Kellie's Diary: Decay of Innocence by Thomas Jenner, Angeline Perkins Page B

there was no way we could get them all.  When we got closer we finally were able to get inside.  Sarah put me down on one of the seats and started talking to the others in there.
                  Then Lydia ran up to me!  She was crying and then she hugged me really tight.  I was so happy she was safe!  We hugged for a while, then she ran to the back area and came back with Mr. Floppy!  It's weird, but that was the happiest I'd been in a while.
                  There weren't a whole lot of people in the bus.  There was me, Lydia, Sarah, Dan, Howard, Jack and Misty.  Sarah brought me over to Misty and started talking to her and pointing at my ears.  Misty nodded and pulled me away to another part of the bus and she started cleaning my face and ears.  It hurt a little, but when she was done, I started hearing a little more!  Misty tested by covering one of my ears and then talking, and then switching.  My left ear is getting better, but I still don't hear anything on the right.  I looked behind me, and it I saw the other adults arguing about something.
                  Misty tried to check inside my ears to see how bad they're hurt, but she couldn't tell that well because she didn't have the right stuff, it was all back home.  I still can't hear anything in the right side, and she said that sometimes it can take weeks or months to get better!  She said there is a chance that it might be permanent.  I really hope not.
                  The bus was moving by then.  I found Sarah and told her that I could hear better in my left ear now, and she smiled a little and said she was glad.  I asked her if we were going home, but she looked sad again and said that we didn't have a home to go to anymore.  When I told her I didn't understand, she said she'd explain later and that I should try to get some sleep.
                  I spent the rest of the day trying to rest.  I could hear a little bit of some of the others talking, and from what I can figure out, someone started a fire in the town, and somehow a bunch of zombies got in.  No one knows who did it or how it happened.  Mike and a few other people stayed behind, but they tried to get him to leave too.  They didn't find Rita either, but they think she stayed with Mike.
                  Our home is gone, Barbie.  We can't ever go back there.  I didn't have much stuff anyway, but now it's almost nothing.  This is the second home I've had to leave.  I guess...... well, I don't really know how I feel about it.  I just hope that Lydia is going to be okay.  I don't know how much she understands about having to stay moving for this kind of stuff.  She was really little the first time the zombies came, and she once told me that she still doesn't remember what happened, just that she lived in the town for a long time before I got there.  The town was all she knew.  She barely remembers Jennifer, but she kind of remembers Mom and Dad.  It's weird, I haven't thought about them in a while either.
                  I finally went to sleep, and I woke up not too long ago.  I didn't see any zombies anymore.  Jack was driving and Sarah was in the front passenger seat.  Right now we're in a parking lot, because Jack said a little while ago that we were running low on gas, so we stopped here to see if the cars around have any gas left in them.
                  I can't believe all this trouble that's happening.  It got really bad in just a little bit of time, and I think everyone here knows that.  It feels really uncomfortable right now.  No one's talking much, and we're all just kind of staying by ourselves.  Now I'm really starting to think this was my fault.  I think back at everything that's happened and it keeps going back in time to earlier stuff I did.
                  If I hadn't been so tired, Sarah wouldn't have had to carry me around trying to get away from