EPOV

"What is it?" Alice asked, and I dreaded the fact that I had to tell her, because she's so easily scared and it's fun to scare her, but not when it's life threatening like this.

"A forest fire" I muttered, and I'm not even sure if Alice heard me, but from where Emmett stood; he didn't.

"A what?" She asked, looking at me with wide eyes.

"God, damn it! Pack as much as you can and let's get out of here! There's a forest fire!" I panicked as I jumped down from the tree branch and Alice and I climbed our tree and got our gym bags and stuffed our food in there along with our weapons and we rolled up the foam bed things we have and used the rope to tie them to our backs.

"It doesn't even seem like it's that hot for a forest fire to start" Emmett said as he scattered the branches and sticks I had stacked so the pale eyes don't know that we were here.

"Well it is" I said while we started jogging through the trees; away from the fire.

"We should find a vehicle" Alice stated the obvious, but I wasn't going to say anything.

"None of us know how to drive" Emmett said as we broke through the trees and we looked around for a vehicle that was in shape and actually had car doors attached.

"Who cares, there isn't anyone to hit anyways" I said as I threw our stuff into the back of a dark green pick up and got into the driver's side and tried to find the wires that would let me hot wire this bad boy.

"You know how to hot wire?" Emmett asked out of breath as he got into the passenger seat and Alice got in the back and looked over my shoulder as I looked for the right wires.

"Not really. Movies help though" I said with a shrug as I pulled some wires out near the gas pedal and now I have no fucking idea what to do.

"We have company" Alice said, and Emmett and I turned and pale eyes were coming out from stores and dumpsters.

Damn, that's a lot of Zombies.

"Fuck, shit, pussy!" Emmett kept chanting...Are weapons are in the back of the fucking truck!

"Alice try to hot wire this thing" I said as I jumped out of the truck and Alice rolled down her window as I grabbed my handgun, leaving my dagger for better use.

"I don't know how!" She said as Emmett stood beside me as we shot some pale eyes.

"Figure it out!" I shot quickly as I ducked, and a grey, splotchy arm skimmed my hair as I watched Emmett jab the bastard in the throat.

"Edward!" I turned at the sound of Alice's voice, thinking that a fucker got a hold of her, but hell no! The truck was started.

Well I be damned!

"Emmett let's go!" I yelled.

"Can't right now" He grunted, and I turned at the exact moment when one of the Zombies climbed up his back, and I swallowed the bile when I got a good look.

The pale eyes on his back was a little girl, and she looked to be about nine or ten.

"Damn it" I sighed, but I did the next best thing besides killing her.

I grabbed the girl under the arms and I tossed her into the grass as she screeched, and Emmett handed me his cutting knife, and I used that to slice the hands off of these monsters and off of Emmett.

"Come on!" I said as I gripped his arm and dragged him to the truck, and we got in while we kept our weapons in our laps.

"How the hell did you do this?" I asked while I backed up and grinned in satisfaction when I felt the bumps and heard the shrieking when I hit some pale eyes.

"I don't even know" Alice said while Emmett gave me a high-five for hitting some Zombies, which he said gave me a hundred points.

"fifty points!" Alice cheered and pointed over my shoulder to the fat fuck that was standing in the middle of the road.

"You got it!" I said as I gunned it, and we all called out in disgust, but excitement as the dark, black blood was splattered all over the windshield and Emmett and I's windows.

"Where are we even going?" Alice asked after about two hours, and truthfully, I don't even know where the hell I was planning to go.

"I-I don't know" I sighed with a stutter as I pulled over to the side of the road and all there is around us is wide open fields that look like they go on forever.

"I have to go to the bathroom" Alice said bashfully as she blushed and Emmett chuckled in amusement while I rested my head down onto the steering wheel.

"Just go behind the car... By the tall grass" I said and listened as Alice closed the door behind her.

I watched in the review mirror to make sure nothing pops out at her, but she went far enough so that I couldn't see her...Don't think so wrong people! I'm not trying to perv on my twelve-year-old sister...Well, she's as close as I'll get when it comes to sisters.

"We need to sleep" Emmett groaned as he closed his eyes and leaned back in his seat as I started driving again ones Alice got back into the truck.

"Emmett, it's almost four o'clock. We should be eating, not sleeping" I said in frustration as I punched him in the arm.

I pulled over about thirty minutes later because my stomach is growling at me and I'm craving some chips and even cereal.

All three of us sat in the back of the truck and I enjoyed the slight wind that felt good on my sweaty face as I munched on some chips and Emmett had the jerky while Alice happily snacked on her animal crackers. Man, she loves those things.

"Try to turn the radio on" Emmett said while he tried to break down the jerky, but he kept chewing on it forever.

"Doubt there is anything" I grumbled as I jumped out of the back of the truck and reached my arm into the drivers side window and tuned the radio on, but there was only fuzzy and crackly sounds.

"Fuck!" Emmett cursed in anger. Yeah, Emmett likes music if you haven't noticed.

"Sorry, Em" I sighed as I backed up from the truck and jumped back into the back and got back to enjoying my chips.

I drove for another two and a half hours until there was a sign up ahead and I slowed down, trying to be quiet so I wouldn't wake up Emmett or Alice.

"New Buffalo, Michigan" I whispered, and looked ahead and could see houses in the distance and my hopes spiked up that there was maybe other people, but by the looks of it, I highly doubt it.

Almost every house so far in this small city has windows broken, or the doors are wide open and I want to go and punch something...Somebody, because there is no one fucking here except pale eyes, and it's dark now so they will be staying in random places until the sun rises again.

"Where the fuck are we?" I looked over at the sound of Emmett's rough voice, and he was sitting up as he rolled down his window and let some fresh air into this stuffy truck.

"Michigan" I mumbled as I looked around and I wanted to yell out profanities when I saw a house that was perfectly fine, but I looked into the front window and there was a dog watching us...An uninfected dog!

"Holy shit" I breathed out in shock. How the hell did this dog stay alive?

"Is that a dog?" Emmett asked as he squinted his eyes to get a better look, and the dog jumped down from the window and then popped its head out of the doggy door that I didn't even know was there until now.

"That's a Dalmatian" Alice said, and the sudden sound of her voice made Emmett and I jump. God, she's like a fucking ninja.

"What if the dog was bitten?" Emmett asked warily as the dog trotted towards the truck. I know this dog is fine because if he or she was bitten, then this dog wouldn't look so happy and he or she would be limping or something like that.

I rolled down my window and the dog's tongue lolled out of its mouth...Is it a boy or girl? I'm not calling this dog an 'it' forever!

The dog hoisted its front legs up and into the truck and I was now eye level with...I looked down and smiled. I was now eye level with her.

"It's a girl and she's not bitten" I assured the two before I brought my hand out, and made a fist while she sniffed and started licking the dirt off of my hand.

"She's hungry" I stated the obvious while I looked at her and you could see her ribs and hips popping out slightly.

"Get a bag of jerky, Emmett...And some water" I instructed.

"That's my jer-"

"Just do it" I snapped while the dog started licking my palm when I let my hand relax.

"No pale eyes are around so we can get out. I need to stretch my legs before there stuck bent like this" I said while I opened the door and the dog backed up and Alice hopped out as well and started petting the dog.

"Here, girl" Emmett said gently and the next thing we knew, the dog ate three of the packets and destroyed the water bottle.

"Uh...Guys?" We looked up as the dog stood up and looked to where Alice was, and there was another dog!

"That dog isn't infected either" I mused because this dog isn't limping either.

These dogs are fucking hard-core!

"That's a King Shepard! We learned about them back in school" Alice said, sounding very proud of herself.

This dog looked like a German Shepard, but had the build of a Newfoundland dog and this dogs fur was hard to see because it was all black, but the bright blue eyes helped me see better.

The new dog ran over while we all stumbled back, and he or she sat down beside the Dalmation...It's a he.

"Give him some jerky. You brought so many bags anyways" I said.

I've never met nicer dogs before, and from some begging from Alice, we're keeping them.

The Shepard's name is 'Butch', Emmett's idea, and the Dalmatian's name is 'Cassie', which Alice and I both agreed on.

So it is true. Dogs are mans best friend.

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