I was running through the forest, 3 walkers coming towards me, i heard the sound of a train stopping and sprinted in that direction, my red waves of hair flowing behind me. I wished for another teenager, an adult..or something! Something besides the walkers that had munched on my family's faces as i watched in horror. The sound of someone swearing grew louder, it was a man. I finally got to the edge of the rail way track and was panting as beads of sweat rolled down my pale face. My blue eyes wide, looking at the sight before me. There was a coloured man with a little girl, there was another teenager, 'Yes!' he was cute with light blond hair and highlights of brown. He had a jacket on that said the letters SM on the right side that indicated that he went to SatserMilling High school. I had gone there but left in 8th grade. Yet here i am, relatively near Savannah with one of my old schools pupils. I saw a tanker blocking the way and assumed that was why a guy with a brown horse shoe mustache was cursing about. I slipped out my machete and slowly approached the group. The little girl turned around and shouted "Lee! there's a girl!"

I put up my hands and replied "Don't shoot! i'm not a walker, or a bandit, or some bat shit crazy girl you can't trust!" I showed them my weapon and the guy with the mustache put down his gun and turned to who i suspect was Lee (The coloured dude). "Lee, what do we do with this...kid?" He whispered the word kid but i heard it and brushed it off.

Lee looked at me with soft eyes and told Kenny to cut me some slack. "What if you were her age and wandering around by yourself? Besides we could do with some good people..." I felt an awkward silence and assumed some of their crew had either been eaten or shot by bandits. I smiled at Lee and walked over, slipping my weapon back into its halter. I was greeted with the girl who i learned the name Clemantine and i immediately put down my light blue rucksack and took out a sketch book along with a colouring book and 3 pencils. I gave her 5 sheets of paper and the colouring book witch was safari animals. She squealed in glee and skipped off to one of the box cars. I picked up my bag and walked towards Lee. "Hey, thanks about saving my ass, how are you doing with food?" I looked around as he answered "Well...we had a miss hap with some dairy farmers back in Macon, tryed to eat us themselves...the creepy part is they weren't walkers." This made me gasp and i gathered that they didn't have much. Luckily i had raided a corner store before going out and handed him 3 cans of beans and 17 packets of beef jerky, 5 oranges and 2 tins of custard.

Lee's eyes widened and patted my back in thanks, he shouted to everyone about the food and said that i would be rashening it, witch i didn't mind. I opened the beans and got out 28 paper cups i had grabbed, a camping stove and a pan. I cooked up a full can of beans and opened 2 packets of beef jerky. I called everyone over and dished up the beans and gave them the beef jerky seperat. I ate my rashen and watched Clemantine munch happily, Lee laughed as she dropped a bean on the floor and she smiled.

Kenny walked out of the train and was talking with Lee, when we finished and they decided they should go up and look if we could cut the tanker down some how. I said i would look after Clemantine and Ben while Lee and Kenny went to investigate the tanker when a young guy called out and made me jump. He seemed to be with another woman and he said he was called Omid and he would help with the tanker. The woman was called Christa and she came down and talked to me and Clem. She had darkish skin and was quite nice. Chuck was in his compartment drinking down a random bottle of alcohol that guessed was whiskey.

I heard Lee talking about going to the trainstation that was on the other side of the bridge with the tanker on. He started to walk towards the station and Clemantine instantly got up and before i could stop her she had gone up to Lee and started walking with him. I decided to talk to Chuck, we hadn't really talked but he seemed like a nice man. I dropped my bad near the box door and jumped up. He nodded at me and i sat beside him. "So lil' missy, where you from?" His accent was a funny one but fit him well, sort of sounded like it was Macon crossed with a Texan accent witch was cool. I got out a hair band and tied my red waves up in a side pony tale and told him my story. "Well, i'm originally from Orleans but i hade lived in Macon for 14 years, i'm 18 so i've been there for most of my life, my parents had been at home when the so called apocalypse happened and when i came home, walkers were chomping on their faces. It was horrible but i had been training as a vet so i was used to the blood and brains but it was hard to see the two people who brought me up...dead..." There was a hitch in my throat and Chuck patted my shoulder comfortingly.

He sat up and said he had been on his own for 14 years and i gave him a look of sympathy and he smiled. I handed him a toffee i had in my pocket and he gladly unwrapped it. My eyes widened and shot to the outside when a couple of gunshots sounded and i got up and unsheathed my machete. I bolted to the train station to Lee and Clemantine. I heard the splat of one last walker hitting the ground and i opened the door, seeing Clemantine shaking with a gun in her hand and 3 walker bodies with uniforms on. I looked at Lee and nodded, he walked into the compartment that clemantine was in and grabbed a blowtorch. 'Clever.' I thought about the tanker and patted Clems head as we walked out.

Kenny and Lee thanked me for trying to help and gave me a handgun he had spare. It wasn't very heavy but i slipped it in to my back pocket of my trousers and walked up to Omid. He had darkish skin like Christa and short black hair. His eyes were dark but kind, he looked about 24 or 27 i didn't ask but he wasn't too much older than me.

He and Lee were climbing up the ladder to the tanker with the blow torch, as they heaved it over to the Lorrie, i clambered up the ladder with ease. I watched as the blow torch didn't work and Lee said there was a hole.

This made me look around and notice a van and i opened the doors to find 8 traffic cones and a roll of tape. I gave the tape to Omid and he wrapped it round the pipe at the leaking point. He turned it on again and a blue flame lit the end up, Lee held onto Omid's arm and hand while he lent over to start cutting the tanker off. I looked over to the train and i saw Ben on top of the middle box car, a soft screaming sound coming from a distance and little by little getting closer. Suddenly Ben shouted, "Y..you guys! Somethings coming!" The mist cleared and a swarm of walkers appeared, everyone began to panick and Lee shouted to Omid to cut the tanker, he was screaming back that he was trying.

The tanker smashed onto the ground, out of the way and started leaking oil. Kenny started up the train and shouted to everyone to climb aboard. Lee screamed to jump and Omid didn't want to so me and Lee leaped and successfully landed on. Omid decided to jump but he tumbled onto the road and the walkers were approaching. I saw Christa leap out of the box car and help him up, they were running and i nipped into the cart and grabbed her hand and pulled her and Omid into the cart. I saw that Omids leg was hurt and grabbed a bandage out of my pack.

Lee jumped into the box car and sat down near Clemantine, looking at me wrapping up Omids leg, i secured it with a safety pin and said he should rest well and not strain it, my vetinary training seeping back to me. I sat near Lee and slowly slipped into a rather peacful sleep.