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.He was still very much alive, and very much tied up when we got there.Only Ollie and Mike went down into the basement to see him.From what Mike said yesterday, all shaken up, Lenny looked really bad.He was gray, and sweating, and his eyes were turning that creepy white color, but he held on until he could say goodbye to his son, and wish his nearly arrived grandchild well wishes.I guess he and Ollie sat there talking for maybe ten minutes while the rest of us either pulled security, or searched the house and barns for danger.I was in the kitchen when Ollie came back up, his head in his hands, tears streaming down his face.Ollie made it to the kitchen table and collapsed into the heavy chair, sobbing.I went to him.I didn’t know what to say, or what to do, but I stood with him, my hand on his shoulders, and we were quiet until the gunshot came up the stairs from the basement.Mike did what needed to be done.Ollie stopped crying immediately, wiped his eyes clear, took a deep breath, and walked out the door.Mike came back up and just looked at me with red, tear filled eyes and walked out after Ollie.Mike’s eyes were so filled with pain Dad.I can’t even explain it.Those three went through a lot together when Westfield was just Westfield.I can watch a movie with sadness, death, destruction, and I feel zilch.I get the emotion they are conveying, I am just never moved by it.I can watch my girlfriends cry and cry, and I don’t crack.I just stay strong, and be the person who listens.But seeing him cry like that, right after Ollie had lost it, sent me into a tailspin.Watching such strong men, such strong friends of mine deal with such amazingly close and powerful loss hit me like a train.It probably didn’t help that I liked Lenny too.I sat down in Ollie’s chair and had myself a real good cry.Biggest cry since Gavin died and Adrian walked in on me in his room.When I got my shit back together, I went out and helped everyone get everything ready.Ollie and Mike said the farm was to be abandoned.Everything had been relocated to school, and with the snow spitting at night already, there was little the land could offer us that required us to be there for.We all cleaned the place out of things that were usable, and things that Ollie wanted, and within eight hours, we were gone.I left with Ollie in the ambulance and after we left the rest of the folks took the bodies out and burnt them in one of the small sheds.It served as a… what’d Adrian call them? Oh yeah.It served as a good pyre.Sad stuff.We got back late that night, the… 4th I think.Yesterday we spent here on campus patrolling the walls a LOT more diligently, and posting two guards on the gate because if we don’t, the incoming zeds stack up too fast.We’ve had the fires burning out at staff housing for days now, keeping the bodies off the bridge, and this is getting silly.We are opening the gate every three or four hours during daylight to remove the bodies so we have a clear means of escape, and the zeds keep coming.We’re now thinking about posting advanced shooting people down the road so we can thin them out away from school.We’re also all worried about the living people who attacked the tower the other day.Hector and Angela said there were no signs of anyone moving anywhere near them since that day, but who knows when and if they’ll be back.Mike says he hopes they got their noses bloodied enough to stay the hell away, and I hope that’s the case.I’m really hoping that is the case.It’d be nice if they took their shot, failed, and then disappeared into oblivion.If there’s a wish fairy out there, now would be the OPTIMUM TIME to pay attention to us.Speaking of wishes, Adrian is still down and out, though stable.One thing I am worried about is Mallory.She’s not spending nearly as much time near him as she was before, and I am wondering why.I get that it is boring, but you’d think with the man in her life on his “deathbed” she’d want to be near him all the time.I guess it might be that she’s out doing stuff to keep busy and keep her mind off things, but I dunno.I got a weird feeling about it.I might talk to her in a day or two to see what’s up [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]