Chapter 1

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Spinning around I shoot a cold one in the head. " Phew, close." I say wiping my sweat off on my shirt. " Too close." Someone says behind me. I spin on my heel holding my handgun to their temple, " Name." I say sternly. " Take the gun down-." " NAME." I say louder pressing hard on their temple, " M-maliki." she says. I pull my gun back to my side and let her move her head. " I saw you in the town, I followed you, I'm out of ammo, food and water. I understand you're alone, with the dog and like it that way, but I need a group." She says with pleading eyes, while my dog sits looking at the red brown and orange leaves on the ground. " I'm not alone, I have a group, and they want me to ask you some questions if I find you." I say confusing her at the end. " If I find survivors, which I did, I ask them, One: bitten, Two: sick, Three: crazy, and Four: what do you offer for the group." " Bitten, no, sick, no crazy, in the good way and I offer some good hand to hand combat and I'm a good tracker." She replies. " Welcome home." I say smiling walking forward through the woods.

I part the bushes in front of me and walk into camp. " I'm home!" I say rather loudly but not alarming the coldies. " Your back, who's this?" " It's Maliki, found her in the town, she answered the questions too." I say. " Well, let's introduce ourselves, your savior is Hannah, our sniper an gatherer, I am Travis , hannah's boyfriend and the leader, that girl running around is Cassandra but call her Cassie she is our cook and morning alarm, over there is Pace, he is our medic, and last but not least, Jc he is our go to driver and gatherer for meds for Pace." Travis says. " Hi, T." I say hugging him and putting my face in his shoulder. " Hey Bunny." He says hugging me back kissing my head. " Do we have enough food for all of us?" I ask looking at Cassie. " Yeah, but you and Travis are going to need to hunt tomorrow." She says. " Mkay." I say letting go of Travis, and walking to the fire as I saw the sun seeping down into the hills and Maliki walking towards me. " I wanna sing, but I want you to sing first." She says sitting on the log. " Ok I guess so, here it goes," I start off shakily but gaining confidence,

Are you, are you, Coming to the tree,

Where they strung up a man they say murdered three,

Strange things did happen here

No stranger would it seem,

If we met at midnight

In the hanging tree,

Are you, are you

Coming to the tree,

Where the dead man called out

For his love to flee,

Strange things did happen here

No stranger would it seem,

If we met at midnight

In the hanging tree,

Are you, are you,

Coming to the tree,

Where I told you to run

So we'd both be free,

Strange things did happen here

No stranger would it seem

If we met at midnight,

In the hanging tree

Are you, are you,

Coming to the tree,

Wear a necklace of hope

Side by side with me,

Strange things did happen here

No stranger would it seem,

If we met at midnight In the hanging tree

Are you, are you, Coming to the tree

Where I told you to run

So we'd both be free,

Strange things did happen here

No stranger would it seem, If we met at midnight, In the hanging tree."

I end and she hugs me. " You gonna sing now?" I ask. " No, Travis told me to get you to sing, so I did." She said and I laugh. " Love you too T." I laugh.

I woke up from Cassie flicking my head. I yawn and rub my eyes from a sleepless night. " Ugh." I say taking my hair down and looking in my bag for the clothing I found in the town. I slip on my gray tank top, camo t-shirt, tan khaki jeans, dc sneakers, and look at what's for breakfast, " Rabbit, and some herbs from the woods, don't worry, I know what they are oregano, and thyme." Cassie says handing me a plate, I wolf it down as I usually do and sit on the log waiting for Travis to finish his 'meal'. He gives the plate back to Cassie and I grab my gun and he gets his from his tent. " Ready?" I ask. " Yeah let's go." He says putting his arm around my shoulders. " I hope we see a buck." I say as he lets go of my shoulders. " Me too." He says. " I'm going to my hill here's a walkie, walkie me if something goes wrong 'kay?" I say. " I'm only worried about you." He says hugging me, then as I walk away blushing he says, " Love you." " Love you too T."

Sitting on my hill I keep watch for any animals passing by, so far I have two squirrels and one rabbit. " When will the buck come." I sigh to, 'myself'. " I know right." I hear through the walkie. " Sat on the button again Jace." Aydin says laughing then stops abruptly, I whisper, " Is everything ok?" He did not hear me the button was pressed down, I hear a shot and something fall. " YES!" he screams and notices his button was pushed and he said, " I got a buck!" he says and un presses the button. " Thats awesome, you need help bringing it back to camp?" I say. " Yeah it's huge one." he says as I slide down my hill off to where he told me to go. " Her- holy." I say looking at the 8 point buck lying on the ground with aydin smiling like the Cheshire Cat next to it. " Nice T" I say hugging him then pecking his lips and let go from the hug. " Good thing we are not to far from the camp." I say grabbing the antlers as he grabs the legs " One... Two... Three." He count as we lift up on three. We shuffle to the camp and set it down on a tarp for the kills along with my two squirrels and the rabbit. " Good job T." Jc says horribly mimicking my voice " Shut up you goof troop." I say. Joking with Jc as he goes back to working on the car to make it run quieter and faster. "Ready to gut this shit?" i ask grabbing my knife and cutting the stomach open farther away from the camp than usual and putting it it on a tarp for it to be brought somewhere far away from camp. We finish gutting the buck and have a large amount of meat left on a separate tarp that is going to be set in a hole with ice that formed overnight, for it has been growing colder each night. "Jc, ready for the tow." i say as we tie the sides together, he comes back in a go cart we had found a while back. He helps Travis and i load the tarp in back and i go with him to watch his back and travis head back to camp. we finish up setting it down with only two walkers that were around, i successfully jabbed both in the back of the head at the same time, thank you switchblades. We drive back to camp and see them starting a fire "Wheres T?" i ask " He went to go to the bathroom, he hasn't been back in a while, i think we need to go check on him." Cassie says " No i got it." i say "which way'd he go?" i ask she points in the direction "thanks." i say walking in the direction. i hear him scream, an i bolt, running to where it came from. "Oh god, Oh no, no no no!" i yell, the walker looks at me, stopping from chewing on his neck, I look at with anger in my eyes, i walk to it switching the blade out in my hand, and stab it's ey and shove it off Travis, " T? T talk to me." i say stuttering tears brimming my eyes, not him not now. "H-Hey bunny, tell them what happened, d-don't let me turn." he pleads, i wipe the blood away from his face and kiss him one last time, he kisses back but soon stops, he's gone. i cry silently stabbing his temple, my arms are covered in his blood and my tears. I bring him back to camp, still crying. "Hannah what are you- oh my god." maliki runs to me and help me set him down

"he's gone, he's dead." 

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