"Tickers," he asks in question. I told him its better then clickers and he agrees. I told him there is a home depot on 59th and Lexington and that we should also search building sites. After our talk, I introduce Victor to Jimmy. Jimmy looks at him and gives a smile that reaches his eyes. Oh, maybe he is gay or bi and has a thing for skinny emo guys. I shake my head and told them good night. Victor look confuse and ask why I wasn't going in with them. I told him I had my own place with someone waiting for me. He nodded and I left for home. It was only down the block but I wouldn't relax until I was inside with Jade and some food in my system. I climb up the rope to my home and made it thru my falling flat on my face. My foot got caught in the rope. I can kill growlers and tickers but cannot for the life of me climb through a window and land on my feet. I've been doing this for nearly a week and I can't even do it right.

Jade came running in and jump on me licking me. I miss her to and I promise her I'd bring her with me next time. I give her some food and water and began to do my workout routine but I added one more lap around the floor. After cleaning up and having some dinner I walk over to my map and mark where I saw the growlers and tickers and where I find the three survivors, and other place that look like a good place to get supplies. I radio the boys and told them we need more weapons other than bats like guns and knife and to train people. They all agree with me and I also told the other two brothers about building wall. They also said to build watch towers and lookouts and I said that was an amazing idea. We talked about different ideas and plans for building up our defenses and soon said goodnight to them. I curl up next to Jade on the floor. Thinking to myself to get her a bed, closed my eyes and wonder what will come next.

It has now been a week since all hell broke loose in the greatest city ever. Now Manhattan was slowly dying and losing her life to these things that just came out of nowhere. It was as if someone or nature said screw you New York and fucking let lose something that is hard to kill and easy to get infected by. One bite is all it takes to become one of those things. I saw it happen with my own eyes. Some lady got her throat ripped out and pops right back up to create some mayhem with the others that changed. I kind of what to see what would happen if you got bit but didn't die. Wondering how long would it take for you to change and it seem like there were a lot more growlers then tickers. I only saw five tickers and I killed three of them. However, I saw about twenty-five growlers. So maybe only a select few have gene mutations that lead them to become tickers while growlers were more common.

I was up before my alarm and got ready and made myself and Jade breakfast. Got dress for the cold and put Jade on my back to climb out the window. I still wasn't use to carrying her up and down the rope but I'll get used to it. I release her from my back and we made our way to the school. Zac, Jimmy and Erin were all waiting outside for use. I told the boys that I was look at the map and found a lumber depot on 89th and Columbus Ave and that there was another store like it on Broadway between 95th and 96th street. It was a nice sunny day but it was cold. We made our way to 89th street watching for anything that could be a threat. We were halfway there we when heard growling from Jade. She alerted us to the growlers that were a block away. There was about five of them and there was four of use and a dog. We slowly made our way to them to take them out. I was closest to a smaller one.

Fuck, it was a kid. I knew I had to do it and put her out of her misery but part of me thought I can't do this. There wasn't anything wrong I was ending her suffering if she still had consciousness. I mean if I was one of them I would want someone to end it. After my mini-debate with myself, I swung Max hard and hit the little girl hard. She fell to the ground, not moving. I saw the boys took out three more with one left. It was an elderly man and I hit him hard. We took out five growlers and continue our way to the lumber depot. We were silent the whole way there.

We made it to the depot and hope it wasn't luck but it was. They widow were too high to reach so we had no choice but to break the lock. That meant making some noise. We need to break the lock that was around the handle. It was a regular locksmith lock so but it was a heavy-duty type. We had to break it by hitting it with our bats. Every few hits we would stop in case the noise brought a ticker our way. We weren't worry about growlers because the basically couldn't hear or see. We kept at it till the lock finally broke. We quickly went into and close the doors behind us not wanting anything to come in behind us. This place was huge. It has different types and sides of wood. We grab whatever we could carry and put some stuff onto two large carts. I knew we were going to make more trips there. That place had everything we needed to build look outs and board up windows. But we also need to go to the other store as well to get nails and others thing like that. Can't build anything without that stuff.

After bringing the stuff back to the school we made our way to 95th and Broadway. It was a simple hardware store and it had what we needed. It was in zone A but not the far into it. We clear the area before entering the store and clear the store as well. We all grab hand baskets and collected nails, screws, bolts and other things that are used for building. We also got some paint and brushes to paint the wood and some crowbars to well use as weapons. We had a lot of stuff but it didn't slow us down. We made it back to the school just before the sun set. It was a beautiful sunset but didn't have time to look at it. The brothers left for the school as we make it closer to our home area. I said goodbye to them and went to were my hidden rope was. I strap Jade to my back and began to climb. It was hard but I made it up and didn't fall flat on my face. I let Jade off of my back and began to make up dinner.

After working out and change clothes I radio the boys. " Hey guys we need to move some cars and block off streets," I said. I hear Erin's voice "yeah you are right and we need towers to look out for threats," he said. We talk back and forth about building and to defend our area. I went to my chair and Jade hop onto my lap. I petted and cuddled into her. We both fell asleep and I dreamt of nothing but darkness.