Surviving The Apocalypse *serious editing*

Chapter 12

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Chapter 12

The next day was the hottest of the year so far. It was easily high nineties with humidity that made it one hundred times worst.

I dressed in a pair of shorts that I had packed and a tank top that I usually only wore under my clothes. I was thankful for my short hair, keeping my neck and back cool.

"We should look for water." Alec suggested.

I agreed immediately. And as soon as we packed up our camp site we were in search of a stream. It was surprisingly hard to find a stream that wasn't the dumping spot of human filth. Eventually we did find a small bubbling creek. We refilled all of our water bottles, drank half of our water then refilled them again. We had ten bottles between the two of us. It was a lot of water but with temperatures rising and us travel sing so much, we went through it pretty easily.

It was quiet by the creek, birds were chirping every once in a while and the rush of water was claiming.

"What are you doing?" I asked Alec when he took off his shirt and waded out into the creek.

"Cooling off."

"That waters barely deep enough to cover your knees." And it wasn't, it made it just below his knee cap.

Just to prove me wrong Alec sat down in the stream. Now the water flowed around his shoulders.

"Seems deep enough to me." I rolled my eyes at his childish behavior. "Come in."

"We should keep moving."

"A few minutes cooling off wouldn't kill you."

"No but I might kill you." I mumbled under my breath.

"What did you say?" Alec called.

"Nothing."

He started to splash around like a four year old. I sighed, if you can't beat them, join them. I stripped down to my bra and underwear before stepping into the steady flow of water.

I examined my body. Ribs jutting out like knives trying to pierce my skin, my legs covered by a fine layer of muscle but still grotesquely thin. I used to think that I wanted to be a little thinner, some fat off of my "problem areas". I see that my body was infinitely more attractive and better then than now. Now it is all lines and sharp edges, like a stick drawing and nothing like the paintings of the renaissance that people think of as the peak of bodily perfection.

Alec cat called me from the middle of the creek. Did he not see the grotesqueness of what my bodies become? I shook it off, he's a guy, guys aren't as critical of girls bodies as ourselves.

I glared and flipped him off before continuing into the cold stream. Once I was at Alec's side he pulled me down into the water with him.

I let out a small squeak of surprise and a gasp at how cold the water was. It was refreshing but shocking. After getting over the shock of clod I turned to Alec, letting a devious smile creep onto my face. Alec, who was laughing, abruptly stopped when he saw my face.

Without warning I brought my hands forward and thrust the water forward. Alec was drenched, water streaming down his face from his hair.

"You'll pay for that."

Alec launched himself at me, his hands on my shoulders, pushing me under the water. With some difficulty I shifted my weight under the water and rotated us so I was pushing Alec under the water. He was much stronger than me so he easily picked me off himself, tossing me in the air as if I weighed nothing. I squealed while I was in the air. Alec caught me and brought me back into the water. When I resurfaced Alec and I broke down in a fit of giggles.