I think we drove for another week or so until we started to run out of gas. Most of the area we were in was out of fuel. We hadn't talked in a while. I think she understood what I was going through. I never did get their names, but I couldn't get their faces out of my mind. The fear, the pain, the chaos as they realized that they were going to get eaten, their screams as the zombies tore into their flesh and eyes. God their eyes, the screaming was normal, it was something I had gotten used to, but their eyes. They conveyed the most fear I could see.
We were almost out of gas when we turned the street and wound up next to a college parking lot. It wasn't anything new, we had seen and passed dozens of buildings and many like the college in the distance were heavily fortified. But I think the thing that made it different was the column of college students carrying homemade shields, hand weapons, and wearing homemade body armor. They were locked in what appeared to be a phalanx and were stabbing a mass of zombies. This caused us to stop. I mean think about it. A mass of college students locked in an old Greek fighting position taking on a mass of zombies oh and they were winning. Well we watched for a while, until some of the zombies noticed us and attacked. Now it had been a few weeks since the initial outbreak, so there were mostly shufflers, but every now and then you would run into a few runners. Well conveniently we ran into runners. About half a dozen rushed our van and we couldn't get away. I shifted into reverse and tried to peel away, but more came and soon we were surrounded. We probably would have died if it hadn't been for those college students. Another group managed to fight their way to the van. I grabbed the G-36 and the shotgun. The rifle had three clips all stacked next to one another and the shotgun was almost empty. We stumbled into the middle of the phalanx and it was then that I really got a good look at this mass of warriors. The shields were chunks of metal, car doors, normal doors, tables, and a variety of other things and their weapons were the same. It was amazing. Well we gave them some support I dropped a few with my rifle and we moved towards what appeared to be a safe zone. It was amazing. They had fortified the entire campus and had a massive network of safe zones, weapon stockpiles, evac zones. I mean it looked as if someone had sat down and really thought this structure through.
Well Katie and I managed to get a hot meal for the first time in a few weeks. We also got a shower and managed to get a nice warm bed. I think I slept normally for the first time. It was nice I guess.
