The roof of the community centre is like most roofs, undecorated and not acknowledged, completely lacking in any cleanliness, but today in the summertime on a rare boiling day in England the roof top is extra grimy, with 3 lazy and troublesome youths taking an undeserved rest in the sun.
Jess lays on the skip brought settee fanning herself whilst Finn plays on his PSP with the volume on loud and Curtis sits on the ledge with his earphones in. all 3 of them are oblivious or more so unconcerned with Rudy's absence.
"Go on you bastard! Yeah, that's it. Slowly, slowly, get in!" Finn gets over excited at finally finishing level 1 on his game, Jess isn't as excited.
"What's with the fucking commentary?"
"Sorry, d'you want a go?"
"I'd rather choke on my own sick."
"Your very sarcastic, d'you know that?"
"Oh, that wasn't sarcasm."
The air between them goes stale quickly.
As Curtis is blissfully bopping to his music and the other two stay aware of the atmosphere they just created Rudy runs through the rusted door.
"We fucking missed one guys!"
Jess and Finn look at him in relief and confusion.
"Right I'm sorry to barge in on your break but we missed one."
"Missed what?" Says Jess not entirely bothered in hearing a reply.
Until a Zombie comes shuffling out, foaming from the mouth, distant behind the eyes and holding a Big Issue. He's slow and obviously not much of a threat or surprise.
Jess sits up, "Why didn't you just cave his head in?"
"I'm afraid I miss placed my head caving equipment."
"Hey don't you two find it ironic that Zombies were created as a reflection on our lazy couch potato ways, and of all the Zombie's to pop up it's an homeless one? Well they don't have tellys do they."
Even the Zombie stops to give Finn a blank stare.
"It's boring me now, kill him."
Rudy holds a fist up to Finn.
"Not him the fucking Zombie!"
"Oh, I wish it was like them old cartoons where pianos would just drop on their heads"
as if by fate a screaming body lands on the poor Big Issue Zombie.
Curtis takes his earphones out. "Fucking shit battery." he turns to see a now broken Zombie with a perfectly alive and groaning stranger next to it and his three colleagues as speechless as ever.
"What the fuck just happened?"