Just Getting By: Joining The Dead

It's so hard to believe that just yesterday I was complaining about having to go to work. Just yesterday I was complaining about some useless things like money, women, and videogames. What have I been doing with these twenty two years of living? I must have been standing in that glorious hot water of the shower for about an hour. I used the soap that was directly to my left. That sick fucking bat must have thought it funny to use his own branded soap and shampoo. Sure enough on the bottles were his sick fucking grin just staring back at me. I angrily uncapped the two bottles and poured them all over my body.

I must have scrubbed my body for about twenty minutes until I didn't see a single speck of red, brown, or any other god forbid color except my raw skin. I turned the water off and stepped out. Laying on a rack next to the shower was a fresh looking pair of shirts, pants, underwear, shoes, and socks. The only thing keeping me from giving a giant finger to the yellow bat, was the fact I was in a party with Sam. If it wasn't for her I would have gone naked.

I put my new clothes on and went to go gorge myself on food.

KNOCK. KNOCK. KNOCK.

"It's me Sam. It feels a little lonely eating by myself. Do you mind if I join you?" I could hear her embarrassment through the door.

"Sure! Come on in!" I yelled so that she could hear me from the closed door.

She opened the door and from the bit I could see she had brought over her entire room. I could see the blanket and pillow on the floor by her feet. The exact same food that I had laid out across my table was also by her feet. She also seemed to have gotten dressed in the attire provided by the shitty yellow bat.

"Wanna eat with me?" I asked her even though I already knew she was going to anyway.

"Yeah! I'd love to. Just give me a minute." She hastily grabbed as much as she could in her arms and started bringing them inside of my room.

"The food looks super yummy! I can't wait to eat I'm starving!" She pulled up the chair from her room and sat at the same table as me. I think at this point we didn't care about appearances because we devoured our food. The yellow bat didn't give us any utensils so we had to go at our food with our fingers. Honestly with how hungry I was feeling I didn't care. I tore into my food like I was some type of Neanderthal. It took me about thirty minutes to finish my food. I scooted back my chair, and told Sam.

"You're welcome to sleep her tonight if you'd like. I'm absolutely exhausted. Make yourself at home." I started walking to the bed flopping down on the soft duvet cover.

"Thanks Tony. Sleep tight."

I let the sinking darkness take me down. I didn't even dream. It was just nothingness.

"Thirty minute warning! The rest room will be dispersing please use this time wisely" The shitty bats voice sounded through intercoms that i hadn't noticed in the upper corner of the room.

I opened my eyes and saw Sam sleeping in the corner of the room. She literally had made herself at home. She grabbed some of my left over food and seemed to be munching on it as she slept. I didn't care that much. Yesterday was an exhausting day, and I was ready to get the day over with.

"Sam!"

She stirred in her sleep. Sat up in a panic and tried covering my food with her blanket.

"Sorry I got hungry in the middle of the night." She blushed noticed the drool on her face, and stood up.

"Do we clean up or...?"

"Fuck 'em" was all I said on the matter. I went into the bathroom and used the water from the faucet to wash up my face. I went back into the room and exited into the main area. Sam followed me out of the room and we simply stood there. Staring at the door that lay in front of us. We simply had no idea what to expect, but not willing to raise our voices on the matter the only other thing to do was simply stare.

"The rest area will now be closing. Please exit through the door in front of you. If not you will be forcibly executed."

As I was leaving I looked to the left of the door and saw hash marks that lay next to each other. In total they added up to six hash's in total. For whatever reason my gut told me to make one as well. I called my chainsaw to me and added my own hashmark to the wall.

"You ready?" Sam asked.

"Yup lets get this shit show started."

Upon opening the door what lay before us looked to be an ancient coliseum. As we walked forward the door behind us slammed shut with a loud bang. I inspected the area around us and everything appeared to be in ruins. As we walked down I felt a looming sense of dread. This had one feeling and one feeling only. This felt like a boss battle. I mean think about it. We got the rest room. They allowed us to sleep, shower, eat, and gave us a twelve hour long break. Then thinking back to that shitty bats comment on this could be our last twelve hours. This was most definitely a boss battle. As we neared the bottom step I could hear rattling coming from all around the bottom of the arena. Then sure enough skeleton soldiers started pulling themselves up from the sand. Then from the middle the sand shifted at an alarming rate. A skeleton covered in black robes arose from the sand. He was holding a staff with a brilliantly crafted staff that had a purple hue. His teeth were chattering away as if he was laughing at our impending doom.

"Fuck!" we both chimed together.