"She punched you in the face?" Laila asked with a grin, as the two of them walked home together. She had met up with him at the gate to zombie town, as he left school that Tuesday. "Oh man, I would have paid to see that!" she laughed, Zed feigned a hurt look, clutching his chest where his heart was with one hand and the the other wiping away an imaginary tear. "And here I thought family was supposed to support each other, and here you are laughing at the thought of me getting punched in the face." She slapped his shoulder as she continued to laugh loudly, clearly imagining it in her mind. Zed smiled, despite having been punched in the face by his now girlfriend, it was still one of his favourite memories. They stopped outside his house, sharing various of jokes and tales. Laila was the cousin he had always had a good laugh with, the two of them sharing a similar humour to each other. Along with his aunt and uncle, Sonya and Leonard, Laila and also his younger cousin, same age as Zoey, Mika had arrived yesterday evening to visit their family now that they were allowed to cross the border. They lived close by Las Vega where everything was a lot different. Zevon had kept it a surprise to Zoey and Zed that they were coming, so when he came home that evening after having spent it with Bonzo and Eliza, he was ecstatic to see them.

"So you finally got yourself a girlfriend then, I'm so happy for you Zed. You look happy!" Laila exclaimed happily, reaching up to kiss his cheek. She had always been affectionate even though she also the first one to laugh if he was to fall flat on his face. She was what you'd call best of both worlds. "Thanks Laila, and yeah I am, I'm the happiest zombie in the universe. And the luckiest." He was sure he was smiling like an idiot as he thought about Addison, the smile was quickly wiped away however as a loud gasp, or sob, he couldn't quite tell reached his ears. He turned his head and searched the area around them when he spotted a familiar blonde not far away from them, said blonde had tears streaming down her cheeks. He took a small step towards her, reaching his arm towards her. If his heart was functional, it would be hammering so hard right now he knew. His mouth was running dry, he had seen Addison upset a handful of times, but the way she looked right now beat them all by miles. He hated it. He could imagine what was running through the girl's mind at what she thought she had seen, only that was she wrong about it all, but she didn't know that. To her, she had seen her boyfriend, who had been turning her down for weeks now, walk home with a different girl than her. He cursed himself for having thought it was better that way.

You see, Addison's birthday was approaching fast and Zed, along with their friends had all decided to throw her a surprise birthday party. Zed wanted it to a birthday she would never forget, it was her first birthday where she was in a relationship with him and he was going to make it perfect. He had, with great difficulty, decided the only way to keep her in the dark was to keep his distance. He sucked at keeping anything a secret from her, he had already nearly failed when he by accident almost had revealed his present to her, over lunch. Something about her simply made him want to spill everything to her, not that he had anything to hide for her, but this had to stay a surprise. So for the past two weeks, he had turned down every offer of spending time with her, and it had killed him every single time. Not only would he spend every single second of his lifetime with her, he lived for her, and having to turn her down made him feel like the worst zombie ever.

She suddenly turned on her heel and took off in the other direction, it took him a second before he started running after her, pushing his legs to their maximum in his aim to catch up to her before she could get away. He had to stop her, he had to explain. He couldn't bear to see her pained, and the way she had looked at him, could have killed him if he wasn't already dead. The tears, how scared she looked at she stared at them, and worse, the disappointed look in her eyes. He had to make her understand that everything she thought she had seen, wasn't what it looked like. Not even close.

He finally caught up to her when the girl had to stop to unlock the front door at her house, spinning her around and encaging her between him and the door. He was desperately trying to get the girl to look at him, she didn't, she refused, the only contact she made with him was her pushing against him.

"Please Addy, just let me-" he started, the desperation leaking out in his words.

"Explain? I saw you, you don't need to explain. I'm not stupid Zed." She finally lifted her head up to glare at him, she was still crying, the tears streaming down. He wanted nothing more than to wipe them away. "Get away from me." She had stopped pushing him now, instead she clenched up her fists and slammed them against his chest, winching from the impact, he managed to hold his stance up. He didn't blame her for being angry, he didn't blame her for anything. He only stood there, allowing her to take it out on him. He deserved it.

The worst was yet to come.

"I hate you!" she cried, her words was much worse than the physical pain she was causing him, her words was like knives, hitting him spot on in the chest every single time. "I thought it was you and I, always, guess it was only me thinking that, to you I was nothing more than a fling until someone better came along I see now." She spat, he could almost taste the venom she carried in the words. It was sour. He couldn't say her words didn't hurt, they did. He could see the guilt flash in her eyes at her words, but just as quick as it had appeared it was gone again.

She peeled her eyes from his again, focusing them on her fists that had stopped and was instead clutching his shirt in-between them. With caution, he moved his arms to instead lovingly rub her arms up and down. "Addy, it's not what you think, please listen-" you are the single most important person in my life. My number one priority. Even if I tried, you could never be anything like a fling, it's you or nothing. There's never any other choice but you. I choose you, always have, always will. No one else will do, or could ever do to even come close to you or how you make me feel. Alive. It's always you, only you, ever since I first laid eyes on you. You are the one for me.

"No, you listen!" I really thought you were more of a man than this, moving on without telling me, yet alone at least breaking up with me in a decent manner, than me having to find out on my own. I thought we were happy, Zed. I thought we were in love, I know I am, and right now to me, that's the worst feeling in the world. Being in love with you and you no longer loving me. If you aren't going to be man enough to, then I will have to be." She stopped to take a deep breath, her voice shaking, her body trembling. "I never imagined having to say this, I was hoping the day would never come... we're over." She was whispering by now, and he had to strain his ears to hear it all, but he heard the last bit as clear as a bell.

Despite his heart not working and never had, he was still sure it was able to hurt, and break. And break it had, and it was the worst feeling, the worst pain he had ever experienced in his lifespan. He was shocked, losing control of his body and his arms fell to his sides, hanging limply there. It was a wonder he managed to stay on his feet. She pushed him back, he didn't fight her, he was numb and he could only watch as she slipped away from him, slamming the door in his face. He didn't bother wiping away the first tear of many escaping him. He was broken.

It took him a few minutes before he found the power to move his body again, with shaking hands he knocked on the door, when she didn't answer he grew more and more desperate to get to her, hammering his fists against the door, his knuckles changing to a deep red but he didn't care.

"Please let me in so I can explain everything to you Addy!"

"Please Addy, you've got it all wrong! Please don't do this!"

"Please Addy..."

Zed felt a spark of hope when the sound of the lock getting turned sounded and the door opened up. The hope quickly died when he saw it wasn't Addison who was there, instead he was met with a look only a father could give. Dale was standing in the entrance with his arms crossed over his chest, a disapproving scowl featured on his face. Zed gulped nervously. "Hi Dale." He said lamely. "Why is my little girl crying Zed?" Dale demanded of the young zombie, eyeing him down despite Zed almost at the same height as Dale. It didn't matter to Zed if he was 10 feet tall and Dale was able to fit in his pocket. A protective father was never one to kid around with. He looked around Dale hoping to see if he could spot Addison behind him, but the girl was nowhere to be seen that was within his line of sight.

"I know this isn't looking good Dale, but you got to believe me, Addison, she's got it wrong!" he begged, not even caring how desperate he must have sounded, or looked as he could taste the tears on his lips. He was telling the truth and Addison had to hear it. They couldn't be over. Dale raised an eyebrow at him, waiting for the his daughter's boyfriend, ex-boyfriend?, to continue. Zed went into explaining the whole story to Dale, leaving out no detail to convince the man that he wasn't messing around and that it was all only a mere misunderstanding. More importantly, that he loved Addison more than words could describe. She was the one for him, he was going to fight for her, and do whatever it took to win her back.

Dale sighed loudly as Zed came to the end of his story, dropping his arms, using one of them to scratch his head as he thought it all over. "Look Zed, I think I believe you. I see the way you look at my daughter and I recognise that look from when I first met Missy. I can tell you are a good guy and only want what is best for her, and I don't sense you as someone who would hurt her on purpose. But she is still my daughter and she is very upset right now, and I have to protect her. I'm not saying you can't see her or that this is the end, that is Addison's decision alone. I know that I, and Missy, but mostly me have been tough on you and your relationship with Addison but I have come to know you a lot better over the past few months and I have come to like, and approve of you. So I know that you will understand when I say that I think the best thing you can do for her right now is give her a bit of space. Let her calm down." Dale said, clapping Zed on the shoulder, a genuine look of concern on his face now as he gave the younger male a sad smile.

Zed dropped his shoulders as he realise that Dale was right, even if Zed disagreed, and even though it was he was happy to hear Dale understood, he was also aware that he wasn't going to get to see Addison. Not yet anyway. "Okay." He mumbled and turned on his heel, forcing himself to walk away, knowing there was nowhere he was going to see her now. He could only wait.

He just hoped he could survive the wait. He had no idea how long it would be before she'd be ready... or if she'd ever be.

He knew that he was a zombie and that was possibly all he would ever be, but Addison had made something inside him spark, a spark that had made him feel alive. If he lost Addison he would nothing more than a corpse walking around amongst the living.

Had he just lost Addison?

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