Chapter 9

Olivia

This has been a shitty few weeks, constantly running and hiding but at least me and my friends are still safe, thats more than most people can say right now. That's mostly thanks to my new friend Alex. Asshole saved my life right out of the blue and I have done my best not to leave his side ever since for some reason. He even went and rescued my friends for me.

I was slightly jealous when I heard him and Desiree together on that first night, the slut. But I can't even blame her as I wanted to do the same thing I'm simply not as confident or outgoing as she is so I did the next best thing and cuddled up when he passed out.

Can't really blame him for sleeping with her anyways, hope he likes my sloppy seconds! Even if it had been a week or two before the apocalypse since we actually slept together at that party, I still hit that first. And boy was she a firecracker. I didn't even realize I was Bi until she kissed me and I really really liked it.

The more we traveled the more people that ended up tagging along, first it was that Kelly girl we found and saved then people started coming out of the wood works once we started to clear houses and convenience stores and anywhere else that might have useful loot.

It's kinda annoying though, me and the other girls can tell he doesn't really know how to deal with girls, we all talked about it a lot in private and that's fine, it's all the other camp sluts that keep trying to come on to Alex that is annoying and it's obvious he doesn't know how to tell them to go fuck off or simply doesn't realize what they are doing. Can't blame him, he is simply nice and that is fine too, so WE deal with them.

I admittedly thought that hitting a sheriffs station wouldn't produce squat but even I'm surprised with how wrong I was. Fucking hot showers, didn't know what I had til I didn't have it anymore. Now he wants to hit the local hospital before heading out of the area and I'm torn. There are definitely infected there, but we could use whatever medicine they still have at the same time. If he woulda asked a week or so ago I woulda said hell no but now we are all more confident in our abilities to kill these walkers not to mention almost everyone in the group is armed now. Maybe he is right, he hasn't really been wrong so far and when he doesn't know what to do he is at least honest about it.

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Alex

Mentioning the hospital was met with mixed reviews but the majority eventually agreed that if somebody got really sick then that person would simply be screwed and now that we should have enough weapons and more importantly the ability to take the hospital even if it has walkers roaming the halls as long as we travel together and are cautious we will be fine, people's confidence in killing these things is fairly decent and that was pretty much the plan.

So eventually it was agreed that we would loot the hospital for anything worthwhile, not to mention there are no doctors in the group and that maybe there could be staff still there?

I technically knew there was somebody there at least but I didn't know how sane they were at the moment. The military literally just pulled out a day or two ago so there could be more stragglers in there than whoever took care of Rick, and from what I remember of the series when the doctor chick talked about her time, the patients got violent and probably killed her nurse. Will have to deal with that shit.

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The roads to the hospital were surprisingly clear, or at least maneuverable enough to get through even for the tanker so that is a plus. We did do checks every time we found clusters of cars, for supplies, weapons and to kill walkers. I figure every one I kill now while they are individuals is one less I have to kill in a future horde or some other bullshit.

I think the reason I am doing so well or have been doing so well so far is because it simply hasn't really been real to me until recently. I won't go and say it was like a video game or anything stupid, simply more akin to living a nightmare that you don't want to die in and are simply waiting to wake up.

Well that line of thought died last night when Desiree, with Olivia and Emily holding her came up to me. Desiree was crying lightly and looked afraid for some reason.

I guess in retrospect I should have noticed there was an issue of some sort. She always had to use the bathroom, I thought I heard her throwing up more than once and she was slightly picky when it came to what she ate.

Individually they meant nothing but to be fair I have been stupidly busy so didn't exactly catch on. When they confronted me I didn't have a clue how to act, I'm by no means an asshole so I did the only thing I could reasonably think of, I simply held her and let her cry. I tried to tell her things would be ok and that I would follow any decision she chose regarding the baby.

If she didn't want a child in this dangerous world there was no way I would force it. Even before the apocalypse I was pro choice.

Once we talked it over she decided she wanted to keep the baby and was just afraid I would be angry at her or simply wouldn't want children but that's where I admitted that I always wanted a large family so there was no way I could be upset at her.

But after these conversations I couldn't treat it like a simple nightmare or game, I had to take things more seriously, take threats more seriously, and threats needed to be eliminated.