I woke up to the sight of Tori lying on her side, her hands curled around mine. She had curled herself up, and had this angelic look of peace on her face. It was nice. I gently withdrew my hands from hers, and took the blankets and pulled them over her.

I turned around and nearly ran over Andre. I glared at him and pushed him out the door.

"The hell Andre?" I snapped.

"Just stopping by to see how you and Tori were doing. And to see if I was going to win my bet with Beck yet"

I glared at him. "Bet?" I snapped icily.

Andre nodded. "Yea, have a little bet with Beck."

"I know that genius, you all ready told me, what is the goddamn bet?"

"We better go find Beck"

"Andre you're not getting out of this!" I snapped as I followed him to the other end of the house. I had just grabbed his arm, when a moan emanated from Beck's room. Andre and I looked at each other. We both smiled.

Stealthily we moved towards the door and put our ears on it.

Oh..Oh…Beck

I would recognize that voice anywhere, even if it was mostly moaning. I glanced at Andre who was smiling.

"Go Cat" I whispered.

Andre nodded with a massive grin. Cat's moans starting increasing in frequency and volume so we beat a hasty retreat. We made it to the kitchen and found Jane talking with Trina and Robbie. Jane cut off her talk when she saw the shit eating grins Andre and I were wearing.

"What's so funny?" Jane asked.

I tilted my head, and at the kitchen you couldn't hear those two. I really should keep silent about this, but it was too funny to not spread around.

"Beck is boning Cat right as we speak, and it sounded like she was enjoying it"

Jane was stunned into silence by my bluntness. Trina and Robbie, who were more used to it, were still silent about it. Then Trina's face broke into a wide smile. "Good on Cat, she's been needing to get laid for a long time"

"Cat needs to what?" A voice said from behind me.

Andre and I turned around to see Tori standing there, rubbing her eyes and looking horrifically confused.

"Oh you didn't hear them on the way down Vega? Beck is playing the beast with two backs with Cat," I said. My smirk turned into a full-blown laugh at the look on Tori's face as what I said sunk in. Tori pushed past me muttering under her breath. Andre and I hung around the kitchen, talking with everyone over this and that. I pushed past Andre to get a drink, and I took the time to whisper into his ear that I hadn't forgotten about the bet he made with Beck. Andre flinched and moved away.

Some time later, Beck entered the kitchen, followed by Cat. He stopped when he saw all of us smiling at him. He stared at is for a few seconds before he went "They know Cat, don't even try to hide it"

Cat peaked her head out from behind Beck. "No one's mad?" she asked timidly, looking right at me. I shook my head. "No, no one is mad at you kit," I said, using the nickname I bestowed upon her.

Cat beamed a smile, and the tension seemed to fly out the room. Cat then practically shouted, "You were right Jade, Beck is awesome!"

Beck whirled and face palmed and looked everywhere else but at us, while everyone was immediately silenced. I smirked. "I told you Kit. And he's fast learner too"

Cat enthusiastically shook her head in agreement. Beck blushed and didn't comment. Jane then spoke up "How is he on imagination? Because Andre has that in spades"

Andre's jaw seemed to hit the floor, as did everyone else's. Save for Cat who seemed to ponder about what Jane has said.

"Don't know, need to learn more to find out!"

Beck chose that moment to break in "I have no problem with that" and everyone laughed.

I glanced at Tori, who was beet red. I laughed at her. "Hey Trina, how's Robbie?" Jane suddenly asked.

Robbie immediately starting babbling about how nothing was going on at all and Trina wouldn't know anything.

"Cut the shit kid" Jane said cutting him off. "I heard you two last night right before Trina went on watch. And going by the amount of noise Trina was making, obviously Robbie knows what he's doing"

"It's that ventriloquism that he used to do all the time, he certainly knows how to move his mouth, and his tongue." Trina said dreamily.

Robbie looked like he was about to swallow his tongue, and Tori was the reddest I had ever seen her be. All the guys were staring at Robbie like they had never seen him before.

"Something wrong Vega?" I asked.

"I didn't need to hear any of this"

I laughed at her, and soon after everyone joined in. We started discussing our various love lives, and the weirdest things we had ever done.

"Most public? The back of Vega's car while waiting for her in the school parking lot." I said.

Tori almost swallowed her tongue, and then quickly erupted. "You had sex in the back of my car?!" she shouted.

I nodded. "You shouldn't have taken so long to leave Hollywood Arts"

When Tori glared at Beck, he just gave a halfhearted shrug. She continued to glare at him, and he said, "You can't honestly expect me to say no to Jade. She's a tigress in bed."

I smirked and just nodded. Tori stopped glaring and just fell back against the counter, blushing.

Jane and Trina took turns regaling us with random stories about horrible boyfriends and weird places they had fun in. Tori surprised us all by chiming in about her ex-boyfriend who was a hard-core exhibitionist.

Laughing at embarrassing stories, playing games with each other, it really seemed like we were a family. I looked around. I would never admit it out loud, but these people; Andre, Beck, Cat, Tori, Robbie, even Trina, and now Jane, they were my friends and family. And from the way the world was looking, we were all that we had.

We talked and laughed the day away, and normally that would have been cause for concern, but no one seemed to want to care. I immediately called first watch and headed upstairs to the window.

I was staring out the window, when I heard footsteps behind me. I turned around and saw Tori, who was still wearing a ghost of a smile. I nodded at her and turned back out the window.

Tori came up and sat down next to me.

"I can't believe you had sex in the back of my car"

"I can. Seems like something that I would do. Besides, it was surprisingly comfortable."

Tori burned red and glared at me. "I'm surprised that your face isn't permanently red"

Tori fumed and didn't say anything.

"Something bothering you Vega?" I asked gently.

Tori didn't say anything, just continued to stare out the window.

"Everyone had these stories, of sex and just having fun. I made out a guy or two, and that was it. It didn't seem like I had anything worth talking about." Tori whispered.

"You want to know how many people I've slept with? One. And that's Beck. And some of those stories were completely made up. Beck and I didn't have sex in the back of your car, we just made out"

"Why did you say that then?"

"Because the look on your face was hilarious. Because we were just telling stories. You don't need to feel left out, just laugh and enjoy being with your friends. And I'm sure you have some of your own stories of things that I've never been apart of."

Tori looked away, and then spoke up again.

"I was waiting for the right person, I don't like the idea of random flings. Does that make me weird? Everyone else seemed to have flings"

I snorted. "No it doesn't make you weird, it's just your preferences. Having sex, or choosing to not have sex doesn't make you any better or worse then everyone else"

"You think so Jade?"

"I know so To-Vega"

Tori smiled and leaned against my side, and I lifted up my arm and wrapped it around her. We didn't say anything for fifteen minutes, just stared out the window.

Something moving at the edge of the street caught my attention. At first I dismissed it as an animal, but when I took a second look, I realized it was walking upright.

No. No. No please let this be just some stupid human looking for a place to sleep, or just one corpser. We have it nice here; I didn't want to leave.

The being tripped and face planted on the sidewalk. It crawled forward, and took the better part of five minutes to right itself and start walking again. No, shambling again. When it started moving upright, more of them came around the corner. All of them were spreading out in random directions, and some were heading down the street.

"Jade" Tori whispered.

"Go get the others, tell them we have undead company. A lot of them"

Tori nodded and took off. I grabbed Blanca and made sure the other bolts were in easy grabbing distance. I leaned against the wall, making sure I couldn't be viewed from the street. A small clatter behind me nearly gave me a heart attack. Tori smiled apologetically and moved to the other side of the window. She had her rifle in her hands.

"Everyone is upstairs, ready to start shooting from the windows. Beck suggests that you switch to a rifle."

"Don't have enough, Jane has mine," I whispered.

Tori nodded. "Oh god, they're coming towards the house"

I glanced down and saw that she was correct. I swore violently. Where the hell had they come from? Could we get out the back if we were swarmed? I shook my head. No we couldn't, we would be overrun in a heartbeat if we went outside. We would just have to sit through this and pray to the god that I didn't believe in.

We stared at the growing shamble of corpsers as they marched by. It was nerve racking. We had parked our cars in the back and locked the fence, but what about up front? They could hit the door, or the windows, or something. To many things could go wrong.

"Hey Vega, you said you were waiting for the right person? Who is it?" I whispered. I really needed to take my rapidly panicking mind off of the fact that they're at least a hundred corpsers right outside the house. Tori looked grateful that I had started talking.

"I have one person in mind…and. And I'm pretty sure she likes me."

My eyes widened, "She? You're bi Vega?"

Tori nodded. "You are right?"

I gave a halfhearted shrug. "Seems so. Very selective over which girl I like"

Tori nodded at that, and we held out breath as a corpser shambled onto the front porch. It wandered around the porch before falling off of the stairs.

Beck popped up behind us. "Hopefully this will clear out some in the morning. We're leaving then. Heading northward. We'll figure more out later."

Tori and I nodded.

Tori looked out the window. I put a hand over hers. "We'll be fine Vega. Trust me"

"I know. But I liked it here; it was nice, not having to wake up on the run, constantly looking over our shoulder. I didn't even mind the lack of hot water"

I chuckled. "I minded the lack of hot water, but we'll find more places like that at some point. If what Jane said is true, we might even be able to take to the sea or something."

"You think we should take to the sea?"

"Seems like the safest thing. I mean, I can't think of anywhere else that's free of people and corpsers."

Tori thought about it, and then nodded. "If we can find out about living at the sea, then yea I would agree with you"

Robbie crept up to us, "I'm on watch now, and the main floor is all locked up and boarded up so we can sleep easy"

We both bade Robbie good night as we headed back to our room. I placed Blanca right next to the bed, and lay down. I put my hand on the bed and just felt it. How long would it be before I could lie down on a mattress again?

Tori's hand skimmed along my arm until she hit my hand, and her fingers slid in between mine.

"We should take the pillows and blankets with us, so we can sleep easier in the cars." She said.

"Good idea. Damn good idea Vega"

"Could you…Could you please stop calling me Vega?" She whispered.

I looked at her; it was the first time that Tori had ever asked me that.

"After all of this, fighting to live, sharing the same bed, using each other as a f-f..fucking pillow, staying with each other no matter what…I think I've earned the right to be called by my first name! Like a real friend! You did it before!"

All of this came out in a rush, and after words, she seemed guilty about getting upset. She did have a point. I wouldn't admit it out loud, but by now we were friends. Family even.

"Okay Tori." I said.

Tori turned to me in shock, and after a second she broke into this massive smile. I squeezed our hands together and gave a small smirk.

Beck slammed the door open, startling the both of us. "Get your shit, we're leaving now." With that he turned and sprinted away. Tori and I looked at each other for a second then grabbed our neatly packed things and starting running after him. I was still in shorts and a tank top but that didn't matter.

"What's going on?!" I demanded.

"Jane was on the roof, used some binocs and saw even more biters on their way. At least a swarm." Trina answered.

We threw the stuff into the cars, and when Tori showed up with the blankets and pillows from the room, everyone but me stared at her for a few seconds, then sprinted back into the house in order to get their own pillows and sheets. We piled into the cars; Tori and I were with Jane and Andre, and everyone else into the other car. Beck was driving, and he slammed on the gas and started tore through the fence and the various backyards. After driving through several people's property (Which was a lot of fun) we hit the road. Both cars smashed several corpsers and sent them flying. We rocketed forward, weaving in and out of the abandoned cars, before hitting the high way. True to what Beck had said, we were heading north.

I looked back at the expensive neighborhood we had abandoned. I sighed, it had seemed like home. I felt a hand on my shoulder, and I turned and looked at Tori, who was giving me a reassuring smile. I looked at Jane and Andre, who in there own ways giving the same smile.

I changed my mind. My home was right here, with these idiots called the Hollywood Misfits.

I smiled back at them and rubbed the back of Blanca. Time to find another place to rest. With everyone.

I don't like Tuesdays all that much. They're so…there. And annoying.

-C.H.