Nick woke up the next morning in a daze; his last dream was not only confusing but actually painful. He tried to shake it off and he knew he'd soon forget. As he sat up he noticed Coach and Rochelle standing by the door.. laughing?

"What's so funny?"

"You!" Rochelle laughed a little harder now, causing Nick to glare.

"You was talkin' in ya sleep, son." Coach chuckled. "Somethin' about Caroline?" He laughed again.

Rochelle attempted to stop laughing long enough to speak. "Oh, Caroline, please, baby, it's not what you think.." she imitated the voice of someone sounding quite desperate, and Nick knew she was mocking what he had said in his dream. "I.. I don't even love her! I promise, baby!" Coach just laughed at this even more.

Nick's glare grew darker as he stared at her.

"Ya know.." she spoke more calmly now, but there was still amusement in her voice. "I heard someone else's name in there, too..." Her eyes looked away and she chuckled a bit as she trailed off.

"Who?"

It looked like at least one, if not both of them were going to answer him but they quickly shut their mouths. Nick was about to yell in protest and then he saw Ashley come walking in from the other room, stretching, followed by a shirtless Ellis.

"Good morning." She said with a small smile, making sure her eyes met each of the three standing around the room.

Nick noticed she was not wearing the same black v-neck and jeans that she had on when he passed out the night before. She had on black running shorts and a loose black tank top, and no shoes.

"Mornin'." Coach nodded at the pair. "Didn't think y'all would be up till later, 'so dark we still can't even leave."

"I just couldn't sleep." Ashley shrugged as she absentmindedly sat down on the arm of the couch, not paying mind to Nick anymore.

"Well, I'm glad you at least got a little, babygirl. You needed it."

Ashley smiled at him. Then all eyes turned to the youngest of the group.

Ellis was still standing in the doorway, shirtless, eyes tired, and he was staring at the same spot on the wall that he had been when he walked in.

"Ellis?" Rochelle slowly neared him. "Hey, Ellis." She gave him a light tap on the shoulder.

"Hm?" His head snapped up, and his eyes widened a bit.

"Ellis, I told you to go back to bed, I knew you were still tired." Ashley gave him a half sympathetic look.

"I know, I know.." he said nodding slowly. "I guess I should do that then, huh." And he slowly walked back to the bedroom where everyone else chuckled when they heard him flop down on the small, old bed.

"Strange one, that boy.." Coach said shaking his head.

"Dig the PJs! I'm jealous." Rochelle said gesturing to Ashley's newfound attire.

She laughed. "I've got another set, you can wear them tomorrow night."

Rochelle mouthed 'Yes!' as she pulled her fist through the air, and Ashley laughed again.

"So.." Coach, who had silently moved to a table where he set his water bottle down, began to say.

All eyes turned to look at him.

"I think I seen this bridge. I'm quite positive that's where that car ended up."

Ashley was confused, Nick didn't care too much about the car, he just cared about getting out.

"Don't tell Ellis that." Rochelle joked.

"But I think I also saw people on it." Coached finished.

They all stopped.

"People?" Nick raised his eyebrows. "Or infected?"

"People."

Nick's eyebrows went up farther but he didn't say anything.

"Do you think these people saw you?" Rochelle asked.

"Nah. I didn't get that close. I just spotted this bridge from a distance and I noticed some figures on it. As I watched em, they didn't limp around or anything. They moved fast, quick; like humans. They weren't goin' nowhere, but they were makin' hand gestures and stuff. Like they was arguin' or somethin'."

"How many?" Nick asked flatly.

"I'd like to say two but I may have seen one sittin' down. I don't know if this third character is still living or not, or if I'm just seein' things in my old age."

Nick nodded.

"But definitely two."

Rochelle had turned to look out the window. The sun was now up, not very high, but at the peak of sunrise. "So, think we should head out?"

Coach nodded. "Ashley, would you mind grabbin' the youngin'?"

"Sure."

Moments later Ellis appeared again, this time wearing a shirt, and not as tired-looking.

As everyone was grabbing items and weapons and preparing for their journey, Coach leaned over to Ashley and whispered, "You can ask Ellis about the car if you're confused."

Ashley found it strange that he would tell her to specifically ask Ellis, but upon doing so, she found why.

"Man, that car is my life! I can't believe in the middle of this whole zombie apocalypse-ness I DROVE JIMMY GIBBS JR'S CAR." Ashley laughed at his annunciation of the last six words.

"Anyway, so we's in this mall and we're try'na think 'How the hell we gonna get out?' and so Nick's all like," he put on his best impression of Nick. "'CEDA ain't comin', what do we do?'" While everyone else laughed at this, Nick rolled his eyes.

"So then, I got this idea. I knew Jimmy's stock car was somewhere in the mall, and I'd seen some cans of gas earlier, and I thought 'Hey! Maybe we can gas up his car enough to get us away from here!' and no one else had no ideas so we just went with mine." He paused for a moment, grinning. "Oh, yeah, and then we made it to this highway in front of a motel, but it was blocked off by all these wrecked and empty cars, so we had to leave Jimmy there.. Oh but then, we made it to this hotel and we found some good stuff and we went down this hill and then back up this hill," Ashley and Rochelle were laughing at his enthusiasm. "and we found WHISPERING OAKS AMUSEMENT PARK!" His face looked like he had just now found it again, only for the first time. Before Ashley could speak, he continued.

"So then, we had to do all this cool stuff like, run away from infected in a merry-go-round, cut through barns and run over roofs, OH, and we got to run from the zombies on the Screamin' Oak roller coaster! My gosh, it was amazin'.." he trailed off as he thought about it.

"Not to mention the concert." Coach nodded towards the boy.

"Oh, yeah! And we signaled a helicopter with the stuff that the Midnight Riders was usin' for their concert! Man, Ashley, you shoulda been there.. 'Course.. Nick shot the pilot later, but that was only 'cause he was savin' us 'cause the pilot was infected and all, and he was turnin' into a zombie."

At hearing Nick's name everyone turned to look for him, and saw him nowhere.

"Nicolas!" Coach called.

No answer.

Then moments later, "Hey, guys, I found the bridge.." he called from not too far ahead, but something in his voice suggested a problem.

As they reached him, they saw that there were indeed people on the bridge. Nick had stopped at a distance so that they wouldn't be spotted, and they were now watching as the confused survivors above them, turned and looked for where the voice had come from.

"What d'we do?" Ellis turned to the group, who all turned to Coach.

"We go up and say 'hello'."