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"This is nice," My best friend and partner Katie sighed as she sipped on her strawberry lemonade as we relaxed in the Georgia heat at a table that was outside of the deli we ordered our food from as I bit into my order which was a plain old turkey sandwich with some vegetables and mustard.
"What is?" I asked as I swallowed the piece of food in my mouth.
"Not being shot at by Russian spies or having to escape a trap while 20 feet in the air in Chile," Katie answered as she bit into her ham sandwich which had the exact same vegetables on it as mine and mustard too.
"I don't know about that," I sipped on my peach tea as Katie laughed, brushing a strand of her dirty blonde hair behind her ear as her hazel eyes stared at me
"It's better than dealing with puberty again," I shrugged and she nodded in agreement.
"You got into so many fights when we were in junior high," Katie commented.
"Oh, don't act like you're an angel! Remember when you broke Samuel Grace's arm?" I asked and she laughed.
"He was asking for it!" Katie exclaimed.
"He asked you if it hurt when you fell from heaven," I laughed.
"On, that was a horrible flirt and two I was dating Ryan Peters!" Katie laughed.
"He was such a chump," I told him and she rolled her eyes.
"I'd take him over Agent Ryan," She commented.
"He's such a jackass," I mumbled.
If you can't tell already, Katie and I have best friends for quite a while since middle school when I moved to a small city in Missouri and we had the same class together. We were practically sisters always hanging out together in the woods that was near the city that Katie was born and we were both raised in, doing crazy dares, hunting animals since Katie's dad was a hunter and taught me how to hunt with a hunting rifle and a crossbow, and climbing trees to see who could climb the highest which would end up having someone break a bone or at least sprain something. We never did the braiding hair or making friendship bracelet crap, hell no, I would've rather been eaten by a grizzly bear than that. We were inseparable and "like two peas in a pod" like my foster mom would say. We both decided that we wanted to become CIA agents when we were 11 and luckily we were both accepted and placed in the same field as partners once we graduated out of college.
"But I'm glad the boss gave us the week off after the drug cartel in Chile," Katie sighed.
"That was horrible," I shuddered, thinking about what happened to our two other agents who were with us but sadly they were gone or we would be having lunch with them as well.
"I still have nightmares about it," Katie murmured.
"I do too," I sighed.
"The guy simply got up from a shot to the heart and bit Agent Grimm in the neck and began to devour him," Katie shuddered.
"We were lucky to make it out alive," I told her and she nodded.
"I'm going to save these chips for tonight," Katie held up her bag of barbeque chips as she finished up her sandwich.
"Me too, I'm so full," I groaned and we stood up.
"We should come here tomorrow again before we leave," Katie commented as we started walking down the sidewalk with other pedestrians.
"Our plane leaves at 7 so we should be able to go one last time," I shrugged as a shrill scream entered our ears.
"What the hell?" Katie mumbled as both of our hands went instinctively to our guns hidden underneath our coats as people started running the opposite direction we were walking.
"Some dude just ate a chick and now she's eating people!" A guy shouted at us and we looked at each other thinking about what happened in Chile.
"This surely can't be happening here," I told her as we shoved past running pedestrians as we pulled out our guns and turning off the safety on our guns as we witnessed a horrifying sight.
Five people were gnawing on dead bodies everywhere and I saw several more people limping in directions towards screaming people.
"Holy shit," Katie mumbled.
"We need to do our job," I told her and she nodded as we quickly fired upon the five dead corpses, and they laid on top of their prey.
Hearing the gunshots, the rest of the walkers turned to face us except one who was gnawing on an old lady from what I can tell.
"How many bullets do you have?" I asked her.
"I have 15 bullets left in this magazine and 5 magazines, how about you?" Katie asked.
"I have 14 bullets left and 6 magazines," I answered as the people who looked pretty much dead with their sallow skin, bloody injuries that probably only Superman could survive, and those hollow gold eyes that stared into my mismatched green and blue eyes.
"We need to go to the hotel, we have more guns," Katie told me.
"I couldn't agree more," I nodded as I saw more people rise up from their lying positions and start walking towards us like a herd.
We quickly ran for our car that was parked in front of the now abandoned deli and I saw Katie grab some open chip bags from the other tables.
"What're you doing?!" I shouted.
"Just in case!" She snapped and I quickly hopped into the driver seat of our silver Ford Escape and Katie ran around to get in the passenger seat and plopped in as Katie revved her engine and drove towards the hotel they were staying in.
"They're exactly like the things in Chile!" Katie exclaimed.
"Yeah, I think they are the same," I murmured as I gripped the steering wheel, trying to get out of the crazy traffic and took a speedy left over a curb which made a walker go flying.
"What did Agent Samuels call them before he died?" Katie asked.
"Walkers?" I asked and she nodded.
"We should've known this would happen," Katie mumbled.
"I'm surprised it came so fast," I replied.
"I hope Emma and Gracie are okay," Katie worried, thinking about her little sister and her dog.
"Emma's tough and I bet Grace will be able to escape your apartment, she's done it before," I told her and she sighed.
"I hope," Katie mumbled as we pulled into the hotel parking lot and I ran over one of the dead people and I quickly parked near the road and a little far from the hotel since it was as close as I could get without getting into the chaos of the walkers.
Walkers milled around the front entrance and entered the hotel, eating and chasing screaming customers and I watched as a walker started walking towards our car.
"We could use the back entrance," I suggested as I saw Katie glance around.
"No, it's locked," Katie answered back.
"So we have to go through the front?" I asked.
"It's our best bet even with the amount of walkers," Katei sighed.
"Alright, we go through the front entrance, shoot our way to the stairs, hurry up, grab food, weapons, everything, and we'll jump from our window," I explained the plan to Katie.
"We've had worse plans, I'll take out the walker," Katie shrugged.
"On 3, 1, 2, 3!" I shouted and we quickly pulled our guns out and leapt out of the car, shutting the doors behind us as Katie shoot the walker who was wearing a business suit on the head and it collapsed to the ground.
We ran straight into the havoc of the lobby and we quickly fired at the walkers as customers and employees scattered for their cars but sadly some got caught in the arms of the walkers and got bit in the neck.
I quickly shot at a walker who was trying to bite into a little boy's arm and he quickly ran off to find his parents who had abandoned him.
"Come on!" Katie shouted over to me and I followed her into the hallway, walkers following close behind us or wandering off to find more food.
We ran down the long hallway, trying to block out the screams and cries of walker food behind closed doors.
"Ah!" Katie screamed in surprise as a walker with blood around his mouth exited a room and tackled Katie to the ground, making her gun fly down the hallway, near the door to the staircase.
In a few seconds, I shot the walker in the head and helped Katie off of the walker and up as the walkers began to catch up on us.
"Let's go!" I shouted and Katie quickly grabbed our gun as we made it to the door to the staircase and I quickly opened and shut it behind us and we quickly jogged up the stairs.
"Are you okay?" I asked.
"I-I think so," Katie stammered and I stared at her as we continued up the stairs.
"Did it bite you?" I asked as we reached the 2nd floor.
"No," She shook her head and I could tell she wasn't lying not because she was my best friend but I have a good way of seeing if people are lying including her.
"Okay," I quickly opened the staircase door to hear less screams but some crying.
"Do you have the key?" I asked.
"Of course, it's in my back pocket," Katie nodded and she quickly pulled out the car and swiped it and we quickly entered it.
"We probably don't have a lot of time, let's hurry, I'll change and you gather food," I ordered her and she nodded as she grabbed one of our hiking backpacks and ran into the small kitchen we had and quickly grabbed the snacks that we had in the mini fridge and scattered around the house.
I walked over to where our suitcases were and I quickly tugged off my jacket and unfastened my belt which held all of my ammo and where I held my two Glocks and quickly slipped out of the boot cut jeans and sweater I was in and quickly pulled on some skinny jeans which helped me move a lot faster and harder for people or walkers to grab onto and a dark grey tank top that I used for my morning runs which I sadly won't be able to do anymore. I pulled back on my black combat boots, refastened my dark brown belt, and I pulled on my dark green military jacket which had four pockets on it which I put extra things in like my cell phone, extra magazines, and things like that.
"You change, I'll grab the stuff in the bathroom," I told her and she nodded since she was wearing a pantsuit and dress shoes and I ran into the bathroom with the same hiking backpack that was full of chip bags, two cans of food, and our 4 handguns that we kept near the nightstand just in case.
I ran into the nice hotel bathroom and quickly grabbed soap, shampoo, conditioner, Band-Aids, washcloths, Advil, antiemetics Katie had since she had a little stomach ache two days ago, barbituraries since we both had trouble sleeping, and aspirin. I quickly grabbed one of the black ponytail holders we had and I pulled my long bright red hair into a slick ponytail.
"Ready?" I asked her as I walked out the bathroom, throwing the backpack over my shoulder.
"One sec," She quickly tied her dark brown combat boots and then stood up, pulling up her dark grey skinny jeans and readjusting the straps of her tight black tank top.
"Ready," She quickly nodded and I back up to where I can jump off of one of the two skinny windows and she did the same to the opposite.
"1, 2, 3!" Katie shouted and soon we were soaring in the air in what feels like slow motion and we quickly landed on the asphalt and I landed on top of a walker and I quickly shot it as I heaved myself up.
"Son of a bitch!" Katie shouted as she landed wrong and a loud pop echoed from where I was.
"Katie! Are you okay?" I asked as I ran over to her, not caring that walkers had started lumbering over to us.
"Yeah, just sprained my fucking ankle," Katie mumbled.
"Can you walk?" I asked.
"No," Katie sighed as walkers started walking closer to us.
"Okay, I'll help you," I helped Katie up and she leaned onto my shoulder as we started walking over to the car which was a couple feet away as walkers started lumbering towards us.
It was hard to support Katie since she weighed several more pounds than me since she was a couple inches taller than me and the medication seemed to be weighing down my 5'3" self as well but I knew I needed to suck it up.
"We're not going to make it," Katie mumbled as a walker got to close for comfort and Katie shot it.
"Yes we are! Just a few more rows!" I cursed myself for parking so far from the hotel.
"Goddammit Cassandra! You need to leave without me!" Katie shouted as I shot another walker to our left.
"I'm not leaving with my best friend!" I shouted at her as I shot two more walkers.
"You know that you'll die if we keep going! More and more are coming!" Katie shouted and I sighed since we were 4 rows away from the car and the walkers would catch up with us at one more.
"Here," Katie handed me her 22 Glock and she quickly reloaded her 23 Glock and handed me all but one of her magazines.
"I'm gonna miss you like hell Katie," I whispered with tears in my eyes as I put the gun on my waistband.
"Bye Cass," Katie smiled at me with tears in her eyes as we hugged each other one last time until she started shooting at the walkers, letting go off me and giving me a clear path to the car.
As I hopped into the car, I heard one final gunshot ring out signalizing Katie's death since I know she wouldn't give herself to the walkers and I quickly drove away with tears in my eyes as the walkers devoured my best friend.
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