Chapter 10: June 24 "The Quest Begins"
Jeremy stirred on the small couch, his eyes flickered below closed eye lids, he whispered in his sleep, "Yes'm I understand Hemingford Home, by way of.... Brandon Missouri," his heart started to quicken as his dream radically changed from the woman, to him, the dark man. Jeremy started to sweat as the dream intensified, "I will go you can't stop me," Jeremy yelled as his eyes opened in utter terror. He then stood and made his way out of the tiny office that once was the brain of this entire ice cream shop, he once again entered the lobby and glanced at the clock; decorated with the "Baskin Robbins 31" logo, and an image of a small child eating a quickly melting ice-cream cone. Jeremy laughed at the thought of the melting ice cream when he noticed the melting tubs that he ate nearly an two hours ago, "Well I need to get a start if I am going all the way to Brandon, Missouri, the woman said I would get held up in Arkansas and that is why I am starting earlier than the others, what ever that means." Jeremy mumbled to himself as he made his way out the back door. He needed to get a few things before he left tonight so he made his way back to the place where he lost her.
Jessica had once again been wondering the empty town searching for some sign of another living human, she entered the Brandon High School hoping that someone had taken refuge in the large building, the home of the "Biting Bulldawgs". Jessica walked into the corridor, it was strange, Jessica had never felt chills as she walked down the halls of her former life. "Hello" Jessica yelled into the emptiness, "Hello" Answered and Jessica nearly jumped pout of her skin, it was her echo. she made her way down the darkened corridors decorated with the Maroon and Black school clolors. She checked rooms with darkened computers and unerased blackboard, she read one silently, "Have A Great Summer, See You All Again In August!!! –Mrs. LaFontaine" next to this note was an assignment "SUMMER READING: Michael Crichton's: The Andromeda Strain" The Irony struck Jessica instantly, she giggled and mumbled "Great Summer Indeed," as she made her way down the ghostly halls. She had not noticed that at during her search for life, that tiny footsteps began to echo behind her, "Hello, Is anyone alive out there?" Her words echoed back to her as an unknown fear enveloped her, someone was here.
She turned and there it was a weasel, the weasel did not frighten her as it sudden morphed into a man, It was him and she knew it instantly, but Jessica was unable to move. "The Andromeda Strain, Great Book," he said to her as she tried to regain movement, "It is about a plague from out there," He pointed up to the ceiling, "That threatens to wipe out man." Jessica tried to scream, just then she found her footing, and ran, ran as fast as she possibly could until she was at least two miles out of Brandon.