The days had faded together and time just seemed to slip away.  Every time I moved to try to keep ahead I felt like I stumbled and fell twenty back.  Thinking of Jeffery and how much I missed him.  How perfect everything was going to be and then like a mason jar the world was dropped and shattered into a million shards.  As I stood in the pouring down rain crossing the bridge into two with my new found traveling companion by my side, I was more scared than I had been since the outbreak.  Entering back into society after being alone and scattered through the wind for so long it seemed impossible.

It’s been far too long since I let people in and shared in a social life.  I shoved people away because it was the only thing I knew how to do to stay alive.  That day when I flipped my hood back and stood there, it was like being nude before a million spectators. I was exposed.  Hitting the streets after getting checked at the hospital the one thing that was on my mind was food… something to try to reintroduce me to community and it led me to Sam N Ella’s.  That night it was pouring and I still felt so on edge until there he was….

Walking down the street.

His eyes locked on my face.

This is where it would all begin.