It has been a while since I've had time to write, things have got in my way. I guess I'll start where I left off. When we got to the boy's place, we discovered first that it was a supermarket with an adjoining resturant, and second that it was absolutely loaded with food! Anette and I stuffed food into our mouths faster than light, and when we were done we sat back in delight, the feeling of hunger finally leaving our bodies for good. The boy smiled, and I asked him what I should call him. He considered,
"Call me Kai, an easy name I won't forget." I smiled at Kai, and walked off, but he stopped me in my tracks, "And what should I call you?" He said. Now it was my turn to consider. I hated my real name, and I didn't want it to be true anymore. Reminders of the old world just made this one even more horrible, but I would forget anything too different,
"Charlotte I think." I said, and he smiled back.
One week later, I was in the car park, and they sprang at us. Ten of them, their hair invarious stages of decay, their arms skinny from no proper food. Their eyes, like all the other's, were closed. I ran to where Anette was playing with the dolls from the Kids' section, and told her to run, now.
"But my dollies!" She cried,
"I'll get them, just leave!" I said. She scampered off through the one entrance we hadn't sealed shut for good. I grabbed a trolley, and dumped all the dolls into it in one quick sweep of my hand. A bony finger reached out to my shoulder, and an equally bony hand closed around it. I looked up. They were here. I swung the trolley into the first one, a man in his forties I think. Next were two teenage girls. That one was hard. Even more so when I saw the two friendship bracelets on their hands, and their hungry faces and hollow cheeks. They just wanted food. It wasn't their fault that it was me on the menu. I took my baseball bat (from the sports section) and swung it into one face then the other. They went down together.
With seven to go, I was still hopelessly outnumbered. Suddenly, a great force lifted me up, and carried me off. This is it. I thought, But it was only Kai, carrying me to a van. I eased out if his grip, and ran ahead, the monsters still chasing behind us. I got into the van, and held the door open for him, "Where's Anette?" I said as he got in the driver's seat,
"here!" Anette said, popping up in the back. The rest of the van was stuffed full with coolboxes and even a portable, reuseable barbeque.
"So you've been ready to go for a while then," I said as he rammed into the first of the infected people,
"Always be ready to abandon ship." He said, concentrating on where he was driving, making sure he ran into everything in sight. I looked back, and said a final, silent goodbye to the supermarket I had almost started calling home.
