"What's going on" I ask as a tank rolls down the street. It's a bit hard to see through the dirty windows but a tank is a tank even if you can only see it's silhouette, and that is definitely a tank.

"Fuck if I know" she replies

Honestly what was I expecting. The person who can't even remember her street name doesn't know what the hell is going on. I sigh a long dejected sigh that's only slightly exaggerated.

She snorts and continues " I mean I'm not certain, but…" she pauses presumably collecting her thoughts but who even knows " I think.."she says putting emphasize on the word 'think' "that's a first" I reply quickly before she can continue. She ignores me. Typical.

"That there's this disease going around making people go crazy, so there making this a safe spot" she finishes and I'm left wondering how I haven't heard this before.

"What?" I say before I can stop myself. Really it's a stupid question, but its absurd. The only known disease like that is rabies and we have a cure for that. Well, I don't really know if its the only disease that does that but I don't have extensive knowledge on all diseases.

"Idiot" she says. Rude. But True.

"I mean, it sounds crazy like what is it Ophiocordyceps?" I reply with a not so stupid question I can't help but feel proud about.

She looks at me funny and my pride gives way to embarrassment. Right 'Normal' people don't know what it is.

"It's a fungus that basically takes over the neural system of the host, but it's only in ants." I mumble before she can ask what the hell im talking about. She stares at me for a good long time before she finally says something.

"Nerd" she says in the same matter-of-fact voice she used to call me an idiot. Again, true.

"Well whatever" she says to break the semi-awkward silences that had befallen us. "Just stay out of the government's way is my motto"

"How?" I ask "I mean, if this is basically a quarantine zone then the stores will get shut down and we'll rely on them for food." I elaborate quickly, hoping for an answer.

She doesn't give one, instead she smiles sweetly at me and, I know from years of experience, it isn't sweet at all. She swivels on her heel, into the kitchen that isn't even 3 meters long, and opens the ceiling to floor cupboard.

Inside is the biggest stash of snacks I have ever seen. Oreos, twizzlers, gushers, pop-tarts, you name it, she has it. At the bottom is an unopened box which reads "M.R.E." in bold printed letters.

"How did you even get all this?" I ask, astonished.

She grins at me. An evil grin, I can't help but think. Suddenly I don't want to know, so I grinned back at her. The same teeth baring evil grin she has.

She grabs the pack of oreos while I grab a pop tart out of the previously unopened box.

"we are going to get so fat" I say. She bobs her head while she eats an Oreo and I take a bite out of my pop tart.

Maybe my summer plan isn't ruined after all.

"What is that?" I ask disgusted. It walks down the street with what must have been an arm at some point but now it's hardly recognizable underneath the dry blood and bite wounds. It wears a sharp suit and tie, well was probably a suit, but it's torn to shreds now. It's like a horror movie you know you can't handle but can't turn away at the same time.

Meghe rolls her eyes at me. I'm not looking at her but I can still tell she has.

"Seriously, every time something weird happens you come to me like I know what's going on." she responds. I can practically feel the annoyance coming off in waves.

"Well what do you think it is?" I say ignoring the small part of me that wants to defend myself

"Me?" she asks sarcastically pulling her hands to her chest, "Why would you want my opinion" she says flipping her hair back with one hand while the other stays directly above her chest. I scowl at her. Something I've been doing a lot of recently.

She seems to have got the message because she puts her hand to her chin in a thinking-pose esque manner."hmmmm" she says like she doesn't already have an answer because I know she does.

"Zombies" she says like she just solved world hunger as she moves her hands to her hips

"You mean from...cod? The video game." I say slowly and carefully because I don't want to trigger her fanboy mode about cod "Yep" she chirps "cod 2 actually"

Too late

She goes on a long rant, one that I've heard before saying things like 'The best game ever' and 'literally a masterpiece'. I allow my thoughts to wander as I tune her out.

What do I think they look like?

Well they do Look like zombies but that's not very creative so what else do they look like. The media just calls them the 'infected' which is even less creative. Plus the 'The Last of Us' already calls them that. Which is another thing. On the news it always shows these things in packs so why is this one alone?

Thoughts for another time.

But no. There's another thing from pop culture that they resemble. I think it's from harry potter but what is it? Ahgg. Its killing me. Something about a goblet? Goblet of fire? No that's a movie. Um. Ummm. Ah! that's it there called

'Inferi'

"Hmm" Meghe hums "inferi, what's that"

I flush pink, because I hadn't meant to say that out loud, and frankly I'm surprised she heard that over her own ranting. I can't just tell her I was thinking about obscure harry potter facts without being beaten because I wasn't listening.

Besides its super embarrassing

But luckily I have a backup plan."it's the Latin word for below or under" I say suppressing a cocky smirk. I got curious one day and decided to look up translations for harry potter spells. It was a vey slow day and once I had looked up the translation to one spell the rest I had to know.

"Okay, but why did you say it" I don't reply. I have the feeling that she's repressing a smirk as well."C'mon there's no way you just know random words of a dead language." she pushes

Ten minutes pass before I finally cave. A new record.

"Its from Harry Potter" she waits for me to elaborate "corpses revived by a Dark wizard" she grins that evil grin again and I know she found a new thing to tease me about.

"It's just that we need something to call them and zombies seem to cliché and infected is too plain" I tack on before she can start the teasing

She gains a more thoughtful expression but it still looks evil. She goes over to the window again, to stare at the shambling corpse that's now about 200 feet down the road. Her grin grows evil again as she whips around to face me.

"Let's call them walkers" she says in the same high and mighty voice she used to say 'zombies'

Stupid

"That is literally the most uncreative name I have ever heard." I say slightly arrogantly. She looks offended.

Why?

"Well, they can't run they only walk so… Walkers" she says. This time it's her turn to turn pink.

I snort only feeling slightly guilty about making her embarrassed. "Well, they bite so lets call them biters. Honestly, if all things were named by you, we would be big-brain-two-legger."

Her face heats up more and she says "fine, we'll call em 'inferi' you goddamn nerd" she hisses semi loudly and storms off, muttering about 'nerds' and 'idiots'.

It takes me a while to realize I've won the argument.

Nice.

okay some stuff. Sorry it took so long to update the new school year was crazy and it had me really busy. Anyway this is part 2 and I'm not a Walking Dead Master so if the time frame is a little off please forgive me. For example I made The Last of Us reference as well as a Harry Potter reference and I have no idea if they were released in the same year as as when Walking Dead is taking place PS I'll probably still use those pop culture references even if the time frame is off.