(ON HOLD)My Life In The Zombie Apocalypse... With A Twist!

Part 31 /Everything has changed

I know I'm awake, but I can't move. I can't open my eyes. I can hear everything around me but I can't do anything about it. I attempt to open my eyes but fail miserably. It feels like I have bricks tied to my eye lids. Then I hear voices. 'Is that Zack?'

"What are you talking about!?" Zack yelled to the person unknown. "You don't even know her! How can you say that!?" He continued his rant.

"I know I don't know her Zack but if she doesn't wake up soon something is going to have to change." The other voice said. 'Who is that?' I thought, but continued to listen. "She has been asleep for too long... we may have to put her down... For all you know she is suffering!" The persons voice grew louder at the last part.

'Wait? Put her down!? Do they mean me!?' I panicked. 'Open your damn eyes women!' I yelled at myself.

"We're not killing her Ryan!!!!" Zack yelled at 'Ryan'.

"If you won't man up and do it I will!!!" Ryan yelled.

"No!!!" Zack screamed. I could hear footsteps rapidly coming towards me. "RYAN STOP!!!" Zack yelled again. Soon I heard more footsteps that I guessed were Zack's. "Leave her alone!"

'I have to wake up dammit! Open your eyes! Don't be such a pussy and open your god damned eyes before you die!' I yelled at myself. My eyes suddenly shot open.

"NOT DEAD!" I screamed as loud as I could. When I did a pair of big brown eyes widened in shock and a pair of green ones flooded with relief. "Zack!" I yelled and sat up a little allowing him to hug me. "He was gunna kill me!" I yelled looking at the blonde man next to me with his gun drawn.

"Wait? You heard all that?" Zack asked shocked. Ryan still stood still.

"Yes, I could hear you and I knew I was awake but I couldn't open my eyes. I was so scared Zack!" I cried pulling Zack into another hug.

"It's alright now... you don't have to be scared." He soothed me. It was only then I realized we were no longer at the camp sight. I was in a bedroom...

"Where are we?" I asked pulling out of the hug and swinging my legs over the side of the bed. Once I was out of the covers, I looked down at myself. I felt weak and I was boney. "How long was I out?" I asked before he could answer the first question.

"Meet Mason." He said as I just noticed a man standing in the doorway. "We are in his house." Zack introduced.

"What? Why? How?" I asked.

"The camp was over run... I couldn't just leave you so I carried you. Once we were safe Mason here found us and let us stay here." He explained. "You've been out for almost a month."

"A month?!" I half yelled, suddenly feeling light headed. "It everyone ok?! Where are they?!" I asked frantically.

"We had someone with us at the camp, Cassie, but she didn't make it." Zack said.

"What about the others? Carson? Bri? Daryl? Uncle John?" I rushed him. As soon as I mentioned my uncle Zack's face dropped and his gaze turned to the floor. "Zack?" I called to him but he didn't budge. "Zack look at me." I said getting more angry, but he refused to look at me. He was acting like the floor was the most interesting thing in the world. "Zack? Where is my uncle?" I said with force.

"He's.... Gone." He said and my heart instantly dropped. Tears began to fill my eyes as I shook my head in denial. "I'm sorry Kaitlynne. When we rescued you, he didn't make it..." He said sadly.

"No, no, no, no, no, NO!!!" I screamed as tears began to stream down my face. "NO!" I kept screaming. Everyone in the room just watched, not knowing what to do. Bri and Carson must have heard my screams because they were soon at the door. "No..." I said a lot weaker and buried my face in my hands. I sat there and cried for the longest time... I never cried about him when I first thought he was dead... but now it's different. He's gone and he won't ever come back...

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I woke up to the sun shining in my face. 'When did I fall asleep?' I thought. I slung my legs over the side of the bed and stood up. I only felt a small pain in my leg as I walked over to the dresser. Laying there was some shorts, a t-shirt, a bra, and underwear.

I picked up the small stack of clothes and walked into the bathroom. I slipped on the clothes and looked in the mirror. My hair was a mess. I grabbed a nearby brush and pulled it through my hair until there were no more tangles.

Then I noticed something else. My hair was super long. I pulled open a drawer and found a pair of scissors. 'Am I really gunna do this?' I asked myself. No matter how much I don't want to I have to. If a walker gets ahold of my hair I'm a gonner. 'Here goes nothing!'

Snip!

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I looked in the mirror one more time at my now shoulder length hair and stepped out of the bathroom.

As soon as I walked out of the room a savory smell hit my nose, causing my stomach to erupt into a stampede of grumbling. I jogged down the stairs and turned left and pushed the door open closest to me. When I entered I realized it was the kitchen. The Island in the middle was a mess. Scattered with egg shells, flour, and several other ingredients. Then I took a look at the people responsible for the mess.

"Carson! Bri!" I yelled running over to them. They both turned around and were instantly engulfed in my arms. "Kaitlynne!" They screamed simultaneously returning the hug. I pulled away and looked at their smiling faces. I put on a small smile back to them. We squealed and hugged one more time before we started to speak.

"I'm so happy to see your ok!" Bri said showing her pearly white teeth. 'I wonder how she kept her teeth so white during the apocalypse.' I wondered. "And did you cut your hair?"

"Thank you for noticing!" I said doing a fake flip of my short brown hair.

"Me too and I like your hair like that!" Carson said showing a just as white smile. 'Seriously! How the heck do they do that!?'

"Thanks guys!" I chirped showing, what I hoped was a white a smile. "Do you guys know where I would find Max and Daryl?" I asked. As soon as their names escaped my lips they looked at the ground and blushed.

"They are out back working with Ryan." Carson said not looking up from the ground. I said an awkward 'ok' before heading to the back door. 'What was that about?'

I went out the back door and saw the boys. Ryan and Max were working on the fence while Daryl was working with guns. I also noticed Bo was laying under a nearby tree. "Hey!" I yelled making all heads turn to me. "Ya miss me?" I asked. Suddenly both Daryl and Max ran to me.

They both tacked me in a hug. I laughed and hugged them back. "I'm so sorry!" Daryl gushed causing me to pull away and look at him confused. "It's all my fault, I should have kept an ey-" I cut him off.

"You stop right there. This" I gestured to my slightly scarred body. "Was in no way your fault. I don't blame you so you should stop blaming yourself. If it was anybody's fault it was Carver's." I said sternly. He looked me in the eyes and nodded. I looked at both of them and gave them each an individual hug before saying 'I'm gunna go find Zack' and walking off.

I walked back to the house and went to the front door. I looked out the window to see Zack and Mason packing up a car. 'What the hell?' I thought before rushing out the front door and running to them. "What the hell are you doing? Your not going anywhere." I pointed to Zack. "I just woke up and now your leaving again?!" My voice started to raise.

"I'm sorry. But I have to go! I can't let Mason go alone!" He explained.

"The hell you can! Ask someone else to do it if you must but your not going! I don't want to loose you when I just got you back!" I yelled a little louder now. He walked over to me and placed a gentle hand on my cheek.

"I won't be leaving you anytime soon." He said looking me in the eye. "I promise..." I simply nodded. He backed away from me and joined Mason in the car and drove off.

Oh Zack... You should stop making promises you just can't keep....