Chapter 12: For the Rest of our Lives

Ethan Warren

September 2nd 2022

105 days after outbreak

Minnesota

Season 1

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Rudolph and Edin tended to Dallen's wound while Khai, Aiden, and I tried to search for somewhere to live. There were very few of the dead here. It was odd because in the beginning, when they invaded the school, there were hundreds. But it's not like any of us were complaining of their absence.

"What about there?" Aiden pointed out. It was a small, brick apartment. "The high ground will do us good."

"Yes, it's perfect." Khai made a sharp right and we pulled into our new home's parking lot.

"Edin stays here with Dallen, we'll be back soon," Aiden informed. They nodded and we got out of the car, grabbing our knives on the way out. Khai broke down the door, and Aiden was the first to go in. Khai killed the first dead.

The place smelled like rotting meat. A combination of the broken refrigerator and of the people who decided not to try.

The place had six houses in total. Three two bedrooms and three one bedrooms. We cleaned out the bodies, emptied the old food into the nearby dumpster outside, cleaned the floors with water from a nearby pond and smiled at our finished work. It took us the whole day and by the time we were done we fell asleep in our new bedrooms almost imminently. There was one rule though, no one slept on the bottom floor until it was safe. It wasn't safe yet.

Dallen and I shared a house while Edin, Aiden, Rudi, and Ash took the left. Leah and Amy refused to share a room with any of us, they shared one of their own. I couldn't blame them though, even though we got along well my friends were all still here. Two of theirs weren't. Khai slept in the hallway though I knew she wasn't going to actually sleep. Rudolph had offered her the couch in their house but she refused. Probably for the same reason.

Ashton and Rudi were fine with sharing a room together, they were really close friends, maybe even more but I never asked.

I really hoped that this was really going to be a place we could call home. Maybe even for the rest of our lives?