Tessa Milwood vs The Apocalypse

Chapter 1:
The mall

I was walking in the mall, hand in hand with my boyfriend James on one side, and my best friend Taylor on the other side of me. It seemed like a pretty normal day, because it was. In fact it was the last normal day before any if this crazy shit happened. I'm Tessa, and this is my story of when the zombie apocalypse happened.

Like I said, we were walking in the mall, strolling through the halls to find someplace to shop when we finally decided to stop by a shoe store. Taylor and I tried on shoes while James just sat on the bench with his face in his phone.
" Tessa! U HAVE to try on these ones!!" Taylor exclaimed while she handed me a pair of pale pink flats.
"Fine. But only if u try on these ones," I said as I pulled a pair of strappy sea- blue heels off the rack.
I tried on the flats, and to my surprise I really liked them. I could tell that Taylor liked the shoes I picked out for her because she was jumping around squealing; her curly brown hair bouncing as she did. She looked up at me with her sparkly blue eyes that were almost the same colour as the shoes I picked out for her.
We decided that I would get the pink flats and she would get the heels. We paid for them and left the mall. I dropped off James first, giving him a quick peck on the lips as he left. Sometimes I felt like I was making Taylor the third wheel by having James and I together like this and having her just sit there awkwardly; probably fantasizing about my brother Adam. Then again, it's not like me and James did a lot of PDA or anything; some hand holding here, a hug there and possibly a peck on the lips. Nothing to make anyone else uncomfortable.
Once he closed the door I started driving back to my place. When we got inside we both raced upstairs; I wanted to go to my room, but Taylor had other plans. I was walking to my door when she stopped by Adam's.
" Hey Adam, we got new shoes; wanna see?" Taylor said all flirty, I just wanted to barf, but she puts up with me and James, so I can put up with her hitting on my brother.
" Um, i think I'll pass..... but thanks anyways I guess." Adam just shifted in his chair awkwardly, knowing that Taylor was trying to flirt with him.
I guess I could understand why she would flirt with him though. He was tall and muscly, with short light brown hair and shining deep blue eyes; if he wasn't my brother, I would probably be all over that too. He was kinda like a guy version of me though, I was tall, average strength, with wavy light brown hair; but I had green eyes, not blue. I didn't consider myself pretty; even though everyone always said I was. I just didn't see it.
We walked over to my room and I saw a little bit of hurt in Taylor's eyes. She probably imagined that to play out differently. Probably ending in him falling in love with her because she had amazing shoes. Something that would never happen, not in a million years at least.

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Hey anyone who's reading this! Now I don't usually read the authors note but please just read the next few sentences. I want to thank you for giving this a try and reading it. This is my first writing and I know it's probably not going to be very popular if anyone reads it so I want to thank you for reading it. Thanks so much, bye!
- Marissa