Don't get attached

Columbus and Virginia

It was like 5 am when I woke up to Jesse crying and shaking me awake. "MJ come on! Please we need to go!" he yells at me trying to pull me out of bed. "Hey calm down, I'm up, what the fuck happened? Why are you crying?" I say as I get up out of my bed. "406, she, she looked dead, she was chasing me, trying to bite me." he paused "I killed her, oh my god I killed her!" he says as he starts to panic even worse. "Hey, breathe, deep breaths," I tell him as he starts to calm down a little. "We have to go MJ pack a suitcase or something I already got mine but hurry up," he tells me, and I grab a travel bag. I throw some clothes, food, and water in the bag. I go to my closet and grab my knives, a shotgun, and two handguns. "Umm MJ why do you have-" "Do you want to know?" I interrupt him "Umm probably not," he says and I hand him the shotgun. I put my knives and one of my handguns in my waistband and throw my bag on my back. "Alright let's go carbon," I say as I grab my car keys and we both walk out the door.
A week later
"Umm MJ?" Jesse says shifting in his seat "What" I say annoyed because I know exactly what he's going to ask "So there's a gas station up ahead. Could we stop so I can go pee?" he asks me "Bro Seriously?" I say in an irritated voice "Please dude!" he says in an annoying voice. "Fine," I say pulling into the gas station. We both get out and Jesse starts walking towards the bathroom. I stand by the gas pumps waiting for any Muertos. "MJ car!" Jesse yells and when I look over to see him running from a muerto that is right behind him. "Shit," I say under my breath and we both run toward the car. When I get to the door I hear growling behind me. I fumble with the keys and I accidentally drop the keys onto the pavement "fuck!" I shout and I and Jesse do a lap around the store with the dead right behind us. Jesse grabs the keys off the ground and unlocks the doors. We climb in and start driving off. Little did we know a muerto was in the back seat. It grabbed me and almost bit me when Jesse crashed into the gas station and the muerto flew straight threw the windshield. "Rule 4 buckle up," Jesse says as we stare at the muerto. We were about to back up when two more came from both sides. "Let's just go," I tell him and Jesse pulls out and we start driving again.
We were able to drive for a couple more hours until my car battery died. "No no no no! Are you fuckin kidding me?" I shout and bang on the steering wheel. "Huh? Wait what happened?" Jesse asked as he woke up and sat up in his seat. "This pedazo de mierda just fucking died!" I yell as I get out and slam the car door. Jesse gets out and walks over toward me. "Hey it's fine we can find another car. I mean we're on the highway," he says pointing to all the cars. "Fuck that I'm just gonna walk," I tell him and start walking off. "Umm oh ok," he says and follows behind me. It was quiet for a while. The only things I hear are our footsteps and Jesse dragging his suitcase behind him. "Oh MJ I made some rules along the way do you wanna hear them?" Jesse says out of nowhere "No, shut the hell up" I say and keep walking. "Rule one: Cardio. When the virus struck the first ones to go were the fatties. Rule 2: double tap, if you're not sure if the undead is really dead, don't get stingy with your bullets" "Rule 3: be quiet, don't talk unless you're spoken to." I say interrupting his list of rules "Find then, don't come crying to me when you don't know actual third rule" he says in a quiet voice "Still don't care" I tell him.
We walk a few more hours, and Jesse was basically zoned out while walking and I felt like something was going to go wrong. 'If we meet anybody on the road we can't use our real names. Jesse doesn't need to get attached to anyone else. All we need is each other.' I thought to myself "Jesse, if we meet people while on the road don't say your real name, got it?" I tell him. "Umm ok but why?" he asks me. "First of all, it's dangerous, and you don't need to get attached to people. I know how you are." I tell him. "Wait you think ill get attached to strangers? You are my family, you're all that I need," he tells me as he stops and I turn to look at him. I smile a little and push his shoulder "Shut the hell up, Mano" I say and pull him into a hug. He hugs me back, then we start walking, again. We walked about 6 miles when we both heard a car. " Oh, Infierno," I say as we both see a car plowing through other cars and coming straight at us. I pull my gun out, and Jesse does the same " Get beside the car," I tell Jesse and he crouches beside the car. The car comes right beside us and stops "What the hell man?" I yell as the man stepped out of the car. The man was wearing a cowboy and boots. He was pointing a gun at us. Jesse walks up and stands beside me. I look over at Jesse to see him trembling with the gun in his hand. "Let me handle this man," I tell him but he doesn't lower the shotgun. Instead, I see him hold out his thumb, 'Seriously?' I think to myself then I see the cowboy lower his gun nod his head, and walk towards the hummer. "Listen, mano, when I say let me handle it, it means to let me handle it not back down," I say grabbing his arm. He doesn't say anything and just walks toward the man. "Ay dios mio" I whisper to myself and follow Jesse. We get to the car and I see Jesse get to the front seat. "Nope not happening hermana, " I say "Really? What- I mean, fine" he tries to argue but he gave up and got into the back seat. I get in front and the cowboy gets into the driver's seat "Thank you" Jesse says and looks around the car. "What are you lookin' for?" the man asks looking at Jesse. "He has a dumbass list," I tell him. Jesse glares at me and the man looked a little confused. "Nothin' back there except for my duffel bag," he says and Jesse looks at him and nods his head. "So what's your name?" he asks him and I hit his shoulder "what the hell did I tell you cabron" I say and look at the man "No names, we don't do names" I tell the man as I pull out my knife. "Thats somethin' I agree on" he says pulling out his knife, almost knocking over his whiskey. "Oh you almost knocked over your alcohol with your knife," Jesse says as I glare at him in the mirror.
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I hope you enjoy this chapter. I tried to make it as close to the movie as I could. If there are any mistakes please let me know!