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

Day 323: Saturday 15th July 2017 18:56

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Day 323
Saturday 15th July 2017 18:56

It's been a quiet and rather depressing day. I hardly got a wink of sleep. I just kept seeing baby Olivia's dismembered dead body on that kitchen table.

After yesterday's traumatic events, most of us that bore witness haven't really left our chalets today. I spoke to Naomi briefly. She told me she'd seen Sally who's said she doesn't want to hang around here for too long and that she wants to go out there and look for Josh. After what Josh said the other night I don't think he'd want his Mother coming to look for him. I wonder if he was in the cottage when Ian started eating Olivia and Jed?

I asked Naomi what we were going to do about Dump. "I don't care, Luke," she said, looking tired and sounding exhausted, "I just don't care anymore." "Look I know what happened yesterday was awful," I said, "But you told him you'd kill him if Olivia was dead. It's more or less his fault she'd dead anyway. If you don't follow through with your threat he won't believe a single word you say." "I don't care," Naomi sounding disinterested. "We can't just let him walk around here," I said, "Not after everything that's happened. He could be getting up to all sorts." "I don't care," said Naomi sounding fed up. "Naomi, come on," I said with determination in my voice, "Have you forgotten what he did to Debra and DeShawn. He's out there, right now, walking around like he hasn't got a care in the world." "I don't care," Naomi repeated with the same level of disinterest. "But he's killed people," I exclaimed, "He could be plotting to kill someone else. He could be plotting to kill us." "I DON'T CARE!" screamed Naomi, "I DON'T CARE! I DON'T CARE! I DON'T CARE!" I jumped back in surprise. Naomi's loud outburst rattled me a bit. "Dump is the last thing on my mind right now!" yelled Naomi, "In case you forgot my husband is out there somewhere. He could be dead for all I know and you're stood in front of me going on about getting revenge against Dump. Well do you know what, Luke, if you want revenge, you go get revenge. He's only here because of you. He's your problem, you deal with it!" Naomi started to walk off and I felt guilty that I hadn't even spoken to her about Seth. "I'm sorry," I called after her. Naomi stopped and looked back at me. "You're always sorry," she said, "I just want a day off from thinking about revenge and death. Don't you think there's been enough killing? There was over a hundred of us here when we first arrived. Now look at us; less than thirty." There was a short pause. I guess Naomi made me realise that even though we now have free movement and access to weapons it's not made me feel as a confident as I thought it would. With Seth and DeShawn gone we're hardly the unstoppable force we once were. I just want to be with my baby girl," said Naomi. She then walked off leaving me to think. I know her head's all over the place at the minute but she can't feel comfortable with Dump walking around freely. I certainly don't, and I feel very angry about how he nearly got Naomi to kill Anne and I'm even angrier at his part in baby Olivia's death. If he'd told us about Ian, baby Olivia could still be alive now. I've not seen Dump at all today. I REALLY hope he hasn't been up to no good.

TJ has told all of the others about yesterday's traumatic events. He told them all about Ian and Dump pretending not to know each other and the horrific sight we saw in the cottage kitchen. Mia came round to see if I was OK and I told her I just wanted to be on my own. I told her to keep an eye on Dump and make sure he didn't get up to no good. "Don't worry, Luke," she said, "You do look really rough. I'll keep my eye on him. You can rely on me." I regretted asking her the second I stopped speaking. Nice of her to tell me I looked rough. Here I was thinking I was dressed for the Oscars. Most people are avoiding Dump. It's like they're scared of confronting him about his behaviour. Naomi and I aren't scared but neither of us are in a great place to be taking on Dump right now. Mike's gearing up for a fight with the big orange oompa loompa but we all know he needs supervising. TJ isn't happy with Dump but Destiny wants to avoid him which basically means TJ is going to be avoiding him. Everyone else is pretty useless. If Seth, Deshawn and Esther were here I'm sure we'd be able to take Dump on but as it is, it's really just me and Naomi.

I know it's been a tough few days but I think we're all going to have to come together and come up with a plan. We might have weapons and vehicles but we're running low on petrol and the food and water isn't going to last much longer. We need to do something about Dump and we need to go out looking for Seth. If we don't manage to find Seth we need to decide if we want to stay here at Dumpville or try and figure out a way of getting to City One without Seth. . . .