Another concern is we only have food for a few more days. We could go out easily and get more, but I don't want to take my eyes off these guys. For all I know they are aware that we are here and are just waiting for us to leave. I'd rather postpone that encounter as long as possible. If all else fails, we've decided that on Tuesday we make a run for more food. T-2days then.
Day 2
I was then faced with a choice. Where to go? I figured if any of my family were still alive they would be at home now. I would also be able to pick up some more of my stuff. So I took a right and started walking. When I got to the end of Tesco property I was faced by a sight I didn't expect nor want. A dozen or so Rani loitered the road. I sighed, knowing that I couldn't go any further. I turned and took a second look (12) and I'm so glad I did. One Rani had noticed me and was making for me, entrancing all the others like a pied piper. I ran. If I hadn't turned the sound of their running would have come too late.
In seconds I had cleared my way through to the other footpath exit. As I rounded the low metal fencing I glanced to my right. I had gained a lot of ground from them in a really short space of time but I still didn't fancy my chances against that number.
I ran back past the medical centre, and back past the first houses and my little hideaway running deeper into Newton Farm. I didn't know it extremely well but by now my chest was burning and I wasn't really thinking about what I needed to do. As I neared the end of another road I grabbed a lamppost and held onto it to breathe for a minute. Looking around I couldn't see the Rani any more, but in the close distance I heard them. A groan of monsters unlike anything I had heard before. Then a groan from the direction I had been running, but this was much closer...
"Oh shit" I managed between heavy breaths. Before I had gotten my energy back I saw one come running round the corner and realising I was there. I turned the other way and the group I had been running from was there, but now in a much larger number. I took the third and last path available. As I ran I remembered that this way were garages, and sure enough it was a fenced area with the tops of the fences level with the garages. I had no choice but to try my luck. I once thought it would be fun to be able to parkour, but now I wished that I had taken the time to learn how. As I got to the garages I aimed between two; at the brickwork and lead with my right foot onto it, trying desperately to reach the roof and get a strong hold. Somehow I did, but I was in a bad place still. I had only a faltering hand grip to lift myself up on. I tried lashing out with my legs, and I heard them coming. I had a moment of clarity, and I put my legs either side of the brick panel and used that to push myself up more. I repeated the movement when my legs were fully extended and finally my upper body was on the roof and I started to pull myself up. I felt them trying to grab at my shoes but I knew I had to keep calm; if I didn't my legs might dangle that little bit too much and they would pull me down.
I knew I was now trapped up here, with slowly more and more Rani surrounding all sides of the block, but I was exhausted, with the adrenaline now running out. I must have passed out, because when I next looked up the sun was much higher. I looked at my phone in instinct forgetting it was dead, then took a watch out of my bag, and put it on. It was an hour out as I hadn't been using it since Daylight Savings last switched, but with a little thinking, and switching to the correct time. It read 10.42am.
Looking over the edge at the increasingly agitated Rani I said, "Jesus, it's going to be a long day isn't it"
I hope you make another day.
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