or got eaten. It's a waste of time to think about it. I dont have a time machine so I can't go back and fix it. I dont know what I'd do anyway, maybe try to save people. Go back to the night before and take my family far away.
I guess it doesn't matter anymore. I'm here right now, and I just need to keep trying. I'm going kind of slow right now, but it's because I'm still in the city - theres still a lot of cars and zombies and stuff. But I'm going to find the freeway really soon, then I have a really long ride before I find the 10.
I'm going to go over to where the food stand is and see if there's anything safe to eat. Maybe not, they probably had things like hot dogs, and those probably went bad by now. But maybe there's some chips or something I can find.
Love you, Barbie.
Chapter 15
So Barbie, I made it to this city called Fredericksburg. I'm getting close to where I run into the 10 freeway. The map looks like it's about 40 more miles away. I can probably make it if I keep going right now, but I don't want to ride at night. Zombies like nighttime, so it's better that I stay hiding at night.
All day I've been riding next to a river, and I'm glad I did, because I finally got to wash my face. I feel really gross with all this running and biking and stuff, so it was really good that the river was there. I can refill my water bottles here too.
I'm also glad I waited until it was colder before I left, because if I was riding around in the heat, that wouldn't have been very good. I would have run out of water a lot faster too. I don't know the next time I'll find water, because the cities are getting farther apart. There are more cities the further I go, but its the in-between stuff that looks empty.
There are some houses around, but it looks like a smaller city than where I lived. I saw a few zombies walking around, but they didn't see me, I don’t think. I don't know how many there could be here, but I think as long as I go through here real fast, I won't have any problems.
I found a gas station right when I got here, and that's where I am now. I didn't see any zombies around so I'm going to stay here for the night. There's a back room that has all these boxes inside, and it has a door that can close and lock. I think this will be a safe spot.
Most of the boxes in here have food, so I'm going to see what is still okay to eat and then take some more with me. I've been really hungry since I started, but it's hard because I can't carry a whole lot with me. I wish I knew how to drive, then I can just pack a car with food and not have to worry about it.
Ok..... that was close. My flashlight started going out so I went into my bag and got two more batteries for it. I only had a couple left, so I went out to the store to see if there were any more around. I found some, but then I saw a zombie walking by outside, and I think it saw my flashlight, because it started walking to the store. I turned off the flashlight, but I could still kind of see that it was coming because of the moon.
I saw another exit door on the side of the store, so I thought maybe I could distract it and make it walk somewhere else. Like I told you before, zombies aren't smart, they're really easy to trick. I picked up a tuna can from the shelf and went to the other exit door. I hid around the corner and saw it walking around the front.
I shined the light on the zombie and it saw it, and started walking to the light. I turned it off again, then threw the tuna can out into the parking lot away from the store. It followed the sound of the can and walked away
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