"So where have you been?" He asked, glancing at her every few seconds to make sure that she was actually there. That he hadn't made it up.

"In a cave" She answered.

He didn't catch the joke and she sighed.

"I live on a farm, I usually only leave once a month maybe twice."

"Alone?"

"With my pets."

"Been alone for a while?" He asked with his hands in his pockets.

"Not long, my brother left a year ago. I don't think I was ever completely alone." Her eyes drifted to him, "It must have been hard for you."

He gave her a surprised look before relaxing back in the couch, "I had a hamster, it died two years ago. Back then I'd get visitors and do interviews. Everything kind of happened at once. Ya know, I just got to thinking about it and slowly built the bomb."

"How dangerous is it?" She asked with a light stumble of her words.

"Its something that Hitler would've loved" He explained.

She didn't look at him, she didn't want to know that he had built something so dangerous.

"Are you going to go to Virginia?" He asked.

"Nope, someone has to take care of the farm. In a week or so, it'll be summer and I'm gonna plant some stuff to grow. Hopefully the farm will be as big as it was. We used to sell to a lot of food and cotton, I think that if I really start growing stuff then I can take it up to Virgina. All the crop stuff is still here so it'd only need a little updating. Then we could get a really big truck and transport it that way."

He just looked at her for a moment as she looked back. Going over her words again in her head she realized what she had done. "Of course you don't have to help. If you want, I can go back to my family and I'll never bother you again." She said quickly with a faint blush.

He looked at her, like he was frozen and the words were coming to him behind their actual speed.

She just turned and took a few steps away from him then reached for the doorknob. "I guess I should be going" She said without looking back at him as Balto looked up from his spot on the couch.

He wrapped his arms around her and held her back. "If you want help, then you got it. I'll help you with anything. Just don't leave me alone again." His arms tightened around her. "Please"

She looked up at him, surprised. "It is night, if I go back now then they'll find me."

"Thank you" He whispered into her ear. She blushed and pulled away.

"Well uhhh just keep your hands to yourself." She said nervously, it was the first time in years she had felt someone...like that against her.

He faintly blushed, "Sorry, the whole human contact thing is new to me."

They both sat down on the couch across from each other, just talking at first. They'd laugh and continue as if nothing was going on outside...As if they were just classmates or old friends... Like things were suppose to be...

Name- Audrey Bristol

Birthday- June 2, 1991

Eye color- blue

Hair color- blond

Birthplace- St. Louis, Missouri

Hometown- Hoston, Texas

Mother- Cher Bristol, died of cancer in 2008, writer

Father- John Bristol, infected

Younger brother- Adam, born in 1998, killed in Japan, his body was brought back to Texas and buried next to his mother.

Older brother- John/Josh/JJ, 1989, unknown, Airplane designer. He was born in Seattle, Washington.

Older sister- Ava, 1980, location is unknown,

Plans before the infected- To become a reporter and travel the world.

Current Plans- Restore the farm then find a plane to transport the crops to different areas in need while reporting what is going on everywhere and possibly getting a list of those still alive and looking for family.