Around 4 in the morning I was waken up by Dante to take the watch so they could get some sleep. I got up from my bed and went downstairs and started on some coffee for the other's that would be waking in a few minutes to stand watch with me. I pulled out the cups from the cabinet and set them by the coffee pot and I poured myself a cup and went into the living room and sat down in my father's chair and looked out the window with my rifle in my lap.

"Is that coffee I smell?"

"There's some in the kitchen." I said and I watched Brian, Zacky, and Johnny walk into the kitchen. I stared back out the window and it was realitively calm for a place that was over-run by the undead a few years earlier. I looked at the windows and knew we had to do something to reinforce them in case a Pack or Stray were to venture into our vicinity. The property could use some kind of fencing to keep them out long enough as well. I think I'll take the Avenged boys out with me and maybe Felicity to get some supplies to do so. I heard the guys footsteps come into the living room and I gave them their posts and they went to it. Zacky sat down beside me next to the window.

"I can't believe you and Felicity lived here all your lives and we didn't even notice. Did you go to Huntington Beach High too?"

"Yeah but it wasn't a good experience for the both us so my parents brought us out and started homeschooling us." I said nodding.

"I wished my parents could have homeschooled me but I wouldn't have met these guys."

"Being Homeschooled was boring as hell...I missed hanging with my friends during lunch and break. They're all dead now I guess." I said getting up from my seat and going over to the fireplace and lighting up a cigarette. I inhaled the great cancer stick and it felt so good to feel the chemicals waking me up better than the coffee.

"I was thinking that when everyone us up and awake, you, Brian, Johnny, Jimmy, Matt, and maybe my sister can go out and look for some things to inforce the house with." I said looking over at him as I flicked my ashes into the fireplace.

"What kind of supplies?"

"Some kind of wire or whatever to go around the property and something to reinforce these windows. Maybe even find some food that hadn't been taken." I said taking the last drag from my smoke and putting it out on the bricks.

"I guess we could. I don't think there would be any objections to that."

"Good." I said and I went back to my chair and continued to watch for any Strays. The hours passed and the sun came up relieving the earth of darkness.

"I'm going to get breakfast started. Come and get me if you see anything." I said getting up from ym seat and throwing my gun on my shoulder.

"I will." I nodded and left him in the living room and rummaged through the kitchen cabinets and making mental notes on what to look for while we're out. The smell of food being cooked must have woken up someone because I heard footsteps coming down the wooden staircase.

"When are you going to let me cook breakfast?"

"When you get up early to do it." I said smiling as Felicity came into the kitchen.

"You even made some coffee!"

"Help yourself." I said shaking my head as she poured her a cup. She drank down some of the caffeine goodness and sighed contently. She came over to my side at the stove and insisted on helping me. I tried to reject but she wouldn't have any of it so I just let her help. I was finishing up the deer sausage as Felicity set the table and the rest of the gang was up and ready to eat. I filled a plate for Zacky, Brian, and Johnny and took it to them at their posts.

After we ate and everything was cleaned up, I approached Felicity with the idea of going out and getting some things to spruce up the house with against the undead and she wanted to go as I predicted. Everyone except John, Mike, Dante, Sammy, Dominyk, and Jackson Jr. I drove into the city and over to a hardware store and it had everything I was looking for so I had everyone grab some chain-link fencing and some barbed wire and we loaded it into the bed of the truck. We then made our way over to the mall and I grabbed some new clothing and shoes for me and things for the children to play with. One the way back to the house, I raided a gas station on their cigarettes and we went back to the house to get started on working.

Brian helped me reinforce the downstairs windows as everyone else did the upstairs and in their individual bedrooms. I gathered everyone outside to help fence the whole property and it was a challenge at that. Sweat gathered on my forehead as I attached some barbed wire to the fence and I wiped it away. I heard something snap and I looked over my shoulder and seen a Stray crawling on the ground. It had no legs and only one arm. As it got closer...my heart sank deep into my chest. The undead person crawling towards me...was my mother.

Notes

comments? Hahaha cliff hanger!

so I hav an important Question for anyone who can answer it...I was wondering if any of my readers have had their tonsils out and if so...could you tell me what went on? I mean like how much did it cost? how long is the procedure? Would I be staying in the hospital?

If someone could answer those questions...i would really love it.