It started with a dare. Don't they all?
All characters are living and legal adults, unless dead, then it really doesn't matter, does it?
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"You ever thought about fucking a Zombie?"
I was sitting in a bar, one of the few left open on the south side of town. Four of my friends from college were with me and only one of them was a real friend. The place was half full but considering the condition of the town at that point, in the wake of the epidemic, things were looking up. We were sitting in a corner booth, just shootin the shit as it were. I stopped the glass of beer halfway to my mouth and looked at Allen then at Jeff, wondering what the hell he had gotten me into and when the punchline going to be delivered.
It turned out that the question was the punchline.
"What kind of question is that....are you serious?"
"Deadly." Allen answered without a hint of a smile.
"Why?" I asked.
"Because we can."
"Why not fuck a living girl?"
"Fair enough question," he answered with a straight face. "Because we can't," he answered.
"Look at us, Jeff said. "We are geeks. We are losers. We are at the bottom of the sexual food chain, in fact, we are under that and waiting for scraps from the table."
"What's your point?"
"Point is, that the only way we are ever going to get to try out any of those cool porn positions is by fucking a girl and since we have struck out with the living ones, we are going to have to play with the dead ones."
"You are serious," I asked.
Rob who I had met only once before, kind of a chunky guy and talked with a slight lisp, swallowed his beer and looked at Allen, "My hand recently took out a restraining order against me," he said. I'm getting desperate."
"That's rape and..."
"It's sick and twisted and bordering on Necrophilia but these girls are between living and dead. In my book, mostly dead, so it's still a challenge."
I looked at the four of them.
"You're guys are fucking serious?"
I looked around at the others in the group of which there were two others. "What about these guys?"
"We have all done it before."
"Why me?" I asked.
"We are shorthanded,"
"Seriously horny, no pussy, but looking for a challenge. In my book, this is the ultimate challenge," Allen smiled. "So the payoff is a little dead pussy."
"This trip will be our forth," Paul said. He was a tall guy, a math major and a bookworm.
"Seriously?" I looked at the others. Of course, they were all looking at me.
"Because of all the sexual assaults' laws and accusations that are part of even a simple date these days, most of us with any intellect, stay at home and surf the net, and keep a jar of Vaseline within reach. You almost have to have legal papers to go out on a date. Even Tinder requires six forms of ID and proof of your financial stability, not to mention a DNA swab."
"True," Jeff said. "A friend of ours had asked a girl he had known for years out on a date. Nothing serious. Just a night of fun. They had dinner, watched a movie and then he took her back to her dorm. A brief make out session and she said no and he left. Next day he had a swat team outside his door and is now looking at five to seven in prison for unlawful sexual assault against a minor."
"A minor?"
"The girl had fake ID and looked a lot older than she claimed."
"Why?"
"She apparently decided he was a looser."
"What about rape?"
"Who....a zombie?" Rob asked who was sitting beside Allen. "They are dead. Zombies are dead. They aren't legal anything."
"And of course the dead have no legal rights."
"Right, you're getting it now." He smiled back at me.
"Of course, they are dead," Allen said, as if fucking a zombie was just as easy as getting a real date.
"And so why do you think I would be interested?"
"You're like us. Never date. Never had a girlfriend. Still live at home in your mid twenties."
"So that make me desperate enough to stick my dick into a corpse?"
"Could be worse. You could end up like Taylor who is probably having a nightly thing with Bubba, his new cellmate."
"And all because the girl didn't get the experience she wanted out of the date," Jeff chimed in.
"Was it worth it? Probably not. Then this pandemic thing happened and by shear coincidence, we are right on the other side of a mountain that has a coed Ed college in Cottonwood, that town that had been locked down for the last eight months."
"I heard about that place," I admitted. "It's a college with a huge nursing program."
"And you know that most nurses are hot looking babes."
West Virginia, for reasons unknown to this day, was the first state infected. It was the first to fall to the undead and was sealed off in large sections. One of those sections was on the other side of the river from our college. Then, as the virus spread quickly across the rest of the country, our little college town was basically forgotten. An electrified fence was put up and alarms installed and other precautions were put in place, Cottonwood College was forgotten, for the most part.
Now here we are, eight months later with still no end in sight.
"No one goes in and so far....no one has come out," Jeff added in a low voice. "The military had put up a double layered electrified fence around the entire town. We discovered that the power was shut off six months ago because the Government was too busy trying to stop it in Texas and probably everywhere else."
"How many times have you guys been in there?"
"Four so far," Jeff said. "Some of the pussy in there is in pretty good shape."
"The undead are easier and never accuse and never say no. Simple as that. And if you didn't mind the smell, open sores, the bugs, and planned ahead, you could have any woman you wanted."
"But they are dead."
"Jesus dude, there's a morgue on the other side of town."
"Not as much fun," Paul said. He had remained silent for the most part and I wondered if he was still as unsure as I was."
"Not exactly dead," Rob said from the other side of the table. "Just someone you are probably not going to take home to mother."
That brought a laugh to everyone, and took the tension down a little.
"You guys are fucking serious?"
"Dead serious," Allen said with a wicked grin, "All it takes is one bite, one minor scratch to become one of them, I said remembering what I head heard on the news.
"We are taking precautions," Paul chimed in. He raised his glass and took another drink.
"So I guess blowjobs are out of the question?"
That's a no brainer," Allen said looking at me over his beer. So, you in?"
It was explained to me that it had started out as a dare a couple of months ago, at the height of the infectious spread that was moving rapidly across the state of Virginia and quickly was a game that the group had invented just months after the first wave of infections that ultimately covered the lower half of the east coast.
The three had cornered me in the hallway between classes.
"We have a problem and a proposition."
"We lost one of our guys and need a replacement."
"Replacement for what?"
"Come on over to Paddy's bar after work and we'll fill you in," Allen slapped me on the back.
At the bar they ran it by me again and after a few too many drinks, fucking a Zombie didn't seem like such an unreasonable thing. By the time I had enough to drink, fucking zombies seemed fairly reasonable and something to do on Halloween night. And they had a target.
"Her name is Dawn Abrahms," Allen said. "She is, or used to be, the hottest piece of ass in town."
"Isn't that rape?" I asked again, just before the few functioning brain cells and the rest of my common sense went to sleep.
She's dead. Rob said. "At best, its necrophilia. Desecration of a corpse. Happens in morgues all the time."
"She's dead or at least, I'm sure that if she's over there, she's dead. At worst, it's sick, twisted and perverted as hell, but since she's become one of them, she's fair game at the very least, and, it's just good ol boy, Virginia fun."
'She' was Dawn Abrahms, former UPS driver who vanished during a route little more than eight months ago. During the year she had taken over the old route, she had become a prime dating target for most of the men in town. She had a reputation for leaving everyone who tried, in the dust.
Dawn had been possibly the hottest woman we had ever seen and the efforts to come onto her when she was still alive prove fruitless. She was a hot brunette, with smooth, shoulder length hair, barely five two with large and perfectly formed breasts and the best looking ass around. Her face would stick in you mind for days and every guy in town had tried to get her in bed. She didn't frequent bars or dance discoes and any other places where a woman of her caliber would be in high demand. She went home and stayed there as far as I knew. God knows, what a complete waste to have a body like that and do nothing but stay home.
Allen had tried a number of times but then, the opportunities to meet her were scarce.
"So, how do you know she's in Cottonwood?" I asked.
"One of the guys who used to go over the fence to grab anything valuable when the town and university was sealed off from the rest of the world, found her truck in some yard."
"It was hers?"
"UPS isn't denying or conforming anything, and say they have all their trucks accounted for."
"And you think she's become like the rest of them?"
"We are pretty sure that if that is her truck, then she is like everyone else there."
"And your point?" Rob said.
"Well, she's dead."