A little A/N before you start this story, I'm not good at grammar so please don't hate me for the mistakes I will make, I'm also pretty bad at continuing stories. I had a story called undead but deleted it because I didn't have time to write anymore nor was I in the mood to write more. I'm writing as much as I can right now and then when I get bored I'll upload what I did, please be patient with me. -L

There's about 10 walkers outside and my group of 4 are stuck in this wardrobe with me. I finally get the courage to open my eyes and stare at Mason who's pushed up to a bra and a coat, he looks uncomfortable but there's nothing I can do about it, Mason is 19 like me, he's the fastest out of us but he doesn't think he is. I grab my bow and arrows from Stacy who's hugging her legs for comfort, Stacy is the youngest out of us, she's only 15 but she's the funniest girl any of us have known, even when she's not saying anything funny.

"We need to come up with a plan" Mason whispers as he pushes the bra and coat out the way so he can see everyone.

"I can open the wardrobe and see how many walkers there are in this room, maybe see if we can handle it" I said as I reach to the door, Mason grabs my hand and says "no, if they hear or see it they will come for you, for all of us" I don't know if he was concerned about me or just trying to be nice but I felt my heart stop when he said it anyway, he definitely knows how to make people happy. "Actually that's not a bad plan, well done Ari. Maybe we can change it a bit though, like think it through more" Tyler suddenly searches for his knife in the darkness and hands it to me. "I have a plan that we can mix with yours, only if you want to of course, you can take either the knife, bow, or just take both and kill the ones in the room, but only after seeing how many there is so you know you can handle them". He's concern for me worries me, normally he'd just say here's a plan and do it, cause he's more of the leader of this group since well he's older and better. I give the door a gentle touch and push as lightly as I can. I try not to push it so slowly or it will squeak, I have the door open enough now to see half of the room, I shut the door and turn to Mason. "There's 1 by the door who went downstairs, I couldn't see the other half of the room but I couldn't hear anything so I think we're safe. but just to be sure I'm gonna go out alone and check. I will open the wardrobe up when it's clear" Mason looks at me as if he thinks I'm on a mission to kill myself, I give him a smile and hug Stacy before I open the wardrobe door once more.

I step out of the cramped wardrobe and stretch quickly before I look to see where any walkers are, I hear something from the next room but nothing in the room we're in, I go to the door and check to see if there's anything there before I can let them out. I see a walker exiting the room next door so I quickly get behind a wall and get the knife in my hand, the walker is getting louder and my breathe is getting faster, before I know it the walker enters the room and looks around to find me while making so much noise, as if it's calling for the other walkers to let them I know I'm here, at first I almost jump but I quickly calm down and grab his shoulder, I pull him to the floor and forcefully hold down his face, I freeze for a moment, he looks like someone I know "he looks like...Mike? no. It's impossible, Mi...Mike can't be dead" I whisper to myself, the walker is trying so hard to bite me and I'm distracted in my own thoughts that I'm almost letting him, I quickly snap myself out of it and stab his head with so much force that it goes straight through him and in the floor, there's blood on my face and clothes now but I don't care, I quickly get up and close the door, I'm mortified but on this universe enough to pull myself together, I wasn't ready for it. I look at the wardrobe and forget about everything for a second, I slowly walk up and open the door, everyone's closing their eyes because of how much light there is in the open world compared to a cramped wardrobe. I don't think we're ready for this.

Everyone gets out of the wardrobe and straightens their clothes, they see the walker I killed and look impressed, "where's the others" Tyler says to me as he looks at the walker on the floor, he has a angry look on his face, as if the walker betrayed him for dying. "I think they're all downstairs, maybe gone now I don't really know. I just sorted out the one in this room and shut the door" I'm lost in my thoughts and my breath is still out of control, Mason's looking at me all worried. "Are you okay?" Mason grabs my arm and looks me in the eyes, I take my arm away from his hand and just stare at the door, Mason looks down at the floor and coughs, "I'll just go check downstairs, Tyler want to go with me?" Mason is at the door now about to open it. "yeah, sure. Let me just get my knife out of this guys head" Tyler seems angry at the fact I killed him, or maybe at the fact I got his knife stuck in the walkers head. Tyler is just staring at him either amazed at how much force I used or calculating how he's supposed to get his knife back, I get annoyed and push Tyler out of the way, I fall to the floor and grab the walkers head, I pull the knife out of his head and pass it to Tyler, he looks at me and grabs the knife. "I was going to do that myself" he says like a 5 year old answering a question wrong and the person next to him got it right, "yeah, sure you were" I go back to the wardrobe to get my bag and weapons. I open my bag to see what I have, I've got 10 arrows, a knife, 8 bottles of water, 5 cans of soup, a can opener, gloves and a first aid box. I consider grabbing one of the guns but I'm not very good with them so I just stick with my knife and bow. "should we loot the house and go back to base, or should we continue looking through houses" I ask Tyler before he leaves with Mason. "Me and Mason will loot downstairs and kill the walkers there, you and Stacy look around this floor and loot things we may need, but make sure you don't fill your bags up too much or it will be too heavy to take back to base, and it will weigh you down making you slower" Tyler motions Mason to follow him, I grab one of the empty bags and throw it at Mason before he leaves, he catches it and runs off with Tyler. "Stacy, I'm gonna go check if there's anymore walkers on this floor, stay here, i'll be back in a bit"

I exit the room and go next door, there's no walkers but a few things worthy enough to take, I look at the pictures on the wall, it's of a girl and a boy they look like they were teens, maybe 18 and in college, I look at the shelf full with books, my attention is at this one small book, it looks more like a comic, I take it and put it in my bag, "Stacy will love this" I say to myself, I go to the table next to the bed and open the draws, there's a lighter, a notebook and 2 black pens, I put them all in my bag and close it. I leave the room and close the door behind me, I see a small room ahead of me, the doors open and it looks empty, I ignore the room and go back to Stacy. "I found a few things, not things that we need but it will help us not be bored. Let's go find Tyler and Mason and see if they need help" we leave the room and go downstairs, there's no sign of walkers anywhere but I can see Mason looting the kitchen, I walk up to him and grab the can out of his hand. "More soup, just what we needed" he takes the soup back and puts it in the bag "you say that now, but when you're all starving and all that's left is my soup, you'll be thanking me like I'm your God" I just look at him like his crazy "YOUR soup. I'm sorry but I don't remember you working in a factory making cans and soup" I say sarcasticlly, "well, you learn something new everyday" he smiles at me and closes the bag. "Tyler is outside looking to see if there's a greenhouse or anything we can use"
"ok, what are we doing after this?"
"um, Tyler said we're going back to base but knowing him he'll find another house and try loot it"
"yeah or we'll go to a forest and he'll want to find a camp"

We all leave the house and walk up to a 3 way road, "which way?" Tyler asks, "left" Stacy's already walking in the direction she said "I guess we're going left then" Tyler says as he follows her, there's glass stuck to the walls that we have to cross to get to the road, I'm last to go past it, I grab the closest object and pull myself up, my hand's weak and I lose my grip, I fall down into the glass and cut deeply into my leg, I try my hardest not to scream and try to get back up, there's blood dripping down my leg and I'm feeling light headed, no one notices what happened because I didn't say, Mason looks back to see if I got over yet, I quickly hide my leg behind the door and force myself not to cry, "I can't get over" I struggle to say, I'm losing my breathe again and starting to fall everywhere, I fall to the floor and burst out crying, everyone's looking at me not knowing what's going on, Mason jumps back over to get me and sees my leg, "what did you do?" he says while he quickly opens his bag, I'm trying to talk but I'm too weak. Mason gets a towel out of his bag and tears my jeans to get to the cut, he puts pressure on the cut with the towel and grabs some rope from his bag, "hold the towel there" he says as he wraps the rope around my leg, I hold the towel and he ties the rope into a knot, he picks me up and passes me to Tyler so he can get back over, "what happened to you?" Tyler says with a worried voice, "I lost my grip and fell"
"are you okay?"

"yes but I'm very tired now"

"try to stay awake we'll get you back to the base and check on the cut" Mason takes me out of Tyler's arms, "hold on to me ok" I warp my arms around him and hope that I'm not heavy for him. Stacy points at some people "there's 3 people ahead of us, should we see if they're alright?" Tyler looks at them, I look too and see that they're fighting some walkers, they're struggling to fight them with only baseball bats and an axe as a weapon, "yeah they look like they're struggling, I think we should help them" I say trying to ignore the pain I'm in "we can but you're not" Tyler says to me while running up to them.

Stacy goes to help the adult and Tyler helps the other adult and teen, the teen looks at Tyler "thank you but we could've handled that" Tyler walks up to the teen "listen kid there was at least 10 walkers here and all you have is a baseball bat" he gets a knife out of his bag and hands it to the teen, "I'm Tyler by the way, that girl over there by your girl is Stacy, she's 15, that boy holding the girl is Mason he's 19, and the girl he's holding is Ari she's also 19" the teen and adults look at me "is she...bitten?" the girl adult says

"no, she just fell down on glass and cut herself" Mason explains "oh, ok, well thanks for the knife, I'm Ben, I'm 17 the girl is Amanda she's 23 and the guy is Spencer he's 24" Ben puts the knife in his pocket and shakes Tyler's hand, "well it looks like you're doing fine here so we'll just be going now, bye"
Tyler starts to walk off slowly "wait, um, if you don't mind can we join your group, we'll stay out of your way and get our own food we just need a base and we can fight by your side when you need us"

Tyler smiles and turns around, "I'm not the leader, don't ask me" he nods in my direction, I stare at him confused, he is the leader, Ben walks up to me, "yes" I say before he has a chance to ask, "yes? as in yes we can join the group?" he asks with concern "yes you can join our group" I'm still in pain but I try to speak without showing it, Ben looks at me happily "oh thank you, you won't regret this" just by him saying I won't regret this makes me know I might regret this, everything I do I will regret, but I ignore my feelings and just smile.

"where are we going?" Ben asks no one in particular, Tyler stops and turns to him "we was going to explore but then Ari cut herself so now we're going to our base to check it" Tyler runs to catch up to Stacy and walks with her, "I don't mean to be the one to ask so many questions but where is your base?" Tyler's clearly getting annoyed but he's trying to hide it "it's OUR base now, remember you're part of us now, our base isn't far from here, after half an hour we have to go through the forest which then only an hour till we get to the prison"
Ben stops and looks confused "your base is a prison?"
Tyler nods

"awesome" Ben looks impressed with us but more of a sarcastic impressed.