“Come here,” She said still smiling. She pulled me close with a hand behind my head straight in for a kiss, a sweet and loving kiss. It was unquestionably the best kiss I have ever had up until that very moment in my life.
“Woah,” I said.
“Something wrong?” she asked.
“That was just, woah.”
“Let’s see if I can’t wow you more.”
“What about the herpes?!” I am such a smooth talker.
“Shut up.”
Safe sex guys.
Chapter 6
I was downstairs on the dark brown living room couch, petting Coal while reading a book on Ancient Rome when I heard Chelsea’s footsteps coming down the stairs. “It’s about time. If you took any longer showers, we’ll run out of water,” I yelled through the hallway door.
The door opened with her frown popping through. “It’s not like anyone else is really using any of the reservoir water,” she countered. “I think I’ll use enough for everyone, just to keep things normal.”
“Well what if Coal wants a bath?” I said as I scratched her under the chin. “You want a bath, don’t you little girl,” I said in my best baby voice.
Chelsea laughed at me at that followed by an awkward silence. She finally spoke up after a good solid thirty seconds of quiet, which in retrospect was kind of nice, as I was trying to read, “We’re low on supplies.” I loved how she was so blunt with her thoughts, unless I got her mad. Then vagueness and one word answers became her best friend.
I sighed, placing my bookmark, a three of hearts playing card, “Well what can we do about it? I mean we still have a decent amount of canned stuff in the basement and that’s not going to go bad anytime soon. We also have running water which is heated too, though we should probably be conserving what gas we have left. I wonder how much gas we do have left.”
“Please focus,” she said as she sat down on the couch on the other side of Coal. She began to pet the cat as she spoke, “We really should go out and see if there’s anything useful that we can get our hands on. I mean we can’t live on what we have here forever, and I’m beginning to have my doubts about the military ever returning.”
That hit me in the chest harder than I thought it would. I had always been able to say it to myself, inside my own thoughts, that the military probably was not going to be returning to get us. They probably had larger fish to fry, or shoot multiple times in the head or whatever. Hearing Chelsea say it really put the final nail in my hopes of the military returning. We were among the forgotten few, the brash survivors still trying to find their way in this skeleton of a world.
“I guess you’re right,” I said in a more depressing way than I intended to.
She lay a hand on top of my own, “Daryl, dear, I’m always right.” We both laughed at her statement. It was amazing to see how hard I tried to keep her spirits up and she did it for me without any effort whatsoever. It put a strange feeling in my chest.
“Alright, what’s close enough that we don’t need to drive and can get to closely and easily?” I asked. We had cars, two in fact, but I did not want to drive them. Cars are noisy and attract the attention of many contaminated and deer. I already had too much interaction with cars and deer in the past, and I would rather avoid all confrontation with the contaminated if possible. I also wanted to save the cars for an emergency situation. If, for some outlandish reason, the house was compromised and the contaminated took it over, I wanted to save the cars as our way out.
“Well there’s the deli down the street, which is probably the closest place to here, only about two blocks, right?” she asked.
I nodded. “Yeah, it’s only two blocks. Do you think it will have anything of actual use though? I mean the deli would have a lot of refrigerated things that are probably expired, and I personally don’t enjoy the flavor of moldy.”
Chelsea’s face scrunched in thought, “Hm, maybe. But at least it will have batteries and other things that we can save and use in case the power ever does go out. And, let’s be honest, after four weeks without any, a chocolate bar would be most welcome.”
“Anything for you, my dear. I would gladly risk my life for the chocolate that the lady most desires,” I replied with my deep announcer’s voice, though it cracked at the end. “Alright, I’ll go check it out. Wait here for me-“
“What?” she raised her eyebrows and shifted her head to the side as if she did not hear me properly.
“I’ll go check it out-“
“Problem!” She said with a raised hand. “You can’t go alone.”
“Oh come on. I am more than capable, and it’s only two blocks, not a couple of miles. I’m sure that I could be there and back within thirty minutes, tops. If it comes to it, I can always sprint home. It really isn’t that bad of a run,” I said.
She shook her head, “And what if a few of those contaminated attack you? What then? Yeah, you are good with that baseball bat, but there’s only so much that one person can do against a bunch of them!”
“And what are you going to do, Chels?” I said it harsher than intended. “I’m sorry, but you are in no condition to go out and fight against the hordes of hell. I can’t risk you for some batteries and chocolate.”
“But you can risk you?!”
