Keep Your Eyes Open

To the Army Base and Back

I awoke with start in the middle of the night, small droplets of sweat trickled down my forehead. I brought my legs up to my chin and hugged them.

"Babe?" Harri asked, his voice croaky yet no less worried. I shook in my hold. I felt Harri sit up and come closer towards me. "What's wrong?" Harri gripped my arms and held me close.

"Oh, it's..." I took a deep breath to try and calm myself down, "it was just a dream, I don't know what happened though, only I was falling for a long time and I don't know," I wept into Harri's body.

"Shhh, shhh, it's okay, I'm here, we're safe," he stroked my hair reassuringly.

"What time is it?" I asked quietly.

"It's around four," he answered softly.

"Can we go back to sleep?"

"Of course," Harri tilted me back so my body was lying down on the bed. He took the duvet and tucked it up to my chin. His front was right up to my back; he ran his thumb in circles on my arm as I fell asleep once again.

When I awoke the second time, it was because Mac was meowing right in my face. I groaned and opened my eyes to see Mac millimeters away from my eyes, I started but then calmed down again. I heard Harri laugh from behind me.

"It's not funny," I moaned; I sat up and picked Mac up despite his complaints. I swung my legs round and stood up shakily; I began walking down the stairs.

After I fed Mac, I fed myself. A single piece of toast (the cooker was still working... for now) was all I had, hoepfully we would be getting more supplies when we went to the places today. Harri came down and saw me eating the toast and gave me a sorrowful look.

"What?" I ask him, my mouth not nearly as full as I wanted it to be.

"I know how much you love food, this must be a nightmare for you," he winked at me.

"Yeah, it's a nightmare alright and I want to wake up from it," I replied.

"Well, it's real life babe, get used to it. Unless we can somehow find a cure, we ain't going anywhere."

"We'll work something out..." I tried to stay optimistic. I saw the leaf that I wanted Lennon to collect sitting on the kitchen counter. I picked it up and twiddled it between my fore finger and thumb. "I have a feeling this has something to do with it," I said confidently.

"Why's that?" Asked Harri who was making his own toast.

"Do you not find it weird how no zombies attacked us during the night?" I asked him.

"Yeah, but it could've been the wood," he replied, taking the toast out from under the grill.

"But that was only oak, it's nothing special, and the other leaf we used were the same type of leaves from the trees in my back garden," I replied, gesturing to my garden.

"Alright, if you say so," Harri shrugged his shoulders and began eating his toast. "Have you checked if the wifi is still working?"

"No," I stated, making my way quickly out of the kitchen and into the living room where the laptop was. I opened the lid and turned it on. "C'mon, c'mon, c'mon," I rushed the inanimate object. When it had loaded, I checked the wifi signal. Yes. We still had wifi. For now. I went onto internet explorer and googled the latest news reports.

'Man from UK arrested for attempted murder'

'On the run: one man's tale from escaping Afgahnistan'

'New laboratory experiment to be conducted'.

Just what I needed. I opened the link to reveal a female scientist holding a vaccine type thing that was filled with a disgustingly yellow substance. As I continued to read the article underneath the picture, I discovered the vaccine was supposed to 'enhance human bodies' to 'make them stronger, smarter, and better.' As it turns out, enough people had signed a petition as to make sure no animals were harmed, so instead (as humans do) the scientists tested it on an actual human being. That was all there was. That's how the virus spread. It did enhance the human body, but by genetically mutating it, I suppose it also mutated their natural needs. Instead of being a omnivore, they became cannibalistic.