I waited until everyone in the house was asleep. Then, after texting my girlfriend that I was on my way, I went out and snuck across the fields to the fast food place.
I met up with her and we went inside, making sure that no lights escaped through the blinds. We sat at our usual place and ordered our usual food.
We were away from the world for a few minutes together. There were no tracking apps, face masks or quarantines here. Just good company and good food.
We sipped our sodas through plastic straws. We put far too much salt, ketchup and malt vinegar on our huge portions of chips. We had pure well done quarter pounder burgers topped with crispy bacon.
We sat opposite each other in a booth that was enormous. We played video games that were built into the table. We chatted about our day, what video games and movies we were enjoying.
We would briefly look outside our booth to the TV that displayed 24 hour apocalypse news. Then we'd laugh and go back to our own world.
When it was time to go, we left and headed home. In the distance we could see blue flashing lights of police checkpoints. I snuck back in and got a good night's sleep, dreaming nice dreams.
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