OSCAR ALONE

He gets up on his buttocks and starts to eat on the soup the Millie gives her, she then gave their names to Oscar. Her Parents Josiah and Emma Porter, her twin brother Marcus, and their 2 little siblings who are both girls Jamie and Jessie. They warmly greet him through their song about the new world they live in.

"You guys kept your humanity after all of this"

"Its all we have boy, we met a man who remember has that as his moral compass... 'Humanity's all we have.. wise man... sadly we had to depart"

"Did he give a name"

"Alpha, it weren't his real name though"

"How can you tell"

"Because when I asked his name he was hesitatin'"

"Was he"

"Aye... Emma darlin' could you please spare Oscar here a bit water"

Emma pours warm water to a thermostat from the pot that they are boiling, she gives it to Oscar.

"Here you go darlin' its tea"

"Thank you ma'am"

"You're welcome"

He slowly takes a sip of the warm beverage.

"I see you guys have horses"

"Yep, we had a farm back in back in NC before all this shit went to hell, we found out them dead is approaching from the Rhode Island.. then we evacuated to Washington because it was safe there, we got there we were safe for a few days until we weren't"

"What do you mean?"

"It was safe until more of them dead came in and started to take everyone... there was a group of family in an RV a friend of em died in front... there were kids too... actually now that I think about it... that Alpha we met, he was familiar"

"Was he?"

"Yeah, good lookin' a bit buff like you and I"

The family laughed at the Josiah who is not the most fit man of all, he took a jab to himself to lighten up the atmosphere of the conversation.

"Probably was a soldier, when that happened we headed down with our horses and run past them corpses... out horses were strong.. so we escaped easily, and the people"

"...."

"Well, that's that... what can we do after all"

Josiah starts to tear up just remembering what happened that night. Just a slaughter of everyone gives him a sort of PTSD.

"We were horrible as a race, but... I think this is too much of a punishment"

"Do you believe in God Mr. Porter?"

"Sort of, this is the end of the world, and I see no savior"

"All we can do is survive now"

"You got that right Ma'am"

"Well... we will move out when we get enough sleep... and the horses has charged up"

The family and Oscar all slept in sleeping bags as they added more wood the fire, despite this it is still cold. Oscar is the only one to sleep within 3 more sleeping bags. They all drifted away into sleep, the cold air breezes through all of their faces and it is enough to make them shiver in their bags. They all hugged themselves and starts to rub their arms to warm them up slowly. They all wake up to a beautiful morning, the sun starts to rise in front of them.

They all woke up to the shining bright sun as it slowly rises in front of them. Josiah and Oscar were the first ones to wake up, as the sun shines on their eyes. Josiah greets Oscar with a wave and he takes a piss in the forest. It get backs to Oscar's head that they are still in the cold ground, Oscar's sickness has been lifted off a bit that all he has is a sniffle. Josiah walks back and grabs the fire plow that he used as a pillow.

"Good morning"

"Mornin'"

"Cold day.. how's your sickness?"

"A bit lifted"

"Good"

"..."

"Well I'll be making a bit of fire"

He puts down the plough and grabs a hard stick, and cuts a tip of it. He starts to rub the hard wood tip to the indent on the plough and does it so effortlessly just to get a good grip. Oscar helps and puts a ball of tinder on the edge where the charred wood dust will build up and create an amber to the tinder. He starts doing the motion and he easily starts to accumulate the charred wood dust. It took longer than expected as the tinder is a bit cold, but after a few minutes the ember starts to come out. Josiah stops and Oscar starts to blow softly on the tinder. The tinder quickly catches fire and piles of lives were put on the ashes of the earlier camp fire.

The leaves also took a while to catch on fire but it was lit, they added smaller pieces of wood until it is big enough to put twigs on the fire.

"All right, that's a nice fire...You can warm up to that"

"Awesome"

"Well, I'll go huntin' wanna join?"

"Am I fit for hunting?"

"Are you?"

"Hopefully"

"Nah, I'm joking.. I'll wait till- Oh there he is"

The eldest twin Marcus gets up and took a leak in the forest, he got near to the fire and starts to get warmed. His dad waited until he is fully awaken to go hunting, the other family members wake up and they start doing what they have always done. They tended the horses fed them apples and other fruits.

"Wait, are we still near Abingdon?"

"Yep, just outside of the town"

"We checked out the Washington County office Sheriff's office... we can probably check there for rifles and such"

"Are we near it?"

"Yeah, just a little jog"

"We also need medicine"

"Medicine?"

"Yeah for you.. or any sickness that we will have.. except for this virus"

"Northgate Pharmacy, we also passed it earlier"

"What can I do?"

"Nothing.. you can just stay here and rest... me, Marcus, and Emma will be going to the town"

"Is it clear?"

"Nothing came at us when we made a noise, they might have run out of food"

'Or they did not adapt' He whispered under his breath, instead of standing down to rest he stood up and persuaded them that he will go instead of Marcus.

"You're sick.. do you even know this town?"

"Yes, I... remember..."

"You sure?"

"Yes"