Concord

We arrived in my home town. Concord is a significantly larger than tranquility. We didn't want the noise of the cars to lead any psychs to my home, so we stopped at a sporting goods store about two miles away. We ditched the car, and broke in. Inside we found some more bikes for the rest of us. We decided it would be wise get some safety equipment to protect us. Riding bikes will be difficult. We will have to actively fight while riding. Plus, we’ll be bogged down by supplies. So after we got ourselves set up for the journey, we decided to stay at the store for a night and rest up.  Well I have to go Brian is calling me over. I tell you what we found at my home tomorrow. I can’t believe I’m going to find my family again. I just hope they’re still alive.

Brian's Memorial

             Today we all got up and packed the truck we’ll have plenty of supplies for the next couple weeks. I raided the drug stores pharmacy for necessities like anti-virals, pain killers, and antibiotics. After we packed we started on the memorial. I carved a head stone using a wood burning kit I found in his garage. Raito put together a playlist of music that would play on loop at the memorial until the juice ran out. Which would be a long time from now, since Zoey hooked up a series of light straight to the electrical grid, and she wired in the iPod and speaker. Luna made some bouquets for all of us to leave, and Nicky got a box of Brian’s stuff to bury.

      After we all finished our tasks we lowered the box into a hole I dug, and took turns putting dirt on it. Afterwards we placed our bouquets, and a I gave a eulogy. “Brian Was a great friend before all this madness started we would all have dinner together and Brian was the one making us laugh. He never let anyone change him. Even with all this he still stayed upbeat. A lot could be said of Brian. He was a great strategist, funny, kind…” Incredibly handsome” said a voice behind me. I continued “Incredi…, wait…” I spun around and there was Brian a bent machete in one hand and handles bars from his bike in the other. He had the saddle bags from his bike around his neck. He was also missing a shoe, and…his pants.

      I just stood jaw on the floor, when I felt a rush of air behind me. It was Nicky running at full speed towards him she jumped and hugged him knocking him to the ground she started kissing him all over his face, but then stopped. She slapped him right across the face and stood up, grabbing the handles bars from him. Brian asked, “What was that for?!” “That was for making me go through mourning.” She started wiling on him with the handle bars chasing him around the yard, while yelling at him. After a couple minutes he turned to face her. Grabbed the handle bars, and took them from her, and started pulling her towards him. She fought him but finally she gave up and he held her tight as she cried into his shoulder Brian simply said “I’m sorry.” They just stood there for several minutes her crying and him holding her trying not to cry. After she wiped her eyes of tear and he choked down his, they walked back over to us all. I asked Brian “What Happened”, and he told me “I’ll tell you later right now I need food, and pants.” He still hasn’t told me I’ll fill you all in tomorrow if he tells me. By this time tomorrow we’ll be at my home in Concord.

The Mourning After

           Today Luna tried to lift everyone’s spirits. She and Raito cooked a nice nice breakfast for everyone. After breakfast Luna put a funny movie on. We didn’t really laugh, but it was a good distraction. After a day of movies and games. Nicky was the only one who hadn't started feeling better. I decided to see what we could do to help her. When I asked she yelled, “how can you all laugh and have fun after losing Brian! All of us loved him, and we didn't so much as say his name today!” I told Nicky, “I know it hard on you, but this is life now. I can never ask you to get used to death, but we all have to find ways to cope. And, you know what? You’re right about one thing, we haven’t honored him properly. Tomorrow before we leave we’ll have a memorial for him.” 

I Quick Update

     Today’s post is gonna be short. Everyone barely, said a word last night and today, and no one ate. None of us could believe Brian was gone we keep hoping he’ll come over that hill and be OK  Of course, Nicky is the most broken. She’s pretty much comatose. We could barely get her to drink some water. Soon we’ll be moving on. Today Zoey hot wired Brian’s father’s truck. We’ll head out in a couple days.

Brian's Move

           We lost Brian today. This morning I heard a small explosion I ran to the little window in the door and looked in the store all the psychs were heading to the chip isle  suddenly a water bottle came flying from the bathroom. Brian was throwing water bottles with antacids they would explode when the pressure got to high. He ran and grabbed a walky-talky. There was a box of them in the store room so i grabbed one starts scanning the channels. When suddenly I heard him calling, “is anyone there hello anyone?!” I realized he didn't know we were still here. I yelled “Brian! We’re still ere we’re in the store room. Can you get across the store?” Brian said, “no, there’s to many and I don’t have man antacids left.” We concocted a plan to meet him in front of the store, and use his remaining antacids to make noise to distract the pyschs. Luna and I ran to the back door we opened it, but immediately closed it. There was an army of psychs outside we had completely forgot about them.

“Brian, we can’t get out there are too many psychs. Do you have another idea?” I asked. He responded “just one. Jake Tell Nicky I love her, and I’m sorry. I was confused until I saw him grab a mega phone, and a machete. I yelled at him over the walky, “Brian, No. There’s another way, we’ll figure it out stay in that restroom.” All I heard was “Goodbye Jake”. Suddenly Brian burst out of the restroom with two plunger which held flaming TP rolls. He ran to the front door turned to the psychs and said “come get me you brain dead tripe suckers”. He turned on the siren on the megaphone, threw the plungers into the store, setting it ablaze, and ran out the door. We could hear the siren as he rode his bike past the back of the store attracting all the psychs. After about ten minutes it was clear enough to leave. We fought through a couple psychs, and had a pretty clear ride back to the house.

When we got to the house Raito and Zoey were throwing football outside. Raito called to Nicky to come out. She did and asked, “where’s Brian?!.” My silence was all she needed to know he was gone. She fell to her knees weeping Zoey wrapped her arm around her. I walked up to, kneelt down putting my hand on her shoulder,  and told her, “Brian saved Luna and I, he was a hero. He wanted me to tell you, he was sorry and that he loved you. I’m sorry I can’t begin to know what you’re going through. He was a great guy, and we’ll all miss him, we will all be here for each other. This is our life now loss is something we need to expect.”  This is the moment I realized these people’s lives are in my hand, and I need to be there for them. Tonight I will cry myself to sleep as I remember Anne and Brian.  I pray for the ability to lead and for all of you out there who have lost loved ones. 

Like Rats

   We'll be spending another night in town. We were in the store eating breakfast and Brian said " I gotta use the crapper". everything was fine. then it happened. The Psychs broke in through the front glass door luckily it was one of those stores with two doors before the actual store. They're getting smarter they used rocks to break the doors. We ran back to the store room there's only one small window, and the roll-up door for deliveries. We all ran with our bikes and barricaded the doors just as the Psychs broke in. when we got into the room my heart jumped into my throat when I realized Brian was still in the bathroom. I started taking down our barricade when Luna told me to wait. She had realized the bathroom is the safest place for him right now. They won't realize he's in there unless he gets there attention. The door into the store had a small window which we covered so the Psychs couldn't see us. so we tore a couple small holes in it to look out and see whats going on. There were about 80 psychs roaming the store. Some had found the deli and were going to town.
      Suddenly I looked over and saw Brian peeking out of the bathroom door. he was across the store only about 100 feet, but 80 pyschs are as effective as a brick wall. Then a couple psychs rushed him. Luckily, the Restroom was near hardware,so he grabbed a rope and a case of water.There was nothing we could do. We'll try to figure something  out in the morning. It's hard to get sleep when the psychs could break in at any time.

Going Into Town

     Today we went into town and and was it not the day in a park I was hoping. Most of the population of the town left, but there were still about 300 Psychs. We had to be very careful in town. We didn't want to attract to much attention, but we needed to get some supplies. Luckily Brian had some bikes we could ride. The group consisted of Me, Brian, and Luna. I had a feeling that the helicopter might make to much noise. Anyway, we got into town killing about 13 psychs while on the road there. luckily the closest one was about a half mile from the farm and he was shambling the other way. I'm glad we don't have to worry about zombie, so far. As we rolled into town we found we found a pretty deserted town. We turned a corner, and my heart was filled with dread. We saw a huge mob of Psychs surrounding a rumbling generator. As long as we didn't make any noise, we would be perfectly fine. However that's not what happened.
       As we were looting the local sporting goods store for all the guns, ammo, and blunt objects we could. we found some saddle bags for our new mountain bikes. We can load up so much more. We packed up our bikes with several guns each and cases of ammo. Next we went over to the drug store and got some food and medical supplies. I found some strong antibiotics. Zoey still has a minor fever, plus we should have some for future use. We were finishing loading up the bikes when we heard it, a dead silence. Just then Brian came belting out a loud tune, half way through his diddy he noticed the silence too, and we saw the first of the hoard rounding the theater. We all grabbed out bikes and rushed inside. We locked the door and barricaded. That is where we are now. Locked in a drug store surrounded by hundreds of Pyschs. I was able to post today because of a 4G card Raito hacked for me. Talk to you all tomorrow.