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need to be sorry, Ryan.  We’re all scared.”
                  “No, it’s more than that.  I can’t go back out there.  Not today.  Please don’t ask me.”  With that I was crying again.  “I know you’re scared, I know the kids are scared.  But, you weren’t to those things as close as I was Sam.  The eyes, there’s nothing there.  The moan, it’s unnatural.  That woman held Tabitha at the hospital the day she was born.  And she was trying to tear my flesh off out there.”
                  Sam continued to hold me.  She was crying, too.  “Whatever you need Ryan.  I know you’ll take care of us.  You always do.  We can plan the next few days and be ready to go.”
                  I was angry at myself and terrified at the same time.  There were things to do if we were going to survive and I was crying on the bed like a child.  I pulled away from Sam and went to the window.  Shit.
                  “Sam, come here and look at this.” 
                  “Holy crap, where did they come from?”   There were now five zombies outside the door across the street.  “They look familiar to you?”
                  “Yeah, I’ve seen them before.  They must live in the neighborhood somewhere nearby.”
                  “You think the pounding noise attracted them?”
                  “Or the blood.  I don’t know.  Shit.”
                  “What?”
                  “Well, scared or not, I need to board up the house.  It looks like the door over there is holding up well but what if the zombies tried the windows?  They’d break with one hit.  I can’t do anything with the zombies right there.”
                  “Then let’s go sit with the kids.  They need some normal after this morning and we can check on Eddie’s house every once in awhile.”  Sam had a good point.
                  The movie was a Disney animated one that they’d seen a hundred times but that’s just what they needed; something familiar and fun.  I thought about what to do next if the zombies stayed across the street and what to do next if they left.  But, Sam and I didn’t talk about it.  Before I knew it, the movie was over.
                  “How about an early lunch?”  Sam motioned for me to check outside while she and the kids went into the kitchen.
                  A peek outside revealed that the zombies had moved on.  Which was both good and bad.  I’m glad they went but where did they go?  And why?  Do they give up after awhile or were they drawn somewhere else?  I just didn’t know enough about them yet to make a guess.
                  In the kitchen, Sam looked up from making salads when I walked in.  Tabby was chopping tomatoes and Mal was rinsing some greens.  Sam raised her eyebrows.
                  “Gone.  Didn’t see where.”
                  The salads were delicious and I’m generally not a salad person.  How was life going to be if we couldn’t get things like salad?  Normally, I could live off of frozen dinners but that’s not going to happen in our new reality.  We really were going to have to figure out how to grow all our food.  Well, that’s a thought for another day.
                  “When we’re done with this wonderful lunch, I’m going to need some help.”
                  “What kind of help Daddy?” asked Tabby.
                  “I think I’m going to need you and your mother to help me in the backyard and Mal to be a lookout upstairs.”
                  “I’m not going outside.”  Tabby started to cry.  Sam went over and put her arms around her.
                  “I’m not sure I want to go outside either after this morning, Ryan.  What are you