Two hours later, Ana had taken a seat on the edge of the boat, and was letting her bleeding hand drag along the rushing water which past the boat in the blink of an eye.

The cold stinging salt, was starting to numb the burning pain which had spread over her smooth palm.

While she had been doing that, Kenneth still held the steering and hadn't spoken a word since the dock.

Nicole woke up from her nap a half an hour ago and sat off to the side with Chips. Ana caught her looking over at her in a small nervous way, almost as if debating if she should go over and say something...but each time Ana's eyes met hers, her cheeks would turn bright red, and she would look away.

Terry had been below deck, for the past fifteen minuets.

Ana was glad everyone was off doing their own thing, she didn't wanna talk to anyone.

She sat in her blank world and watched the water speed by and knock into tiny waves.

It was such a beautiful day and she still couldn't believe that he was gone.

Just yesterday they had made love and he asked her to be his wife, back when their was such thing as a "future." Now that was all gone.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath and the boat moved forward. The never ending tossing feeling inside her had kicked up again and was making her body ache.

She wished he was here with her, his arm wrapped tight around her waist and soothing her with his calm deep voice.

She could almost feel him sitting right beside her just then.

Those strong intense eyes, looking right into her...the eyes that were chilly and somber looking, almost like the ocean on a breezy March day.

She then opened her eyes, almost believing he would be there...but he wasn't...he would never be.

Just then Terry walked up to her with an expensive looking video camera, he looked like he was trying to figure out how to work it.

Ana knew it didn't mean any harm...he was just a kid and didn't understand the pain she was feeling right now, in fact he might of thought playing around with that stupid thing might take everyone's mind off it.

Ana didn't wanna be filmed, but she couldn't yell at him.

"Where did you get that?" She asked trying to hold back her heavy tears.

"I found Steve's camera..." Just then the thing beeped and Terry looked it over.

"The tape is all screwed up."

Ana nodded and then tried to look like she was busy looking at something else.

She faced the water again and tried to stop thinking.

Terry walked around a little bit and kept clicking on and off the camera.

Ana then cast her eyes up to the sky and wondered if Michael was up in heaven right now?

That's when she snapped her eyes shut and felt like she wasn't going to make it.

She couldn't be alone right now.

Without thinking she sat up and wiped her wet hand on her pant leg...the same hand Michael kissed and held as the boat pulled them apart.

Ana walked a few feet and them plopped herself beside Nicole.

Nicole gave a nervous smile and looked as if she was thinking what to say...but Ana gave a weak smile back and looked forward watching the water as Chips danced between their feet.

Nicole then did what Ana hoped for, she didn't say anything since their really wasn't anything to say, she just sat closer to her and watched the day drag on.

Time went up and Terry brought up the fact that their was no food or water, they even had a slight scare with an empty boat floating around...which didn't help Ana at all.

Another few hours past and Kenneth saw that their fuel was going down quick, if they were going someplace, they better reach it quick.

The sun had another few hours of day light before it set...Michael watched it rise, and now it would set over his lifeless body.

Another half an hour past and the engine quit, Kenneth was starting to get on the edge and wasn't in the mood for Terry and the camera.

All hope was starting to fade, Ana knew it wasn't meant to be, they would have been better off staying at the dock with Michael.

But then...they saw land.

A nervous and very sad feeling hit them all as the tides started to slowly take them in, Everyone jumped up to see if their was anyone else.

But it was to perfect...the second they all touched the dock, Ana knew something was wrong...she felt sick to her stomach and wanted to leave.

This was the first time she walked on land since the dock, she felt nervous and out of sorts as she stood behind Kenneth with her gun.

Then they saw them...

All Ana could remember was spinning around as Kenneth told her to stay behind him, the loud cracks of the shotgun and the smell of rotting flesh as she ran for her life back into the boat.

Her heart was racing as she fired her gun and jumped over fallen bodies, she saw the others rush around in a mass state of panic.

They were going to die...

Then she forced herself to jump back into the boat with the others and push as hard as they could, away from the grasping hands of rotting flesh.

It all happened so quick and all Ana could remember was the wind picking up and the tides taking them back out.

The low groans of the hungry zombies...and then stillness again.

Nicole was crying and her sobs settled down once the sky became darker.

Terry held her and Kenneth stood at the bow, with his shotgun clutched tight in his hand.

The day was slowly starting to fade away, and this would be the first night Ana would spend alone. She couldn't believe it.

She leaned back and watched the sparking lit stars start to slowly set in the black velvet sky.

She wished Michael was here to see it.

But his body was now growing cold, laying there lifeless on the hard sea wood of the dock, the stars and thin moonlight, tracing shadows along his stiff body.

She wanted to die.

They had tried their best and failed, now they were all sitting apart, waiting and all knowing their fate.

She shouldn't have ever left him.

Chips then walked over and slowly settled down next to her legs, without even knowing it, Ana reached out and started to slowly pet his soft fur.