Bill sighed.
He bet Katarina’s hair smelled like strawberries.
3. Possibilities
Lenore and Ken were jostled around as the moving truck made its way down the country road following the first team’s red truck. They sat on a long bench secured to the interior wall, holding onto straps someone had drilled into the side.
“So why did you come?” Lenore fussed with her hair, wishing her new weave wasn’t already getting smashed under a hat. It had been a relief to get some beautiful lush hair after months of dealing with her own short hair without any decent products or styling tools.
Ken crossed his legs and gave her his most annoyingly cute look. “Guess. ”
“Dale. ”
“That was easy!”
Lenore scowled at him. “You do realize, twinkle toes, that we are going into a highly dangerous situation where we will most likely get our asses eaten. ”
“He’s really cute, don’t you think? All rugged and strong. Dreamy,” Ken said, smiling widely.
“Eaten. By zombies. Not a cute guy. A zombie. ”
“You do realize I only heard the words ‘eaten’ and ‘cute guy’ just then. ”
“I hate you. ” Lenore tried to get comfortable on the bench, cursing herself for volunteering.
“Why did you volunteer?” Ken fussed with the laces of his boots, retying them as he bounced around on the bench. He made it look easy performing this feat. She would have landed on her ass.
“You volunteered, so I volunteered. Someone has to watch out for you.
You’d be all staring at Dale and some zombie would bite you. Then I would have to beat you for being stupid and then kill you for being a zombie. Which would be annoying. ”
Ken laughed with delight. “Besides, I’m your best friend and your fag. ”
“I ain’t your hag. ”
“Oh, yes you are. ”
“Oh, no, I’m not. ”
“Yes. ”
“No. ”
“Yes. ”
“Do not make me feed you to the zombies!”
“Feed me to Dale,” Ken whispered, winking.
“I am going to pound you. ” She winced the second the words were out of her mouth and she saw Ken’s opening. She hastily added, “No, don’t you say it!”
Ken rolled his eyes and began to check his weapons. “You love me. ”
“Maybe. ”
“Felix volunteered because you volunteered. ”
“No, he didn’t. He doesn’t like me like that. ”