Perfectionism in Pink | A Zombies FanFiction

11

"Hey, Jett!"

Josephine paused in the hallway, gripping her books tighter as she heard running steps come up behind her. Swallowing, she turned around and faced the familiar bright face of Zed the zombie. He usually wasn't so brazen talking with her, especially with other cheerleaders around. The Acey's were staring right at them.

She was sure they never even blinked.

"Hey, can you do me a favor? You have practice today yeah?"

Josephine gave a small nod, looking as many places as she could besides the zombie. Zed brushed off the behavior and pulled out a green envelope with a smile.

"Can you give this to Addison, please? She's not supposed to talk to me, but we've been trying to make this work." Zed whispered out, passing the paper off to a hesitant Josephine. "But, you're pretty cool and I trust you."

She wished the friendly punch on her shoulder he gave her as he walked away was harsher and to the face so that she could feel the repercussion of her sins.

"What's this?" A voice behind her popped over her shoulder, another hand going over her other shoulder to snatch the envelope. She didn't fight it and let the Acey's tear it open and mock the contents. Josephine didn't even pay attention, to at least give Zed a little bit of privacy. "Ugh, gross."

"So good to know you are doing your job now, fresh meat." Bucky chuckled, walking in front of Josephine with the green paper in his hands. With a smile he tore it in half, then again, then again, until it was nothing but shreds. "Here. Do something with this trash."

Lacey pulled off Josephine's book bag and the cheer captain shoved the shreds into it deep down. "Keep up the good work, fresh meat." Bucky mocked Zed's punch but pushed a little hard to tip the girl off balance and each Acey did the same, leaving Josephine with mental images of return the favor and rubbing her shoulder.

Zed would give her three more letters over the next couple of weeks and Josephine would watch the cheerleaders mock them dramatically, holler in laughter, before tearing them up and shoving them into Josephine's book bag once again.

She kept them to remind herself of how much of an awful human she was.

With the homecoming game that afternoon, Josephine was running last minute errands for Bucky and his minions. She was picking up his fancy waters, his dry cleaned cheer outfit, dry cleaned after cheer-cheer outfit, and some fruit for the team to snack on before game time hit. 

Everything was in her hands when she froze at the sight in front of her. Addison and Zed? But as a human?

She watched with wide eyes as the human Zed walked with Addison into he frozen yogurt store and she only knew it was him when he hissed in pain, showing his Z-Band. When he looked up, their eyes met and his widened.

Biting her cheek, she offered a weak smiled before mimicking zipping her mouth and throwing him the key. Gratefully, he caught it and shoved it into his own pocket before being dragged inside by a familiar blonde.

That could not end well, could it?

But her problem right now was getting everything safely to school and before her time ran out, lest she be further humiliated by Bucky. She couldn't afford anymore mistakes.

When she entered the familiar room, she frowned. The four were standing in front of a familiar laptop smirking away at the screen while Lacey typed quickly. "What's that?" Josephine asked quietly while setting out the fruit and waters for everyone.

"Come, why don't you see for yourself." Bucky waved Josephine over and grabbed her by the shoulders to show her what exactly was on the screen. The brunette wasn't a computer person by any means, but she definitely recognized Zed's face on it and her frown deepened. "We got into Zed's Z-Band."