Luke's Diary: An Unlucky Man in a Zombie Apocalypse. Days 201-400

Day 201: Wednesday 15th March 2017 22:09

https://www.facebook.com/lukesdiary/posts/268059513635029

Day 201
Wednesday 15th March 2017 22:09

What an intense day.

Mike said he heard me talking on the walkie talkie to Naomi last night. Shit! I thought to myself. This was awkward. Mike looked and sounded sad and angry at the same time. "You said I was hard work," said Mike. "Well come on Mike," I said, "You weren't exactly easy to be around yesterday." "I wanted to keep you safe," said Mike. "Keep me safe?!" I exclaimed, "Are you having a laugh? You jumped in front of a load of infected and made loads of noise." "Yes," said Mike, "I was trying to keep you safe. There were only five of them." I told Mike he couldn't keep going around shouting and screaming and picking fights with infected and that it wasn't safe. "You told Naomi my behaviour was contradictable," said Mike. "Unpredictable," I said, correcting him, "I said it was unpredictable. Come on Mike, one minute you're all soppy and trying to hug me, the next minute you're yelling like a mad man nearly getting me killed." "Mad?" said Mike, "Did you call me mad?" "Oh, come on you know what I mean," I said. "I'm not mad," said Mike, "All I want to do is look after you." "Look after me?!" I exclaimed, "Getting loads of infected running towards us. Have you ever thought I can look after myself?! Have you ever thought that I don't need you to look after me?! That I don't want you to look after me?!" Mike lowered his head the sad and 'told off' expression came across his face again. "You said you thought I was going to get you killed," he glumly said, "I'd never hurt you. I'd never get you killed." There was a pause. "You don't really think I'd get you killed do you?" asked Mike. "Well not on purpose," I said, "But maybe by accident. There's been a few times when you've acted a bit irrationally, a bit like you don't care if you live or die. I go from feeling comfortable and safe around you to feeling scared and in danger around you." Mike's bottom lip started to quiver and he stormed off into the kitchen.

Mike hasn't spoken to me for the rest of the day and to be honest I'm not bothered. Him acting like a lunatic one minute and a stroppy, childish teenager the next, is getting on my nerves.

I spent a bit of time looking around the flat. From the photos and other items scattered around it's pretty clear it used to belong to a young couple who had a kid. On the fridge there's a kid's drawing that says 'I love you Daddy.' It made me think about Robbie and I got a bit teary for a moment.

I spoke to Naomi over the walkie talkie again. She said that the only plan she and the others had managed to come up with was for someone to jump into the sea, swim along the coast line for a few metres, then get out of the water, find a car and try to rescue us. As she was explaining the suggestion she sounded as unconvinced as I did. Millie didn't think it was a safe idea and Tina sounds like she's terrified of everything. Benjamin said he was comfortable where he was but if no one else wanted to do it, he'd give it a go for a laugh. For a laugh!  I pointed out that if someone was to agree to this unsafe idea it would have to be DeShawn, Naomi or Mandy as they're the only ones over there who can drive. None of them seemed keen and I couldn't really blame them so that was a waste of time. I told Naomi that Mike had heard us on the walkie talkies last night and that he was acting a bit weird. Naomi again encouraged me to be careful around him. I don't think Mike would hurt me on purpose but he's certainly capable of being thoughtless and hurting me by accident.

One thing that I'm happy about is that I slept on a comfortable bed last night and I'll be sleeping on it again tonight.