The first chapter explains what happens to Lana before she meets Rick and his group. So keep reading, it does get a lot better!

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Chapter 1: Trust

I drove home after I said goodbye to my friend Carol. I decided to end girl's night early so she could go home to her daughter Sofia and to surprise my husband Matt since our four year old son Hunter was spending the night at my sister's house. I dropped my keys on the table on the side of the door when I got in. The lights were off so I figured Matt was sleeping. I walked upstairs quietly not wanting to wake him. He was an officer and was always working and coming home exhausted.

"What the fuck?" I yelled as I walked into my bedroom door.

"Lana?" Matt looked to me in shock. "Why aren't you at Carol's?"

I looked to Matt in disgust as the naked woman next to him got up and started putting her clothes on.

"Lana, let me explain." Matt was putting on his pants.

"I saw enough. What is there to explain? I hope she's worth is because our marriage is over. You can keep the cheap whore!"

"Who are you calling a cheap whore?" The woman defended herself as she grabbed Matt's gun from his police uniform got close to me and pointed it right at my face.

"Cristy, put the gun down." Matt tried to calm down the situation taking baby steps towards her.

"Matt let's get rid of her. It's you and I, remember what you told me. You're a cop, you can easily get rid of her body." Cristy negotiated with Matt leaving eye contact with me and looked towards him.

I saw my opportunity, I pushed her hand that was holding the gun away from me and punched her face as hard as I could. It caught her off guard which made her pull the trigger. She punched me back and I pushed her against the wall grabbed her hair and pounded her head against the wall as I punched her once more knocking her out. I looked back to Matt and saw him on the floor with a gunshot to his heart.

"Oh fuck!" I ran to Matt putting pressure to the wound, he wasn't breathing. I was on my knees next to his dead body thinking of what to do. I then quickly ran to the telephone on the nightstand and dialed 911 but as soon as I dialed I saw from the corner of my eye Matt getting up.

"911 what's your emergency?" I slowly removed the phone from my ear.

"Ma… Matt?" He then looked my way. "Matt?" He then let out a loud groaning sound and paced my way. "Matt!" I yelled and he got to me. He grabbed me and tried to bite me. As my right hand was holding tightly to his neck holding him back I swung the phone as hard as I could to his face and it sent him back a bit letting me go. I saw Cristy get up and look at what was happing in disbelief.

"What the hell did you do?" She yelled at me.

Matt then looked to her and I ran out the door, I turned around and Cristy was about to run out the door as well. I don't know why I did it but I closed the door on her holding on to the door knob not letting her come out of the room. I heard her scream in horror banging on the door then she stopped as I heard a thumping sound. I ran down stairs grabbed my keys and got into the car. I sat in there shaking, my mind running a thousand miles on what happened. I then slapped myself snapping back into reality. Hunter. I need to go to my sister's.

Still shaking I pulled out of the driveway driving to my sister's which was twenty six miles away. I looked down to my hands as I was driving. They were shaking and bloody. The roads got quiet as I drove out to the outskirts of town. Fog started building up as I can only see the street lights now. Not many cars at all on the road but when I did see a car my heart started racing when it would drive the opposite way I was going. I was very anxious and jumped to any noise that was made. As I tried to focus my eyes on the road one by one each of the street lights started shutting off making it completely dark all around me except for my headlights reflecting on the fog. Without me noticing my speed of 60 mph went down to 40. I got this eerie feeling running through me. I was the only car driving down a dark foggy road.

I saw something bright ahead. As I got closer I noticed it was a fire. Two cars crashed into each other, power lines were down causing sparks as one of the cars was on fire. I stopped a few feet away from the site in disbelief. I then heard a child scream. I couldn't just sit in my car. It was a child who needed help so I got out and ran over to the back seat of the car that was not on fire and saw a child in her car seat, she couldn't have been more than two years old. The front seat caved into the child's legs. I tried to move the seat to get the child out and at the same time trying to calm down the child from screaming out her lungs. I glanced over to the driver's side and saw a woman's bloody lifeless body. I got the chair to budge a bit and I kept pushing it to release the child. I then felt someone grab my hair. I turned around and saw a man with a badly twisted neck and blood dripping from his mouth trying to bite me. I tried to push him off of me but his weight dropped me to the ground. I kicked and tried everything in my power to push this man off of me. I then heard the child scream even louder like she was in more agonizing pain than before. I finally pushed the man who was bleeding all over me off and glanced at the child. I was going to throw up. I saw the woman in the driver's seat literally tearing the flesh off the child, feeding itself. The man started limping towards me. There was nothing I could do, the child was already dead. I ran to my car and drove at high speed.

I finally got to my sister's house. I ran and pounded on the door like a mad woman. No one was answering. I checked to see if her car was still there. It was. I looked through the windows but couldn't see a thing. It was dark in there. I ran to the back of the house, grabbed the wooden baseball bat I saw laying on the ground and broke the window. I climbed into a dark kitchen. I tried to turn on the lights but nothing. I have to use the moonlight that was shinning lightly into the house for guidance.

"Crystal? Hunter?" I yelled out. The only thing I heard was my footsteps. I silently walked upstairs.

"Lana?" I vaguely heard crystal call out my name. I then ran to her bedroom.

"Mommy!" Hunter ran to me and almost knocked me to the ground with his hug. I looked at the situation in the room. Crystal was standing by her bed, her husband Chet was dead on the floor and a man I did not know was standing by the body.

"What's going on?" I questioned.

"Th… this man came and…and uh, saved us from Chet. He was… he is… he was not himself." Crystal was stuttering trying to explain.

"Mrs." The man looked to me. "We need to leave. As crazy as this sounds, the dead has come back to life."

I tried to gulp but it felt like a tractor was stuck in my throat. "Where do we go?"

"Far away from here. We need to find my brother."

"Why?"

"Because we may be able to stop all this, but we need to move now. With every second that passes it is just going to get worse. You guys need to trust me."

I had no idea who this man was but I strangely felt comfortable giving him my complete trust to get us through this. There was this vibe I got off of him and I had no idea how to explain it.

He walked up to me and put his hand out. "Dean." He introduced himself with a strong facial expression letting me know he will protect us.

I put my hand out. His hand shake was strong and firm. "Lana."

- - - - - - Don't worry, keep reading. Rick, Daryl and the group are in the next chapters.