June 29

So what's happened.

We lost another one. Can't believe people are dying this fast. But let me start at the beginning, I might not have a lot of time to type...

We had someone, or something, in the bathroom. We all figure that when Trix went out for her 'final' smoke break she left the back door open. Something stumbled in, found it's way into the bathroom, and the door closed behind it. Luckily we have two bathrooms so we can take some time before trying to figure out what's in there. We're a clothing store so it's not like we have ton's of Zombie killing tools laying about.

Trix is still outside. She must have turned into a Zombie with a good amount of quickness, as she wasn't much of a meal, to begin with. Now she looks like a little Zombie lollypop walking around. Her memory must include the store, as she's outside banging on the glass windows, staring at all of us. It's a little disconcerting but, hey, what can you do?

The first night here, we didn't even think about sleeping. Everyone pretty much kept to themselves. Macy and Beth, the two new girls, locked themselves in change-rooms for the night. I guess there's a small amount of distrust, for whatever reason. That might be my fault. I always have to make light of situations so whenever things were getting to 'heavy' or quiet I kept finding myself screaming "ZOMBIE!!!" and pointing at some empty area of the store. It would appear that there's only so much of that you can take.

The phones are dead, land line as well as cells. But we've found that email still works, strange but I'm not complaining.

Bryndis kept the rest of us busy by filling empty pop bottles with water, Selma keeps a recycle bucket in the back and, luckily, it was pretty full of empties, in case the water gets turned off, at some point.

We had the radio on for a bit but that didn't last long and it was quite depressing, anyway. It was all Zombie all the time and then it stopped with the announcer screaming, bloody hell, and then just some gross lip smacking sounds, like a dog drinking from a bowl of water. Pretty disgusting.

So the next day rolls around and, again, we all just sit there, not sure of what to do with ourselves. We do discover, however, that the grocery store, across the parking lot, has access to their roof, as we can see a bunch of the employees walking around up there, with their cameras taking pictures of everything.

This is where tragedy strikes. We decide that one of us should get onto the roof and, maybe, find a way to communicate with the grocery store. But there doesn't seem to be a clear route to 'our' roof, from inside the store. Paulo, our boss, decides that he can get up there. He climbs up on a clothes rack then onto the top of the change rooms and then onto one of the big, industrial, heating vents and begins to shimmy to the wall, I guess so he can get a grasp on something there and climb towards the ceiling? Whatever the case, the whole heating vent collapsed and he ends of falling, with it. The heating vent hits the floor, looking like a stairway, angled up to the roof, with his body bent and twisted next to it.

Someone screamed, okay, it was me, but it wasn't nearly as shrill as everyone keeps telling me. And I can't believe that our boss dies and all anybody can talk about is how girlish my screaming sounded. Shallow fuckers. Not only that but he's dead, maybe, two minutes, before his body begins to twitch and move. So, okay, the Zombie thing is contagious, it would seem.

We quickly rushed him into the second bathroom and closed the door. Some of us wanted to open the back door and dump him out but, honestly, the risk was to high that a Zombie would be out there and manage to get in. And it wasn't like we had a lot of time to make a decision, his eyes were getting that hungry Trix-like look that we can see on her face.

So now we're stuck with no bathrooms and, to top it off, all the bottled water we were saving, is in there, as well. No water no toilet and another death. Pretty crazy.

But, on the bright side. One less mouth to feed and Bryndis thinks that she can climb up the heating duct and get to the roof, that way, since it's now, pretty much a tunnel to the top of the building.

We'll see, we're just gonna wait until it's light out and then she's going to try to squirm up there.