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Brent Thompson
32 years old
5'10", 185 pounds; good shape with a touch of year round "winter fat".
Sandy blond hair, pale blue eyes.
Handsome and charismatic when he wants to be.
Can seem creepy looking when he's upset.
Brent always thought of himself as a pretty normal guy. He had a job, he had a girl friend, he had an Ex-wife, he had a home ... or at least he had until the Great Recession, the loss of his job, and the foreclosure on his beautiful suburban ranch style house.
For the last six months, he'd been surviving on unemployment and partial disability, living in a basement room of a house occupied by a cadre of constantly-partying, college Jocks & Jerks, and biting his tongue while he just waited for life to improve.
When the Zombie Riots began, Brent's first thought was Now, the REST of you get fucked!
The mayhem did scare him, of course, but he'd been riding on such a low for so long, the thought of the end of the world as we know it was almost a relief. The Jocks & Jerks had all been at the football game when the rioting broke out, so Brent ended up with the entire house to himself. He watched the news, amazed at the madness.
When evening neared, Brent was still alone, secure behind the wrought iron fence encircling the building. He'd already begun searching the rooms of the other tenants, finding all the trappings of youth: drugs, booze, and porn. One of the freakier of the Jocks had a dresser drawer full of sex toys, including vibrators, dildos, handcuffs, and other bondage toys; and one of the Jerks had something Brent had never expected to find: guns.
The majority of his time not spent watching the television news was spent carting his booty down to the basement, where -- behind the metal fire door that had once protected the rest of the house from a long abandoned oil furnace -- Brent knew he would be more secure than anywhere else on the property.
He had no intentions of going out there, out into that Madness. Brent had enough food to last him two, maybe three months; and -- not surprising at all since it had been a weekend -- the fridges and cupboards upstairs had been full of beer and hard liquor, too.
Brent was one happy camper. Wasn't nothing going to draw him outside...
Until he heard the scream and the call for help.
He hurried over to the tiny, barred basement window and saw her at the gate, shaking it furiously and calling the name of one of the Jocks who lived -- had lived -- upstairs.
He remembered her, of course. He should have: he'd asked her out on, what ... two, three occasions? She was the friend or sister or cousin or something like that of one of the guys, and Brent had had the hots for her from the moment he'd laid eyes on her months earlier.
As soon as he'd realized she wasn't dating one of his housemates, he'd asked her out. She said no, politely of course. The second time she'd been a little curt. The third time -- Yes, it had been three, he remembered -- she flat out said that she would never go out with him and he could stop asking her.
And he did. Three strikes and your out, he could remember thinking.
And now, here she was trying to get into the property, screaming for which ever guy to whom she'd been connected. Brent considered going back to the news and letting her move on, once she realized there was no one here to open the gate.
Then...
A thought. A socially unacceptable thought.
He hurried up the basement steps, down the hall, and out onto the porch. Once there, he slowed to a casual walk, nearing the gate from behind the Laurel bush, out of her sight. He stepped out into her view and, when she made eye contact with her, smiled.
"Hi again," he said politely, not making any move to enter the code that would unlock the gate. "What can I do for you?"
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