HI! This is my first time writing a Fanfic so please feel free to review as harsh as you want (I won't take it personally) I'm probably going to continue to write this as a mini series if people want it, dont worry, i have plans that will include season 2 characters and might alter some things, but for now since this is about a whole new character, this is just an introductory chapter to her. Please give the first chapter a chance and i will try to upload whenever i can (i have alot of free time) Thank you :)

Sam had been surviving in the apocalypse for about 3 years now. It all started when she was 15 and a junior in high school. Her life was so easy then, her only worries was passing her French test and finding a date to homecoming. She had remembered her last "normal day" so vividly. Waking up to her annoying alarm clock and pressing snooze until her mom woke her up. Walking to school with her childhood friends Nick and Luke. They were seniors at the time, but they had known each other since before they could remember. Sam's mom was close friends with Nick's uncle, Pete who lived a few houses down the street with his sister and Nick's mom Andrea. As for Luke, he lived around the block but was always hanging out with Nick. They treated Sam as a littler sister, and she treated them as the big brothers she never wanted. They would just annoyer her and tease her at school all the time, but she loved them as if they were actually her brothers. She missed them so much, almost as much as her mother, who died very early in the apocalypse. They were all at school when the dean spoke on the announcements, she remembered his voice so clear.

"Students, there has been a national epidemic going on right now. You are to walk, in an orderly fashion to your bus that will take you home. All your parents have been notified this and should be waiting for you to get home. Please, I want all of you to be safe."

Then there was panic, people thinking that there was a terrorist attack, others thinking that aliens were attacking. Sam was worried but stayed calm, as she made her way to her locker to return her books. She said bye to her friends Sadie and Jon, who walked by and waited. As she expected, she saw Luke and Nick walking down the hall to her, carrying nothing.

"Where's all your crap?' She asked.

"What do you mean?" Nick asked her back.

"I mean your books and shit." She responded while turning a little to show them her backpack.

"Nothing's gonnna be due tomorrow with this 'national epidemic' thing going on." Luke responded.

"Whatever, but I don't want to hear you guys complaining when you start failing your classes"

They started to walk home, barley noticing how crammed the streets were with cars filled to the brim and the excessive amount of AVs for the school season. As they approached Sam's house, she said bye and unlocked the door. She already noticed that her mother's car was gone, implying that she was still at work (being a single mom isn't easy you know). Curious as to what was actually going on, she turned on the news and couldn't believe her eyes.

"..Panic in the streets while the dead have seemingly come back to life and are feeding on the living." The news reported stated while it looked like he was standing in a city and there was a lot of people running around behind. His report was cut short by somebody coming up behind him and taking a bite right out of his neck. Blood squirted everywhere as another person came and bite his hand. The screen went black for a few moments while tears started to fill Sam's eyes. Then it came back on with "standby" on the screen. Sam rushed through her bag to find her phone, which had 3 missed calls from Mom and 2 voicemails. She listened to the first one.

"Sweetie, its mom, I'm going to try to come home ok? Just stay there and wait for me, don't talk to anyone until I get there," She could hear muffled screaming in the background. "I have to go, I'll see you soon Sammy"

Sam was now really worried as to what was going on at the restaurant her mother worked at. The only other time her mom called her Sammy was when her father died in that car crash a few years ago, other than that Nick and Luke would call her it to annoy her, if only they knew she actually loved it. She pressed play on the second voicemail now. Her mother's voice was heard but was full of tears.

"Sam, I don't think I'm gonna make it home. I need you to go to Pete and Andreas house Ok? Tell then I can't make it, they'll keep you safe. I love you." The voicemail ended.
Sam could feel the tears coming up, but pushed them back down. This was not a time to start crying. Sam had always been a tough girl, and this was the toughest thing that she had ever had to do. She grabbed her phone and ran to Pete's house. To her surprise Luke opened the door and she immediately hugged him. "Luke! Where's Pete, I need him to take me to the restaurant."

"Hey, calm down, he's in the back room." Luke said.

Sam went back there to find Andrea packing bags and Pete opening his gun case for his hunting rifles.

"Sam!" Andrea rushed over to her with open arms. "Where's your mother?"

"She's still at work, could you give me a lift over there?" Sam asked

"Well, sweetie, your mom actually called me and told me to take you out to the country with us." Pete said

"What! What about her? We can't just leave her here!" Sam started to protest.

"Relax she said she's gonna find another way out ok? Just come with us for now" Pete responded

Nick came down the stairs with a bag, "Y'all ready?" He asked.

"Yup, let's get a move on." Pete ushered us all to his truck. Sam could hear screaming from all over and the distant sound of car horns.

"Pete, we shouldn't take the main road out, go the back way" Andrea told him.

"I know I ain't stupid!" He responded sitting down in the driver's seat with Andrea in the passenger's seat.

Sam sat between Nick and Luke in the back seat for what felt forever until they reached a road block. There were government cars everywhere, with soldiers holding guns.
Pete got out of the car "What is all this shit?" He asked one of the soldiers,

"Sir, we're gonna need you to get back into your vehicle." The Solider responded coldly.

"Like hell I will, not until you tell me what's going on!" Pete demanded.

"Uncle Pete just get back into the car please." Nick pleaded from Sam's left.

"Nick, just stay out of this!" Pete snapped back. "Look, I just want to know why the roads-"Pete took a step forward until the solider raised his gun.

"Sir, im not gonna asked again. Please return to your vehicle now!" Pete stepped back before hearing a gunshot to the right of the car. There was a whole bunch of the undead making its way to the main road. There was no way the car was making it out if this jam. "Everybody out!" Pete yelled over the sound of gunshot. Luke took Sam's hand and lead here after Pete. Sam kept looking around to see soldiers killing people who she didn't know if they were dead already. Eventually more people followed their lead and began to start a crowd, trying to get off the main road. There were so many people and Sam started to fall behind, eventually, her hand slipped out of Luke's firm grip.

"SAM!" He yelled over the crowd of people.

"Nick? Luke?" Sam tried to yell, but her voice was crushed by the sound of hundreds of screaming people. Sam was terrified so she ran. She ran and ran and ran until she made it to a forest. She walked until she was a car.

"Hello?" She asked nobody answered. She got closer until she saw that it was a police car that crashed. She walked around the car and to her horror, saw trails of blood, and a dead cop lying there. She then began to break down and cry. She cried for her mom, who was probably dead, for all her friends at school her were probably dead, and for losing Nick and Luke, her closet thing to a family. After she was done, she swore to never cry again, and to find Luke and Nick again. So she got up on her feet and walked until she couldn't walk no more.