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Lee was exhausted, and was struggling to walk, feeling he was about to collapse, he decided to rest on a nearby rock for a while. Hungry and thirsty, he tried to think out a plan to find some food and water. That was until he heard laughing and cackling from behind him.

He snapped his head around and it took his breath away, there was a small orange glow coming from in the woods. Lee quickly hopped up and dropped his arms to his side, putting the handguns he was holding in the back of his pants and approached the glow, with his arms raised.

"Hello? Excuse me, are you armed?!" Lee said, loudly. "I don't want to hurt anybody, I just need some help." He said.

That was when Lee was weirded out, they didn't grab their weapons, like he assumed. One man with a giggly high pitched accent just beckoned him over. "Dude, just…" he coughs in between words. "Just come sit down, man." He said, slurring his words.

Lee dropped his rifle next to a tree, keeping his handguns close to him, and sat next to the man who had called him over, he was a messy looking man, shoulder length scruffy hair, and tanned skin, he was wearing laid-back clothes, a hoodie, t-shirt, and jeans.

There were four others with him, a slender and lanky teenager, who looked about seventeen, another girl, who looked about fifteen, a man, who looked like he was about in his mid-thirties, and surprisingly a much older-looking woman, with short silver-grey hair, a cardigan and a flowery dress.

All of them, Lee realised were holding self-wrapped cigarettes of some kind. "Uh…thanks, do you guys have any water?" Lee asked.

"Way ahead of you, man." The teenage girl said, passing him a plastic bottle full of clean water. Lee nodded and chugged the water down.

"Want some…uh, wacky?" The man in his thirties said, passing him one of the self-rolled cigarettes.

Lee finished the mouthful of water he had, and thought about it for a second. "Dude, you look down, you should, like, try it. Like…and…ha, dude, like, I, like totally forgot what I was saying, what was I doing…?" The scruffy-haired man said.

"You were disappointing everyone, darling." The older woman said. She sounded a lot more sensible and sober than the others. Obviously not taking part in the smoking that they were. "I wouldn't do it, Mr…"

"Oh, Lee, ma'am." He said, trying to be respectful.

"Haha, see, he's a charmer, why can't you be like him, Stevie?" The woman said, addressing the shaggy-haired man.

"Dude, he's just like, too stressed, just let go, dude." The teenage boy said.

"I'm…uh, fine thank you. So, who are you guys?" Lee asked, awkwardly.

"I'm Delia, but you can call me DD." The teenage girl said. "I bet my parents were like, totally on drugs when they named me that…"

"Yes…that would explain an awful lot, wouldn't it, darling? My name is Eve. It's a pleasure to meet a person who has sense in what they're doing." The old woman said, snootily.

"I'm Chay." The teenage boy said, with his same slurred accent.

"You can like…uh…call me Stanley." The mid-thirties man.

"Nice to meet you. Is this all your group?" Lee asked, slightly more relaxed.

"Nah, there's one more, he's using the bathroom." DD said in a giggly voice.

"Wait, what?!" A man said as he approached the camp, Lee expecting him to be confused about the strange man sat in their camp. "You're toking up without me? What the hell?!" The man said, snatching a joint from Chay. "Oh yeah, who's this guy?" He said, sitting down parallel do Lee.

"Oh, this is…Lee, I think. Lee, I think…this is Wyatt." Stevie said.

"Hey." Lee said.

"Hey…uh, Lee, so you're from Savannah? Or at least went through there? Or near it?" Wyatt said, taking a break from his cigarette.

"Yeah…but that is a long story…" Lee said, with a slight laugh.

"Did you see a guy there? Beanie, earing, a beard, sorta'? His names Eddie." Wyatt explained.

"Sorry, that place is a wasteland, covered in walkers…have you by any chance, seen a girl? Ball cap? Dress? Hoodie? She's small, skinny…poor thing…she could be all by herself by now…" Lee said, with tears appearing in his eyes.

"Sorry man…that sounds like tough shit…here." Wyatt said, passing Lee a joint.

"Nah, he don't take part." DD said.

Lee stared at the cigarette and sighed. "I must be out of my mind…" Lee said, grabbing the cigarette and placing it in his mouth. He breathed in with a round of applause from the group. Lee puffed out smoke and leaned his head back. "How long does this…take to, y'know…do its shit?" Lee said, already feeling slightly happier.

"Should be soon, man, I can't remember…damn I'm hungry…" Chay giggled.

"Right…well I'll be off to bed then." Eve sighed, as she stood up from the tree log she was sitting on.

Lee giggled slightly as he took in another puff of smoke. "Alright…I'm not feeling too good, I'll…be right back." Lee coughed, getting up from his seat next to Stevie.

He walked over to a large tree quite a ways from the camp as his stomach cramped, feeling like it was being pushed every which way. He leaned up against the tree as a combination of blood and vomit spilled out of his mouth onto the earth.

From Lee's mixed and blurred vision, he manged to make out that it was a dark black colour. "You alright, bro? A little too tough, huh?" Wyatt said, placing his hand on Lee's back.

"A little." Lee said, wiping his mouth

"First time?" Wyatt said.

"How'd you guess?" Lee joked.

"Just a hunch. Y'know it's not safe out there on your own, why don't you stick around with us for a bit?" Wyatt said with a warm smile.

"I'd like that…" Lee said, with a smile, after some hesitation, realising he may still be slightly loopy from the cigarette.

"Let's go back to camp, you should lie down." Wyatt said, directing Lee back to the camp.

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