Chapter 2 Monster Bob visits
Several days later, after all of my cuts had been cleaned and bandaged I found myself back in the same dream again. All I had to do was close my eyes and bingo I was back in that horror of a nightmare.
"Oh goody," I sighed just as soon as I realized I was once again in dreamland.
The day was black, lit only with dim street lights. Along the broken ground and cracked sidewalks were rows and rows of flat topped trees. I knew I was in for trouble. I was in the city where the zombies and prison guards liked to dwell.
"Damn!" I looked around for a darker place perhaps to hide.
The broken and or breaking street lights glared down at me from frightening angles. Some flashed on and off while others paused and still others simply didn't work at all. It was night, of course, gloomy, with a few rain drops,and scary as hell. Why would it be any other way?
I looked down at my body hoping I wasn't wearing that paper thin nightgown thing again.
"Thank you God," I whispered, when I identified the green and black patterns of an army uniform pasted to my body. The bright yellow of my shoes caused me to frown. 'Sponge Bob' slippers! I had Sponge Bob slippers on my feet instead of shoes. His big bright eyes seemed to smile up at me.
"Of course," I rolled my eyes, "I'm not allowed to have on "SHOES! Am I?" I was happy that they were at least not socks.
I always ended up with stupid things on my feet like socks with toes in weird striped colors or thongs that easily slipped off and got lost or broken. But these, 'Sponge Bob slippers', were just the final insult. How can you smile in a world where there is nothing to smile about I wondered. Still I decided to leave them on. I had them for a reason, I normally did. Why miss around with fate.
"Pockets," my hands wandered to my sides, gently pressing against the outside of my pants along the pockets. One time I put my hand in and came out with a huge spider. I learned quickly not to put my hands into dark places. They appeared to be flat at the moment, but this could change.
I looked across the street where I saw a few old buildings. These buildings appeared dark and were falling apart. It was difficult to make out just what they use to be in the darkness. Yet they screamed at me to come across and enter. I wasn't that stupid.
I knew that this part of town belonged to zombies, and prison guards. At any moment one group of them would come out onto the street to capture me or kill me. All I had to do was wait...
This was also Monster Bob's city. He lived to rescue me from the ghouls of the night. I often wondered if he knew he was one himself. The first time I met him was here, in the city, I had been standing on the other street corner near the all night drive-thru. It appeared to be the hang-out for every monster, ghoul, and prison guard that lived in this wasteland. When they spotted me they came for me with picks, knifes, chains and handcuffs. I had no chance of escape. Then he suddenly appeared on his motorbike, grabbed me from behind and stuffed me on the seat in front of him.
Damn, I sighed, he was built sexy. I remembered feeling his cock pressing into my back when I was a teenager. What I didn't know was what he really looked like under his helmet. All I ever saw was long strands of orangey hair poking out every so often from the sides. He never removed that helmet. So, I never truly knew if he was one of them. Tonight maybe I'd find out. Perhaps he'd show up tonight to protect me as he'd done when I was a child, a teenager, and now as an adult. Perhaps he'd tell me why I was having these dreams again.
In the far distance, almost on cue, I heard the roar of his bike. He knows I'm in the city, I realized, and he's coming to rescue me. I couldn't help but wonder from what. I looked around expecting to see something. I wasn't disappointed for long.
"Here they come," I said to myself as I saw movement in the buildings across the street near one of the busted out, paint peeling, dilapidated windows. They see me and now they will come to get me.
I turned away from the building having already made up my mind that I wasn't going to go anywhere near those buildings. I wasn't going to look for trouble. I never had to look for trouble in the past it always found me anyway.
"I'm getting to old to play this game." I almost yelled, but whispered it instead. I carefully dusted off the curb and sat down. Why go anywhere? Just let the trouble find me I decided.
It wasn't long before the zombies started piling out of the buildings. Each resembled the shadow of a person. Someone long dead but now alive again in my nightmares. Some of their faces seemed familiar to me while others were complete strangers. The one thing they all had in common was me. All of them desired me in some way.
As they approached I noticed that today each of the walking dead carried something to kill me with. I saw axes, clubs, knifes and various mallets. Because some of these items were heavy I noticed that they were either being drug behind the creature or the weight was being shared. The gross part of this was when the weapon's weight over powered them parts of their bodies fell apart. Still, if they could move they kept coming anyway. No matter, I was the object of their affection. It was too bad I wasn't impressed at what they'd go through just to get at me in some way.