The Journal Of The Life Of Tom Marks

The Trip I Will Never Forget

The next morning I had woke up to someone yelling at the video monitor. “Where is my worthless bum of a son”! I herd being yelled, so I looked up to see this older lady with white hair, pi**ed off facial expression tapping on my camera rather rudely. “Why is she here”, I remember thinking that this can never be good because me and my mom have always had, well I guess to put it nicely a crap relationship. I tapped the mic an asked her what she wanted. She said and I quote: “you owe me safe refuge because I had to raise you”, an something about the town going into chaos and her internet was out so she couldn’t check in on her foreign boyfriend on there game they play. I called Libby to see if I should even open the door or not, but sadly my wife is the most saintest person I’ve ever met so she let her in already. I stepped out of my shop to make my self scares because I knew that would be the first place she would look for me. I turn the corner of the house and here, “what your going to make your mom walk this horrid place you live”. I remember think how the hell can you see that far when your blind any other time. I fired up the four wheeler and regretfully went to go get her. I asked her where my brother was since he wasn’t with her. She said he was at his friends house she figured he would be alright, she just wanted to use my Internet for a couple hours. I said,” are you stupid or just dumb mom”?. Her reply was,” neither why are you talking to your mother like that”. I turned on the news and said sit down, then turned to Libby an told her what happened. Libby immediately looked concerned then said, “you have to go get him Tom there’s no way Brandon can survive out there like that”. I let out a hefty sigh an tried to figure out where he was, after that I tried to reinforce my old pathfinder I had as a toy because my ride was wrecked on the bypass somewhere and the cop car was basically stolen. Luckily it already had a lift an stuff on it from being a mud bogger toy, so I made a quick bush guard an wheele guards out of rebar for it and set off. I had a cv radio in it to communicate with Libby Incase something happened. After driving a good 20 miles I looked down the road to see one of the things that gave me nightmares the night before. I stopped an observed it a little with my rifle scope. It was a good distance away so it didn’t notice me. While I was observing it I noticed it was walking up to a house. It looked at the door curiously and at its hand then slowly moved its hand twords the door. My first thought was it was going to try and rip the door off. I quickly moved the scope to the windows to see if I could see anyone inside. Thankfully it looked abandoned already, so I turned my attention back on the grey brutish thing. The next thing I saw surprised me it tried to turn the knob. It seemed like the door was locked so it started pulling on it shaking the door vigorously. By the time it was done the door broke off the hinges and it walked in. After that I was in a state of shock, thinking I need to go get my little brother as fast as possible. I was just about to put the rifle down and start heading forward when I felt like I was being watched. A chill ran down my spine and my hair raised up so I pulled the gun up again an looked. I saw these yellowish blood shot eyes staring threw the windows in my direction, staring at me like it knew I was there the whole time. I started to break out in a cold sweat and lowered my gun a bit to see if I could see it from where I was. It was a tiny blur no way of telling what it actually was so I raised up my rifle again to see but the eyes were gone from the window so I quickly searched the rest of what I could see of the house. I eventually herd this whooping kind of call coming from the house and I seen the first grey thing I saw earlier come out of the house. I quickly looked at it’s eyes to see if they were the same I just saw. They were yellowish but had a grey like texture to them like the one that beat me at arm wrestling the night before, as I was sitting there lost in thought a second grey being came from the house this one was tall an lanky it didn’t look like much of a fighter and it was bald like very bald not a hair on it. Keeping a firm on it from my rifle I noticed it look up at me an point swinging it’s jaw around as it did. I noticed it was the eyes I saw that sent a chill down my spine it felt like it could see my soul as they looked at me. While it was doing this the other creature was starting to slow jog its way my direction slowly picking up speed. I aim at her an notice she’s bobbing her head back an fourth like she’s listening to her favorite song. I aim the best I could hoping to not let her get any closer. Bang! I like my 30/30 ring an noticed it grazed the side of her head. Now she was running full stream with this wave of murderious feelings behind her. I quickly load anouther round and take aim. “s**t this b***h is fast” I mumbled I took better aim seeing that she was no longer bobbing her head, but insted looked like a all star trac running fixing to win gold at the olympics. Bang! I let it rip and hear a thump an fleshy grungiest g noise an noticed it slammed the ground an drug itself a good ten feet by how fast it was going. I reload an took aim at the bald one with the creepy eyes but it was long gone before I could. I hopped back in my truck to get rolling again before anything else could hinder and or kill me on my way. I noticed that it was creepily quiet on the ride there I only ran into a couple more of the grey things I just started calling brutes at that point. I felt like a gang member on the south side of Detroit doing a drive by with my AR15 on two of them munching on there manwitch snack. Saw anouther one chasing a horse threw a field it was moving to weird go me to get a shot off though, but it looked like the horse was fast so I kept going . I kept wonder how the hell my mom didn’t notice any of this going on while she was going to my house. Finally I arrived at where my brother was supposed to be, but the scene I saw scared me to death.