Ashlyn here :) I told you the chapters would get longer! Hope you enjoy!

Adding another awesome person to the story but can't tell you who it is yet!New friends and best friends:


Carolina's truck was slammed by a yellow Hummer, sending it yards away from it originally hit, knocking it over on it's side, trapping Carolina in. Her head hit the door window, knocking her out cold. "Any survivers?" a female voice rang in Carolina's mind. Blood trailed down her cheeks and down her neck. Carolina wanted to answer to voice's quetion but her inhale sent waves of pain and shock in her head, down her spine and to her stomach, instead of giving an answer, she gave out a yelp.

"Tal, can you give me a hand here?" the voice called out again but Carolina was in too much of a shock to think much about it.

Tallahassee walked away from Columbus who was dragging Lil Rock from the driver's seat, like Carolina, covered in blood but looked more seriously injured. "Oh no," Witchita moved off Carolina's car and ran past Tallahassee to take care of her little sister. Carefully, Tallahassee climbed the side of the truck and pulled the passanger door wide open which didn't help from the way the car was positioned. "Hey, Ohio! Help me out with this door!" Tallahassee called to Columbus who stood up from helping Lil Rock and ran to the car, climbing it too to hold the door open. Carolina's dark brown hair was shiny and a reddish looking from her blood. Tallahassee made his way down inside the truck, watching carefully where he stepped. He took Carolina's arm and pulled it over his shoulder, pulling her up, making her yelp in pain again. "What hurts?" he asked. "My...head." Carolina replied squeezing her eyes shut from the pain still shooting through her veins. "Looks like you banged your head pretty hard." Talla sighed. "Can you stand?" "Yeah...I think so." Carolina replied and stepped on what ever was flat and easy to step on.

From the corner of Ohio's eye, the oil from the truck created a black pool under it and was trailing down to a car that had already been destroyed and on fire. "Come on we have to go now!" Columbus paniced motioned his hand at them, urging them to hurry up. Carolina grabbed her journal as Tallahassee started to climb back out. "Hold your horses, Columbo, we're comin'." Once he stepped out of the car was when he saw what Columbus had seen. The oil was seconds away from touching the car on fire. "He's right lady! Hurry your ass up!" he paniced too and reached down into the car, grasping Carkolina's wrist and pulled her up. "Ow! Damnit that hurt!" Carolina yanked her wrist from his grip and threw her journal out to pull herself up. "Hurry up!" Tal yelled and jumped off the truck, followed by Columbus then Carolina but as soon as Carolina got to her feet, she sprinted to the back of the truck. "What the hell are you doing!" Tallahassee yelled and locked his arms over Carolina's so she wouldn't struggle. "I have guns and amo!" she yelled twisting and turning her body to free herself from him but failed. "Leave them, we have plenty!" Columbus ran back over to the yellow Hummer, grabbed Little Rock and Witchita, telling them what was going to happen and jumped in the backseat, with Little Rock in his arms. Tallahassee struggled with Carolina, trying to pull her away from the truck, ignoring all her swears and comments. He looked back and saw the oil about to touch the burning car.

"Get down!"

Tallahassee pulled Carolina to the ground as soon as the truck exploded, sending debris everywhere. He covered the girl's head with his own and used his hand to protect his. From the sounds of it, something heavy and big flew from the truck just above them. Columbus and Witchita covered their eyes and listened to the small rocks hitting the windshield from the explosion. After a few moments, Carolina turned her head to look back at the damage. Her eyes widened and moved Tallahassee off of her. "My...truck." she breathed. "You're welcome for saving your ass." Tallahassee scoffed and stood back up then stared down at the girl. "My baby." she breathed again making Tal roll his eyes. "There's more out there." he said before walking back to the yellow Hummer. Carolina got up and suddenly yelled at him, "I didn't ask you to save me!" Tallahassee continued to walk to the other truck. "Got it. Won't happen again." Carolina sneered and watched him open the back of the Hummer. "Is everyone alright? How is she?" she heard him ask. She also heard the response of the other girl crying. "This is all my fault! I shouldn't have let her drive!"

'Hello! There's another girl with a hurt head here!' Carolina yelled in her mind. She crossed her arms and scoffed.

After a minute of being ignored, she lowered her arms from her chest and walked over to the group. "Who's hurt?" she asked and pushed Tallahassee out of the way then leaned in the backseat. There was a little girl who looked like she was twelve or thirteen. Her head was bleeding as well. She figured she'd have it worse because of her young age. "Can you help her?" the older girl asked, tears running down her cheeks. Carolina thought for a moment and sighed. "I'll try." she moved in all the way, making Columbus get out on the other side. "What's her name?" she asked holding the little girl's head up. "Little Rock. I'm her sister, Witchita." she replied and looked at her little sister. "Little Rock? Can you open your eyes for me?" she asked pulling her bangs back. Tallahassee watched over her shoulder and Columbus looked over Witchita's.

Little Rock's eye lids moved but didn't open. "Well, she can hear me which is good." Carolina said. "W-Witchita?" the young girl's mouth opened to say. Witchita loud out a loud cry from joy and took her hand. "I'm here."

Little Rock opened her eyes and looked up at the unknown girl hovering her head over hers. "Who're you?" she asked, her eyes widening. "Relax, I'm just here to help." Carolina replied. Little Rock closed her eyes again and sighed then winced shortly after. "What hurts?" Carolina asked. "My head!" the younger girl screamed and started crying from the pain. "I know...I have a headache too, Is that it?" she asked. Little Rock nodded her head making her cry out loud again. Carolina leaned back up and sighed. "Diagnoses, sleep, pain killers, and lots of water." she gave a reassuring smile at Witchita. "She's gonna be fine. She just hit her head a little too hard." Witchita reached over to her and hugged her tight. "Thank you, thank you, so much!"

Carolina walked over to her truck which was know in flames, all the doors and window's missing. Something pink and green caught her eye, her journal which wasn't too far from the truck. She picked it up and wiped the dust and debris off of it. A southern male's voice from behind made her jump.

"So uhh, you coming with us then?"

Carolina looked at the cowboy, thought, and shook her head. "No...I can't. Even if I wanted to, I can't."

"Why not?"

"It's hard to explain."

"Just tell me, it can't be that hard."

"I just can't!" Carolina shouted back at him, getting really annoyed.

The man sighed, "Fine, at least come with us and get washed up and refreshed. Besides, you owe me." he smirked.

"What the hell do I owe you for?" Carolina snapped.

"For saving your life. A couple of Twinkies should do the trick."

He was right, she did kind of owe him. Even if she didn't want her life saved. "Why Twinkies?" she giggled. Tallahassee shook his head and walked back over to the yellow Hummer. Carolina hugged her journal to her chest like a school girl with her books and followed. "We can all recover at my place until you're all ready." she said getting in the backseat. Tallahassee got into the passangers seat and wiped the blood off the steering wheel and the windshield. After examining the front of the truck, Columbus climbed into the passanger seat and buckled in. "It doesn't look that bad." Carolina got in the backseat behind the driver's and Witchita behind Columbus's, holding Little Rock in her arms.

Carolina gave the directions to her house. "It's zombie free. I check everyday before I leave and go to bed." she said getting out of the Hummer and unlocked the gate with two, big golden letters of B and M on the front. Once inside, she locked the gate again and helped everyone bring everyone and everything inside the house.

"Who's mansion is this? Bob Marley's" Tallhassee asked once Carolina opened the big front doors. "Nope, even better." she smiled. Everyone walked inside and Carolina showed them to the living room. Actually, Tallahassee was the first one in. It seemed like the letters B and M made him nervous and jumpy. From outside the living room which Tallahassee was now in, they heard "Oh my God! Bill fucking Murray!" making Carolina burst out laughing, despite how bad her head hurted at the moment and Little Rock winced. "Keep it down, Tal! This one still has a headache!" Witchita yelled walking into the living room with Little Rock in her arms. "And you're making it worse!" Little Rock cried at Witchita who apologized. "Sorry Little Rock." Tallahassee apologized and started dancing out of joy whispering to himself as yelling, "Bill fucking Murray! I'm in Bill Murray's fuckin masion!" Carolina watched him go crazy for a few more minutes until he calmed and pointed to her. "You are my new best friend...what's your name?" he panted. "Carolina." she replied. "Carolina," Tallahassee got to one knee and took her hand, "Would you have the honor of being my best friend?" he asked, his eyes watery from tears of joy. Carolina's smile went down slowly. 'Best friend...' she repeated her mind. "Sure." she said picking her smile back up again. Tal kissed her hand and ran out the living room to look around. She dropped her hand and frowned.

"What's wrong?" Columbus asked walking up to her.

"I have rules. I can't have a best friend, boyfriend, or anyone close to me."

"Why not?"

"I don't want to get attatched, it hurts too much. It's the reason I didn't want to come with you in the first place." she replied sitting on the couch until she heard the loudest scream in her life, echoing the whole house, which sounded like Tallahassee's.