This morning we woke up as usual (again) and followed the same old routine. Get up, have breakfast, have a shower, get dressed, pack our things, get in the car, drive off into the sunrise. Some times we felt a little like robots but you had to do what you had to do. Today we were planning on hitting a few towns on our drive through the state and so we left a little earlier today. While we did make five towns yesterday the fact that we still found no one just spurred us on to keep looking.
Anyway, the first two towns were a bust. The first one was a beach-side town and so was full of tourists. We thought we might have had some luck with the increased population but we found nothing. It was seriously annoying me. The second town was a quieter town in the middle of a forest but we were yet again greeted with a still silence. I was seriously beginning to lose hope and after the third town was also revealed to be empty I had to pull the car over.
Alex, immediately sensing something was wrong, hopped out of the car and came to my side. Without saying a word he opened the door and scooped me into his arms. We shared a warm embrace as I cried into his shoulder. I don't know why I was crying since I still had Alex but I guess I just really wanted to find others. They had to be out there somewhere. I had found Alex hadn't I?
We decided to take a bit of a break in the fourth town and stopped at a bakery to get a drink and something to eat. I wasn't hungry but Alex forced me to eat something. I mean, he actually stuffed the food into my mouth. I felt sick that I had given up already after only a few days into our search. I thought I was stronger than this. Apparently I'm not. I really needed Alex today so I was glad that he was with me. He gave me the motivation to move onto the next town after searching this one.
The fifth town was just like all the other towns in that it had the stores, cafes, streets, houses and that oppressive silence broken only by the sounds that we made. The sixth and seventh towns were much the same and by the time we had reached the eighth town it was already 8pm. We had made really good time today and had left notices in every town we had passed so that if someone had missed us they could contact us online.
Every night I checked my emails and the blog I was using as a journal and I still had no response. The only views I had received were the ones that I had given myself when checking to see if it actually worked or not. Alex used to give me my space when I was doing all this and writing the new post but after what happened today he stuck close. While I'm writing this now he is right next to me with his arm around my shoulder. I'm glad I met him.
Until next time, this is EF signing out :(
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