Girl vs The Undead

Chapter 9 The Separation

(Three weeks later)

The Undead Kickers were settling in the apartment quite well. Rina was able to make the balcony safe with some barbed wire she took from one of the nearby department stores. She also used some other items from there to insure that zombies couldn't get up to the balcony.

While Jack did protest to this a bit as she needed his help, Rina went over all the zombie movies she saw when people who lived in apartments and didn't do this narrowly got killed. After that Jack shut up about this as he didn't want to antagonize Rina and felt like she did know what's best for this situation.

"Wow Rina you've seen more movies then me and Jack have. I gotta say I'm both impressed and jealous, how were you able to collect so much zombie stuff?" Chris asked.

"I'm just a collector for what I like, I was into zombies when I first heard about them when I was four years old." Rina explained.

"Wow really? I didn't get into them till I was thirteen. How did you even find out about them?" Jack asked.

"Well I once overheard Reg and my parents talking about something and I heard the word zombie. I asked them what a zombie was but they didn't tell me, like they didn't want me to know about them. However thankfully I had access to the internet as I was a very clever little girl and I googled zombies. After some research I instantly fell in love with the genre, I felt some sort of connection to the zombies whenever I saw them on the screen." Rina explained.

"Huh? Strange, I wonder why your folks didn't tell you about zombies when you asked about them the first time?" Jack asked.

"I don't know if they did a lot of strange things when I was a kid. Like I remember going to a public preschool, and kindergarten for a while but after that my parents moved me to homeschool. They also started putting me on medication for my disease but never said what I had." Rina explained.

"Strange, wonder if they were hiding something?" Chris asked.

"Possibly, but let's not focus on that right now, if we end up finding them then we'll ask questions." Jack said.

"We're going to find them, we just gotta find them. I'm not going to believe they're dead till I actually see them dead." Rina explained not wanting to believe that her parents were possibly gone.

The twins looked at each other before looking back at Rina, they sighed as they also didn't want to think that their mom was dead even if her chances of survival were high due to her inability to walk.

Rina sighed once again before getting up and saying "I'm going to go inside and check in with Janet on our food supplies."

She then went inside the apartment and looked around the place and saw everyone sitting around doing their own thing. She saw Lucy sitting with a fairy tale book (that they manage to find in Rina's wrecked home) reading it aloud to Boy who was sitting next to her intrigued by the story.

She saw Lee organizing their weapons and ammo out on the floor right behind the two young kids. She also saw Albert trying to teach his siblings how to read and write, admittedly his writing and reading wasn't masterly level but it was good enough for them. However Rina couldn't find Janet or Ron in the main area of the room they were staying in.

"Hey, does anyone know where Janet and Ron are?" Rina asked.

"Janet's in one of the rooms resting as she got done with her job of calculating our food supplies. As for Ron I got no clue on where he went." Lee explained.

"Okay thanks for letting me know, I'm going to cheek up on her." Rina said as she went into the room where Janet was.

When she got there she saw Janet sitting on the bed with a notebook in her hands writing notes in it.