Free Web NovelChapter 4: I’m Richard.
"ROXANNA ARE YOU OKAY?!" A feminine voice whisper-shouted with worry obvious in her tone.
Fredrinn blinked several times.
He then looked at the three corpses by his feet. Two zombies and one dead woman.
Any of them could be Roxanna or maybe the real owner of the phone had run off without her phone for survival.
"Maybe...?" Fredrinn replied over the phone with uncertainty.
The woman on the other end of the phone realized that she was not speaking to her dear friend at the moment.
"Who are you? Where did you find the phone? Where is Roxanna? Is she alive?" She asked frantically, her voice cracking slightly. freeweɓnovel.cѳm
"I am Fredrinn. I found it on a beach. I don’t know where Roxanna is. I don’t know if she’s alive." Fredrinn replied patiently.
"UGHHHHH!" The woman groaned so loudly that Fredrinn had to remove his phone from his ears just not to get irritated.
"Whatever, I will call others to check on them instead." After letting out her frustration, the woman seemed eager to end the chat.
"No wait–" Fredrinn called out but before he knew it, the call had ended and he could only watch the beautiful wallpaper on the lockscreen.
It was a young woman dressed in a swimsuit, with her godly proportions visible clearly.
After focusing on the face and matching it with the three corpses by his feet, Fredrinn at least understood that the woman called Roxanna wasn’t dead... probably.
But since the phone was locked, he spent another 5 minutes searching for other devices that would hopefully be more useful.
He found a few of them, and after patiently checking them all, he found one that was finally not locked.
"Finally!"
He celebrated and opened the contacts app directly, scrolling through the recents calling section.
Most of the calls were to a contact named ’Creator Of Me #1’, which was probably the person’s parent?
Fredrinn didn’t really remember the contact number of his parents or family, and neither did he remember where exactly he used to live. He just knew it was somewhere in the USA.
So he instead settled on calling everyone on the recents tab.
First call was to the creator #1.
Several rings went but no one answered, so he called the next person. A contact named Naomi with a heart emoji.
And surprisingly, the call connected after just two rings.
"RICHARD?" A feminine voice screamed on the other side excitedly. The voice sounded strangely familiar, but Fredrinn disregarded that and instead focused on the talk.
He didn’t want to get hung up on again.
"Yes, it’s me. Hey Naomi." He replied trying to match her enthusiasm but failing miserably at that.
"I am so glad that you’re still okay! I called Roxanna’s phone earlier but some weirdo answered instead! Wasn’t she with you? Is she okay? Where are you? Come back please, I am so scared!" Naomi ranted out.
’Ah... no wonder it sounded familiar.’ Fredrinn’s lips twitched when he heard the woman call him weirdo, though it was understandable.
"Roxanna got separated from me earlier." He said, trying to keep his sentences short and concise so she couldn’t notice the difference in their voices too much.
Luckily, Naomi was too emotional to care about the voice.
"Hic." She sobbed, "I am currently with a small group from the hotel we were staying at. People are turning into literal undead monsters like it’s some sort of a zombie movie! I am so scared! Please come here, I need you!"
"I will. Where are you?" Fredrinn asked smoothly, feeling slightly guilty about playing with a woman’s feelings, but in his defence, he was too confused to do anything else.
"Shimada Mart. We are currently locked up in the basement and trying our best to remain silent. There’s enough food here for us to survive, but..." Her voice dropped down a couple of octaves, as if she was whispering, "But these people give me a very bad feeling you know? There are mostly guys here and they are giving a very ’mean’ look to us girls.
You know... in zombie movies what the guys do to girls... I am scared. If you come I will feel much safer. I am really sorry for shouting at you at that time, please don’t be mad at me and come here..."
"Don’t worry, I forgive you." Fredrinn replied calmly, having no clue what she was apologizing for, "I am coming."
That part wasn’t a lie, as he actually planned to go to the place, since he needed a lot of information to actually understand his current circumstances.
He also needed to find his family and only another human could help him achieve that since his memories were a mess.
"Thank you... thank you Richard... I love you..." Naomi breathed out.
"I love you too." Fredrinn replied before telling her that he’s coming and hanging up.
There was a minor hiccup in the plan about what Naomi would do if instead of Richard, he ended up there.
But as Fredrinn believed... It was a minor hiccup.
Though the problem was he had no clue where the Shimada mart was.
But with a phone in his hands, he opened the gps application after fumbling around a bit and searched for Shimada mart in the textbox.
The internet took some time to buffer, but ultimately the location popped up, showing a store that was only 500 meters away from his current location.
’Naomi, I’m coming!’ Fredrinn said to himself before dashing towards the location.
***
While inside the basement of the Shimada mart, a young girl sat huddled amongst a small group of girls.
They all were trying their best to call their contacts frantically, urging them to come while a group of men watched them with a huge grin.
Naomi, who had just finished her call, looked up and made eye-contact with the man that was apparently the leader of this small ragtag bunch.
A man named Jacob Pomroe.
"H-He is coming. Do you promise to leave me unharmed if I do as you say...?" She said hesitantly.
