The Undead Diaries

Chapter Twenty One

January 26, 2017

Kyra's POV

I wondered what my parent's would think seeing their little girl with a shotgun laying in her lap and red stains covering her clothes. Would they be disappointed in me? Would they be proud of the bravery?

I miss them.

The driving was the worst. I was forced to remember everything I could never forget and the far distances always had me yawning like an old woman waiting for commercials to go off so I could watch my favorite cooking show.

Would I even see old age? I could turn into a monster any second.
Would anyone around me have the courage to shoot me too?

Lets hope that stays unanswered.

After driving five hours, we finally reached Michigan. It was dark and gloomy. With the smell of emptiness. Cars pulled to the side of the road, gas stations vacant with a hint of zombie threat. The neighborhoods were our least concern, it was getting gas and food and finding the exit to the lab that Thomas was guiding us to. You had the usual gas stations workers whom are infected and come out of nowhere, or worrying about being on the toilet and attacked. That was the worst part.

I was in a daze once we got to the first gas station on our left. The building was green and empty, with lights still shining through the night. Which was surprising because none of us have paid our electric bill in a months.

I mentally giggled at that one. Humor is good right?

Nothing was going right for me these days.

I glanced behind me to the sleeping little boy. I watched a half smirk escape his lips as I realized he was in a dream state. Depression overwhelmed me as I just wanted to hug him because he had no parents, hell none of us had parents anymore.

"Billy wakes up buddy," I said while shaking the dreaming boy.

"No, I don't want to." He pouted.

"Okay, I surrender!" I giggled.

I just stood there smiling as he snuggled back into a fetal position and started snoring.

The wind blew softly and I realized that Liam was pulling in beside us. He got out of the car in a hurry and started rummaging through the back of the car whilst everyone else was making their way out of it, Chancey snuggled into David's chest. I noticed Liam pulling weapons out and handing them to Baylee and David and after strapping his to his waist.

I caught him glancing at me but quickly turning away. I wasn't sure why he kept treating me the way he was but I was starting to honestly not care I mean what did I honestly expect. He was a stranger to me. He didn't want me.

"What's the plan?" David asked his big brother and everyone halted to hear his response.
and at the ghost town, we wandered ourselves into. "This place looks dry, I doubt will find much. Lets just hope we get enough gas to keep us going."

"We haven't ate in days and we are on the last bottles of water we have to figure out something." Baylee interrupted and my growling stomach agreed.
"We should get into groups and split up and scout as much as we can. I'll take Baylee and David. Liam and Kyra can take the children." Thomas planned.

"I can go with Thomas and Baylee can go with Liam," I said not wanting anyone feeling uncomfortable.

"I'm not leaving Baylee. No offense but she can barely put her bow together let alone arch and shoot." He laughed while she playfully smacked his arm.

"Lets just go we don't have time to argue over teams, this isn't High School," Liam complained then we all shut up.

We decided not to drive since we didn't have gas to waste. Each of us carried a weapon, gas can, and a bag for food and/or clothes. It was seven am and we decided to meet back up at eleven. We continued to walk in silence and stopped to search a few abandoned houses but we came up short. After twenty minutes of walking I heard Liam let out a small breath and after he finally broke the silence. "So are we ever going to talk about what happened between us?"

How was I suppose to give him an answer that I didn't even have? Everything started getting crazy with finding Chancey and those crazy people taking her and Liam acting different like I didn't even matter to him. I couldn't explain to him that I felt he was putting Chancey first because that would make me sound like a childish high school girl being jealous over a tiny baby.

"I just feel like we are drifting apart." Was all I could muster up to say.

Silence fell upon us and I took it as his understanding that we did fall apart and it wasn't either of our faults. He didn't speak any after I said what I did and at times I wanted to say something that could fix everything and make us close again but that thought quickly stayed just a thought because in a split second everything changed. There was about fifteen dead people sprinting towards us, so we had other issues at hand.