Another Girl, Another Zombie: Another Way

Chapter 4

(Prepare yourselves, this is a long one~

This has taken over a week to get out, and that was mostly because of the idea I had. I was originally going to have Bree and Bonzo join Addison and Zed in the safe room but then I decided Someday is too sacred, it needs to be exclusive to Zeddison. So Bronzo needed something of their own, and I got so excited when I figured out where they could go instead. There's a long altered-canon scene leading up to it but I'm really proud of the Someday parallel scene here. My friends on Tumblr will know how much time and effort I've put into it *^*

And thanks to grumpy-tea-enthusiast on Tumblr for suggesting Eliza's nickname for Bree!

(Same music as Someday, with a slightly different tune. It's called Know Me, Know You) )

"Hello, students, this is Principal Lee. As you may have heard, zombie students are now allowed to eat in the cafeteria."

Despite the shock and disgust of the other students around them, Bree and Addison couldn't help sharing a look of pure joy.

"Ugh... Just deal with it!"

They both rolled their eyes. Nothing was going to dampen their good mood now. After the disaster of the pep rally, Bree was worried things were going even further downhill for the zombies but apparently, she was wrong. A door was opened by a pair of patrol officers and there they were, Bonzo and Zed (and Eliza), closely followed by a horde of nervous-looking zombies. That had to be why the tables in the far corner of the room – the ones by the trash cans – had been empty.

The new students made their way across the cafeteria, passing by the special, sectioned-off tables reserved for the cheer squad, and as they did, Bonzo smiled at her with a small wave. She went to wave back, shyly, but then she caught sight of Bucky at the captain's table. His brow was furrowed, his expression beyond disgusted. Bree dropped her hand and turned back around in her seat. Addison, however, hadn't seen the way Bucky was sneering, too focused on Zed looking back at her and smiling. Once the zombies had settled, Addison turned to Bree with a wide grin.

Bree, on the other hand, was slightly more... apprehensive.

"If you really cared about him, you'd just go."

Eliza's words rang in her head, loud and clear.

"You don't know him."

She did want to know him, though, wasn't that enough? But the real question at hand was should she? What would it mean for Bree to get to know Bonzo, like, really know him? Where would that take her?

"Bree?" a voice said and a hand waved in front of her, "Are you OK, Bree?"

She blinked and looked up at Addison, who had torn her eyes away from Zed when she saw her friend's thoughtful expression.

"I was just thinking..."

"About what?"

"The... zombies..."

"Like, in general or like... our zombies?"

Somehow, Bree felt both a flutter in her heart and a pit forming in her stomach at the thought of Bonzo as "her zombie".

"Well," she sighed, "I mean, is this a good idea? You saw what happened at the pep rally. What if Bucky just keeps trying to scare them off? Or what if it gets worse than that?"

"But they're here. They're in the cafeteria. That's a good sign, right?"

"I guess..." she trailed off then noticed Addison was staring past her again with a dreamy smile on her face, "You are being a little too obvious, though. You know your cousin's watching."