"Damn, this hurts like hell..."

Henry muttered to himself—a habit he'd picked up after the apocalypse—as he clumsily tied a bandage around his arm inside the abandoned pharmacy.

It had been a whole year since Henry had any human contact (more like a whole year without SEEING a human). He'd simply woken up one day and boom! there was nobody in the streets, not in the busiest areas, not even inside the houses, as if everyone had suddenly decided to move somewhere else without telling him.

"Wow, I never thought the day would come when I'd miss hearing my mother's voice yelling at me..."

He snorted to himself as he continued bandaging the wound on his arm, the same one those damned wild dogs had made.

"What a shitty day."

Frustrated, he threw the bandage to the ground, letting it bounce away, and took a long breath, trying to ease the pain in his arm.

A whole year of solitude was driving him crazy. Okay, yes, now he could do whatever he wanted in this new world without people, no need to work nine to five, no rent to pay, and he eat more than just cheap food... But please, he's still as miserable as he was before, still just as alone, and... a virgin...

"Hey, at least you're not dead yet... Yet..."

He sighed and ran a hand over his ugly face, trying to cheer himself up. But who was he kidding? Henry was only two minutes away from grabbing the gun from behind his pants, putting it in his mouth, and—

The sound of a car being parked outside the pharmacy made him quickly turn his head in the direction of the sound. Henry didn't think twice and ran out of the pharmacy, yanking the door open to see what or who was responsible for that noise.

Please, please, for the love of God, if you exist, tell me there's someone else in this hell...

And yes, his pleas were answered. His breath caught in his throat as he saw another person getting out of a car. His eyes quickly filled with tears of emotion. How many nights had he spent alone, waiting for someone to come and keep him company?

His words caught in his throat, unable to say anything.