chapter 10

I wake up with the sunlight shining on my face. I almost forget that I am not in my own house and that a zombie apocalypse is happening. I get up and get dressed. I smell cooked food downstairs. I run down the stairs in excitement. When I enter the kitchen, I see Spencer by the stove. The kitchen is painted neon green and there is a stove in the center of the room with a sink near the back door of the house. There is a bunch of cupboards on both sides of the room. Spencer is warming up cooked meat( our usual meals nowadays) with veggies. Spencer smiles cautiously when he sees me. " hungry?" " Yes please," I say. I will be the sensible one among us. Spencer takes out three plates and puts food on them. He covers Lily's food with a paper plate. I sit by the couch expecting to be alone but then Spencer joins me. " There is something that I got to say to you but I will tell you when we arrive at the forest of Hopper" I wonder what he wants to say. " okay. What is the time?" " seven-thirty." I gasp. " the zombie mutants. We haven't been keeping an eye on them." Spencer laughs. " stop panicking. I have been keeping an eye on it since I woke up. Even when I was cooking. There has not been any. Oh yeah. Let me wake up Lily. She probably won't like her food cold." I start to eat as Spencer leaves the room to go wake up Lily. After about 30 seconds I hear a yell. I rush upstairs to find Spencer on the floor and Lily panicking. " What happened," I ask. I see that Spencer is bleeding. He has been cut. " I'm so sorry Spencer. I thought that you were a zombie." I help Spencer get up. He is not angry. " Next time I will let you sleep in. Food is ready. I am going to get stitches. I will be back." After that, I go back to eating my food. Lily comes down and goes to eat. Spencer comes down also after five minutes and eats as well. Lily offers to take the first watch of the zombie mutants. She stands by the living room window. I think she is feeling down about the whole knife incident. Spencer told her not to worry and that it was his fault. He still seems a bit wary though. I hope this doesn't create an uneasy vibe. I want to try to talk to Lily but I feel like she wants to be alone right now. I almost forgot about the journal. I go to my backpack and take it out. I look back at the last date I had read. Now I am on the 5th of March. " Today was sort of a mixed day. Finley had to work late so I am alone at the moment. I miss her. The news said something really strange. Apparently in the town of her pain, there was a man who has an uncontrollable rash. Doctors have never seen anything like it. He is in quarantine at the local hospital. Damm hope I don't get that rash." I am curious. Was this the first report of the outbreak?