What if Georgie wasn't rescued?

Georgie lived a somewhat normal life with his parents and his sister, Penny. He wasn't the type to stand out. He had a couple friends, got decent grades in school, mostly just blended into the background. The only thing that really made him stand out was his hyperfixation on dinosaurs. It was all he would talk about most days, and he had dreams of becoming a paleontologist one day.

Those dreams were crushed thanks to the infection.

He had to watch in horror as his family...changed. The once loving parents and sister he once knew were gone. Replaced by creatures who were hostile, agitated, and bloodthirsty. He managed to escape, but not without his sister messing up his eye real bad, rendering him permanently blind in his left eye.

With nowhere else to go, he ran until he was doubled over and breathless. That's when he found you, curled up and shivering in an alley. You were around Georgie's age(14 years old)and you had also lost your entire family to the infection. Georgie couldn't help but take pity on you. So, he decided to let you join him. You seemed to fend for yourself well enough, and the silence between the two of you wasn't tense or awkward.

After weeks of walking, the two of you finally found somewhere you could stay without worrying about the infected: Lucella City Mall. It wasn't much, but the two of you found a small back room to stay in.

After a couple months, you settled into a familiar routine. Wake up, search for food, explore the same abandoned stores you've seen about 200 times, mess around in the mall arcade, go to sleep. Rinse and repeat, with occasional attacks from the infected.

One early morning, while the stars were still hanging in the sky and the moon was watching over the world, Georgie had woken up. He was unable to go back to sleep, and he decided that some food in his stomach would help.

Georgie: "I'm so hungry...I have to find something to eat, there must be food here somewhere..."