Drifters Read Free

satisfied after eating a big meal and I knew then and there, he is just like me, he lives also with the hunger deep inside of him.
    As the car passes in front of me and as it did, Alex turns his head and looks straight at me. I look in to his eyes and he was enjoying the surge of extra adrenalin from the chase. Was Alex all this time the one they were looking for and not me? Does Alex even know there is another one like him? I needed the answers because Alex could be a time bomb. I had never encountered any other like me. And where are the bodies of his friends if they were dead. I turned around and started walking towards the hotel where they left me, and I was hoping not to see these men again. Since the cops saw me with them, they were surely going to start looking for me. I had no choice, risk it, I told myself. I had to; maybe they were not here anyway.
    The walk to the hotel was completely even tless, but once there I can the cops flooding the entrance of the hotel. In the lot beside it, where I climbed out of the yellow car, was crawling also with cops, like ants on a piece of candy. I came as close as I could and watched. There was a cop in a black suit shouting orders to two uniformed that ran as fast as they could to a car at the end of a long line. Then in to frame came the cop that had stopped us on the road block. I started to walk backwards when I heard a familiar voice.
    “Sara, we need your help.”
    I stopped cold, they were here looking for me. I was so stupid, I scolded myself. I turned around and yes there he was Jeremy Garber, Director of the lab I escaped so long ago.
    He moved fast and grabbed my arms.
    “Let me go.” I said and wiggled around like a worm to try and be free of his hold, but his grip was hard and his fingernails were digging in my skin as little scalpels. I did not show my strength since he is a mere human.
    “I am not here to take you back.”
    “Then why are you here”
    “You saw him, right?”
    “Saw who?” He let go of the hold and looked up to the scene in the hotel.
    “Him he said as he pointed to the hotel”
    “Him? Who?” I asked again as I was about to slap some sense on him since he was making none.
    “Listen Sara this chase has been long g oing. To many years after you, we get you, you escape again I am old and weary. I want you to work for us.”
    “Just like that you want me to work for you, what is wrong in your head.”
    “Listen Sara this way you can stop being a drifter.”
    “I like being a drifter I get to meet new people.”
    He looks at me with a concern eyes then moves backwards a little inhaling deeply. He turns around and looks at a bench and sits, he patted the other end signaling me to sit beside him. He bends forward putting his forearm on his knees and balling up his hands in front of him. He exhales.
    “Sara, we found more like you. You are not the only one.”
    “What?”
    “We found out there are others that carry the disease some are stable and inactive. Ot hers, well, you see right there what they can do.” He said as his head moved towards the hotel.
    “What do you mean inactive?” I asked thin king the worst of him as I always did. But his face changed all of a sudden, gloomy, sadness appeared in his eyes as they watered. A time when I cared so much for him caught me by surprise, but I pushed the feeling away.
    “I am sorry Sara for everything I have done to you; I really am, but your kind…”
    “Okay let me get this straight and I am going on a limb here. You want me to come to work for you, maybe tracking other like me and you think a fucking sorry will make things right between us?” I said and burst of the chair completely infuriated, my hands making hard balls. He put the palms of his hands to his knees and pushed himself to a standing position.
    I turned again so he was facing my back; I was thinking what he wanted from me and end this chase. The wind blew up and my hair danced away from my face. The chills crawled on my