Two

Except for the continuous howling and barking of the Infected outside, I actually slept quiet well that night. The bed was much more comfortable than the hard leather seat or the rough rug of a car. It was much warmer also. I was awakened by the sound of the beeping of an annoying watch. I'm probably going to remember that watch for my whole life. Man, it was annoying. I moaned a little and turned around. I can hear my brothers groaning. Suddenly I felt a wet tongue lick my face. I opened my eyes to find myself lying on the bed next to Robert with Sam licking my face.

"Ahhh!" I screamed and ended up falling off the bed and onto Ben, which was sleeping there.

Ben grunted as I struggled to get off of him. Willie sat up and dodged Sam, jumping off the bed after Robert gave a little scream himself. It was probably the rowdiest morning of my life, and it was all because of that watch.

Sam came over to me and started licking my face. Robert soon understood the situation that we were in just a while ago and started apologizing.

"I'm so sorry," he said. "I'm just to used to a bed that was empty when I came.
"No, no. It's my fault for using it without permission," I said, and was suddenly pushed forward by Ben who was getting out from under me.

"Man, you're heavy, fatty," he yelled and walked over to leave the room.

"I would have appreciated a 'good morning,'" I shouted back at him, Sam sitting quietly in front of me. "Sorry about that," I said to Robert for Ben's rudeness, "He doesn't like to be woken up by shouting. Low blood pressure in the morning run in our family. It get back to normal once we are fully awake."

"That's fine," he said and left.

I was left in the room with the half-asleep Willie, confused about what we are to do now. I left the room followed by Sam and I guess Willie just got back to sleeping. When I got downstairs I was quiet surprised to see Ben unlatching the metal doors to let sunlight in. I decided to get right to making breakfast. Amazingly, a dunce like me, found the way around a stranger's house. I looked for some canned soup to make for breakfast.

"Hey, Ben," I yelled, "how does canned clam chowder for breakfast sound?"

"I'm good with it," he said sitting at the table petting Sam.

"Can you go wake Willie up? I think he went back to sleep.

He didn't give me a reply; instead he just went up stairs. At that time I really liked Sam, because she stayed with me and kept me company. I poured the thick broth in a pot and stirred it just a bit and left to find some crackers or bread that would go nicely with the soup. I came back with a bag of bread and decided to toast them. Then while the pot was bubbling, Ben came down.

"He's taking a bath."

"What? I wanted to take a bath first!" I said. Obviously, driving on and on for days and days without a place to stay, your hair would get oily.

Then Robert came into the living room. He looked refreshed like he'd just taken a bath. Suddenly I got pissed just a little more. He seated himself at the table and I sat down too joined by Ben and Sam. We were just about to start when Willie came into the living room. I gave him a glare but he didn't seem to care.

To take my mind off of things I began to pray, "Our papa-san in heaven, thank you for the food. I bless that it would be healthy to our bodies and won't add additional weight to our bodies. I pray that you would keep us safe at all times no matter what situation we are in. Oh and say hi to Mom and Dad for you will you? Thank you, in your name we pray. Amen."

Everyone then said, "amen," in unison. We started eating.

"Do you always pray?" Robert asked.

"Yeah," Ben said, "no matter what we are eating, Ruby always makes us pray."

"Well you should be doing it in the first place. In our situation were lucky just to have food to eat," I said dipping a piece of bread into the soup.

"Are you guys Christians?" Robert asked.

"Yeah, hardcore," I said, "our parents brought us to church started the very first week that we are released."

"Wow," Robert exclaimed.

"So what are we going to do after breakfast?" Ben asked.

"I don't know. What do you want to do?"

"I don't know? What do you do all day?" Willie said.

"Well, I first go to the lab, and then I go out and hunt, gather food, and wait at the port," Robert said.

"You have a lab? Where?" I asked.

"Right over there," he said pointing to a door on the side of a hall. I wasn't that familiar with the house yet, so I can't really pinpoint it out for you.

"What did you do for a living?" Ben asked.

"I was a virologist for the military," he said.

"What that?" Willie asked.

"Basically you look at tiny little organisms all day. When the KV hit New York I was put as the head to find out the cure," he said.

"Oh," Ben and Willie "oh-ed," although I don't think they really understood what a virologist is exactly.

Soon we finished breakfast and I tried to clean up really fast. Ben has set himself in front of the TV cleaning the various guns that Dad had. Willie was with him sharpening some of the blades that had gone dull. I saw my wakizashi, a Japanese blade about 55cm to 58cm long, sitting on the floor with all the other knives and daggers from different origins. Willie must have seen me look at my wakizashi, because then he threw it at me.

"Didn't you say we weren't allowed to touch it?" he said and continued. "Take better care of it."

"Fine," I said and left. I had asked Robert if I might take a bath. He pointed out the bathrooms. I went over to my duffle, which was on the ground in the master bedroom and fumbled through it to find my towel. I hadn't used it since forever. I went into the bath and locked the door. I turned on the warm water and watched the steam rise. Finally I can take bathes everyday again.

"Ahhh! That felt good!" I said when I got out of the bath. "Ben you've got to go take a bath now!" He was still sitting in front of the TV putting everything back to where it belonged. "Hey, dude!" I yelled at him since he didn't answer me. "Your not still mad at what happened in the morning are you?"

"No," he said and got up and crossed the room.

"Then what's nagging you?" I said and threw the towel that I used for drying my hair over my shoulder.

"I had this dream yesterday night," he said. We were always a group of siblings that enjoyed sharing our dreams to each other no matter if it was scary or boring, as long as we remember it. But Ben looked frightened of this dream.

"We'll talk about it later," I said, "Just go take a bath. You smell like a pig."

"Thank you," he said and left.

Will has stopped sharpening blades now and is watching TV. I sat on the couch and started watching with him. Shrek. Of all the things to watch, why Shrek? It's the first one too. "Why are you watching Shrek?" I asked him.

"Because it's the only thing there is too watch," Will said, but I didn't believe him. So I went to the cabinet under the TV and looked in it. There were a variety of musicals and cartoons. Then I understood the matter just a little more. This is what I came to: Robert Neville was a virologist. He probably didn't have the time to watch TV as much. He probably had a wife that liked the classics and a kid that wasn't very old. Either that or he liked the classics and cartoons. But I erased that from my mind, because just then I saw a DVD case sitting behind the TV. It was iRobot. I liked that movie. It was pretty fun to watch all those robots. "Dude," I said to Will and threw him the DVD. "Are you sure Shrek's the only thing to watch?"

"Were did you find this?" he asked and came up to the DVD player.

"Right there," I pointed to the back of the TV.

"I didn't look there," he said and played iRobot.

"Of course you didn't," I said and grabbed his head over and kissed him there. He didn't complain, he just sat back on the couch. That's why I liked Willie so much. No matter what embarrassing thing I do to him, like kissing him on the forehead, he didn't complain. Ben on the other hand just gets pissed off.

"Hey, where's Robert?" I asked him.

"He's in the lab," he answered. "He told us not to go in there."

"Okay," I said, "It's probably where he does research for the KV."

"Wow," Willie said, "you're getting smart."

"What's that supposed to mean: Getting smart? I was always smart," I said.

"Whatever," he said and I left him to watch a movie we've watched a million times already.

"Sam?" I called threw the house, and she just came and sat in front of me. She's such a smart dog. Just then Robert came out of his lab.

"Hey, what are you all doing?" he asked.

"Watching TV, bathing, and keeping Sam company," I said.

"Alright," he said and went to the living room. "Wow," he said looking at the cases of guns, "Where did you guys get all this?"

"We had those since we left our home in California," I said and sat on the couch with Willie

"You had them?" he said and turned around to look me. "Are you even old enough to purchase a gun? How old are you anyways?"

"I'm eighteen, he's fourteen, and the dude taking a bath is sixteen. Those are actually my Dad's guns," I said.

"Wow, he must have liked weapons. Are these knives his too?"

"Some of them," I said, "He liked weapons so as birthday presents he would give us daggers from some culture or something along those lines."

"He was probably a military fan," Robert said taking one that was sitting on the floor and checking it out.

"Not quiet. He was a brigadier general. You've probably heard of him," I said.

"Oh yeah, I've heard of him. He was also a master in martial arts right?" he asked.

"Yeah. He liked it so much; he made us take lessons in it. And always took us out to private shooting ranges on his days off," Willie said.

"That must have been fun," Robert said. "So I suppose you guys can take care of yourselves quiet well."

"Not at night," Willie said, "everyone's the same when it comes to night time."

"You got a point, but right now it's not night time. Let's do something else other than waste our time lounging about at home when it's perfectly safe outside right now," he said.

"Does that mean you'll take us to do whatever you do all the time?" Willie asked.

"Yeah, sure why not?" he said. And then Ben came down stairs.

"Really?" he shouted. I was really planning on sleeping until the afternoon, but on a whim I was caught in the current of two teenage boys and a dog rushing outside after Robert Neville.

"This is the Brooklyn Bridge," Robert said as we stopped before the bridge suddenly took a turn down. I guess this was supposed to be a tour of New York, except all the tourist sites are kind of… in ruins. I was gradually falling asleep, while we were driving aimlessly on the streets, when suddenly a loud humming sound came from the ground.

"Hey guys," Robert said, "have you guys ever went hunting?"

"No," we all replied.

"Well, then you guys can just watch today alright?" he said. "If you want you can join in."

"Ok," they said and then we drove off to another block. Robert drove at a moderate speed until we saw a herd of deer run by, then he sped up. I can't describe to you as to how he tried to kill the deer while in the car, because I was basically dozing off in the back seat of the SUV. If you asked my brother's they might now as to how, but you won't get any information from me. Anyways, suddenly they got off the car and all I can hear was Sam barking.

"Are you coming?" Robert asked.

"No," I said, and pushed the seat in front of me down to get out of the car, "I think I'll just go back home and get some sleep. Do you need anything? I'll get it on the way."

"No, not anything in particular. But you can go to this place and pick out a few DVDs," he said taking a map from the dashboard and circling some place on it with a red pen. "Can you find your way around here?"

"I hope so," I said, my map reading skills really needs some modifications.

"If you can's just go to the bridge, alright?"

"Sure, no problem," I said and hopped into some random car.

"Alright, see you later," he said and waved as I drove off.

Hi-jacking a car right off the street isn't very hard in my time. You didn't need to know which wire to hook up with. All you needed was a key in the ignition, and wa-la! And you can't get can't get caught either. After driving for a while, I finally noticed something very important. I was lost… Stopping in the middle of the street I checked the map again. Now I really wished the GPS's worked. Anyways I started back at the Brooklyn Bridge and started all over again. At that time the sky was dipped in an orange glow. My sense of direction kicked in, and I found my destination rather quickly. The street seemed stranger to me than normal. Maybe it's because all the images that I had of New York was packed with people, California… not all the time.

I went into the store that he said and walked around it for a while and decided to choose the ones with the most action, then random romance ones, then comedy. I totally ignored the horror section and the classic section. Then I decided to roam around the streets a little and went shopping.