"Dang-it!" she yelled as she felt teeth dig in to her arm and neck, she held back her yells as she felt it dig deeper. she brought the ax to the thing's head and her arm was released. she held on to it, emerald eyes staring down at it. her blonde hair tucked neatly behind her ears still, some falling in front of her face. suddenly she saw a male figure come running up to her "Mandy! a-are you alright?! did it bite you?!"

she looked confused for a moment then remembered who he was and hugged him, on the brink of tears "T-Toris..."

she jolted up in her sleeping back, gripping her throat and arm quickly, coughing. she pulled her hand away from her neck and looked at it, realizing the warmness she felt was her sweat, she sighed "heh...heh...it was only a dream..."she got up, grabbing her bandanna, she walked out side her sent wrapping the black and purple bandanna around her neck hiding obvious scratch marks she had made. she looked around 'still dark...of course...' she thought as she walked to a large rock 'bet it's about 1 in the morning...'

she's had the same dream each night, ever since she had to kill her best friend, Seth, because he was infected. she wanted to save him so badly but she couldn't.

Mandy climbed on to the rock and sat the top thinking. she heard foot steps behind her and turned slight reaching for the ax on her back. realizing it was her friend toris she put her arm back in her lap.

"hey..." he said slightly, climbed up the rock.

"hi..."

"have the dream again?"

Mandy nodded "yea...i wish i could just forget about killing him...forget that there's danger everywhere...and just lie in the grass and soak up the sun and have no worries about who i'm gonna talk to for the day..." she looked out at the dead field of flowers and grass.

Toris sighed "i know...i wish i could forget holding you back after you killed him...i yelled at you...to just stop...and that he was dead and nothing was going to bring him back..." he sighed again thinking he contributed to Mandy's nightmare.

Mandy nodded slightly and looked down at her boots and dark green pants with holes in them.

Mandy looked back up again and sighed. "hey...toris...how did you deal with holding me...? And hearing me scream for him to get up...?" she looked at him.

"I-I never...really did..." he looked down some "I never forget your screaming...and you yelling cuss words at him trying anything for him to get up..." he sighed and looked at her again.

She had looked down while he was talking remembering yelling cuss words and everything at Seth, just trying to get him to look up at her.

Mandy sniffed and quickly wiped her eyes with her bandana.

Mandy stood on the rock and looked around, waiting for something, anything, to happen so she could her mind off of Seth. She sighed when she saw nothing but dead grass.

She climbed off the rock and started walking back to her tent.

Toris glanced at her. "Mandy...are you ok?"

Mandy looked at him "yea...fine..." she kept walking.

Toris looked down at the rock, thinking.

Mandy walked into her tent and laid in her sleeping bag. She looked at a picture of her, Seth, and Toris. She smiled slightly then sighed.

She fell back asleep.

AN: hello! I havnt posted things in a while...and thought...well lets post something! so...here ya go! :D