An Unexpected Encounter
Note: I am aware that I have not updated this story in two years. I felt like I lost touch with it, but because I had recently started playing Dead Rising 2 again, after I finally got a PS4 and the remastered version of it, I had recently thought of an idea as it just came to me. Also, because I had gotten Dead Rising 1 as well, I thought of doing a separate anthology regarding that one (For those wondering, I never played DR1 until I got it for the PS4 because I never owned an Xbox 360), despite being aware that there are stories regarding survivors for that one. Of course, the ideas are mine and mine alone. Anyway, feel free to pitch ideas for this one and the other one when I get to that one.
I also must note that I REALLY need to get back to a lot of stories, whether it's my True Crime story, Def Jam story, GTA V story, Ghostbusters story, etc. Anyway, enjoy this one.
Willa Harris had spent a day trying to have her leg recover from an injury that she suffered while she was in the middle of the outbreak with her friend, Terri Glass.
Sven Blaaborg, the resident emergency medical technician, had helped Willa try to treat her leg. The main thing he had told Willa to do is just rest her leg after putting it on ice for a bit. He even told her that after a while, the best thing for her to do is walk on the leg to see how it feels. Even Terri, having been a good friend to Willa, agreed that it would be best to try walking around a bit to help the pressure on her leg.
Willa walked around the safe house to help ease the pain on her leg, and then suddenly, she across a very familiar face, if familial. She noticed an attractive woman with a headdress and a blue robe. Once she took a closer look, the word that came out of her mouth was, "Kristin?"
Kristin turned her attention towards the person who uttered her name and noticed someone in construction gear. The only thing she could say in that situation was "Willa?"
"What are you doing here, what brought you here?" Willa said, though saying that was redundant considering how there would only be one reason for her to be there, along with numerous other people.
"The main thing that I could remember is waking up in the security room at the Americana Casino and puking my guts out," Kristin said. "Before that, all I could remember is drinking a bit too much with some guys at a bachelor party."
Willa looked at her and put her hand to her mouth, because her body told her to laugh, but she tried to fight the laughter as best as she could.
"This doesn't surprise me, you were always a big party animal," Willa said. "Sounds like you got shitfaced. I have seen you like that before."
"Don't start," Kristin said. "I think I should lay off the drinks for a bit. There was a good thing to come out of it."
"What is that," Willa asked.
"One of the guys gave me his number," Kristin said, as she opened her robe a bit on her chest area and got the piece of paper that was in her bikini top. She then put in back in her bikini top. "Other than that, I really don't know how I got into the security room at the Americana. I didn't even know that there was a zombie outbreak until that one guy came to take me here. I just hope that one guy who I partied with got out okay."
Willa didn't say anything in that moment, as she was not surprised at Kristin's behavior. Suddenly, out of nowhere, Terri caught up to Willa.
"Hey, Willa, is everything okay?" Terri asked, and she looked at Kristin. "Who is this, by the way?"
Willa looked over at Terri. "I'm fine, I was just trying to walk on my leg to see how it feels, and this here is Kristin, my cousin."
Kristin put her hand out to get a handshake from Terri, which caused her to shake Kristin's hand in the process.
"Hi there, I'm Terri, I work with your cousin, we're friends," Terri said.
"Nice meeting you, by the way," Kristin said, who then looked at Willa. "I didn't realize that you were here this whole time, by the way. You said something about your leg, what happened out there?"
After having realized that they got caught up in talking about what Kristin went through, Terri looked over at Willa, who then faced Terri in the process, and the two turned their attention towards Kristin.
"Well, I tried to…," Willa said.
"We both got surrounded by zombies in the South Plaza, and we tried to fight them off," Terri interrupted Willa.
"Yeah, and I hurt my leg when I climbed the scaffold to avoid the zombies," Willa said. "But Terri here did not give up trying to fight the zombies off. Some of them were even our former coworkers."
Kristin's eyes widened right after she heard what her cousin and her friend had gone through.
"And I thought the bender I went through was crazy," Kristin said. "I just hope those guys I partied with got out safely."
"Well, why don't you try calling your lover-boy then?" Willa sarcastically replied. "I bet that he really wants to talk to you to get to know you."
"Oh, come on, Willa, I don't have my phone with me, and why do you have to say it like that?" Kristin wondered why Willa tried to get sarcastic with her. On the other perspective, Willa felt that her own cousin sort of trivialized the situation that a lot of the living people in the bunker had gone through. It did not help matters that she got hurt out there in the process, thankfully not by any zombies.
Willa sighed. "Kristin, you got lucky out there." She paused for a bit, "Well, actually, we are all lucky. But what I meant was that you got lucky in passing out in a security for who knows how long, while my friend and I struggled against zombies until that guy Chuck saved our asses. All you're concerned about is some strange guy who you met who more than likely just liked what he saw because you were out there flaunting your body on stage."
Kristin's eyes widened again, and her jaw dropped a bit after having heard her cousin say that, and then looked over at Terri.
"I don't know why you just said that, especially since your friend does not have a problem showing off her body with what she is wearing," Kristin retorted.
The olive complexion on Terri's face rose to a much redder complexion right when Kristin was done with the comment she made.
"Don't take it the wrong way, Terri, I meant nothing by it," Kristin said. "In fact, if you got it, flaunt it."
Terri then put her hand to her mouth while she smirked at the comment.
Kristin understood where her cousin was coming from, but in fairness to her, she was unaware of the zombie outbreak until a man named Chuck Greene came to talk to her in the security room of the Americana. She was out for a long time after having too much to drink, which led to her vomiting after she woke up, not to mention she was still in her bikini that she wore in her shift when she danced on stage and was still in it when she partied with those guys.
"Terri, can you please excuse us for a bit?" Kristin said. "I want to talk to my cousin alone."
Terri nodded her head and excused herself for a bit. Kristin and Willa were left alone at that moment.
"Willa, do you have a problem or something? The tone just threw me off," Kristin said.
"No, it's just that you seemed to downplay what my friend and I went through," Willa said. "Both of us could have been killed, but you seemed more concerned about the guy you partied with who gave you his number."
"Whoa, whoa!" Kristin backed away a bit. "Hold on a second there, I was not downplaying anything. If anything, if it wasn't for Chuck, I could have gotten out of the security room and be shocked at the sight of the zombies out there. I wouldn't have made it far either because I started going through a freaking hangover when I woke up and started puking! Yes, maybe I am a bit concerned about that guy because he seemed cool and he gave me his number. Maybe I made a connection in the process, who knows? But come on, be glad that you and I are alive. We are family, you know that!"
Willa did not know what to say after Kristin just let out a response that she did not expect to come out of her cousin's mouth. She turned around and put her head down a bit.
Kristin, on the other hand, looked over at Willa, as she surmised that she may have hurt her cousin after what she had just said.
"Willa, are you okay? I hope that I didn't upset you," Kristin said.
"It's okay, Kristin," Willa said.
"I have always wondered this, even when we were younger," Kristin said. "Were you jealous of me growing up?"
'Why would you even ask that?" Willa responded.
"Look, you know I was a cheerleader and I always had a lot of guys trying to talk to me, but none of that mattered after a while," Kristin said. "I was not sure if you were jealous or not, but you know I never looked down on you for anything. You're the closest thing I have to a sister. You have two brothers, I have only one brother. We were so close, I don't know why you started acting this way."
Willa responded, "I still think we are as close as we were when we were young, but I have always noticed that you were always out partying and noticed a bunch of guys always trying to talk to you. You are prettier than I am, and I can see that guys mostly want to… you know."
"I am sure that I know the types who just want to have sex with me and all, and I know what I am doing," Kristin said. "Look, just be glad we are all safe, you, me, your friend Terri, we will get out of this."
"Maybe I will buy all three of us drinks when we get out," Willa said.
Kristin chuckled. "I think I need to lay off the drinks for a bit, but we'll do something. Your friend seems nice, by the way."
"She is, she always has my back," Willa said.
"Is everything okay here?" Terri asked when she walked up to the two cousins after they talked.
"Everything is fine, Terri," Kristin said. "It was just a family matter."
"Okay, cool," Terri said, who then looked at Willa. "How is your leg now, Willa?"
"It's a lot better than before," Willa said.
Willa had no idea how lucky she was to have a great friend in Terri, whom she sometimes has seen in a different light than before, even though Terri probably didn't feel the same way. Also, she didn't realize that not only was her cousin in the safe house, but even though the two hadn't talked in a while prior to this, they still maintained a bond that they shared when they were kids, even though on the surface they seemed to be from different worlds.