The undead

Jo's POV (9)

Maquela

I'm still sitting on the ground by Cassy. Her breath hitches and I stand.

"Cassy?" I whisper.

She wakes up and I squeal.

"She's awake!" I yell.

Riley licks her.

"Pleaaaaseee no questions yet." She pleads. Me and LJ nod.

I go into the other room to get the boys while LJ and Cassy talk.

"Boys?" I whisper. "Boys wake up!" I say. They don't budge. I slap their feet.

"Wake up!" I yell. They open their eyes, scan the room and once they see no danger Jason says

"Five more minutes!"

I tap my finger in my chin. I grin.

"Cassy is awake." I say. That got them up, they ran and hugged Cassy.

"Where were up you?" They say in unison.

She waves them away, saying she's hungry. She mentioned a little boy and a tear rolls down her cheek.

I ask her what happened to him and she said there were too many zombies.

She finishes telling us the story and gets up.

I put an arm on her shoulder.

"We need to talk." I whisper, gesturing in between us three. We do need to talk. We need to talk about what's happening.

Lilly tells the boys to go into their room.

"Their getting too confident." I say, with concern written on my face.

"Who? The boys? Well, they've been through a lot, its going to change them."

"No. The undead." LJ says.

I nod and we both tell Cassy out encounters with them.

"What do we do?" Cassy says once we finish.

I shrug.

She tells us we can just sleep on it and disappears into the next room.

I sigh.

"I'm so glad she's OK." I say.

"I know right? I was so worried." LJ says.

"Do you have any ideas for our next shelter?" I ask.

"This little shack is safe, don't you think?" Lilly says. I nod.

"Yeah, I guess, but-"

"LJ! Jo!" I hear Cassy yell.

"What?!" I scream.

She tells LJ to stay here and I come with her.

She tells me to get daggers and I do.

We head out and Cassy told me there were some outside.

"Jo! They were here!" She exclaims. I shake my head.

All of a sudden, a horde of the undead come out and I scream.

Cassy gets her sword out and screams "This. Is. SPARTA!" and I can't help but laugh at her little out burst.

I stab a zombie in the stomach and it falls dead. I slice off another ones head. The last one that comes at me.....I freeze.

I recognize this little girl. This little girl was the girl that would always sell lemonade and cookies on our block. She was so sweet and adorable. Now she's a rotting corpse that has a missing arm and her face has sunk into her skull.

"Hope?" I whisper. She stops moving towards me and I gasp.

"Hope.... is that you?" I whisper again. She tilts her head and her dirty black hair falls of her shoulders.

"Me is Hope" She whispers. I scream. Cassy looks at me while fighting off a zombie and I just give her a signal that I'm fine.

I lift up my dagger and she growls at me.

"I'm so sorry Hope." I say. I stab her in the eye and kick her with my combat boot,as she screams in agony.

We walk back to the shed once we are done.

Cassy twisted her ankle and I have a few scratches.

Lilly checks the ankle and I go to sleep.

That night I have nightmares about Hope.