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Not Undead

Leslie shoved the mortician and hurried the others toward the exit. “Hurry, don’t stand around!” but Mortimer pushed back against her forceful actions.

“What?!” He shouted in surprise. “No, we can’t go to the main house!” he insisted.

Nikki was already at the end of the chapel, pushing open the door with Jon’s help. “What?! Why?!” The cheerleader demanded to know.

Mortimer struggled to find the words as he looked around. “Because Charlie is there!” Leslie stopped pushing the man to let him speak. “Charlie thinks I’m one of them!”

Nathan turned to Mortimer. “Are you?”

“Of course not!” the mortician declared. “But he said I had the same blank look, and muttered like them!”

Leslie reached down to pat his shoulder” You do mutter a lot, and look like your dead inside.”