.”“Oh, Adam,” Lisa said in a heartfelt tone as she came closer to him. “She blamed you, didn’t she?”“She was right,” Adam said automatically. “I couldn’t even get the tools yet a man died because of my decision. That is not on anybody, Lisa. It is on me.”He turned away and continued digging again.He ignored Lisa’s approach and continued to dig in a frenzy.His back glistened with sweat in the cold air and the increasing light of dawn brushing the sky.“Adam!” Lisa called sharply when
Last Updated : 2024-03-05
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 226 - The Unwanted One
“So it was your fault!” Layla said immediately Adam finished his narration.She had been holding herself so rigidly as Adam told them everything without sparing any detail.Even as others gasped and muttered with sympathy and shock as Adam explained exactly how Theo had died, she had only stood their with soot and sweat drying on her body.With her arms tightly around herself, she stood still, like she might crumble if she moved.Tears falling from her eyes had increased, but she didn’t say anything.Then, immediately after Adam completed his narration, she blurted that out.“Layla, I don’t think Adam...”“No, it was his fault.” Layla cut Maddy off. “If he had not told him to stop, if he was not so concerned about getting some goddamned farming tools, Theo would still be here with us!”Each of her words dug a dart into Adam’s heart.He had not expected that from her.From anyone else, he could have expected the hateful words coming out of her mouth.But not from Layla. She was...Layla
Last Updated : 2024-03-04
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 225 - Layla's betrayal
It didn’t take Adam long to realise that his guess was right.The fiery halo was nothing but a blazing fire.“Who the fuck was making a fire out there?” he wondered as he ran with all his might.He started hearing the sounds of rushing feet ahead of him as well.Soon enough, he caught up with Maddy and some other men also running in the direction of the fire.“What is going on?” Adam asked instantly.Maddy’s eyes widened in surprise as she saw him. Without stopping, she said, “You are back! Good, we are about to find out who the fuck wants to die so badly.”They burst out into the opening to see Jared struggling with Molly!What the… “Hey!” Adam called out in fury.The two struggling figures turned to look at Adam.At least Jared turned.Molly used that opportunity to send her elbow into Jared’s guts.Though her hit didn’t do much to hurt him, he grunted and staggered back a bit.That gave Molly the chance to turn around as well.Her face fell when she saw Adam.Then she looked guilt
Last Updated : 2024-03-04
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 224 - I Knocked Her Out
Adam recognised the car even before he saw the cutout van behind it. His heart leaped for joy when he saw Layla at the wheel of the car. But then his happiness was tainted by what Lisa just told him. He looked back at his sister just as the car parked. “You are sure?” he asked urgently. With tears in her eyes, Lisa nodded. Adam stepped out of the car. “Adam!” Layla called excitedly as she rushed forward to hug him. The men in the van came down just as Layla realised that Adam was not as excited as she was. She moved back from his embrace and asked, “What is wrong? Were you able to get…” Layla saw Lisa at the back of the car just then. She smiled in greeting and said, “Glad to see you are okay, Lisa.” “Hi, Layla,” Lisa responded in a gloomy tone. That made Lisa’s brow rise in confusion as she looked back at Adam and asked, “What is the problem?” Adam didn’t bother to mince words. “It is Theo,” he answered. Layla automatically looked towards the airplane, where Jeremy w
Last Updated : 2024-03-03
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