"Dads!"

The female voice dug right into my eardrums. I bolted straight up and shared a glance with Puck.

What the fuck?

The front door slammed against the wall as its was thrown open. A short brunette ran into the house and stomped up the stairs, still screaming.

"Dads, I'm home!"

A tall lanky guy followed through the door behind her. He reached for her arm but she was too fast for him, he missed her completely and stumbled forward a couple of steps. His eyes fell on mine and he froze.

"Rachel?" He said. He took in the scene in the living room. The comforter laid out on the floor and Puck and I now slowly rising to our feet. My brain was still trying to process what the fuck was going on.

There was a scream from upstairs. We all turned towards the sound. Puck and I exchanged a knowing glance.

"I guess she found her dads." I muttered. Puck elbowed me before I said anything else.

"Rachel?" The tall dorky kid bolted up the stairs frantically falling on the first couple of steps.

Puck and I listened to each footstep and waited for the reaction we knew was coming.

"Oh God." I heard echo through the walls of the house. Then the crying intensified.

After losing all desire to listen to this girl's muffled cries I checked the front yard to make sure her outburst hadn't attracted anything. The neighborhood looked peaceful now. Like there hadn't been an army of walking corpses here just last night.

That's when I saw it.

A huge hummer parked next to the curb. It would be perfect for getting the hell out of town. Nothing could take one of those things out. I wanted it. I needed it.

"That wasn't there yesterday." Puck said from over my shoulder. "It must be theirs."

I glanced around and found exactly what I was looking for. The dumbass must have left them. I snatched the keys off the table.

"Well its ours now." I said as I headed for the open door.

"We can't just steal it." He said.

I couldn't hide my disappointment. His whole badass thing was such an act.

"Well then its just mine now." I brushed past Puck but he grabbed my arm.

"You can't just leave them here. They'll die." He said. I tried to pull away but his grip was too tight. I hated that he was stronger than me.

"Did you not just see what I saw?" I said. "She's going to be shivering mess and he's a giant spaz. They wouldn't have survived this long without it anyway."

I pulled from Puck and threw my backpack over my shoulder and shoved the handgun into my waistband. Puck watched me with his mouth open in shock.

"You can either fucking team up with them and get your ass bitten or you can come with me and keep your ass bite free." I said before marching out the door. It only took five steps before Puck was behind me.

He rounded the driver's side and gave me a look, that I'm-a-man-and-I-should-drive look. Given I had totaled my car less than a day ago, I decided that maybe it was a good idea he drove. I reluctantly tossed him the keys. We sat in the car and we didn't take a second to think before Puck jammed the keys into the ignition. He gave me a fleeting look like he was hoping I'd change my mind. I wasn't going to.

"What are you doing?" A voice said over my ear.

I jumped out of my seat. Puck did too. We probably should have checked the back seat for people.

"I- um." Fuck. I felt the metal of the pistol poking into my ribs. I'd be lying if I said I didn't think about pulling the gun and kicking the three people out of the car but there was a limit to even what I would do to survive and pulling a gun and potentially using it on a warm blooded human was too much even for me.

"You're trying to steal the Hummer. Where's Finn?" The voice was slightly feminine but I realized it was coming from an extremely well dressed man sitting behind Puck. "Finn!" He screamed.

"Keep your voice down." I hushed. "Those things are attracted to sound."

His face fell.

Just then the tall dorky body came out of the house holding the shoulders of the shorter brunette girl – Rachel was her name. She was shaking and holding a picture frame in front of her face. She fell to the ground sobbing and the tall kid was having trouble getting her up again. I could see Puck shaking his head in the corner of my eyes.

"I can't do this." Puck said. He jumped out of the car leaving the keys in the ignition.

I watched him walked over to the dorky guy and shook his hand. They seemed to be talking for a second before he leaned down to help get Rachel off the ground. I looked up in the review mirror and got a better glance at the people in the back seat. Besides the flamboyant boy sitting behind Puck there was a dark skinned girl sitting behind me. She didn't look like she was going to be outrunning a horde of zombies anytime soon. Behind them was blonde haired girl wearing a dark blue baseball cap. It had some symbol on it but I couldn't read it in the mirror. She wasn't watching the scene just staring down at her feet. The bill of the hat was shielding her face.

Puck and the tall kid were both half-carrying the distraught girl towards the car. I cursed under my breath and hopped out of my seat before I held the door open for them.

After they loaded the sobbing girl and closed the door the dorky guy turned to me. He held out his hand.

"Hi, I'm Finn." He said. His voice was kind and his tone was formal like the world hadn't just ended or some shit. He just stared at me for an awkward moment before Puck chirped in.

"She doesn't like to introduce herself." Puck said with an light laugh. "Hell I still don't know her name."

Finn smiled a dorky smile and pulled his hand away. "Well you guys can just hop in the back if that's okay?"

I eyed Puck. How the fuck did he manage this one? He smirked at me.

"Sounds perfect." He opened the door and turned to me. "How about you squeeze in the back with the blonde girl?"

He slapped my ass before I settled in next to the girl. I glared at him before he climbed into his seat. My legs bumped into the girl next to me but she didn't even look up.

"What the fuck is the plan here?" I whispered into Puck's ear.

"We all just happened to be going the same way." Puck said.

I frowned and took in the sight of the people we just teamed up with. There was Finn, who could barely stand on his own two feet. Rachel, The sobbing girl in the front seat who was still staring at the picture frame in her hands. Liberace sitting with his legs crossed on Puck's left and the girl to Puck's right who would probably start wheezing the next time they had to run for our lives. Then there was this blonde girl next to me. Even though she was sitting I could tell she was tall. Her legs were toned and I knew it meant she was an athlete. But she was a catatonic disaster.

We were fucked.

"If you don't want to give us your real name. We can always make one up." Finn said as he eyed me through the rearview mirror.

"Something sexy though." Puck laughed. "Like Sa-sha." He enunciated the s's.

The rest of the car laughed, minus the girl next to me. She didn't seem to move or react to anything at all. I decided to end this before they started giving me more stripper names and one of them really stuck.

"Its Santana." I muttered. Puck turned all the way around in his seat to look at me.

"What?" Finn called from the driver's seat.

"My name's Santana." I said again.

He smiled at me. "Nice to meet you, Santana." He said.

Then the rest of the back seat introduced themselves. Including Puck who shook my hand just to be a smartass. Liberace was actually named Kurt. And Wheezy was named Mercedes but I liked Wheezy better.

"And that's Brittany." Kurt pointed to the girl next to me who hadn't spoken yet. "She's been through- a lot." He whispered to me like he thought Brittany couldn't hear it if he spoke lower.

I nodded at him until he turned back around.

We sat in silence for a while as we made our way through the empty streets of downtown Lima. I watched my old town pass by me, except it wasn't mine anymore. I felt the blonde girl looking at me but when I turned my head she was already looking back down at her feet.