"Well we haven't decided yet because it is still the winter and the month is January." Bransin explains.
"Yeah we would like to get married when it is warm out though." Ashlyn said.
After a while of talking about when they could have the wedding we decided to just let them figure it out. That night since it was a little bit warmer a group of us decided to go out and hunt and gather anything we can find.
Jared, Bransin, Ashlyn and me decided to go even though it was new to us that they would like to join but we got it. Jared showed Bransin where the animals mainly stayed while I showed Ashlyn the berry bushes.
"There are no berries Debra so why did you bring me here?" Ashlyn asked.
"Well I wanted to show you where they will be and I wanted to describe them to you. Now close your eyes and picture a deep silky black berry with some bright, eye popping red ones." I say.
"Wow those look delicious." She says as her stomach growls.
"Ashlyn when the berries are ripe they are black so don't pick the red ones." I tell her so she won't pick the wrong ones.
"Alright and why did you show me this?" She asks confused about why I brought her here.
"I showed you this because this is where I always go and no one else knows about it and since you will be hunting and gathering with us I wanted you to know where some berries would be at. Alright enough talk how about we head back to the boys so they track us down." I say smiling.
As we head back Ashlyn hears something behind us. We stop and turn around so we will be ready for it; Ashlyn and I have our knives ready just in case. When the noise grew louder and then it got closer and closer it automatically stopped. We stood there wondering why it stopped but before too long after we put our knives away the boys' pop out as if to scare us but instead we all most stab them.
They come out with small animals in each hand so I guess they each had a nice hunt. All of us started back to the boat so we could save the meat from the animals. It was a nice hunt because we had a little fun with it.
The winter had passed by and it only gave us one problem and that it was really cold but it is now around the middle of March. We celebrated Kaitlin's birthday the best we could since it was cold out during February.
This morning all of a sudden we heard someone scream but it didn't sound dangerous but it was still a scream so we all hurried up to see who it was. Ashlyn was standing by the edge of the boat looking down.
"What is it Ashlyn?" Jess asked.
"Oh sorry to wake you but I was screaming in happiness because there is grass, flowers and I saw a chipmunk; everywhere after all the snow we have spring coming." Ashlyn says a little over joyed. This winter did seem longer than normal when we were home.
"Next time can you scream quieter because I am tired and it is 5:30 in the morning?" Jess says half asleep with Alyssa agreeing. Then right after she said that Kaitlin passed out on the deck.
"This is why you don't wake her up this early." I said. I thought about moving her but I was too lazy and weak to move her.
All of us went back bed except Bransin.
"What are you even doing up this early?" He asked.
"Well I was trying to think about a date for our wedding and then I saw the chipmunk, the beautiful flowers, and the nice green grass. So I think we should have it sometime in the spring; what do you think?" She said.
"I think it is perfect just like you and he leaned down kissed her forehead. But now we have to decide what month and date." Bransin smiles and looks out into the forest.
"Alright how about we go back to bed then and figure this out later." Ashlyn says as she slowly pulls Bransin down below deck.
About three to four hours later everyone woke up and then enjoyed the beautiful view of spring coming. We all ate breakfast and enjoyed the fresh air of the warm breeze. It was nice that spring was coming around so we could go pick berries and hunt animals for meat but I have noticed that here soon we will have to go back to the main land for more water and other supplies. But I don't know when we should leave or how to tell everyone.
After days of seeing the beautiful flowers and everything we sent out a group to check for animals and see if the berries are beginning to grow. Kaitlin, James, Michael, and Alyssa volunteered to go and look. While they went out I had to talk to Jared about what we are going to do.
"Hey I have a problem." I start out.
"What is it because I think I can help?" He says nicely as if I should relax and not to worry.
"Well we are running low on supplies and here soon we have to go back to the main land of Canada to get some so we can survive, but I don't know how to tell the others." I reply.
"Don't worry I will help you tell the others but first we need to figure out when to go because hopefully the winter killed off most of the zombies. So lets' go downstairs to look at the map to map out of our route to get there; then once the others come back we will tell them all together. Don't worry Debra everything will be fine." Jared says then gives me a hug as we head downstairs to the map.
"Thank you this will help me a lot." I say as we reach the steps.
We are downstairs until we hear the others come back about an hour later. Jared marked in red our route to Canada. We went upstairs as everyone is happy and joyful which just makes me feel worse.
"Hey we seen a few animals and the berries are growing." Kaitlin tells me happily.
"Thank you and I am glad." I try to say with a smile.
"Everyone can we please have your attention." Jared shouts.
"Debra and I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is… Before he could finish I interrupted him.
"We have to go back to Canada with the zombies because we are low on supplies. Also if we don't we could die out here." I finish for him then run downstairs crying because I didn't want any of them to be in the way of danger not after Trevor and Becca dying.
Jared finished telling them the good news on how it will be soon but they get to kill more zombies which is fun if they don't eat you. After he was done he came down to see if I was alright but I wasn't. I just wanted to find a place where my friends would be out of danger and they would be able to live a somewhat normal life even though we are not normal.
The next day I went upstairs to see how everyone was. They seemed all fine like nothing had happened yesterday but there was one difference everything was packed up like they were ready to leave at any time.
"Hey have you decided on the day that we would leave to grab more supplies?" asked Bransin as he walked up to me.
"Yeah I think we should leave March 23 so we have time to hunt and gather enough food for the trip and we still have to lift up the anchor so we can turn the boat around." I told him.
"Thanks and I will tell the others for you." He said then left.
It was weird because everyone was ready but the only person that didn't seem ready for this was me.
