Free The Infected by Gregg Cocking Page B

Huge – worryingly was the fact that she found TICFKAD… they must be able to smell things out… Mental note – use more deodorant.
     
    Take care
    Sam W
     
    4:27pm, May 26
    Oh fuck, oh shit! The power has just gone out – well ten minutes ago. Oh crap… Powering down to save battery life.
     
    11:43pm, May 26
    Hell, I’ve been dreading this day for a while now. The power hasn’t come back on yet and I have serious concerns whether it ever will.
     
    Shit. I’ve only got like seven minutes left of battery life on this computer – I hope this won’t be the last you hear from me. Spoken to Owen at Eastgate and theirs has gone too – well sort of. Just after 1pm they heard the power clicking and going off. It was only dark for 30 seconds or so, Owen said, until they heard the generators kicking in. Because of serious power cuts over the last few years due to Eskom failing to heed the warning that their current power stations were not going to cope with our countries growing infrastructure, many of the main areas of the country were plagued by daily power cuts (they tried to soften the blow by naming these power cuts ‘load shedding’). To prevent losing business, many companies invested in UPS’s and generators – shopping centres like Eastgate needed serious generators if they were to stay in business. This year wasn’t as bad, but the generators were kept just in case, and luckily for a couple hundred people using Eastgate as a safe haven, they were kept.
     
    Owen says that they kind of figured that that was the end of the power, but they are conserving whatever power the generators have for as long as possible – man, I would hate to be there – Owen says that tensions are running high and that even he and Johan, who have been mates since they could first walk, have been getting at each other’s throats, and Owen said that if they weren’t separated at one stage by some of the others boarded up there, there was a huge likelihood that they would have come to blows. Not good.
     
    He reckons that they might be able to charge their phones from the generator, but we had to say our goodbyes – not looking forward to speaking to my parents in the morning... I know my mom is going to be in tears. She says that they have had to rethink the fa
     
    8:20pm, May 31
    Hey, I’m back! Missed me? I suppose you are wondering how I got online again? Did the power miraculously come back? The simple answer is... no. But first, before I let you know how I have managed to get back up and running, I’ve got to let you know what happened a couple of days ago on Friday night, the day after the power died.
     
    Okay. So I was asleep – I have been going to bed a lot earlier since the power went out, firstly because there is absolutely nothing to do, and secondly, it makes living through this whole thing a hell of a lot scarier when you know you can’t just jump up and turn on the lights. Sleeping, nightmares apart, makes this all that little bit easier to deal with.
     
    So anyways, I was fast asleep when I was suddenly blinded by light – my first thought was that the power was back on – thank every high and mighty power ever – but it wasn’t, it was my phone which I keep next to me at night just in case anyone phones – remember, my phone has been on silent since I first saw one of the infected from my window.
     
    So there I was, seriously shaken out of my sleep – I checked my clock – 4:24am – and looked back at my phone. I blinked. And blinked again. Then I rubbed my eyes and looked at my phone again. And it wasn’t the dwindling battery that had caught my eye. It was the name of the caller. It was Lil.
     
    I grabbed at the phone and answered – “Lily, baby. Lil? Hello? Lily?” But nothing. It wasn’t that the call was dead, it was that nobody was answering me. I listened as hard as I could, struggling to distinguish whether the sound of the howling dog was coming from the phone or from outside my