It had been two weeks since Gigi saw me threaten Justin. She had stopped really being involved, and had been kind of withdrawn. I on the other hand had been occupying my time in the garage. They had a locked down garage where all the employees had parked, but they panicked and ran to the military.
I had been experimenting with all sorts of engines, motors, and wheels to find the most effective. Once I had found out which combinations where the best, I began building my car. Using metal sheets, bolts, and a blow torch I began building it.
I cut a circular hole in the top, and mounted a machine gun on it. I started to make an armored car that got 50 miles to the gallon. I added bullet-proof glass, titanium steel body, and suspensions. That was my monster truck of doom.
I started working out circuitry, and an onboard computer system. I installed Google earth onto the computer for driving purposes to find food and ammo shops. This is so I don't need internet to use map quest. The one thing about internet is we don't know if zombies wiped out some internet towers trying to kill survivors.
All we really know as far as internet is that we get free Wi-Fi from the Wal-Mart. There might be other colonies that don't have Wi-Fi but we don't know. We still might never know.
"Hey Will."
"Hmm?" I said. I hadn't notice Caroline limp in.
"How's it going?" She asked admiring my work. Whenever I was building stuff she would always come and watch me work.
"Pretty good," I said "I'm still working on the circuitry, but other than that I'm done."
"Oh, when you switched engines did you make sure you put all the correct nozzles on the engine?" She said. This surprised me because I never knew she had known anything about building stuff.
"Yeah," I answered "I even wielded them together."
"Oh," she said as she limped over "Here hand me that wrench."
I had the ground littered with tools, so I was surprised when she actually picked out one individual tool. I bent down to pick up the wrench, than handed it to her. She got to work on making some adjustments that I didn't quite understand.
"Go into the Wal-Mart and get me all these Items." She said hastily scribbling down some items.
Items I need:
Copper coiling
Electrical wiring
Electrical tape
A lawn mower motor
Spray paint
I went through the store, and checked off the list. I returned with the items, and gave them to her. She immediately began working.
"Thank you." She said.
I decided to lay in my pile off tools and watch her. She measured everything, and made sure that it all fit in to her plan.
Then I woke up. There was never a zombie apocalypse; it was all just a dream. I ran to the window and saw Gigi outside. It had just been a nightmare. My mom and sisters never died. Justin never existed. I had never seen a real gun. Everything was okay.
Then I had to face reality. I returned from my day dream facing the bitter truth. It had happened. I had dozed off in my pile of tools. I had tears in my eyes remembering how I did this everyday hoping that one day it would turn out to be more than a day dream.
"Done." Caroline said. I looked up at her, wiping the tears from my eyes.
"So," I said trying to make my voice not quiver "what did you do?"
"I spray painted the front, and made it so it runs on electricity half of the time." She said. I saw what she meant.
"Nice." I said.
"Will, Caroline, Dinner." Called Sam
"Coming my Love." I called back sarcastically. I walked into the kitchen, and got punched.