Zombie Dream Chapter 9

This new hotel is fricken amazing! It is so big and so fancy and I feel like a king. The weight room is way nicer then the last one and this place has a hot tub too! They also have a nice sized pool that I use a lot now. The other day I forced myself to swim until I puked. I managed to puke out of the pool. I just want to build my stamina up. My days basically consist of waking up, eating healthy, working out, swimming, relaxing, planning out new strategies, practicing, getting to know people, chilling with the boys, sleep, then doing it all again. A couple times there are missions and thats about all the excitement we get. I wish my friends were as dedicated as I am, but they join me once in a while so I don't mind. Dick has joined me for a couple of work outs and he practices with me. He is learning quickly and soon he is going to be better then a couple of the guys. We saw the military in the cities during one of our missions last week. Dawson and I have been watching a lot of news lately when ever its on. They don't air everyday anymore. They usually go around the country and give you updates on areas and sometimes they let people share their survival stories. Dawson and I love the survival stories segments and we always get a good laugh out of them. Once a week they release a list of dead. How they come up with this list I don't know. This week there was a group of people dead from Minnesota. For some reason, deep inside of me, it feels like they were people I knew.



I haven't done shit at all today. We went on a mission two days ago and I bruised my shoulder really bad so I've just been resting up. Jon had this really nasty head shot on one of the monsters from like 3 feet away with his shotgun and got blood and brains on all of us. He thought it was funny as hell but I was pissed. Dean managed to stab one of those bastards a couple of missions ago and I managed to sneak up on one of them. Either these cunts are getting dumber or we are getting better. I get really bored of sitting around so I ask my boys if they want to do anything. They are also in sluggish moods so I buck up and tell all of them to get up and that we are going swimming. They all kind of groan but I start to jump around the room and slapping them and this kind of brings them to their feet. By the time we leave the room everyone is up beat and slap happy. We run around and grab our siblings and anyone else that might want to jump into the pool. I knock on Jamie and Amanda's room and yell for them to join. Someone brings a stereo down to the pool so now we have music. We have this huge water fight and it is probably the funnest thing we have done in the longest time. We toss the little kids around and eventually the water fight turns into everyone vs. me and my boys. My boys and I act like monsters and the little kids run around and shoot us with water while people like Amanda keep reloading their water guns. I grab a couple of little kids and I tell them they have to be monsters with us now but that only lasts for like two minutes and then they go back to the other group. I make a plan with a couple of kids later and I tell them when the leave to pool to go grab new guns that they should push Amanda in. They come through and when Amanda gets pushed into the pool the water fight becomes everyone vs. Amanda. During one of our attacks on the kids Mitch manages to punch me on my bruised shoulder and my arm feels like its about to fall off. Then right after, he pushes a kid to hard and the kid begins to cry. After that we all play for a little more and call it a night. A bunch of the parents come down with towels and take their kids back to their rooms. All the kids thank me as they leave and it makes me feel like a hero. My group and Amanda stay back to clean everything up. I ask her why Jamie didn't come and she tells me that he doesn't like little kids. Figures. Jon and Dawson are giving Mitch a hard time for pushing the kid and I jump in and I joke about it too. Then I tell him he punched my shoulder and he denies that he did. After we get the pool area cleaned we grab our towels to leave when Amanda pushes me back into the pool, then Mitch pushes Amanda then Dean pushes Mitch. I swallowed a lot of water when I fell in. Water I pissed in, but hey, everyone does it. Dawson, Jon and Dean are on the outside of the pool laughing and the three of us in the pool try to splash water out and get them wet but they are to far. We climb out of the pool and Dawson, Jon, and Dean toss us their towels and we all make our way to our rooms. Amanda stops walking and I ask her whats wrong and she says she is to tired to walk jokingly and that she needs a piggyback ride. Mitch bends over and flashes his back and waits for her to jump on. Amanda laughs and Mitch continues to wait. I look over at Jon with a smile and I tell him, "give the girl a piggyback ride damn it." Amanda says, "Oh whatever," and jumps on my back. Dawson puts his arm around Mitch and makes a joke that I couldn't hear and Dean and Dawson bust out laughing. Mitch joins them even though it seems like he got burned pretty bad. I think we are all in such a good mood nothing can bring us down right now. We goof off on the way back to our room but when we reach the door the mood kind of sinks. Everyone pauses like they don't want the night to end and it sucks that we don't know when we will have so much fun again. Everyone says bye to Amanda and walks into our room and I wait for Amanda to get off my back. After a second I tell her that I kind of have to get into my room. She says that she is to lazy to walk back to her room and that I should drop her off. I laugh and make fun of her since we are basically standing at her door. I open the door and I walk in and I see Jamie sitting there watching t.v. He turns and looks at us and I feel Amanda jump off my back. Jamie asks us if we had fun and Amanda tells him yes quietly then she turns to me and tells me thanks then I walk out the room. I enter my room and all the guys are wrestling. I hop in the shower. I close my eyes and let the water hit my face.

My shoulder is healing really slow but I don't want to fall behind so I went to go lift some light weights today. Dick and Jon join me. Jamie walks in with his shirt off and it looks like he rubbed shit on his chest and six pack to make himself look better. I kind of laugh because its only Jon, Dick and myself in the room. Who is he really trying to impress? He says hi to us and walks over and starts to chat about a bunch of irrelevant crap. He asks us how our missions are going and I tell him they are fine. Jon asks him why he doesn't come on missions with us already knowing the answer. Jamie quickly and confidently tells us that he stays back to protect the women just in case the hotel gets attacked. I guess thats a good enough answer. I switch locations to move to a different machine and Jamie follows me. I wish he would have stayed back over there with Jon and Dick. He hovers above me as I work out and he lets me know that he and Amanda are planning a special dinner for their anniversary. I tell him congratulations and that I hope they have a good time. He asks me for some tips and maybe a present suggestion. I tell him to just make her laugh and show her a good time. I also tell him that she likes piggyback rides and long talks so he should plan to talk to her about whatever after dinner. He says thanks and asks for a present suggestion again. I stop lifting and I have to think about it quickly. She really isn't into material goods and never talks about things she likes. She doesn't really even wear jewelry. I tell him that I'll think about it and next time I go out into the city that I'll get him something. He says thanks and leaves. As I lift I think about it and finally think of a present. Fruit Snacks.

Dick came on a mission with us today and it was very stressful. I felt like I had to watch myself and Dick, but the experience was something Dick needed to feel. Plus I knew Jon and Dean would look out after him to. We didn't run into many monsters but we still got some action. I managed to find a big box of fruit snacks and everyone questioned me about it. I tell them not to worry about it in a friendly pissed off voice. I also got a teddy bear and this pretty necklace. On the way home Dawson made a bunch of stops so we could shoot at random monsters. I told him not to joke around but everyone in the car was having such a good time he kept goofing off. When we got home I gave the goods to Jamie. He thanks me and slips me some money. I look at him wondering if the money is a joke, but I see that he is serious about it. I make a strait face and I tell him thanks. After he closes the door, I toss the money over my shoulder.

Dawson and I watched the news and they are saying that the military has captured one of these creatures and that they plan to do some medical tests on it to study it. I kind of wonder why they haven't already done something like this. The news ends with some survival stories. This one guy said he fought off a whole group of creatures with a hammer. Dawson and I laughed hard as hell when we heard that because the guy was this pretty boy like Jamie and we could just tell he was feeding us shit. After the news I go lift some weights with Dawson. Its late and the hallways are dark but just the feeling that someone is next to you is so comforting. We flick the bright florescent lights of the weight room on and begin to work out. I hear the door open and I quickly look over to see who it is and its Amanda with some water and fruit snacks. She walks over to Dawson and gives him some water first then walks over to me. I thank her for the water and I ask her what she is all dressed up for. "Jamie and I had a special dinner tonight." I forgot that the dinner was tonight so I didn't have to act surprised. "How was it?" I ask her. She tells me that the food was good and that he got her a necklace and a cute little teddy bear and her favorite fruit snacks then offers me some. I tell her no thanks and that I'm glad she had fun. Dawson walks over to a machine closer to me and asks Amanda about the fruit snacks. "Where did you get those?" he asks kind of laughing and looking at me and she replies "Jamie gave them to me." Dawson laughs and is about to correct her but I give him a face that he catches and he just says sweet. Amanda catches the eye contact Dawson and I made and looks over at me quickly and I act like I'm working out. Dawson asks her, "what else did you get and what else did you guys do?" and she gives him the short catalogue of presents and tells us that after dinner they called it a night. I pop up from my machine and I say, "called it a night, that sounds good right now," and I walk toward the door. I thought Dawson would follow but he doesn't so I look back and tell the two goodnight and walk out. After I leave the room I keep thinking Dawson is going to follow but he doesn't and when I look back I see the two having a serious chat.


A lot of people died today. We were on this mission to get some stuff and the biggest wave of monsters came out of now where from a bunch of angles and surrounded us. We aren't sure how many people we lost today yet but I'm thinking at least 20. I feel bad because I didn't know most of the people that died all that well. I knew one of the Dads that died who was new Jim's neighbor and I knew Jamie. We just got back and there are a lot of people running around and crying and I need to clean up and I don't know how I'm going to tell Amanda about Jamie and I'm looking for my family. Jon, Dean and I are at the last group to enter and we drop a bunch of bags off quick. My family has to be around here somewhere but its hard to see around all these people running around looking for their loved ones. I'm relieved we didn't decide to take Dick with us on this trip and I'm glad my Dad doesn't have to go out on Missions any more either. I'm glad most of our parents don't have to go on any more missions. Only Dawson's Dad, Brad, came with us and I guess new Jim too but I know he can take of him self. I'm really glad Jon, Dean, Dawson and Mitch came because we really saved the day. We saw Brad Dawson fall over and if it wasn't Dean we would have lost a close member. Jon, Dean and I really really clicked today and we were able to buy a lot of time for people to get out, it could have been a lot worse. I finally catch my family in the crowd and I break off from Dean and Jon and run over. My Mom is crying and I want to hug everyone but I'm covered in dry blood so I just stand there. I tell them that I'm fine and I need to finish bringing stuff and that I need to get cleaned up. I turn around to go grab some more bags and I see Jon with his family and Dean with his and I see Amanda running to Jim. As I'm moving the bags around I keep thinking about who we might have lost. A lot of families from the grocery store that Connie invited were lost. People who I could just feel might get in the way. And they did get in the way, but I feel horrible that I couldn't protect them. Jon and Dean run over and help me with the bags and we snake out way through all the crying people. I feel a hand grab my sleeve and tug and when I look its new Jim. "Thanks for saving me today," he says with Amanda in his other arm. I didn't even know I did anything so I tell him that it probably wasn't me. Then he tells me I killed a monster that was about to jump on him. I had no idea because I just shot anything that threatened us. We totally lost track of our kill count today, but after what happened, its irrelevant. Amanda looks over and asks me if I'm okay and I tell her yes. Then she asks, "Didn't Jamie go with you guys?" I look up and Jim then back at Amanda and I pull her aside. We walk to a more quiet area and I get the feeling she already knows whats coming but it is still hard to tell her what happened. I stand there and I mumble a couple of things and I don't know how to start but eventually I just come out and say it. She doesn't seem as shocked as I thought she would be but she still falls to the ground. I bend over and I tell her sorry that I couldn't protect him. We sit there and I let her cry on my shoulder for a little and we chat for a while. I remember I still need to move some bags and I tell her that I need to go help out. She asks me not to go and I ask her if she wants to come with. She stands up and asks if I'll give her a piggyback and I tell her I'm to dirty right now. I feel guilty for denying her and I toss off my coat and I signal for her to hop on. I walk back to where the bags should be and I don't find anything and I assume Dean and Jon moved them. Most of the families have returned to their rooms to mourn but there are still a couple of people walking around. I just walk around with Amanda on my back and we chat for a while. We get to our rooms and I tell her that she doesn't have to spend the night alone and that she should hang out with us. She hops off and agrees to it and invites me in her room while she just gets some things. I'm about to sit on the couch but I remember how filthy I am so I stand. We chat while she packs a few things and she suggests that we should have another fun night with all the kids so they can escape for a little while. I smile and I tell her that its a great idea. She finishes packing and we are about to walk out the door when she says my name and we stop. I look over at her and she thanks me for the fruit snacks and necklace and teddy bear. I give her my best confused act and she makes a frustrated face and then smiles and tells me that she knows. I give in and ask her how she knew and I'm kind of disappointed in my acting skills. She informs me that Dawson told her and it makes me half upset at Dawson and half proud of him. Upset because now I feel like I cheated Jamie and I feel worse because he is dead. Proud because thats what good friends do. I tell her that I just got the presents but that it was Jamie's idea and she gives me this "oh c'mon" face. I feel a hug coming on but dodge it by saying lets go and slip out the door.