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look around to know they were right.”
       Brian didn’t answer her back, he just kept looking straight ahead. His hands were resting on his knees, and I could see his pants start to wrinkle as he squeezed them out of frustration.
       His eyes moved to the unlit cigarette hanging from Jessie’s mouth. He snatched it away and grabbed the lighter from the cup holder.
       Jessie simply gave him a dirty look and slid another one out of the pack. Brian lit up and then threw the lighter in Jessie’s lap – purposely aiming for his crotch. “Quit chain-smokin, man. You just opened that pack a few hours ago and it’s almost half gone.”
       “Fuck off – I’ll just get more when we run out. Not like there’s anyone around to empty the stores out.” He turned to Brian, smiled and raised his brow. “The world is ours, Brian. We can do or take whatever the hell we want.”
       Brian scoffed “Well, then find us a nice house to stay in – we’ve been driving for a long time. I think we all need some real rest.”
       I was so relieved to hear Brian say those words. After the last week, we all needed a good night’s sleep. Preferably, somewhere we could feel comfortable enough to keep our eyes closed for more than an hour or two.
       The three of us hadn’t said much since Jenny informed us as to what’s really going on and just how grim things actually are. Even though I’d seen it for myself before we ever met and came to the conclusion on my own – I still had trouble believing it.
       I just couldn’t accept that billions of people were either dead or roaming the streets, looking to devour the few us left alive, and that our way of life was gone forever… And it was even harder to accept that it was all part of a plan set in place by nature millions of years ago – if not much longer… I just kept trying to hold onto the thought that we’d eventually come across a protected area where everything is perfectly normal and at peace…
       As Jessie turned onto one of the side streets to search for a place to spend the night, I looked over to Jenny and asked “So, you said even someone like the president didn’t know about this whole thing, right?”
       “Far as I know.”
       I turned sideways in my seat so I’d be facing her. “Okay… Well, we all know there’s a visible part of our government and then a secret side that most people know nothing about.”
       “Pretty much.”
       I felt Walt’s hand brush against the back of my head as he moved forward and leaned onto my seat so he could join in the conversation. Anthony and Clara had fallen back to sleep, but Melanie was awake and clearly interested in what I had to say.
       “So, that means there was no preparation for this in Washington because none of those people were allowed to know, right?”
       Jenny looked off to the side for a moment to think about my question before she began to nod. “Yes, that’s probably safe to assume.”
       I looked at her for a moment and said “Well… Then why are we going there? None of you know where some of their secret underground bases or shit like that might be?”
       Jenny laughed through her nose, raised her brow and said “Even if we managed to find one, I highly doubt we’d be welcome… They shoot on site at places like that – especially at a time like this.”
       “So, then what exactly are we doing?”
       She leaned back in her seat and said “Just looking for more people. We need to group together and form a small army so we can truly protect ourselves, and maybe even try to take parts of our world back… If we can’t find a safe place to live – we’ll have to create one ourselves.”
       Walt replied “I completely agree. We’ve seen more than enough to know it’s going to be like this everywhere we go. We need to make our own safe-zone.”
       Melanie jokingly added “I’m in, as long as we keep going north so we can get away from