Survival: a Girl's Best Friend

Chapter 12

Sabrina jumped back and tripped. Before Sabrina could fall, I caught her, Sabrina looked paler than usual and I felt her shake in my hands as if she was cold. The zombie that fell from the sky was extremley tall and ripped clothes. His eyes were grey like a dead fish's and his teeth were lemon yellow and were falling out of his rancid mouth. He reached for us with his long bony fingers and started taking large steps towards us. I wanted to run, I needed to run but I couldn't. My legs felt as if they were frozen where they stand. I tried to move, but my body wouldn't let me. I was too scared, I was scared. For some reason I felt as if this zombie was different, but I knew that wasn't true, a zombie is a zombie and they all die the same way.

I still had Sabrina in my arms when I realized that she wasn't moving either, I felt her shake even harder. Move legs, Goddamnit! I screamed in my head, but my legs refused. The zombie was only feet away from us. In a few seconds, our lives could end. As I watched the zombie come closer and closer I looked into his eyes, gray. Gray was the thing I was before a random burst of red. The zombie's head came flying off its neck and blood spilled everywhere. "Bridget!" I heard, it sounded like it was far away, but my eyes couldn't peel from the dead zombie in front of me. "Bridget!" I heard again, this time it was a lot closer, I finally pryed my eyes away from the dead body and saw Danny. He had my machete in his hands, the dark blade had dark blood dripping off of it. I didn't realize that he had taken out of my hands.

"Bridget, are you OK?" Danny said as he helped me to my feet. I opened my mouth but no words came out. "Bridget, talk to me!" Danny said a little louder as he put his hands on my shoulders and shook me. "Bridget, why didn't you run? You could of gotten killed along with Sabrina!" Danny said still shaking me. I hadn't realized that Sabrina had gotten up and was standing besides Danny, trying to get him to stop shaking me.

"I'm sorry," I said in a soft whisper

"You're sorry?! Sorry Bridget, but that doesn't cut it! I don't understand what has gotten to you lately, but you are getting weaker and weaker! I don't understand why you couldn't run away or at least but up a fight. When I first met you, you could easily kill zombies in a snap, but now, you can't even move your own legs to save yourself and what's worse is that you were holding on to Sabrina while she was trying to escape. You could of let her die, but no you just sat there, scared. It just amazes me that you were scared of one zombie! I don't know what's gotten into you, but you need to stop it or you will die and so will others around you!" Danny threw down the machete at my feet and, it made a loud clattering noise that echoed through the store as Danny angrily walked away from me.

"Don't worry about it Bridget, I was scared too. I think Danny is just angry that he almost lost people, again. So I wouldn't really worry about it, he just said those things because he wants to protect us, he is a guy after all and you know how guys are very complicated." Sabrina said with a smile on her face, she pulled me into a hug.

"I'm sorry Sabrina, I almost got you killed."

"Oh, don't worry about it, you were scared and so was I. Let's just hope that nothing like that happens again, OK?"

"OK," I said in a croaky whisper, my eyes began to burn and I couldn't help but cry. I cried into Sabrina's shoulder. I cried a lot longer than I expected to, when I lifted my head, Sabrina's shoulder was completley went with my tears. "Sorry," I said again, softly. "Don't worry about it, it is totally fine. You know what? I know exaclty what will make you feel better!" Sabrina said with a big smile, she grabbed my hand lead me up the stairs we were originally going up. With Danny following behind, we made it to the second floor, Sabrina lead me to this store called Victoria's Secret. I was very confused by the name of the store because when I looked inside, there was women's underwear, clothing, and makeup everywhere.

"First off you have to get new clothes and new underwear, do you know what bra size are you?" Sabrina said as she tapped her chin with finger until she looked at me. I had no idea what she was talking about, all this underwear stuff was done by my mother because I had no clue. My cheeks burned and I shrugged my shoulders. "Well I guess you just have to get measured." Sabrina said as she went behind the counter and pulled out a tape measure. "Arms up," She said to me, I did as she asked. She wrapped the tape measure around my breasts until she got a number. "Wow Bridget, you are 98 millimeters. Now if I remember correctly that is a D36." Sabrina walked away to the rack of bras and pulled a dark grey one off the rack and handed to me. "See if this fits," She guided me to the changing rooms. I walked inside and put it on, to my surprise it fit better than my old one. I put my shirt back one with the new bra and put three more in my backpack. Sabrina made me try on all these different types of clothes, normally I would of found this annoying, but today I found it fun.

After trying on different clothes and stuffing them into our packs, Sabrina said, "Now time for makeup," I never cared for makeup and probably never will, Sabrina grabbed my hand and dragged me to where the makeup was displayed. "First we are going to start with eye liner," Sabrina grabbed a black eyeliner pencil and traced around my lid until she had her fill. "Next, we are going to do eyeshadow and I'll let you pick the color," I looked at the different colors of eyeshadow and chose a black one. "Ah, going for a 'smokey' look?" Sabrina said as she got a makeup brush and started to put the eyeshadow on. "Now time for mascara, now you have to trust me on this one because it is going on your eyelashes." She took a mascara tube and pushed out a full brush, I gulped and tried to stay calm as she applied the mascara. "There we go all done with the eyes, now I am going to apply a little bit of blush, this is supposed to make your cheeks have a little more color," Sabrina picked up a light red blush and grabbed a large makeup brush and applied the blush. "There we go you are done Bridget! Oh my God, you look to beautiful! wait 'till Danny sees! But before that, you have to see yourself!" Sabrina grabbed my hand and lead to a mirror. To be honest I was a little scared to see myself but I looked anyway. I have never thought of myself pretty or beautiful, but Sabrina made me look actually good, for once in my life I thought I looked really pretty. The black on my eyes really made my blue eyes popped out and the blush captured the shape of my cheeks. "Wow," I said under my breath, "Thank you Sabrina, I never thought I could actually look like a girl." "You're welcome Bridget, you are a beautiful girl and sometimes a little makeup can really show it." Sabrina said with a large smile. By that time Danny had walked into the store and said, "Are you girls done shopping, I can't to be in here for one more second."

"Oh, we'll leave as soon as you see the makeup I did on Bridget."

"OK, fine show me, I can't stand it in here."

Sabrina put both of her hands on my shoulders and turned me towards Danny, my cheeks got warm and I hurried and looked down. "Oh, come on Bridget, I can't see it and I really want to leave this stupid store." Said Danny, sounding annoyed. I slowly lifted my head, my eyes met his. Instead of a stupid comment he sat there with his jaw slightly opened. "Well, aren't you going to say something cocky?" I said sounding annoyed too. "Oh Bridget, he is too shocked by your beauty. Well it looks like makeup can bring people together." I glarred at Sabrina with cold eyes as Sabrina smiled ear to ear. "OK, I agree with Sabrina, Bridget you do look very pretty, but seriously can we go now?" Danny finally said as he looked at Sabrina with pleading eyes. "Oh, fine we can go now, lets go get your coolers." Sabrina said as she walked in front of both Danny and me and lead the way.