What struck me as odd was the coastal cleanliness. If the contamination started in the water supply, then why were the coastal cities and towns better off than the more inland ones? Regardless, I was able to pinpoint a couple of places that were okay and not too far away. Cape May was the closest in southern New Jersey, but we would need gas to get there, and I doubt that there would be a return trip, not to mention that Cape May was entirely surrounded by darkness. The only other logical places that we would be able to flee to were one place in Connecticut and maybe upstate New York, but that was a long shot.
The map darkened my hopes of being rescued, let alone being able to contain the contamination. It seemed as if its spread consumed the entire world in one fell swoop, and it was not releasing its grasp any time soon. I might actually be one of the few to witness the fall of man, and that was not a reassuring thought.
Chelsea popped her head back into the room, yawning as she moved towards me. “What are you looking at?” She asked, her eyes squinting from the light of the laptop screen.
“Buffalant909 sent me this article, but it really isn’t anything too interesting,” I said. I tried to make a quick move to shut the laptop closed, but Chelsea’s hand stopped me.
She pushed back the screen and saw the map in full view. “Why did you try to stop me?” she asked, her mouth slightly agape from the view of the map.
“I don’t know. I mean your spirits have been a bit down lately. I didn’t want you to stay down,” I said, rubbing her back. “Just trying to make sure that you stay with me, that’s all.”
She kissed my cheek, “That’s sweet, but I think it’s better we share this kind of stuff, don’t you?”
I nodded in agreement. “Alright, I’m sorry that I hid it from you.”
She kissed me on the cheek again and lay down on her bed. I tied her up loosely and re-set the trap. Before I knew it, Chelsea was fast asleep, her light breathing being the only noise in the dark night.
I was just about to close my laptop when I heard an alert message.
ZmB1EbtR: You’re up late.
DR. YLSRUS3390: Yeah. Chelsea woke me up. Our alert system went off again.
ZmB1EbtR: Ah, bummer. At least you can entertain me now.
DR. YLSRUS3390: ha. Ha. No. I need to get some sleep. I’m going to try to convince Chelsea to let me go on a run tomorrow for some foodstuffs.
Zmb1EbtR: You running low on food?
DR. YLSRUS3390: No, but eating hotdogs and spam for dinner really gets old. Besides there’s got to be some good loot around.
Zmb1EbtR: you saw what Buffalant909 posted?
DR. YLSRUS3390: Yeah, scary stuff.
Zmb1EbtR: Yeah. It seems as if the whole world is contaminated – well it is, but it appears that the Aussies found a loophole.
DR. YLSRUS3390: Them along with the UK and Japan. Seems that islands are the best places now.
Zmb1EbtR: Hang on, North America is completely isolated from Asia and Europe, so where would this thing have started?
DR. YLSRUS3390: Your guess is as good as mine. I’m no scientist, though Chelsea might have an idea, or a better one than mine. She was studying biology before the contamination hit.
Zmb1EbtR: Speaking of Chelsea, how is she doing? Ya know with the whole contaminated thing and all?
I looked over to her sleeping body. It was true, I had tried to push her condition out of my mind for a while now, but the funny thing was that she did not seem to be getting any worse. I could not tell if the parasite virus was dormant or slowly taking over her body, but she had seemed perfectly fine since her sickness initially passed. Maybe it was luck, maybe it was fortune. I did not care as long as she improved.
DR. YLSRUS3390: She’s fine, oddly enough.
Zmb1EbtR: that’s strange, like really really strange.
DR. YLSRUS3390: ?
Zmb1EbtR: Well, apparently you haven’t read this article: www.apocalypseplz.com/contaminationterms
DR. YLSRUS3390: I haven’t seen that at all. Where did you find it?
Zmb1EbtR: Jeff, or RRDRAGN99, posted it a while back. It might have been before you joined up with us.
DR. YLSRUS3390: Sum it up for me?
Zmb1EbtR: ugh. Fine. It gives some theories on how long the body would take to give in to the contamination.
I waited for more, but he wasn’t going on. I had to press.
DR. YLSRUS3390: and?
Zmb1EbtR: OMG you can read it too! Jk. But the main theoretical conclusion was that something so foreign to the human body would take over pretty quickly, like two days max kind of quick.
DR. YLSRUS3390: wut
Zmb1EbtR: kind of like how when the colonists came over, they infected the Indians with crazy diseases which were only crazy because the Indians had never encountered them before.
DR. YLSRUS3390: Ah, that makes sense.
Zmb1EbtR: Yeah. Crazy, right. She could be sucking your flesh right now!
DR. YLSRUS3390: Keep it PG, k?
Zmb1EbtR: hahahahaha! I’m just teasing. But this is definitely strange. Maybe she’s immune?
DR. YLSRUS3390: I don’t know. I mean I did alcohol swab the wound shortly after she was bit.
Zmb1EbtR: Eh, I don’t think that would do it. Blood to blood, remember?
DR. YLSRUS3390: Maybe the crazy bitch that bit her wasn’t as contaminated as she thought?
Zmb1EbtR: Maybe? I mean there are thousands of theories right now.
DR. YLSRUS3390: To be safe, I’ll wait another few days before leaving her free roam of the house.
Zmb1EbtR: Keeping her locked up? My kind of kink
DR. YLSRUS3390: Dude
Zmb1EbtR: Joking!
DR. YLSRUS3390: Going to bed. Later.
I closed the lid of the laptop shut, the internal lights flickering off shortly after. My hopes
