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and lighters or anything like that,” I answered as I began to gather all the canned goods we had in the pantry. “I’ll be right back I need to find something to put all this food in, keep Wiley here with you.”
                  “Ok,” she said completely engrossed in her task of finding candles and flashlights. I ran out into the living room to see Kairo watching the news and my mother staring off into space, still in shock.
                  “Kairo, where is your dad? And why aren’t you getting stuff together?”
                  “Dad’s getting his guns ready and I’m already packed,” he said patting a large backpack that was sitting beside him on the couch. “I figured I should keep an eye on grandma.”
                  “Good idea, Kai. Thank you,” I said feeling rather proud of him for holding his shit together and looking out for my mom. “Know where any empty bags are that I could fill with groceries?”
                  “Um…in the kitchen,” he said with a smirk. Of course he was right and of course if there weren’t a bunch of diseased people running around out in the streets I would have remembered that we kept all the plastic bags from the grocery store in the bottom drawer of the cabinet Maddie was going through.
                  “Right,” I said turning back to go into the kitchen when I heard the sound of breaking glass and then heard Maddie scream. “Maddie,” I yelled out as Kairo jumped off the couch and got to the kitchen way faster than I would be able to.
                  Our neighbor, Fred, had apparently been bitten and was now trying to break into our house. He had busted out one of the glass panels out of the back door and was trying to reach the lock. I guess no matter how sick they were they still had a bit of common sense left somewhere in them but not much since Fred had busted out the middle panel and not the one closest to the lock. He was cutting up his arm and wrist pretty bad as he continued to try and reach for the lock. Wiley was standing in front of us all growling deep in his throat waiting to pounce if Fred did eventually make it inside.
                  “Is that the neighbor?” Kairo asked. “Man, is he fucked.”
                  “Kill it! Kill it!” Maddie screamed. “Mom, don’t let him get inside!”
                  I wasn’t sure what I should do so I grabbed the biggest butcher’s knife I could find, before I could do anything in walked Cain, cool and calm, gun in hand.
                  “I got this,” he said coolly. He lifted the gun and shot Fred right through the head busting out another panel of the glass. Fred dropped instantly and didn’t get back up. Cain handed the gun to Kairo. “You gotta shoot them in the head.”
                  “Cool,” Kairo said placing the gun in the waistband of his pants.
                  “Not cool, Kai. And be careful with that gun,” I said.
                  “And watch your mouth in front of your mother. Help me move the fridge in front of the door so we don’t have any more incidents tonight,” Cain said calmly.
                  “All right,” Kairo said softly.
                  “Maddie, will you help me put this food in the bags?” I asked trying once again to take her mind off of what she had just witnessed even though something told me she would be seeing a lot more in the next few days. She turned back to the cabinet to open the bottom drawer and then grabbed a large handful of empty bags.

Chapter 9
     
                  The electricity went out and stayed out around four in the morning. We all slept in the living room close together although I highly doubt if any of us actually slept. At sunrise we gathered our things and quietly made our way to the mini-van. All seemed very quiet in the