How is everyone doing? Hope school is well, and college, I did the college thing once, and I couldn't afford to go back... I think its dumb to pay for a higher education but i cant do anything about that...

I need fillers here because I just want this document to exceed 2,000 words so this part of the document isnt important... but the next part is...

or is it?

Its almost 4 am here, and I'm tired, and I couldnt sleep so here we are, there isn't much else I've got to say so...

Enjoy!

~ZombiesXBrainzz~

Chapter 3: I Hate That Guy...

"Are you okay?" He asked again, he was wearing a white shirt and a leather biker jacket. His head was shaved and he was covered in tattoos, a tough guy so to speak.

I grabbed his hand, "I'm, fine... I'm fine." I said, brushing the dirt off of my clothing.

In all honesty my body ached, everything hurt, "Are you sure you're okay?"

"No... I feel like every bone in me body's broke."

"What?"

"Nothing, it's something from a video game, but I assure you I'm fine."

"Here." He handed me my glasses, there was a slight crack in the one lense,

"Ugh, great." I put them on anyway. Louis and Zoey approached, "Were you the one who shot that zombie?" I asked the biker,

"Maybe I did, what's it to you?"

"You almost got us killed that's what it is to me."

"You're alive aren't you?"

"That's not the point!"

"I think it is."

I growled at him, "Woah woah, calm down you two." Louis said,

"He started it." I grumbled,

"And I'm finishing it, you're both acting like children." I sighed.

The shouting between us caused the unwanted attention from the zombies, "Great, look what you did." The biker said,

"What I did?!"

"Yeah, your bitching got their attention."

"You sure it wasn't your odor?" It was unfortunate that we had a moment of civility for one second before he turned completely asshole on me, such a shame.

We shot at the horde of zombies coming our way, "There's too many of them!" Zoey said,

"This way." The biker said, leading us down an alleyway. We shot at the zombies behind us, "In this building." He opened a door, we filed in and blocked the door behind us, but the zombies were banging on the door.

A chunk of the door started to break off, "Let's get out of here." Louis said, leading us out the front door.

We were well out of the city by the time we took a break, "That was close." I said,

"Yeah it was." Zoey agreed,

"Next time you want to check on a mysterious noise, I will punch you." I said,

"Lesson learned man, lesson learned."

I looked over to Louis, "Where to now?"

"Hmm..." He looked over to the biker, "Got any ideas on where a safe zone is uh..."

"Francis, and yeah, the campus is the nearest safe zone."

"Not anymore." I said, "The infection got in there too. That's where we came from." I said, gesturing to Zoey and I.

Francis gave it a thought, "I couldn't tell you then, I've been too busy being awesome to care about a safe zone."

"That is literally the dumbest thing I ever heard a person say in my life... and I've heard some pretty stupid shit."

"Yeah, and it probably came from your mouth too."

"You know what-"

"Aria, don't start, you saw what happen last time you two started arguing, we need to keep a level head here so we all don't get killed." Louis said, interrupting.

I sighed, "Fine, I will be the bigger person and apologize first to you Francis, I am sorry that I yelled at you and said that you smelled... Even though you do."

"I'm sorry that you decided to be the bigger person in every sense of the word." He smirked,

"Are you calling me fat?"

"I could be."

I pointed my pistol at him, "I'm going to shoot that smirk off your face."

Louis and Zoey held me back, "Enough you two, come on, we have to find a safe zone."

I sighed and lowered my gun, "Fine."

"Okay, by the way Francis I'm Louis and this is Zoey and Aria." Louis introduced us even though Francis already knew my name I'm sure... Unless he was as dumb as he looked and forgot it.

Francis nodded at the introduction, "Alright then ladies, let's go." He took lead instead of Louis, I just shook my head and followed with the others.

Daylight had come and we were miles out from Philadelphia, you could see the smoke from the city over the horizon, "This sucks." I sighed,

"Come on, why don't you look on the bright side?" Louis smiled,

"What possible bright side could there be in a situation like this?"

"You can murder without the cops arresting you." Francis said, "As a matter of fact, you can break every law imaginable and not get arrested."

"I'm sure that getting arrested never stopped you from committing a crime." I smirked,

"You're not wrong."

"You're not one to talk Aria, you know you've broken the law too." Zoey said,

"Shit, you broke the law? What happened, did your dad not give you enough money to go shopping at the mall so you stole stuff?" Francis laughed,

"No, money was never an issue, I used to smoke weed."

"So you're a drug addict? Nice."

"Not anymore, I quit it a long time ago when one of my friends on the volleyball team got caught on a surprised drug test and was kicked off the team, then she dropped out of school... How did you know I was a pothead anyway Zoey?"

"A friend of mine would talk about selling pot to you all the time."

"No way, you were friends with Ethan? He was awesome."

"You probably thought he as only awesome because he sold you drugs." Francis said,

"Come on, he was an awesome person in general, he also bought me Chinese take out when I was drunk once and couldn't drive."

"Yeah, he had the hots for you." Zoey said, "Every day I talked to him it was always 'Aria Aria Aria...'"

"You jealous?"

"No. I-"

"Shh, did you guys hear that?" Louis interrupted. We stopped and listened, it was a groaning sound that we hadn't heard before, or at least I hadn't. Whatever the sound was, it couldn't have been good. I looked at the others, "Let's keep going." Louis said. We followed him down the road again.

The groaning sound got louder, "I don't like not knowing where that sound is coming from." I said,

"Me either. Come on out you wussy." Francis said,

"I don't think calling it out is a good idea." I said. Behind us was a gurgle then the sound of someone vomiting. We were all covered in some gooey slimy shit, "I can't see!" I exclaimed trying to wipe the shit off my eyes, but my whole body was covered.

I could hear the growling of a horde coming towards us, "That can't be good." Zoey said,

"Bring it on, I'm indestructible." Francis laughed,

"Francis you idiot you're not indestructible!" I said trying to shoot in the direction that I heard zombies.

Something exploded behind us, "I think I got it guys." Louis said,

"Nice job." I said, shooting in front of me. I was hit in the leg and fell to my knees "Shit!" I didn't know what got me, but I kept shooting at the zombies while on the ground. Finally the zombies had stopped coming, "Are they all dead?" I asked, "

I think so." Louis said,

"Good." I wiped off my face, "That was so gross." The stinging sensation in my leg came back. I hissed at the pain and observed the damage, there was a hole in my thigh and it was gushing out blood, "What? Who shot me?!"

Francis knelt down to examine the wound, "Does this hurt?" He poked it,

"What the hell?!" I screamed,

"Walk it off, you'll be fine."

"I don't think I can walk, you're going to have to carry me." I smirked,

"Nah, looks like we'll just have to leave you." He stood up,

"We aren't leaving anybody." Louis said, picking me up,

"Thank you Louis." I wrapped my arm around his shoulder,

"Lets get out of the open so we can fix that up." We started to walk. It hurt to put my weight on my right leg but I had to keep going, I wasn't going to be the one that was holding them back. We slowly made our way into a building and blocked the door, the emergency lights were on casting a dim light on the stores bare shelves, I sat myself on the counter, "Here, let me patch you up." Louis said, pulling a first aid kit from his bag,

"Thanks Louis." I smiled at him.

Francis walked up, "I don't know about you guys but I could eat."

"Me too." Zoey said,

"I have some food in my bag, it's not much, just what I had in my apartment." I took off my backpack, "When my friends and I left we split up the food so that's all there is to choose from." I gave the bag to Zoey. She grabbed some food out and handed it to Francis,

"Man, you don't have any meat in here?"

"What?"

"I was kidding. Don't get your panties in a twist."

"I don't wear panties thank you very much."

"I did not need to know that." Louis said, bandaging up my leg.

I shrugged, "Sorry Louis, it is what it is." I smiled at him,

"There, that should do it... though its going to hurt for a bit." He took my hands and helped me off of the counter, "Thanks man." I said, shifting my weight to my left, "Do you want some food?"

"No thanks, I've got my own in here." He pulled a fruit cup out of his bag,

"Alright then." I grabbed a can of pears out of my bag and took the can opener from Francis. We sat in silence as we ate a little bit, I looked down on the floor and noticed a torn piece of paper with something written on it. There was only one little sentence written on the paper, '...evacuation in Fairfield PA..." Was all the paper read, "Guys, check this out." I handed the paper to Louis. He observed it, "This could be our chance to get the hell out of here and get to safety." I said,

"Aria, you want us to go to ground zero of this infection? It's a suicide mission!"

"Come on, no matter where we go it's going to be a suicide mission with those things out there, and besides, they didn't say for sure that it was the epicenter of the infection."

"Aria, this is taking a pretty big risk."

"What do we have to lose Louis? We don't know where we are going, we are limited on food and ammunition, and there is a good chance that the zombies are going to kill us no matter where we go. Louis, this is our only lead, our only chance that we have to get away from these things!"

Zoey and Francis looked at each other, "I think we should go." Francis said, agreeing with me,

"What other option do we have Louis?" Zoey added.

He sighed, "Alright guys, we'll go to Fairfield." Louis finalized.

I grabbed my bag up off of the floor and threw it over my shoulders, "Come on guys, we're going on a trip."