Chapter Text
Me, my sister zee and Georgie were walking through the forest nearby the safe place, it was starting to get a bit dark… uhh but no turning back now..?
A gust of wind hit and Georgie shivered, winter was coming soon so the temperature is lower
“It’s not that cold, Georgie!” I said, jokingly, trying to lift the mood
“Ppf, well you’ve got the equivalent of a heavy coat on with your fur, I’ve got none” Georgie remarked back
I guess he really was not feeling this coldness
Ughhh this walking is so boring
“Georgie, do you even know where you’re going? This is taking foreverrrr”
Zee nodded
“Yes I do, I saw it fly in this direction, It should of landed somewhere up ahead”
We looked up at the sky, the sky was very very blue, and the clouds floated above us while very faint stars were beginning to shine in the deep ocean colored sky
There was many clouds, not very light clouds but I think the clouds made it darker then it actually was but, I can’t keep denying that sunset isn’t over, it’s night now..
Zee yawned and we kept walking, usually pony would tell us goodnight… or.. jeez I’m kinda tired too..
I might of fell asleep while walking but then we heard
KKKCCCEWWWW
Lightning! (That impression was perfect)
Georgie looked up nervously, he totally has a fear of lightning, he just won’t admit it.
Then I felt a drop on my head
Drop
Drop
WATERFALL.
Suddenly it was raining cats and dogs! I didn’t have a hat like zee and Georgie so I covered my head with my arms
“Oh, zuzy, take this!”
Georgie removed his hat and handed it to me
“Thhhank you?”
I put it on, I don’t want to get sick… well I’m probably going to anyways.
We started running, just straight forward, I don’t know if Georgie had a plan or was just running aimlessly
Our feet were dipping in mud, dirty mud! My poor boots..
Then I saw an old building, very rusty and old I can tell..
“Look!”
I shouted over the rain fall
Georgie and zee turned their heads as I pointed to the rusted building
“There! Shelter!”
Zee smiled and Georgie squinted his eyes, one day he will have to admit he has terrible eyesight..
Zee rushed over, the rain was cold after all!
As we ran towards it, I noticed it had a broken window, on its second floor, strange
We entered and zee locked it behind us, for safety against zombies!
We immediately tried to dry off as soon as we stepped foot into the building, there wasn’t much, atleast not much that wasn’t insanely damaged and not gross
“Do you think we’ll get in trouble for breaking in?” I asked curiously as I began to walk around slowly
Zee shook her head no as she looked at destroyed photos on walls
Georgie chimed in
“No, I’ve broken into a lot of buildings and I didn’t get in trouble. plus this place has clearly been abandoned long ago, even before the..whole like..infection.. kind of stuff.. I guess.”
Georgie began to hesitantly touch a few items, to see how much dust was collecting
This is very interesting, was this someone’s house? farm? Work office?
Most of the stuff in here is burnt, so it’s a bit hard to tell what is what.
I assume a house fire, or just fire burnt this place up a long time ago, and we are just looking at what’s left
“I just don’t understand how there could be a completely abandoned house like right next to the city?”
I asked, not sure who I was asking though..
It just seems like it could honestly be a house, really tiny one maybe?? Or a shed? Idk
We decided to go upstairs, there were no windows downstairs so we couldn’t check on the weather and time
Zee went to find a bathroom or extra room
Me and Georgie opened the door into an empty bedroom maybe? Just a mattress laid there, with terrible stains and not to mention the stench.. Georgie said he was used to bad smells but even that was a lot..
There wasn’t much in the old broken room, just a medium sized pillow with no case, stains too
And the mattress was just an old Ariel mattress from a Disney princess store with again, so many stains.
Weird, there was also glass shards because that was the room with the broken window
Then I saw a old dirty ball
“Ponys ball! Here’s where it went!”
I picked it up, some random baseball players signature and everything
“Who signed it?”
Georgie asked
“I don’t even know, some random guy in the 80’s? Don’t ask pony, he’ll get into a whole rant about it”
We walked down the hallway
Georgie asked while we walked to the other other room upstairs
“So pony used to play baseball too?”
I replied
“No, I think he just used to show up to games, any kind of sport games”
We entered a very dusty, filthy room
“How is watching a game amusing if you don’t know anybody playing?”
“He said he met zizzy at one of those things idk how though, and I don’t really want to know honestly”
The room was basically empty aside from a broken wooden chair, a coffee table, a old candle on the coffee table that was very tiny, and a lamp that doesn’t have a bulb in it
It’s honestly a miracle we could see at all
The room also had a window, no curtains though
We just looked out the window In silence, thinking about how hard it’s raining and hoping it would just stop soon
I saw thunder bolt hit and counted till the sound happened, the more you can count, the father away it was
One..
T-
JEEEZ OKAY THIS IS VERY CLOSE
Georgie yelped, scared of the thunder, and groaned while sitting down
I heard zee run up to hear what was happening
Soon we just looked at each other
The panic was starting to set in me
“Umm, what do we do…”
I asked myself
“I don’t know zuzy! We’re definitely gonna be stuck here all night because I’m just SURE there’s gonna be TONS of infected around here!”
Georgie berried his face in his arms, just ready to accept his fate
“Well at least we got ponys ball back! And he might be impressed we were able to remain safe while in… whatever this place is?”
I tried to remain positive in a dark situation
Kinda literally because it was very hard to see
“Oh really?”
Georgie said sarcastically while lifting his head out of hiding arms to look at me
“Because why in the universe would he be upset at three children leaving while unintended at NIGHT definitely isn’t an issue is it!?”
I scoffed
“Okay Georgie, we get your point but you don’t have to be a jerk about it! You’re the reason we’re here anyways don’t forget that!”
Georgie stood up as another lightning struck with no noise
One..
“MY FAULT?! IM not the one who STOLE THE BALL!!”
Two
“Zuzy if anything this is—
“AAAGH!”
Georgie yelped as the sound hit
I could see Georgie grow more frustrated and he pointed his finger at me
“I know..THIS is.. YOU know WHAT…”
His frustration melted away, and he lowered his arm
Or at least, his emotion changed
“Whatever, it doesn’t matter anyways, I’m gonna get blamed for this anyways”
He looked away
Uhh, so I guess I win
“You.. you guys should remove everything from your pockets, so we know what we have to work with”
Huh, that helps
We put everything we had on the coffee table
All we had was, the ball, Georgie’s bat he took with him, a cool leaf I found, a ruby red crayon, a folded up piece of paper with a tiny old drawing on it from zee, and a lighter Georgie had
“I’m shocked you were allowed to have that!”
I said as Georgie lit it to start burning the candle
“I wasn’t”
Finally! We got some light going!
“Alright well we got some progress going!”
I smiled
Georgie sighed, almost blew out our only light source
“Don’t worry you two, we will be out of here before you know it!”
Zee gave a thumbs up
My fur was beginning to fully dry off
We sat down on the floor together, might as well try to pass the time by talking
“Either we just stay here till morning, or pony rescues us!”
My tail wagged a bit, I like pony a lot.
“He probably isn’t, he most likely didn’t even notice we were gone.”
Georgie said with a very monotone tone
“Hey that isn’t true! He cares about us, and he cares about you too!”
I defended pony, he’s a good guy!
“Please, pony forgets about me all the time, he once called me Gabe! Greg twice, and once Daniel! Seriously, how do you get Georgie to Daniel!”
Zee laughed, honestly that is a bit funny but also strange
Georgie added on
“He only remembers about my existence if I’m right in front of his face, or if I’m able to shove my sentence into whatever conversation they are having like every two minutes..I feel bad for zee, she isn’t able to even interrupt them”
“Weird… he’s never treated us that way..he likes us!”
I said blindly, pony is nice..
“Does he actually like you or is he obligated to because of zizzy?”
I was speechless, that isn’t true! ..r..right??
Pony, hm.
That’s not true, is it?
I looked at zee, and she looked at me
The air was filled with awkwardness as we just looked at each other
I looked down, just absorbing all the information Georgie just gave to me
Hm?
Zee handed me a paper, she drew a little monster head, with the note
“Draw a body for the monster”
In the corner, I put the paper on the coffee table and began drawing a weird little body with a almost broken red crayon
“Hey Georgie”
Georgie stopped zoning out and looked at me
“Draw the monster some legs!”
And we continued the game until there was absolutely no room on the paper, lasted us a good half an hour
I guess me and Georgie have a habit of having a bad conversation then a good time, best not to question some things
After the drawing, we began to just talk about our past lives and story’s, Georgie was talking about his last birthday
“And at the museum, they had a whole fake dinosaur bone thingy and it looked so cool!”
Georgie squealed
“Fake?” I said curiously
“Yeah, museums usually have fake re-enacted bones and junk because they don’t want us touching and messing with it! It makes sense and honestly is pretty smart”
“Wow, well you learn something new every day”
Zee giggled
“Yeah, my sister said it was the most boring day of her life but I thought it was pretty exciting”
He hugged his knees
“You really care about your sister huh?”
I said impulsively
“Oh! Huh?”
Georgie replied
“Oh no! I just— every story you’ve said has had your sister in it”
Georgie paused
“Oh, well pretty much all my story’s are with my family, I didn’t have many friends, my family is basically all I… had”
Zee nodded her head, she didn’t have many friends either but that’s okay
“Well, you’ve got something to look forward to when this is all over!”
I tried to remain positive
“That is true, i just hope it doesn’t mess with your brain, it’s been like a year since they got infected, we don’t know the long term effects of them”
“Well we don’t know that, they will probably be ok and everything will be normal before you know it!”
My positivity is actually working!
“Yeah, I just hope I lose the whole impulsive trying to attack people and nightmares disappear!”
Georgie chuckled
“You have nightmares?”
Georgie stopped laughing
“Oh.. well.. yeah but don’t worry about it”
“Okay… well.. zee, why’d you bring that crayon with you?”
She shrugged, probably was an accident
Then it went silent again
…
“Is that why you get such terrible sleep, Georgie?”
“What?”
He asked
“Your nightmares, is that why you are always trying to take a nap?”
“I’m not trying to nap, im trying to stay awake..”
“So.. what do you do at night if you don’t sleep??”
“Just think a lot of the time”
“What do you think about? Do you run out of thoughts?”
I kept asking questions left and right
“I don’t know, just stuff like embarrassing things I’ve done, how I might die or get infected, how I messed up the group, how I might mess up, I just plan ahead for the future before I do something bad, and kinda, I just loop the same thoughts until I accidentally fall asleep, or until the sun rises”
“Jeez that sounds… exhausting..”
I said honestly
“It is, but you know I’m always awake thinking my thoughts if you need me”
Georgie smiled
“Good to know, but.. Well do you write about it in a diary? Or do you draw? or do you do neither?? I personally write in my diary about it.”
“I just— I guess none, I just think about the thoughts, all the time.”
“Is that what you’re thinking about when you just stare off into existence?”
I laughed, he does look a bit silly when he just stares into the wall
“Mm I guess, sometimes— if I have enough time, I watch a movie in my head”
“Really?? What movie?”
“Shrek, most of the time, sometimes bits of cats don’t dance”
“That’s crazy impressive to me”
I giggled
I looked over at zee, I guess she fell asleep
It’s probably like 1am by now
“Sometimes, I think about old story’s about my family and my sister, like one time! My sister was wearing my dad’s glasses and her eye color was so different! Or her eyes were crossing..? One of those two”
“What color were her eyes?”
“They were brown—no blue sorry.. no wait actually.. uh..”
The rain was still pouring down, the thunder calmed down though, which was nice.
Then we heard something slam into the wall, it wasn’t very hard though, zee slept through it
Georgie grabbed the candle and we watched towards the door
Then we saw a random fox with a yellow shirt and orange pants slamming into the wall, walk around a bit and repeat
“Do you think they’re infected?”
I asked
“Nah, normal people just slam their body’s into buildings and walk around with a weapon for no reason, latest trend these days”
Georgie replied sarcastically
“Is that why you bump into everything and walk around with your bat everywhere?”
Georgie scoffed and punched my arm lightly
I punched him back
“OW”
We both laughed
Then we saw it run away
“Bye bye Fred!”
I said lovingly, Fred is good friend
“You named it?”
Georgie chuckled
Then we heard a BANG
BANG
BANG
Zee woke up and we started panicking
Had Fred come back to kill us?!
We heard the door bust down!! These guys are strong
Georgie grabbed his bat instinctively
“Can we barricade the door?”
Georgie asked
Zee ran to lock the door and backed up, there’s nothing in here that can help otherwise
We backed up, and Georgie got ready to attack
We heard multiple feet go up the stairs
“How many are coming after us??”
I asked nervously
“I don’t know.. I guess Fred had a lot of buddies.”
We heard the infected go into the other room, then we heard them going closer to the room
The tension grew
“Man my hearts racing, I feel like I’m gonna have a heart attack..”
Georgie said under his breath
We heard them trying to use the handle then
They began to bang
We all tensed up, worst case we jump out the window, zee looked like she was about to just leap out
BANG
I held my breath
BANG
The door began breaking off a bit, I grabbed zee’s hand and georgie froze
Oh man oh man
They paused
BANG
The door flew open and Georgie raised his weapon
“There in here” player said
Player?
Georgie just froze with his weapon in the air
I stopped grabbing zees hand
“Zee, zuzy!” Pony ran in and hugged us
I’m so relieved it’s not a bunch of infected people
“I’m so relieved you guys are safe!”
Pony let go of us
“How did you find us?”
I asked curiously
“You guys left mud prints that led to this place, I’m not a detective for nothin” player said
Mimi walked in with a flashlight
“Georgie?! Why are you guys in this… whatever place at 3 in the morning!!”
Georgie lowered his weapon as Giraffy walked in as well
“I thought u were told to not sneak out??”
Georgie replied to Giraffy
“You guys said not to follow you guys soo I’m not at fault here.”
Georgie said nervously, knowing he’s in trouble either way
Player interrupted
“You three gave us a heart attack! We thought somebody took you away!”
Player stared at Georgie, everyone was upset at Georgie because he was in charge
“I..I know.. sorry..”
Pony asked
“What even happened to get you guys here?”
“Um.. I..”
Georgie froze
“MEANDZEEWEREPLAYIGWITHDOLLSWHENGEORGIEDIDNTWANTTOPLAYTHENWETALKEDANDTHENWEPLAYEDBASEBALLANDISTOLEYOURBALLANDISUCKEDATTHEGAMEANDGEORGIEHITTHEBALLREALLYFARAWAYSOWEWENTTOGETITANDITTOOKUSTOOLONGSOWEJUSTSTAYEDHEREANDWERESOOOHOOHOORRYYYY
I said very.. VERY quickly
“My ball?”
Pony said blankly
Zee handed pony his ball
“You guys are worth much more than a ball, I’m glad you guys are safe but you guys really didn’t need to sacrifice yourselves for a signed ball”
“Well we did so you’re welcome.”
I said
“I mean, it is a cool ball though, it’s signed by Edward muffery! He may be little now but he’s gonna grow up to be a real professional.”
Pony nodded his head, I don’t think anybody should tell him that “Edward” is probably pushing his 30’s
“Yeah huh” Mimi said
Giraffy broke the silence
“Let’s just go back to the safe place..”
“Good idea” said player as they walked out
Zee followed very tired, then lastly Georgie, so just me and pony
“Cmon kiddo, let’s just go back and go to sleep”
I was still thinking about something though..
“Pony?”
“Yea?”
“Do you actually like us?”
“The gang?”
“No, us! Me Georgie zee?”
“Of course I do! Where did you get the idea I didn’t?”
It was a bit silly
“I don’t know, just, Georgie said you might feel required to like us because we’re related to zizzy and that you just ignore us unless necessary..”
“What..?”
I kinda felt stupid asking
“Of course not! Do you know how much I was panicking when you guys were just gone? I wouldn’t of been freaking out so much if I didn’t care about you guys, even if you weren’t related to zizzy, I’d still love you the same”
I smiled
“I’m sorry if you’ve felt ignored, I didn’t mean to push you guys away or ignore you, things have just been.. a bit crazy.. kinda like all the time.. you guys are really young so I don’t want you guys to get too involved with everything but, I didn’t realize it was making you guys feel.. left out, I might forget a name sometimes but I promise I do care..”
Pony looked behind him
“Cmon let’s just, go back to the safe place where you can go to sleep in a bed”
I laughed
“I was hoping I’d be able to sleep in my bed and not a stained Ariel one!”
We laughed as we walked out, I trailed behind him
As I left the room, I saw Georgie, waiting for me
I smiled at him
He smiled back as he started walking behind me with his arms crossed
…
We arrived back at the safe place, zee instantly fell asleep, she didn’t even take off her shoes!
I laid in bed, I wonder if Georgie is sleeping
I’m too awake to sleep
The rain was slowly pouring, not as aggressive as before
While I was in pajamas, I crawled out of bed and opened my door to see Georgie walking up to my door
Georgie looked surprised, I guess we had the same thought
I giggled and let him in, I sat on my bed while Georgie sat by my bed, as we looked out the window, watching the sunrise as the rain stopped and I pulled out my diary
I think I’ve learned something.. communication is key? Never doubt your loved ones?
Nope! I’ve learned that I am never gonna play baseball ever again!
Anyways, I’m done Writting, me and Georgie are gonna watch the sunset in piece now, goodnight.
- aug 21 2002
“Zuzy, you spelt peace wrong by the way, and I don’t look dumb when I zone out! >:-( sorry for reading thru ur diary by the way but I was curious, also, you spell terribly I had to fix half of your sentences. You snore loudly when you sleep btw sorry not sorry!”
-Georgie