Author's Note: Hey everyone, I'm so sorry for the long wait, but I'm glad to say my English Paper is done and over with and I can now concentrate on my writing again. Thanks for the reviews and here's the next chapter (the longest one I ever wrote)

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Chapter Two:

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me. --Anonymous

It's been two days since the fight Bianca had with Matt and from the rumors and gossip going around the streets, Bianca hasn't been out of her room ever since.

Compelled by Bianca's mother's pleading, Kristine went up to Bianca's apartment room to check up on her. She knocked on the door and ready to feel the wrath and anger from the nineteen-year-old, but got no response. She knocked again "Bianca? Are you there" she said in a soft voice.

Silence

She knocked again "Bianca?"

After a few more tries of knocking, Kristine grabbed hold of the knob and was surprised to find it unlocked. She turned the knob and slowly opened the door and stood there and stared at the mess inside the room.

It seems that Bianca took her anger out on the room for the last forty-eight hours. Small holes were embedded in the wall with a red spot growing in each hole to the point where thin streaks of red liquid were running out of holes and down the walls. Things were tossed in every direction with the pieces scattered all over the floor. She took two steps before she stepped on some glass. She looked down and realized she stepped on a broken picture frame. She bent down and picked it up carefully to she wouldn't get cut by the glass and look at it. She smiled at the photo of her two friends, who were making funny faces in the photo. After all she was the one who took the picture to welcome them to the Flagstaff Outpost and to the team.

She stood up. "Bianca?"

"I'm in here" Kristine heard a voice coming out of the small bathroom.

Bringing the photo, Kristine walked over to the bathroom to find Bianca sitting on the toilet, wrapping her hands in white-color bandages. Small dots of blood spread around the white cloth on top of her knuckles.

"Hey, are you ok"

Bianca didn't answer as she continued to wrap up her hands with the bandages. "Do I look like I'm ok" she finally said

"No, I guess not" Kristine said.

Kristine stood there in an awkward silence as she watches Bianca finish wrapping her hands up with the bandages. "Was punching the wall really necessary" she asked.

"Well I find it better then cutting my wrist like other sissy girls that turns anger into sad pain" She said.

"But doesn't it hurt"

"No, you'll get use to it, they're only bloody knuckles" She said.

"That's just gross, I can't stand blood" she said.

"Yeah and that makes me wonder why you joined up the Supply Gatherer in the first place" Bianca said

"I was force just like you were remembered" Kristine said.

They laughed, but that quickly faded back into the awkward silence causing Bianca to stare at her bandaged hands for a few minutes.

"You hungry" Krisitne asked.

"No" She said

"Are you sure, it looks like you haven't eaten since-"

Bianca glared at her with an ugly expression on her face that it made Kristine swallow the last words of her sentence. "I'm sorry" she said "do you want to talk about it"

"I don't want to talk about HIM so let's just drop it" she said

"Look, I know you're hurting from whatever happened between Matt and you, but you don't have to hide it from me." she said, didn't want to mention that their split was local news and the fact that it was Anna, who was the one that was spreading it.

"Who said I was "hurting"' Bianca asked

Kristine pointed at Bianca's hands, the cloth was soaking up more blood. Bianca sighed and got up and walked out of the bathroom. Kristine followed her to the small living room to see Bianca staring at the wall with the hand shape holes embedded into it.

"I'm angry, that's all" Bianca said.

"That's a hurt in a different way" Kristine said.

"No, it's not" Bianca said "I'm angry because of Matt's stupidity and the fact that he hasn't been here in two days.

"He's been staying at Garret's place only to sleep" Kristine said.

Bianca sighed and punched the wall again "fuck, why did he have to be so fuckin stupid!"

Kristine places her hand on Bianca's shoulder. "Calm down, you'll need that anger for tonight"

Bianca pressed her forehead on the wall and sighs "what about tonight"

"Did you forget" Kristine asked "tonight the night where you're going to try to break the record in one of the Zombies' Games" she said

Bianca groans "Kristine, I'm not in the mood for fighting games"

"But you've been excited about it for weeks, beside you need to get out of this room and get some air"

"I don't want to, it's not the same without Matt cheering for me"

"Garret and I will be your cheering section, come on, please" Krisitine begged.

"NO!" Bianca growled.

"It's a good way to release some of that anger" Kristine said.

Bianca grabbed Kristine's arm and walked over to the door "Let's go"

"That's the Bianca we know" Kristine said, hoping the plan she and Garret made of bringing Matt and Bianca back together again will go smoothly. Then why did she have a bad feeling about all this.

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The Late Evening

Outside in the dark edges of the town was the large underground building for the Zombies' Games. The bloodshed was mild since the people in the town weren't as psychotic as the other towns. There weren't any battles to the death kinda games since they thought that zombies did enough that already. Matt guess death over here has meaning in it then it did anywhere else.

"Garret, tell me again why were going to the Zombies' Games again" Matt asked.

"Someone is trying to break the record of the fastest time of killing a zombie" Garret said, smiling.

"Killing a zombie is easy"

"With your bare hands and nothing more" Garret said, narrowing his eyes with a sly smile.

Matt sighed, it took Garret hours to taught him into going to the Games today. He hasn't been feeling like himself for some reason and was too clueless or in love to noticed something was missing. He shook his head to clear his thoughts and get back to the conversation with Garret.

"With only bare hands and nothing more, who in their right mind would do something that . . . " It clicked inside his head as Garret grinned at him. Matt felt the heat of anger rushing into his cheeks and turned around to walk away.

"Hey, where are you going" Garret said, grabbing Matt by the arm.

"I'm not going and you know why" he said

"Oh, come on, you can't stay mad at her over nonsense"

"Dammit Garret, it wasn't nonsense!" Matt shouted.

Garret rolled his eyes and let him go "Fine, be that way" Garret said, walking into the underground building muttering "moron" to himself.

Matt shook his head and was about to walk over to Anna's apartment when suddenly a strong arm wrapped around his neck in a breathless hold.

"Hey Matty-boy" Kevin said, tightening his grip on Matt's neck "where are you off to"

"Kevin . . . you're . . . choking me" Matt choked as he struggled to get away from the muscular man.

Kevin releases him causing Matt to fall to his knees and grasp for air. As he was coughing up spit, he spotted two other pairs of legs standing next to him. He looked up to see Andy and Jake laughing and high-fiving each other and then Kevin.

"Man Matty, you're so easy to attack, I don't know how you made it this far in this hell whole that once was earth" Kevin said, wiping his tears of laugher out of his eyes.

"Careful Kevin, you don't want to hurt Anna's boyfriend" Andy said.

Jake helped Matt up from the floor and Matt brush the dirt off his black torn-up pants and his black "Korn" T-shirt. "Very funny guys" He said, trying to ignore the fact that bruises will form on his neck later on in the night.

"So what brings you here, Matty-boy" Kevin asked

Matt didn't like the nickname Anna's cousins gave him, it made him feel like a child. "Actually, I was just leaving"

"Why, we heard rumors that someone is going to try to break the record of the fastest time someone ever killed a zombie with his bare hands" Jake said.

"I'm not in the mood to watch blood shed" Matt said "so I'm going for a walk"

Kevin wrapped his strong, tattoo-covered arm around Matt's skinny neck and pulled him to walk to the underground building "fuck the walking, this is a good way for us to bond with you, Matty-boy"

"Yeah, we just don't let any guy hang out with our cousin" Andy said. "We just got to make sure she's safe from harm"

Jake snicker and whisper to himself "now that's a load of crap"

Andy smack Jake in the back of his head and gave him a dirty look "come on Matty-boy, Anna will be arriving soon" Andy said.

"Fine, I'll do anything, just stop choking me" Matt said in a scratched up voice.

Kevin rolled his eyes and let go of the boy for the second time. Matt gasps for air as the four of them enter the underground building. The first few steps inside the building were dark and had nothing more but a staircase. Just below it was a tiny glow of different colors of lights flashing and dancing along with the beat of the music that can be heard all the way from the four were standing.

"Scare of the dark, Matty-boy" Kevin asked in a creepy tone.

Matt narrowed his eyes "please, after all the crap I've been through, I'm not scare of anything" He said walking down the stairs.

The others followed him "so how come you never tried to break the record Kevin, you're pretty strong" Jake asked

"You have to be a level 14 or up to play in that type of game" Kevin said

"And what level are you" Matt asked

"I'm a ten"

Matt found this shocking "only a ten"

"What do you mean only a ten, what level are you, boy?"

"I'm an eighteen" Matt said, proudly

Matt was shoved in the back that nearly causes him to fall the rest of the way down the stairs. He caught his balance and looked up at the three boys "No fuckin way you're an Eighteen"

"I am" Matt said, feeling a little guilty knowing he didn't get that far without Bianca's help.

Over the three years of the World being infested with Zombies, a computer program was created to keep in touch with all the survivors left in the world. Each Outpost in the United States has this Program and gave each person a number that were tattooed in the back of their necks, this was use for identification when it comes to status or to write "dead" on your personal file. Each person has a Level that is base on weapon skills, survival skills, fighting skills and intelligence.

"You're a fuckin liar, Matty-boy" Andy said

"I'll prove to you then" Matt said.

He enters the room and was instantly beat down from the loud music and the smell of blood, food, and smoke mixed together. The Zombies' Games room was the biggest one he ever been in, there was a dance floor, a food court, a bar, a place to play cards and of course the main attraction, the giant arena that was surrounded by a thick fence.

"Look like they're getting for the big fight" Jake said.

"Cool, I like to see whose going to be kill for fighting in that game" Kevin said.

"I just want to place my bet and see if what Matty-boy said was true" Andy said "because, I'm a level seven and I can beat living crap out of him any day"

"I'm right here you know" Matt said.

He was push again over to the arena where a guy stood next to the computer. The guy standing there looked over at the four with a dull face and spat out some tobacco "Are you the person who sighed up for the game because from what I heard it was a girl"

"A girl, this should be interesting" Kevin said "she must be pretty dumb to try to break that record"

"Actually, I'm trying to prove to these people that I'm a level eighteen" Matt said.

The guy spat out some more tobacco and turned Matt around and glaze at the back of his neck. Matt's number read #092790 and the guy type it into the computer. Matt's profile came up with a small picture of him when he was fifteen. The profile read Level eighteen followed by his level in each skill category.

"I told you" Matt said

"Asshole" Kevin muttered to himself

"Hey, if your level is that high, why didn't you sign up for this game" Jake asked.

"I don't like the games that much, I mostly watch" Matt said.

Before the three could say anything to Matt they heard the sound of a high pitch sound of a girl from behind them. "THERE YOU GUYS ARE." They turned around to see Anna, dress up in nice long sleeve shirt and a long blouse. Her hair was coated thickly with hair products and by the way it looks, she spent hours trying to hide the black eye with make-up. "I told you guys to wait for me"

"We were for two hours" Keivn shouted. "It's not our fault that you take hours to fix up your hair"

Anna glared at her cousin then her face softens when she saw Matt. "Why don't you three go to the bar NOW"

Kevin rolled his eyes as the three boys went off to the bar. Anna walked over to Matt and wrapped her arms around his slim waist. "I miss you" she said, reaching up and giving him a kiss on the lips.

Matt smiled at her "I miss you too" he said, as Anna rested her head on his chest. She couldn't help smiling knowing that she didn't have to share him anymore with that tomboy. Matt smiled down at her til he spotted someone walking in that cause him to stiffen. Bianca was standing by the door in her "ready for battle" clothes. She wore black baggy pants with a tight "Linkin Park" t-shirt that was showing off her muscle tone figure she got from the years of the lack of food and hard training. Her hands were still wrapped in bandages which went well with her look. Kristine was next to her, talking to her about something then went off to the bleachers. Bianca looked around and spotted Matt staring at her, she blinks then walked away. Matt's eyes kept following her til Anna hit him on the chest.

"Why are you looking at her" she shouted, "do I have to remind you what she did to me." She pointed at her black eye.

"I'm sorry" Matt said

"Well, you better be, now come on, let's get a drink" Anna said, grabbing his hand in a hard tight squeeze and rush over to the bar where her cousins were at.

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Kristine sat down next to Garret, who was eating popcorn, at the bleacher. "Any luck with Matt"

"No, he's still mad at her for whatever she did" Garret said "you?"

"I manage to get her out of her room so she wouldn't miss her big chance with the game, let's just hope they talk before the day is done" Kristine said.

"Yeah, let's just hope" Garret said, then heard a guy on the intercom saying the game will begin in ten minutes.

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Matt stared at the 20 oz beer next to him then at Anna's cousins choking down one beer glass after another. Anna was also drinking but taking sips like a proper young lady she is. Matt guess that the guy serving them the beer didn't care what age they were since Jake was only fifteen.

"What's wrong Matty-boy, don't drink" Kevin asked.

"No, it just brings back bad memories" Matt said, referring to his childhood and his father.

"Oh come on, don't be such baby Matt, it's not going to hurt you" Anna said.

"I'm fine really" Matt said.

Anna's face darkens and looked over that Kevin and winks to give him the signal. Kevin grinned, put down his beer glass and elbow Andy and whispered something in his ear. Matt stared at his glass for another five minutes, thinking, when all of a sudden he was grabbed by Kevin, turned around and was slammed on the bar table on his back. A white tube was stuck into his mouth and his nose was plugged by Andy's fingers. He looked up to see Jake laughing and pouring beer down the funnel that was connected to the tube in his mouth. His mouth started to fill up with the bitter taste of alcohol and was force to swallow it as he struggles to get away. Anna smiled down at him as bottle after bottle was poured into the funnel, to his mouth and into his blood stream. After eight bottles, they let him go so he can get some air. Matt's shirt was soaked as he took a few deep breaths to prevent him from vomiting as the others laughed at him.

"Anna, what the hell is wrong with you" Matt coughed

"If you're going to be with me, you need to learn to drink beer like a normal teenager would" Anna said "so get ready for round two"

"Round what!" Matt shouted til he was pinned down again for another round of beers.

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Bianca stepped into the arena and stood there as the fence door was shut and locked behind her.

"Ladies and gentleman, put your hands together for Bianca, a Level twenty zombie killer" the voice on the intercom shouted. Kristine clapped her hands as Garret whistle while the crowd cheered. "She is here to break the record for the fastest time a person killed a zombie with their bare hands. The record so far is seven minutes and twenty-seven seconds, can Bainca beat the record"

"I can and I will" Bianca shouted.

"You heard her folks, bring out the zombie" the voice on the intercom said. On the other side of the arena was a cage that was connected to the arena with zombie in it, who was gnawing and clawing on the fence that was holding him back from getting to her. Bianca sucks on her bottom lip as the gate door slid open and the zombie came after her. "Start the time!"

Bianca growled, sure the thing that was coming after her was a zombie whose fatal wound was the large bite mark on its neck with dry blood flaking off. But all she sees is Anna and all she could smell are those damn hair products in her hair. (Curse that lying bitch) Bainca thought as she charges toward the zombie at full speed, but before the zombie could open his mouth Bianca slid to the floor and kick the dead thing in the knee. The zombie's knee bent backwards causing it to fall to the floor. Bianca slammed her foot on the zombies back, hearing the ribs crushing beneath her foot. She slammed her fingers into the bite mark wound and grip very tight on it.

"What is she doing" Kristine asked, hiding behind Garret to avoid seeing the fight.

Garret stared at the scene with a little piece of popcorn stuck to his lip. Blood squirted out of the zombie's wound as Bianca dug her nails deeper til she felt the tips of her fingers touching the spinal cord. She pierces her other hand into its flesh on the other side of its neck and with one strong yank she tore the head off its body. The crowds' eyes widened as Bianca hold up the head with some of the spinal cord still attach to it as the zombie moan. She slammed the head to the ground and crush it with her foot. It was dead.

The crowd waited for the results "six minutes and ten seconds, A NEW RECORD!" the voice on the intercom shouted. The crowd cheered as Bianca started to wipe the blood off her arms and face. She looked up at her friends, Kristine and Garret were giving her the thumbs up, but she frowns a little since Matt wasn't there. She walked out of the caged arena only to be surrounded by people asking her questions or congratulating her. Kristine and Garret push themselves through the crowd and over to Bianca "Bianca I can't believe you actually did it" Kristine shouted.

"Yeah, what you did was so cool" Garret said.

"Thanks guys, really" Bianca said, the pushed her way out of the crowd with Kristine and Garret following her.

"Are you ok, Bianca" Kristine asked.

"Of course, I just don't like crowds that's all" Bainca smiled "It's getting late, I'm going to go home"

"Are you sure" Garret asked

"I'm sure, I'll talk to you later, see ya" Bainca said heading out of room.

"So much for bringing Matt and Bianca back together" Garret said.

Kristine sighed "where is Matt anyway"

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Fourteen bottles in total were the amount Matt was force to drink, fourteen! He was surprise he hasn't past out yet as he slumps over the bar table with strong booze in his system and a tight grip on a glass that was cracking under the pressure of his hand. After another hour past, Jake was out cold, Kevin and Andy went off to play poker and Matt's mind was foggy over memories he remembered with his best friend as Anna went on and on about her day and whatnot.

"Why did I end such a great friendship" Matt blurted out, nearly falling off his chair.

"What? What are you talking about" Anna asked. She was a little drunk herself, but still has to power to stay focus. She noticed Matt was thinking about something then he stood up and began to walk away from the bar and headed toward the door. "Matts, where are you going"

Matt burp and started laughing a little "I'm sorry, whatever your...name was again . . . I care too much for my friend to end it" he said. He wobbled his way to the door til Anna stopped him and looked at him right into his foggy eyes.

"What are you saying, you drunken fool"

"I have no idea" Matt started laughing "but I need to go and make up with my friend"

Anna growled "now you listen to me Matt, you have to choose, would you rather have a nice relationship with me or go back to trash like her and be weak like the little boy you are"

Matt only response was burping and laughing in her face then walked away from her. Anna stood there for a minute, watching him exit out of the door and as soon as he was gone she screamed. Matt managed to walk up the stairs and out of the underground building before falling to his knees from the dizziness. He burps again as he struggled to get on his feet again. Lucky for him, the apartment he shared with Bianca wasn't far.

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Bianca changed out of her bloody clothes and into her comfy long black shirt and boxes and headed off to bed. She cursed herself for wrecking the room to release some of her anger, but oh well, she'll clean it up tomorrow. Right now she was tired or depressed or both and all she wanted to do was go to bed. She took a few steps into her bedroom when she heard something but decided to ignore it. She was about to crawl into bed when her door close and she turn around to see Matt standing there looking a little daze.

"Matt?" Bianca said

Matt looked at her with sad eyes and only said two words "I'm sorry" before burping again.

Bianca looked at him with an odd expression then sighed "come on" she said, getting into bed.

Matt smiled as he removes his shoes and jacket and wobbled over to the bed. Bianca could smell the foul stench of alcohol on his clothes, but ignore it as he crawls into bed with her. It wasn't strange sharing a bed with him, it reminded her of when they were young. She turns off the lamp and as soon as she was lying down Matt wrapped his arms around her and hold her as if she was a teddy bear. Bianca could feel the beer from his shirt soaking into hers and the smell was now getting to her.

"I'm sorry" Matt said, holding her close and pulling himself up til he was resting his head on her chest.

"I know you're sorry, it's ok" Bianca said, then her eyes widened when she felt a light kiss on her neck. "Matt?"

Another light kiss was press on her neck then another as she felt Matt's entire weight crawling on top of her. More light kisses rained on her neck and all the way up to her cheek. (What the hell is he doing) Bianca thought "Matt, what the hell-" She couldn't finish when Matt kissed her on her lips, her mouth open in shocked and utterly stunned but that just made Matt deepen the kiss til she felt something licking the inside her mouth. She wanted to punch him but sadly part of her was enjoying this and another part of her kept telling her that he's drunk, very, very, VERY, drunk.

Matt pulled away and realize something "why is my shirt all wet" he asked, breathing the foul smell of alcohol in her face. Bianca spit out some saliva to get rid of the foul taste of beer from her mouth "you were drinking and probably spilled some on your shirt" she said.

"Oh yeah" he said, laughing a little.

Bianca couldn't see in the dark, but could hear him discarding a piece of his clothing and dropping it to the floor. She was too stunned and pinned to move or to get away when she felt something roaming up her shirt and shivered when rough fingers touched the soft skin of her belly. "Matt, stop this right now, you're drunk!" Bainca shouted in a whisper tone.

"I'm trying to get you to forgive me" Matt said, lifting her shirt up "I . . . broke . . . broke . . . broke . . . (burping) it off with . . . Annie"

"Anna" Bianca asked.

"Yeah, her too" Matt said "I saw . . . you . . . "

Bianca had no idea what Matt was trying to say but was terrified when he lifted her arms up to make her shirt come off easier. Her eye twitched when she realizes she was now topless and Matt was still trying to finish his sentence. "...you . . . and . . . were . . . very pretty" Matt said.

She was shaking and her mind went blank when he pressed his chest against hers and kiss her on the collar bone.

(HE'S DRUNK, HE'S DRUNK, HE'S DRUNK, DO SOMETHING BEFORE THIS GOES TOO FAR!) Her mind screaming at her.

"Matt" Bianca called out "get off of me or else you'll find yourself with a broken arm!"

There was silence and Matt stopped moving. She could feel him on top of her, holding her in his arms and a slow breathing motion that made her realize he fell asleep.

Bianca felt like she was frozen solid because she couldn't move and get away from this. . . predicament. She just laid there thinking only one thing . . .

(Alcohol's a bitch!)...

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Chapter Three: Murder: The plan is set, the kidnap was a success. Someone saw too much but did nothing. The murder was so cruel and cold.

I know, I know the chapter was kinda...odd. No flames please!