Zompocalypse Diaries (QUICK edit finished)

December 8th, 2012

Dec 8th, 2012

Dear Journal,

After finding Jordan and Carrie early yesterday and telling them I was being looked for, we ducked into the forest and holed up in the small cave behind the waterfall until this morning. It was cold and damp but with the extra clothes they'd grabbed, the blankets we already had and J.J. to keep us warm, it wasn't too bad. Speaking of the cat...

We packed up this morning, just as the first light broke through the trees. We decided to stay off the road and head the long way through the forest, hoping to find a way around the camp. We were still hellbent on getting to Tilamook Head and if we took the road we would have to back track.

Climbing over rocks, fallen tree limbs and squeezing between the more dense groupings of trees wasn't my idea of a fun morning but I couldn't keep the smile from my face as I watched my friends up ahead. I was glad to have them back, even if they were arguing and picking at each other.

"We're leaving the cat with the next hoard." Jordan muttered.

"But you'll miss him!" Carrie teased.

"Ya, I'll miss the extra bait we have."

"More like you'll miss the little heater that he is, I saw you cuddled up with him this morning." Carrie smirked.

"I was sleeping, how am I supposed to keep him off of me in my sleep?" He grumbled.

"You looked pretty cozy to me." I decided to throw in on their arguing. "You had your arm around him."

Jordan huffed and wandered on ahead, ignoring our giggles.

We continued on like this for awhile, joking, laughing, trying to make the best of the hellish situation we were in. We were deep into the forest now. The trees overhead were dense, letting in very little light from the sky above. Carrie kept reassuring us that she knew where we were going but everything looked the same to me.

I was beginning to get a little panicked when I remembered the compass I found at home the first day, buried in the bottom of my kit.

"Wait!" I dropped to my knees and threw my kit to the ground, digging my hands through the mess inside. "I have a compass in here."

"Breanna, I told you guys a hundred times already, I know exactly where we are." Carrie whined.

"I don't know, it all looks the same to me. How do you know we aren't just going in circles?" Jordan asked.

I continued to paw through the kit, closing my fingers around the smooth, cool circle that was meant to be our guide.

"Got it." I pulled it out and held it up to them. "You guys know how to use this?"

Jordan took it from me, held it flat in his hand and gave it a few little turns, lining up the needle with the compass housing. "Ya, I can use one. We should be going north to get to the border, apparently we're heading east."

He glared at Carrie as her face turned a deep red.

"Sorry," she said, head bowed, "you all said yourselves it all looks the same. It's easy to get lost "

"Doesn't matter." I tried to ease her embarassment. "We have the compass now, we can get back on track easily."

I got up and smacked Jordan across the arm. "You don't have to be so rude, at least she's trying."

He started to say something but I pushed past him, hurrying over to Carrie. Now that we knew which way we were going, we turned and continued on in silence.