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approaches and you can hear the bang of its body hitting up against the closed door.
    I turn around and see a gun pointed right in Tony’s face. Tony is holding his hands up with eyes wide.
    “What the hell man put the gun down!” He says in a shaky voice.
    “Who are you and what the fuck do you want?!” A big tattooed muscle guy holding the gun asks.
    “We just want sleep man. We have a child with us please put the gun down,” Tony begs.
    A round woman with a baby on her hip steps around the corner. “Clint drop the gun don’t you see the little girl?” She says with a very southern drawl.
    Clint lowers the gun and I let out the breath I didn’t realize I was holding. Becky steps from behind Tony and puts her arm around him like she belongs there. I see red and want to open this door just to let the eater rip her apart.
    “We mean no harm. We just want to rest up and we will be on our way,” Tony says.
    “And maybe some food and a change of clothes?” I step up pushing myself between Becky and Tony.
    “Sure sweetie, anything y’all need we got plenty to go around. By the way I am Bobbie Sue and this little guy,” she rocks her baby on her hip. “This is Curtis Earl.”
    The cutest baby I have ever seen is looking back at me with his big blue eyes and puffy red cheeks. He has the cutest bald head ever.
    “Hey little guy,” I coo at him.
    “Hey baby!” Emily says stepping forward taking Curtis Earl’s hand in hers.
    Curtis smiles and coos at Emily.
    “Y’all follow me and I will show y’all where the bathrooms are and Clint set up a shower for us,” Bobbie Sue says as she walks away.
    I look over at Wil silently asking her if she is okay. She nods back at me and we follow Bobbie Sue.
    ***
    As I lay here looking at the ceiling I try and close my eyes. Sleep should be claiming me right now, I haven’t slept in a little over twenty four hours but all I can keep seeing is Tony and Becky together. Would he really cheat on me? The way he looked at her today there has to be something going on. And the way he just lets her hang all over him like it’s no big deal.
    “Wil are you awake?” I whisper just in case she isn’t.
    “Yeah,” she whispers back.
    “Take a walk with me? I gotta pee,” I ask.
    “Sure, let’s go.”
    I get up and she follows me to the bathroom.
    “Sorry I didn’t have to pee I just wanted to talk to you without anyone hearing,” I confess.
    “What’s going on?” she asks leaning in to the mirror pulling her hair into a high ponytail.
    “Do you think Tony is cheating on me with Becky the Bimbo?” I look to her hoping she doesn’t see the same things I do. Maybe I am just a jealous girlfriend and making something out of nothing. “I know it seems stupid for me to be thinking about this at a time like this but I can’t help it,” I sigh and my eyes tear up as I spill my insecurities.
    “I would be lying if I said no Liv,” Wil says turning from the mirror looking at me.
    “What should I do? I love him Wil. I know we have had a rough time lately but I don’t want to be without him and I sure as hell will not share him,” I say wiping the tears away as they fall. I am supposed to be the strong one and here I am crying over a damned boy. But he is so much more than a boy to me.
    “Ask him Liv. Y’all have been together long enough that you can tell from the look in his eyes if he is lying or not. Pay attention to the signs,” she says.
    “Thanks Wil.” I say with a half-smile. “If he is I am going to feed bimbo to the flesh eaters,” I chuckle.
    “That would be a beautiful sight.” she laughs with me.
    After my talk with Wil I am finally able to fall asleep. But as soon as the sun comes peeking through the glass doors I am up. I need to talk to Tony now. I glance around our little camping spot and notice his and Becky’s sleeping bags are empty.
    I walk in the direction of the bathrooms to relieve my about to bust bladder. When I am finished I will find