Author's Note: Heh. Sorry, but it's kind of short...

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"No!" Tom said in a hushed tone, putting a hand over Maia's mouth. She stared at him with disbelief. Tom gave her a pleading look and whispered, "No. You might attract unwanted 'attention'."

"But what about Matt?" Maia asked, pushing his hand away.

"I'm sure that he's perfectly fine," Tom said. "After all, I don't possibly think that he can be that stupid. If there was danger outside, anyway, he would be running inside right n-"

"OH MY GOD!" Matt cried, running inside the door.

"What a coincidence," Tom said, rolling his eyes. He hurriedly stepped on the table again and helped Maia up. Matt climbed on top himself, and quickly climbed in the attic, causing a racket. Tom signaled for him to shut up. He shrugged in reply. Maia climbed in right after, and offered Tom a helpful hand. But he didn't take it, for he quickly jumped off the counter and grabbed the door that was still on the ground. He picked it up and placed it in front of the bare opening.

"Tom, hurry!" Maia cried, forgetting that some of them were still asleep. "Tom!"

Tom looked behind him and his eyes widened. Confused and panicked, Maia followed his gaze and shrieked. There were tons of zombies scrambling in slowly. Tom knew he would never make it, even if he tried. He would get bitten in order to go over to Maia. When Maia looked back at him, he shook his head slowly.

"TOM! No!" she cried. "You can't leave! You just can't! There are creatures on both sides!"

"I-I have to," he said, backing up. He hurriedly turned around and got the door off of the wall, slamming it on the ground. He began to run outside, then gave one last glance at Maia and left. Tears suddenly blurred Maia's vision.

"Tom!" she cried, feeling the tears go down her cheeks. "Tom..."

"Tom? Ah, what happened! What do you mean 'Tom'?" Matt suddenly asked, leaning over the attic next to Maia. He peered out and cried, "For God's sake he's GONE!"

"Mm...," Katie mumbled, shaking her head. She was half-asleep and half-awake. She opened her eyes and slowly and yawned, sitting up. Her eyes widened. "Tom. Where's Tom?"

"Uh...," Matt started to say. Katie didn't like where this was going. She shook her head and began to cry.

"No, no, Katie," Maia said, trying to comfort her. "Tom's alive. We're going to find him soon. I promise."

"'Find him'?" Matt repeated in disbelief. "What the hell do you mean by that?"

Maia inhaled a deep breath and said, "We're going to look for him."

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Tom ran hurriedly across the parking lot. Where was he going? He didn't even know that answer. He shook his head frustratingly. Why had he wasted his time? He could've saved himself. Now he was zombie food!

"Dammit," he muttered to himself, looking for someplace to hide. There was nothing to hide behind. Absolutely nothing. Not even a car, for God's sake! He frowned, noticing how desperate he was to find somewhere to go. Tom looked behind him hurriedly and noticed that none of the zombies were paying attention to him. He creased his eyebrows and tried to focus on what they were looking at.

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"Well, we sure do have their attention!" Matt cried hastily. "Why, why, why? Why did I decide to come out here too?"

"Because you know you don't want to leave someone all by themselves," Maia said teasingly.

"Yeah. Sure," Matt said, rolling his eyes. He put his attention back on the horde of zombies. "Why the hell are they just looking at us?"

"Uh... I don't know," Maia admitted. Katie and Hailey shuddered at the site. They had just exited the building to go and find Tom. Maia knew that they couldn't stay in that attic forever, and Matt did as well, but he was too reluctant to admit it.

"What is so interesting?" Donald mumbled, looking behind them. There was nothing but more road and buildings.

"Their waiting for us to move, I'm assuming," Matt said, gripping tightly on the gun. He bit his lower lip and asked Maia without taking his eyes off the creatures, "Front or back?"

"Back, of course!" Maia said angrily, turning to face Tom. At least ten of twenty zombies started to moan again. Maia cried out, "Dang!"

"Time to run!" Matt cried, turning around hastily. They all followed suit and turned around and started to run.

"Where are we running to?" Matt asked, panting heavily.

"Just keep running!" Maia cried. "And don't even think about stopping!"

Holding onto Hailey's hand, Katie cried, "But...is this the way Tom went?"

"I-I don't know!" Maia admitted, having no idea that they were headed the wrong way.