People Who Cried Zombies

Author's Note: Rex will appear in this story later, but he won't be a puppet.

We were walking through Atlanta, my girlfriend holding my hand.

"Chris?" She asked me.

"Yeah, Jade?"

"You alright?"

"I don't know…"

I recently lost my parents in a car wreck and my girlfriend, Jade West, was more worried about me than the rest of our friends. I am glad about one thing: Jade and Tori finally became friends.

Me, Jade, and our friends all were in Atlanta on a senior class trip that Sikowitz arranged for us and Jade and I were on our way back to the hotel we were staying at after going on a lunch date. Jade offered the date to try and help me feel better, which it did for me.

We made it back to the hotel, then went to the lounge where our friends were and sat down. Tori sat in Beck's lap, Cat sat in Robbie's lap, and Andre and Trina sat across from each other. We were waiting for Sikowitz to come back to the hotel. After I sat down, Jade sat in my lap.

"How was the date, you guys?" Tori asked.

"Great, as always." Jade and I said at the same time, which doesn't really surprise them.

Ever since Jade and I started dating, she's changed quite a bit. She's not as hostile as she was. As I mentioned, she and Tori have become friends. She's been tolerating Robbie a bit more, and somewhat likes Trina now. But there are some things that haven't changed. She still gets jealous whenever girls try to hit on me, like girls tried to hit on Beck. There are times when both Robbie and Trina still get on her nerves.

After a few hours, Sikowitz returned to the lounge of the hotel. He sat near me and Jade, drinking the milk of a coconut as always. Sometimes, I wonder what would happen to that man if he didn't have a coconut in his hand all the time. Tori and Beck were busy making out intensely, Cat was clearly checking her page on TheSlap on her Pearphone, while Robbie was doing this same thing on his laptop, Andre was working on some music, while Trina was doing her makeup. I looked into my girlfriend's beautiful blue-green eyes and smiled.

Jade had red, blue, and purple highlights in her curled black hair, since she knew those were my three favorite colors, and she smiled back at me.

"You remember when we first started dating a year ago?" I asked.

"How could I forget?" She teasingly retorted.

Beck and Jade broke up after Sinjin's terrible game show, and Jade was very distraught about it. I had found her crying in a janitor's closet, but instead of threatening me to leave, she allowed me to comfort her. After that, we had spent a lot of time together. Around me, Jade had been much more relaxed. After a few weeks of hanging out, Jade and I started dating.

Now, one year later, we're still together. Jade somehow still managed to keep her tough girl attitude intact to other Hollywood Arts students, even when she and I were around each other. But, like always, when we were with our friends, she showed her soft spot.

Anyway, when we saw it was getting late outside, we all went to our rooms, which were side by side each other. When Jade and I got into our room, she went to bathroom to take a wazz while I turned on the news. My eyes widened when I saw a news report of a strange epidemic that was killing people and bringing them back to life as flesh eating zombies.

"WHAT THE FUCK?!" I shouted, bringing Jade, Tori, Beck, Andre, Trina, Cat, Robbie, and Sikowitz in and they became horrified by what they saw. I looked at them. "We HAVE to get out of Atlanta. NOW!"

"I'll drive the party bus that brought us here." Beck said.

"We need to get out into the country." Tori said.

"Let's grab all we can and go!" Sikowitz said. With that, we went downstairs to the lobby to see everyone outside running in every direction in a panicked frenzy. No one else was in the lobby so we grabbed as much food as possible, loaded it into the party bus near the hotel, then got inside and closed the door. Beck got in the driver's seat, turned the key then drove off.

"Should we get some weapons?" Jade asked.

"We may need 'em. My dad knew a girl near here who owns a gun shop." I said.

"Where?" Beck asked when I saw the turn.

"Turn right." I ordered and Beck obliged. After a few minutes, I spotted the gun store. "STOP!" I said, and he did. I opened the door and we all ran into the store. The owner looked at me.

"Chris!" She said.

"Hey, Jamie. We need some weapons." I said to Jamie.

"Okay. Take whatever you guys need. Grab as much ammo as you can, too." Jamie said.

I grabbed a Colt Single Action Army revolver while Jade grabbed an AR-15 assault rifle. Tori grabbed a Glock 17 while Beck grabbed a 12-gauge shotgun. Cat grabbed a 9mm pistol while Robbie grabbed a 22 hunting rifle. Trina grabbed an AK-47 while Andre grabbed a bow and a bunch of arrows. Sikowitz grabbed a nickel plated Beretta 92. We also picked up plenty of ammo for each of the guns.

I spotted two Sai daggers and took them. Tori grabbed a knife, Beck grabbed a scythe, Andre grabbed a machete, Jade grabbed a mace, Robbie also grabbed a knife, as did Cat, Trina grabbed a spear, and Sikowitz grabbed an axe. I then looked at Jamie.

"Me and your daddy were good buddies. The weapons you guys have are yours now." She told me. "Now go on. Get out of the city, quickly."

"Thanks, Jamie. Come with us. You're a family-friend of mine." I said. She nodded and grabbed her gold plated SPAS-12 shotgun I've seen her use on hunting trips she, my dad, and I used to take and plenty of rounds for it. She then grabbed a chain mace and we all got back on the bus.

Beck drove us all out of the city after that and we eventually made it out of the city.

That's chapter one. I hope you guys enjoy this story. Review and I'll post more chapters.