The End Of Life Chapter 51
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Getting up from his seat, Mark threw the cup into the dustbin and went out of the dining room. He wanted to check out the house as David and Daisy would take some time. They needed to be at the last destination by night and the time was almost 3. It would take them 2 hours to reach there, by the looks of it, they would reach at night. Night travel would be very difficult, but they can't delay it anymore.
As he walked out of the dining room, he looked out of the door which had a small window beside the staircase which showed the backyard. Deciding to check the backyard once, he slouched towards the door. He opened it and went outside. The first thing which came into his view was a tree about a few feet away from him.
It had a treehouse and a ladder into it from the ground. It was a simple treehouse and from the looks of it; it was an old one, probably 10 years back. He looked around and found it was a medium-sized backyard.
But what caught the most attention was the two patches of dirt in the middle. He went closer and found out it was likely to be dug. He immediately understood it was a human's grave depending on the size of it. He was able to connect all the dots and looks like it was Mona's parents who were probably turned zombies.
He felt pity for Mona. Unlike him, she seemed like a person who loved her family very deeply and couldn't imagine how she felt, if she killed them with her own hands. He simply stood there in silence, giving some respect to the 2 dead people. He then moved around the backyard. Going towards the fence diving it from the other house beside, he noticed a zombie in the neighbour's backyard, mostly the neighbour himself
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He then went back towards the tree and slowly claimed into the treehouse to have a look. It was rather small and Mark did not go inside, only looked from the outside. It had a small bookshelf filled with various grades of books, ranging from fictional novels to university study materials. It looked like Mona studied in that place.
He slowly got down and went back inside. He made his way upstairs and noticed it looked similar except for the fact that there were 3 bedrooms. Two of them were closed, probably because the father and daughter pair were still taking a bath. He went into the last room and washed his face with some water near the sink.
Washing his face, he felt refreshed and went outside. As he came near the stairs two of the doors opened and David and Daisy finally came out. Both of them were in new clothes and looked refreshed.
"Eat some noodles down below and we can get moving to the final destination." Looking at David. David nodded in response and all three of them made their way down.
Mark made his way into the living room and noticed a door to the corner of the room. He made his way to it and slowly opened it. It was another bedroom, but it was different from the other ones. It had a look of old people to it. Many things inside were from a decade or two ago.
He slowly moved around the room and understood. There were two swords hung up on the walls of the rooms. Other than the 2 swords which are on the wall, there were framed pitchers. What caught Mark's attention was a picture of a middle-aged man and a small girl. Both of them had a wooden sword in their hands.
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Mark took the picture into his hands and looked closer at Mona and her grandfather. He suddenly remembered something about what Mona said, 'My grandfather gave it to me before I came today as it was my first day.' These were the same words which she told when he asked about the sword she had.
Now various thoughts struck him, ' Was it a poor coincidence that her grandfather gave her the sword that day? If it wasn't a coincidence, how did he get to know there would be such an incident which would happen on that date.' even if he took that it wasn't a coincidence, it was outrageous to think that he knew about it. Mark immediately scratched that possibility, but there was still somewhere deep in him that he considered it.
He was snapped out of his thoughts as he heard David call for him from the door. He looked at him and David said, "Let's go, we both are done." and Mark nodded before making his way out of the room with the picture in his hand.
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