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Chapter 2:

Blood dripped from the metal bat as Danny looked down at the nearly transparent skinned man he had just put out of its misery. Sweat ran down his face as he took deep breaths slowly. It was normal for him now, but at times it would seem too much for him to handle. He knew they weren't the people they were once he looked into the vacancy exposed in their eyes.

Danny finally looked up from the corpse after he heard Lacey slam the car door. "What was that for?" She yelled as she lightly jogged towards him.

"What? I just saved us from becoming this guy's main course. And shouldn't you have started the car already?" He retorted

Lacey put her hands on her hips "Well, yes I know that. But you didn't need to give him ten blows to the head and now it's a pile of mush." She threw her arm in the direction of the zombie lying on the floor with its battered in head "Oh, and yes I did count them each and every one of them. It was really hard to look away from it all. Remember it's just two hard whacks then he's gone and you're done." She yelled him.

Danny felt the need to lash out, but he knew that it wasn't necessary "I'm sorry I just needed to let out some steam. I just hate that I know things will never be you know…normal and at peace".

Lacey took a few a steps to Danny and genteelly laying her hand on his back "Danny, I can't guarantee that things will ever be normal, but I've once heard you can't have peace without a war"

Danny looked Lacey in the eyes "What if this war never ends?"

"Well let's hope it does. Let's remember we are never alone"

Out of nowhere a loud clap of thunder emerged from the cast of dark gray clouds nearly covering the sky.

Three weeks earlier

Danny and Lacey were complete nomads driving aimlessly to a destination that was non-existent. It was pitch black outside only the car's lights illuminated the road ahead of them. That night it was constant down pour of endless rain and the heavy smell of revolting lake water flowed through the air vents. Lacey was sound asleep snuggled up to an afghan blanket while Danny continued to drive trying to find a nearby place to park for the night and leave as soon as the storm cleared over.

A loud clap of thunder rattled the windows of the car. Lacey's eyes shot open quickly from her sleep. She looked around the car in horror "How long has it been like this?" she questioned.

"I don't know" he ruffled his hair a little "maybe sometime after you had fallen asleep was when I saw the first bolt of lightning. So I'd say about two hours ago or so. It's been pretty hard to see and it terrifies me a little that there's lakes on both sides of the road and these roads are pretty curvy in this area"

"Oh" was all she replied back then bolt of lightning illuminated the sky for a split second followed by a loud clap of thunder. Lacey brought the blanket more near her face.

"Lace, are you scared of a little lightning?"

She glared at him "A little? A little is just a flash every few minutes not every second. And it's just a small childhood fear of severe storms. Don't laugh at my phobias".

He moved one hand from the steering wheel "Aye I'm not judging I have a light phobia of mirrors, and I give you permission to laugh at it"

Lacey did laugh "Mirrors?" she tried to slow down on the laughter "Sorry I'm laughing. It's just like how can you have a fear of mirrors. I mean come on your like a walking attractive male model who happens to possess great hair. It just doesn't seem possible" she explained.

"It's not that major. Of course it's possible when you're seven years old, stuffed on chocolate milk and you decide to be a badass and watch the third A Nightmare on Elm Street film. It scared me enough not to look into a mirror for month and a half without wanting to run in terror hoping I won't be pulled into by an unknown force of never to see my family again. I still never told my parents at all that I did not even till this day" replying to Lacey's response "Also you think I'm attractive with…" Danny sarcastically flipped his hair "great hair?"

Lacey's eyes averted her from him playing off with a little laughter after realizing what she had said moments before. "Maybe" she mumbled in the crocheted blanket.

(End of flashback)

As they drove through a neighborhood that was a many miles from the gas station they were at when the storm started to brew. When reaching a regular suburban neighborhood they noticed how bad the outbreak had affected many places. It was quite depressing when seeing garages painted with messages such as 'Beware: dead inside' or 'God, please forgive me', majority of the cars that were there had been burned where you just see the body cast of it, and bodies laying on the sidewalks also lawns in certain areas. It was like time had frozen in that moment when everyone's world came crashing down.

"I noticed a warehouse store and a pharmacy a mile back. There could enough supplies in there 'cause we really need some antibiotics and medicines for headaches, colds, etcetera that are much needed." She scanned a page in the yellow spiral notebook "As I can check so far we are low on those things" Lacey said as she looked through her small spiral notebook.

"So that's why you always look through that little notebook".

"Mmhm Just to keep inventory and what I see on the road as we travel like abandoned houses, Houses with messages, dead body, walker\runner, abandoned cars, burned cars, non- dead person, visited stores, and billboard. What else did you think it was for?"

"Well maybe your diary, doodles, or something of that sense" he suggested.

"Yes, because I'd like write every night about how I travel to no destination whatsoever as I'm fighting flesh eating, rabid, mutated creatures with blood dripping from their mouth and flesh between their teeth as I go on with life with a once stranger now my only companion. All in a cheap yellow notebook I bought from a grocery store." Lacey was being sarcastic and Danny knew. " Anyways I write that all down in another book for your information". She turned her head back to the notebook.

"You mean attractive companion" He jokingly flipped his hair "with great hair as you've called me before" he grinned.

She rolled her eyes and smirked "You'll never let go of that will you?"

He chuckled a little "Nope, never will".

They sat in silence as Lacey gazed out of the window looking at the remains of the neighborhood left on the street "It seems that we can walk a little? And I'm tired of sitting in this car for so long. I mean there's no sign of dead anywhere except in those houses that have 'dead inside' on it. We should stay here for the night well in a house that isn't infested at least. Then in the morning we're back on the road."

Danny slowly put the car into a stop "I guess so." he looked around the area "But in case we get separated or something goes down we must have an escape route back to the car. Give me a minute and I'll be right back."

"Got it" Lacey agreed.

Danny stepped out the car and started to walk pass a few houses. As he walked pass each house scanning all of their details. Examining each oversized hedges he had noticed that each house had short fences in their backyard. A light bulb went off in his head when he realized one other detail that caught his eye.

He slowly jogged Lacey, whom was searching through the truck for a last check list of their inventory, while he was thinking of multiple escape routes of the neighborhood. "Lace, I've figured out two routes for us to follow" Danny stated.

She closed the notebook and plopped it down in the trunk "Hit me".

"Okay, so when I was analyzing each house while on my short walk. What I'd noticed was that each of the houses has fences and also all have a gate in the back that lead to that park we drove passed before entering here…"

AN: YES, I did quote a Marina and The Diamonds' song (I was listening to her while I was writing). I'm totally sorry it took me long to update and for the really short chapter. My wifi was acting really crappy for like over a month and it recently just got fixed, but I had it all written (this chapter). Here's why it's short: I originally had a long chapter written, but a few days ago my eldest sister used my laptop and she deleted it. This led me to listen to a very sad playlist for an hour straight and trying to get it back. Sadly I was only able to recover this…something is better than nothing. I PROMISE NEXT CHAPTER WILL BE LONGER THAN THIS (I really do).