It had been two weeks since the attack at our camp that night. I lost a lot of good friends, including my older brother, who I'd been with since the start of all this. I hated losing people, after about 6 months into all this I had lost what little family I had, except for my brother. I suffer with manic depression and bouts of anxiety but I've gotten better at controlling it. He helped me through it and now I don't know what I'll do.

I looked in the mirror, I can't survive alone out here, and as much as I love being left alone I had learned that in a world like this, everyone needed someone. I left the bathroom and packed away what toiletries I had left into my tattered ruck sack and exited the dusty cheap motel room I had stayed in the past few nights.

I walked out to the car I had found a few miles back, and started the car, well, I tried to. "Stupid car! Just start already!" I shouted as I tried again and again to start the car, there was a spluttering noise coming from the engine and smoke everywhere. "Okay it's obviously not going to start; "I'll just have to walk from here" I thought to myself.

I then began to walk further into the city. Everything around me was in ruins and there were corpses everywhere, a horrible stench of burning and death filled the air. I walked for about 25 minutes before I came across a very large herd of what looked like about 100 walkers. "Shit" I thought to myself, "how the hell am I gonna get around this?"

I tried to be as quiet and stealthy as possible as I crept around busted up cars and dead bodies, trying my best not to attract any attention. I ran for an alley way thinking it could be a way out, as I ran I tripped and fell; I let out a cry and attracted the attention of some very hungry looking walkers. "Dammit!" And to top it off, I was wrong, it was dead end. I was trapped.

The walkers made their way closer and closer. Just then I heard gun shots. I looked up to see two guys standing on a rooftop shooting down at the army of walkers making their way towards me. "Get yer ass up that ladder now unless ye wanna be walker chow!" I heard one of the men shout down in a quite sexy thick southern accent. I wasn't about to stand there and get eaten so I gladly complied and raced up the ladder and eventually made it to the roof of the building. When I got to the top was met by a group of four men.

I introduced myself as soon as I caught my breath, "Hi, I'm Lissa, thanks for saving my ass back there." "Hi there, I'm Rick said one of the men, are you okay? You're not bit or scratched are you?" He asked. "No I'm fine" I replied. Rick then introduced me to the rest of the guys there, T-dog, Glenn and Daryl. Daryl was the one who had shouted down at me, and damn was he attractive; he had that whole sexy badass redneck thing goin on. "If you want we have a camp not far from here, you could come with us if you haven't got anywhere to stay" said Glenn, he seemed really sweet. "No way! We ain't takin in anymore damn strays" replied Daryl. Jeesh; he was a bit of an ass.

Eventually the guys got Daryl to agree and let me return to their camp with them. Thank god! We all got down from the roof and made our way to a nearby highway where they had parked their vehicles. We all got into their car and began to drive towards the camp, well except Daryl, he drove his motorcycle. We made it back to camp and were greeted very nicely by the rest of the group there. They allowed me to stay as long as I done my part around the camp. I gladly agreed.

I decided to pitch the tent that an older man, Dale had given me. I looked around for a spot to put it up. Bingo. I found one. There was another tent pitched close by but it was the only free space. I began to pitch the tent when I saw someone crawl out of the one nearby, Daryl, of course. He looked over at me and saw I was struggling but of course he just walked on. A pretty blonde named Andrea saw me having difficulty with putting up this damn tent alone so she came over and began to help.

After a while we finished pitching the tent I decided it was time to sleep, I wasn't that hungry but I was exhausted. I climbed into my small little tent and fell asleep almost instantly.