January the 18th

Yes, I was shot, sorry to have left the last entry unfinished, but you'll soon understand understand why.

Do you remember? I was walking back my old home, but this time I went through Lincoln Park, because I was so mad at Eddie. It does not make too much sense, except when you know that's where I always went when things went wrong.

I was seating on the 'Dragon Castle', which is a children play area, -just seating, not playing, because I am already way too old- when I was almost hit by a shot.

So I dropped to the floor and started running, crazy. And then another shot, and many more, but I still kept running, till I spot a derelict car and hid inside it.

Then it was silence, for a long time, Hidden inside I was brave enough to make the previous entry. I hope I have spelt "previous" all right. I was started to relax when...

"OUT!!!"

I did not move.

"Out, I say, or I'll shoot".

Then I went out, hands up and all. Before me there was a woman in her twenties with a rifle in her hands, dressed in tons of rags, and wearing a bicycle helmet.

"Stay there, get your hands in the car. Now".

I know it sounds like a bad police movie, but you were not there, so I just obeyed. Then she handcuffed me.

"Why did you run away?" She asked.

I did not think she wanted an answer so I said nothing, but then she said:

"I have made you a question, why did you run away?"
"Because you shot me?"
"I could have killed you seven times, but I didn't. Do you know why?"
"No".
"Of course not, you are a zombie, you just want to eat my brain".
I looked at her eyes. She was serious. "No, I'm not".
"Yes, you are".
"No, I'm not, I'm just a kid, leave me alone".
"Maybe you are not, but you will be. And as soon you become one, I will kill you".
"No, please, I promise I won't, just let me go away".
"I can't. You will transform, lose your mind and go after me. No, it would be better if I'd just kill you right away, but just in case, I'll take you home. Maybe you have some days left before you fully transform".
"Thanks".
"Don't worry, as you as you become a monster I will finish you off".
"Thanks". Yes, I really said that, but the rest of the dialogue is just how I remember it, because I don't want to recall the exact words.

So she took me to her home, which was a disaster area. Completely filthy, just as she was dressed. She had all the words painted with new-age symbols. At least they looked new-age to me, don't really know, I'm Catholic.

Then she led me to a room, and made me sat crosslegged on a wooden plank. As I stepped on it I could notice there was a hole in the ground behind it, and painted on it a pentagram filled with a strange scribbling.

She tied my ankles up and then went for a minute, returning with an open can of ready made beans.

Cold, and rotten, and there was a big roach. And she made me eat it.

"Don't like my beans?; what about my brains?"
"No, I like them all right. I was just scared". The second part was true.

So I accepted the four spoonfuls she gave me.

Finally she got me out of the plank and withdrew it, revealing a makeshift ramp.

"Down". She said, "so you see your zombie friends. But don't worry, finished them off, already".

Trembling with the fear of a gruesome finding, I dropped myself, handcuffed and feets tied into the ramp, to end up bruised in a cold dark room.

A cold finger touched my back. Then she closed the opening. I then turned and twisted my hands till I could free myself. Luckily she used adult sized handcuffs . Then I could see how psychotic or whatever she was: all around me there were dismembered parts, shot heads... of manikins.

I went out through an open window and ran, and ran, and ran away.

I am now hiding in a garage, somewhere in the city. Hope Eddie is OK