Surviving The Apocalypse *serious editing*

Chapter 14

Chapter 14-

It's been two months since Alec and I stayed with Charlotte and Henry, not much has changed. We still walk everyday through woods that run along the highway. I've been hunting with the gun Henry gave me.

At first I never shot it, not wanting to waste the ammo, I just took aim thinking if I could do everything once I actually shot it I would hit my target. I was right, my first kill was a fawn that had wander a little farther away from its mom than it should have. I try to never waste ammo, since I only have a limited amount of it.
With hunting Alec and I no longer starve, it's made the journey a lot easier.

Besides actually eating the only thing that's changed is the leaves and the weather. A cold wind blows through the trees stealing any last bit of summer warmth. I am once again in my cargo pants-the ones I stole from Ryan's bedroom, and my father's leather jacket. The leaves have changed from an emerald green that matches Alec's eyes to bright fire-y reds, oranges, and yellows.

I can't stop myself from thinking that normally I would be going back to school right about now, starting my junior year of high school. A stab of longing courses through my body, things were so much simpler then. I push the thought out of my head, thinking like that won't make it true.

We are somewhere in the southern part of Virginia just I'm not one hundred percent sure where. Distance hardly has a meaning anymore, we could walk ten miles or a hundred miles and nothing really changes.

"Penny for your thoughts?" Alec says, snapping me out of my reverie.

"Money has no value anymore." I say without thinking.

"Fine, a very nice looking stick for your thoughts?" He said holding up a stick he just picked up.

I smiled, he always knew how to make me smile. "I'm thinking about the leaves."

"And this concludes another rendition of 'cryptic word from Amelia'."

"Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor."

"Yeah, yeah but seriously, you have this blank stare for hours but when I ask you what your thinking, you always say these weird half answers."

I sighed. "The leaves are changing which means that it's fall. We're somewhere in Virginia, still a good four hundred miles from where we're going. It'll be winter before we know it, we should find somewhere to stay for the winter." I told him about my plan to spend the fall preparing for winter, hunting and chopping wood.

"Wow, you think a lot." My cheeks reddened at the statement.

"Don't you? Thinking is about the only past time there is."

"Yeah I think, but not planning something months before it happens." He doesn't say it like its a bad thing, but he doesn't understand.

"It calms me down, if I plan for what might happen, when it does happen I'll be ready."

Alec only nodded at that, the out of nowhere. "I think about you."

That caught my attention. I stopped walking and stared mystified at him. "What about me?"

He only shrugged like we were talking about the weather. "Why you refuse feelings, mainly."

"I-I do not- that's ridiculous- I don't." I stammered.

Alec turned to me raising his eyebrows. "You deny yourself feelings and you deny that anyone else might have feelings too."

"I realize that you have feeling, if I've offended you I'm so sorry. Did I do something wrong?"