Ch 2
On the way down Egger St there was a peculiar guy. Dressed like Rambo with samurai swords, he's not the type you'd want to encounter if the circumstances were normal.
"Hello friend!" Alicia yelled while simultaneously waving. He did nothing in reply but stare with squinted eyes. As he approached, he seemed more at ease.
"This is no place for you to be with a baby!" He exclaimed.
"Yes I know, but given the circumstances I'm TRYING to get home. What do you know about what the FUCK is going on here?" Alicia tried to scream, although it didn't come out half as mean as she wanted it to.
"It's the cell phones. My little sister picked up hers and then went crazy. Whatever you do, don't operate one."
"I always forget to bring mine on erroneous occasions, like going to my best friends house just up the street…" Alicia smiled shyly.
"And I never even turn mine on so that my babies mother doesn't call to annoy me!" Gabriel almost screamed.
"Well that's good, I'm glad you aren't tainted like them. Now I have a mission to complete…. Kill them before I get killed. I'm glad I warned you sane folks, but I need to be on my way!"
II.
Finally, they reached Alicia's house.
"DADDY!!" Alicia screamed.
"What?" he answered, almost annoyed.
"Oh I'm so glad!! Look daddy, whatever you do, DO NOT operate your cell phone. Better yet, let me destroy it!!"
Her father looked at her perplexed. "What do you mean?"
"I honestly don't know if I could even tell you if you haven't seen it, but cell phones are making people crazy! I almost got killed on the way home by a crazy!"
Her father raised an eyebrow. "Alicia really. Stop, you're embarrassing yourself. And who is this young gentleman? Obviously NOT Juan."
"No father, as of now I'm assuming Juan is one of them. This is a man I met along my way home, Gabriel."
"Alicia really." Her father turned to go back into his study.
"WAIT DADDY!" Alicia all but cried. Her father went into his study without even turning back. "Well, if he wont listen, I'm going to destroy his cell phone" Alicia smirked, while grabbing the phone off the kitchen counter.
"Well how do we know it IS the cell phones? Because Rambo out there said?" Gabriel threw up his arms.
"I honestly don't, but I'm not going to take he chance." Alicia took her father's cell phone between her hands and threw it on the ground, then stomped on it. She followed him into the study. "Daddy look. Get your guns, it's going to be a long day. All you have to do is people watch with us outside and you'll understand soon enough." She went to the blinds and opened them. Of course, there was no one out there. "Just watch the streets, one of the cell phone crazies WILL come and you WILL see." Five minutes passed and nothing.
"Cell phone crazies huh?" Her father mocked. Just then, a crazed teenager walked down the street, yelling incomprehensible words. Her father's eyebrows furrowed. "If this is your idea of a joke then you can just go stuff it." His eyes, however, never stopped looking at this stranger. He walked out of site of the window, but his gait never changed and neither did his words.
"If anyone happened to be walking down the street then they would have been lunch. Look, promise me you wont go out there looking for mom. I've already destroyed your cell phone…" she cut off, realizing that she still had hers on the table. She immediately ran out and stomped on that one too. Gabriel looked up at her from the table, "This is fucked." He sighed. Just then, the phone rang.
"Hello?" Alicia answered. Silence. "Hello??" Garbled speech came out the other end, although distant, as if the phone had been dropped prior to her answering. There were screams at the other end.
"Alicia?" Her father asked, startling her. "Is it your mother?" Alicia handed him the phone and watched as his eyes got wide and then squinted. He hung up the phone and they both looked at the caller ID. It was her mother's cell phone.