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chest.
    So that’s what this is about, he thought.
    “I know sweetheart,” he said softly. “I know.”
    She moved her right hand from her hip and placed
it on her ever-growing belly. Josh tried again to get closer to his wife. He
placed one hand over hers and the other reached up to brush her brown hair away
from her face. Their eyes met. She leaned her head into his chest and the two
of them stood there in silence for what seemed like forever.
    As they stood there in their quietness, both
minds raced in thoughts.
    Thoughts about the future.
    Thoughts about their survival
    Thoughts about the baby.
    All of these things whirled like a cyclone of
unknown, but the words did not come. They would not come.
    So, after an indeterminate amount of time, Laura
finally spoke.
    “Just come back to me. To us.”
    Josh gently pulled her chin up, looking into her
wet brown eyes.
    “I will. I came back to you the first time,” he
said.
    “I know,” she said, her eyes shifting downward.
    “Hey,” he whispered softly.
    She looked back up to him smiling.
    “With everything I’ve put you through,” he said.
“I plan on making it up to you for the rest of my life. And I don’t plan on
that ending anytime soon.”
     
    ***
     
    Jeremy was leaning against the truck when Josh
finally came out of the house. He came strolling down the stairs with a pep in
his step. Jeremy had been listening to Chris talk over the perimeter with Lexx
and Tori. Around the house and the yard area was a small, wooden fence. It was
mostly aesthetic, but could serve as a good last line of defense in case the
outer fences were breached. The outer fence was much stouter, but would also
need work. Its purpose had been to keep living people out. Living people would
have been deterred by having to climb over a four-foot high wood post fence.
Living dead people, not so much. While Jeremy and Josh were gone, the three of
them would work on the outer fences with what tools they did have. Josh stopped
at Chris to tell him something before making his way over to Jeremy.
    “You ready to go?” He asked.
    “Yeah. Do I need to bring anything else?” Jeremy
asked, holding up his machete.
    “No. That should do just fine. I’m bringing one
of the hunting rifles just in case we run into a larger group, but hopefully we
won’t bump into too many out there.”
    Josh turned around to motion to Chris. He nodded
and the three of them walked over to the back of the truck. There was a stack
of boards and fence posts nearby and they began to load them onto the back of
the truck.
    “We’re gonna give them a ride to the outer
fence,” Josh said, as he began to climb into the driver’s seat.
    Jeremy nodded and made his way to the other side
of the truck cab. After he climbed in, there was a banging on the side gates, signaling
that the trio in the back were ready to go. He looked through the back window.
Lexx was crouching down next to it, and when he saw Jeremy looking, made a
weird smile baring all his teeth.
    Once they dropped off Lexx, Tori, and Chris, the
two of them pulled out onto the old Georgia highway. They rode in silence for a
few minutes, before Josh switched on the radio and began flipping between
stations. Every single one filled with the same noisy static. Josh switched off
the radio.
    “All these radio stations play the same crap
nowadays,” he said.
    Jeremy chuckled.
    “Yeah they do,” he added.
    A few more beats of silence.
    “So, is the zombie apocalypse everything you
thought it would be?” Jeremy asked.
    “Ha. No, not really,” Josh said with a grin.
    The grin faded quickly however.
    “You could say I was a pretty die-hard zombie
fan before, but I wasn’t ever one of those people who wanted it to happen. It
used to bug the crap out of me to see bumper stickers that said, ‘The hardest
part about the zombie apocalypse will be pretending that I’m not excited.’
Seriously? If you were excited about the dead coming back to life and eating
your