The End Of Life

As they went their separate ways, Mark slowly made his way towards the house right of David's. The house was similar in fashion. He walked up towards the door and noticed it was also a handprint scanner. Rubbing his forehead, noticing the extra security measures the rich people keep, he went to the side.

As he stepped aside and walked towards the nearest window, he paused and smiled, before moving towards the window with the gun in his hand clenched. Slowly peeping into the window of the living room, he noticed it was a zombie roaming around. Closing his eyes, he tried to hear the number of zombies inside the house and heard 2 pairs of footsteps only. 

One from right in front of him and the other on the top floor. Slowly aiming the gun straight for the one near him, he pulled the trigger as the bullet went right through the window, breaking it and into the zombie's head. But as it killed the zombie, it made an even sound when the window broke, attracting a few zombies around. 

He didn't waste time and quickly shoot them before jumping into the building and making his way up towards the zombie. He didn't waste too much time to find it and shoot it. Slowly he checked all the items in the building before taking a normal bag and loading things like batteries and other essentials. He also found a few instant foods which went into the bag quickly. 

He felt bad for not finding another gun back in Evergreen city. Not staying for long, he continued into the next building. The main reason they wanted to search the buildings was for any possible survivors which might steal the truck and the goods with it, the food and other essentials they found were like a bonus. 

Mark continued his search along the line and as he came out of the last house he felt satisfied with the two bags of stuff in his bag and also surprisingly an AK, he found in one of the house's basement with a few bullets. He had the AK strapped on him and looked at his watch to notice it was almost 6 as the sun was slowly going down and zombies were becoming crazier. 

He slowly made his way towards David's house and already noticed the closed curtains. Walking up to the front door, he knocked and whispered that it was him. The door opened and David welcomed him in and informed Kevin and Suzie already came. He nodded before going towards the backyard and opened the jeep trunk to place the gun and then placed the bags inside the truck.

He went back and noticed Suzie already making dinner. Not disturbing her, he went back to the living room and sat beside David and Kevin. Kevin shook his head when Mark looked at him and said they found only a few goods, not even guns. 

They continued to rest until they finally heard Suzie calling them for dinner. As they completed a nice dinner, all of them went back to the living room to sit down and have a casual talk as it was still too early for them to sleep. 

As they talked Kevin suddenly turned towards David and asked, "David, if you don't mind me asking. Can you tell us about your wife? I mean, you told us she died in a car accident, but when?" 

Mark sighed when he heard Kevin's question. It was too personal to ask a question about someone's dead wife. He knew Kevin was just too curious about unnecessary stuff. 

David sighed, hearing the young man's question. He knew Kevin's curiosity as he had a teenage daughter of his own and was the oldest out of all the people in the room; he knew where he was coming from. 

Noticing his silence Kevin quickly added, "It's ok if you don't want to share. I mean, it's ok." 

"No, it's nothing, actually. My wife passed away a few years ago. My daughter Daisy was still a very young girl at that time. My wife was an independent woman. She had her own job as a crime news reporter and was always running around in the city following wherever the police went.

"Just like every time she got a call about a murder in the city in the middle of the night and woke up to cover it. Because most of the other crime reporters were busy, she was called in by her boss and went out. After she covered the news as she was on her way back home, a truck rammed her car. The car got crushed as it toppled over many times and before the hospital reached the location, she died because of blood loss."

As he told his story, he covered his eyes to stop the tears in his eyes. Kevin patted his back to console him and Suzie asked, "What about the truck driver? Was he in the spot of an accident or ran away?" 

"He ran away, but the police were eventually able to chase him down when he tried to escape to another city. He was drunk and ran over the car. The court gave him the right judgment and sent him to jail for a lifetime." 

The room plunged into silence after hearing his story. All of them felt for the man who continued to live for his daughter. 

"Hahaha, it's alright don't feel so done. I accepted the fact and am now fine with it. I know she went to a better place and is now looking after us from wherever she is right now. Come on, let's go to bed. Let's use the rooms on the upper floor, there are 4 rooms and I covered all the windows already. You guys can also have a bath, the water should be running. I already checked that too." She stood up and led them upstairs. 

They followed him up and separated before taking a nice bath and sleeping.