Me Vs Zombies [Book 1 & 2]

[Book 2] Chapter 23

[Payton's POV]

'I feel ridiculous.' I mumbled as I twirled around in front of Ben, my new clothes unlike everyone elses were especially picked out by Paul for me to wear. 'I feel like a nun.'

Ben laughed as he stood up and stepped around me, inspecting me.

It wasn't hard to know that I looked like an idiot with my long brown skirt which reached my ankles and large black leather long sleeved t-shirt. 'Honestly. This wasn't safe to wear before the Apocalypso let alone now.'

Ben looked down to my bed and picked something up from it. 'Oh, Payton! But we can't forget the matching hat to go with it!'

I stared down at the hat in his fingers in disgust, the hat was a disgusting dark green colour and it was even stained a dirty brown colour on the corners.

'No.' I simply grumbled, slapping it out of his hands. 'I'm not even wearing this skirt! I have a pair of trousers in my bag. I'm wearing that. I can cope with this t-shirt but this frigging skirt deserves to be burnt.'

I walked to my bed in the corner of the room and fished my bag from beneath it, I pulled out some things before my fingers clasped around my spare pair of jeans, I pulled them up my legs underneath the skirt before grabbing my knife and ripping down from the waist to the toe of the skirt, throwing it from me in disgust.

'Good. I have a little bit of dignity back at least.'

'I doubt that.' Ben scoffed with a smile on his face.

'I will kick your arse.'

'Good for you. Anyway, Eugene said to meet him in Paul's office, he's talking to him now about hunting trips and what we can do, Daryl came past a few minutes ago and said that a few off us can go on todays hunt. I said that you and Charlotte would defintily be going.'

'And why's that?'

'They're going to Portsmouth.'

'What? Really?'

'Yeah, they're going to do a quick sweep, look in some big stores like that huge Tesco on the main road.'

'That's two blocks from my house!' I gasped as I ran at Ben. 'So we're going there!'

'You'll have to talk to Eugene. Me and Demi are staying here, I'm looking after Luke and I'm treating him, Paul talked to me this morning about it and as we have trust issues for the moment I can care for him and just ask for help if needed...'

'How is Luke?' I asked.

'Good.' He smiled sweetly. 'I got some nurses to help me bandage up all of his limbs, I had to insert some metal bars here and there so the bones fix straight, he's got a snapped rib but I managed to treat that, he's very lucky, it was 2 centimetres from his heart, any closer and he wouldn't be here. He's a very lucky kid.'

'Lucky.' I sighed. 'Sure, that's the word.'

'I know.' He replied. 'But at least he's not dead... By the way, when you're out can you see if you can pass by my house, just see if everything alright well not alright but... y'know... You remember where I lived right.'

'Yeah.' I sighed. 'Do you want me to grab anything?'

'No. Don't risk it incase any things inside.' He whispered, he dropped his head to the floor and slung his hands into his pockets. 'Don't take any risks, don't even think about dying, if you don't come back I'll frigging kill you.'

I smiled as I stepped into his body and wrapped my arms around his back. 'Thanks, Ben. Guess you don't hate me that much afterall.'

'Shut it.'