Phil and AJ slowly ate the squirrel, grimacing with every bite.
"This sucks," grumbled AJ, staring at the squirrel.
"Well what did you expect?" Said Phil, taking a bite and making a face as he swallowed. "This is the best we're gonna get."
"Well we can't live off of this," said AJ, taking a bite. "We should try to find one of those refugee camps they were setting up."
"Refugee camps?" Said Phil.
"How long have you been up here?" Said AJ, with a smirk.
"I got chased up here the second day of this shit and I stayed up here cause they can't climb," said Phil.
"Well about a month after it started, the military started evacuating cities and setting up refugee camps. I tried to go, but, kinda, lost my way, and wound up here. Where is here, by the way?"
"The outskirts of Colorado," said Phil. "Where are you from?"
"Denver," said AJ.
"You've come a long way, little one," said Phil, with a smirk.
"Hey, I am not little," said AJ.
"Dude, you're like 3 feet tall," said Phil. "What do you weigh, ten pounds?"
"I'm 5'2" and 95 pounds!" Said AJ.
Phil laughed and took a bite out of the squirrel. "Midget."
"Nu uh," said AJ. "Only people under 5 foot are midgets."
"Fine, semi-midget," said Phil.
AJ huffed and crossed her arms, making Phil laugh some more. "So," said Phil. "Where are these refugee camps?"
"Don't know," said AJ. "The military was just escorting people."
"Then how the heck did you get lost?" Said Phil.
"I had to pee," said AJ, twiddling with her thumbs.
Phil smirked and shook his head. "Women."
"It's not our fault we can't just stop at a bush," grumbled AJ.
"You couldn't just hold it?" Said Phil.
"Well we had already been traveling a long way," said AJ, biting the squirrel. "And I was getting kinda bored."
"You weren't carrying any kind of bag with you?" Asked Phil.
"No, they didn't give us time to pack," said AJ. "They said we'd have everything we need at the camps."
"Huh," said Phil. "It must've gotten pretty bad."
"Yeah," said AJ. "I was just lucky to have stumbled upon a bow and a couple arrows out in the woods. Someone must've dropped them."
"Or, you know," said Phil. "Got eat-"
"Don't say that!" Said AJ. "That'll make me feel bad!"
"Well they weren't gonna be using it anymore if they were dead," said Phil, smirking.
"Stop it!" Said AJ. "Not another word!"
Phil laughed and bit the squirrel. "I'm sure they're fine."
AJ sighed and bit the squirrel. "You know, after a while, this starts to taste edible."
"Funky aftertaste though," said Phil.
AJ made a face and stuck her tongue out when the aftertaste hit her. "No joke."
They sat silently for a few moments before AJ looked up at Phil. "Do you think we can make it to a camp?"
Phil raised a brow. "Just us, with no food, no sense of direction, an axe and a bow with no arrows?"
"Yeah!" Said AJ. "It could be an adventure!"
"I don't think the adventure would last very long, and it wouldn't end happily," said Phil.
"Come on," said AJ. "We can make it, people on TV do it."
"That's TV," said Phil. "This is real life. We would die, painfully."
"Nu uh," said AJ. "We can outrun some zombies."
"Some," said Phil. "Not a herd."
"Pleeeaaassseee," said AJ, sticking out her bottom lip.
"You can go, I'm not," said Phil.
"I can't go alone," said AJ. "I'm little."
Phil smirked a little. "Then I guess we're not going."
AJ groaned. "But Philllllyyyyy."
"Woah, I am not Philly," said Phil.
"Philllllyyyy," said AJ.
"No," said Phil.
"Ppppphhhhhiiiillllllyyyyyy," whined AJ.
"No!" Said Phil. "We are not going and that's final!"
An hour later Phil grumbled as he trudged through the forest, AJ skipping ahead of him. "I hate women."
"You'll learn to love us!" Said AJ, skipping back to him with a grin.
Phil sighed and readjusted his sleeping bag on his back. "Do you have any idea where we're going?"
"Not at all," said AJ, clapping her hands together.
"Great," said Phil. "Just great. We're gonna get lost."
"You can't get lost if you don't know where you're going," said AJ.
"Bullshit," said Phil. "We're lost."
AJ just hummed, looking around. "We're on the road again-"
"Don't. Even. Start," said Phil.
"Just can't wait to get on the road again," sang AJ.
"Midget, I swear to god," said Phil.
"I found love in making music with my friends," said AJ, whistling the last part of the song.
"If a zombie doesn't eat me, I'm gonna kill myself," said Phil.
AJ laughed. "Lighten up, do you see any zombies around?"
"I guess not," said Phil, looking around with his eyes squinted. It was really quiet out, too quiet for Phil's liking.
AJ was about to respond before they heard a sound in the bushes. Phil instantly stood in front of AJ, raising his axe.
A red-haired woman came out of the forest with a glare. "Do you have any idea how loud you're being?"
"So?" Said AJ.
"So?! You're gonna attract every zombie in the area!" Said the woman.
"What zombies?" Said Phil. "There's none around here."
"You don't know that," said the woman. "And I'd rather not take any chances." She then squinted at Phil's axe. "Is that your only weapon?"
"Yeah," said Phil.
The woman rolled her eyes. "You dumbasses are gonna die. Come with me."
"Where are you going?" Said Phil.
"To my group," said the woman. "If you wanna live I suggest you come with me."
"No way," said Phil. "No groups."
"Your funeral," said the woman walking away.
AJ pulled on Phil's sleeve. "I think we should go with her. She seems to know what she's doing."
"I thought you wanted to go to the camp," said Phil, looking down at her.
"She could take us there," said AJ. "And protect us."
"We can fend for ourselves," said Phil. He was about to say something else before AJ screamed . Phil quickly turned and came just about face to face with a zombie. He quickly swung his axe out of instinct, getting it stuck in the zombie's shoulder. Phil quickly backed away from it, AJ cowering behind him.
The axe barely seemed to phase the zombie, as he kept stalking towards them. Right before it made contact, the woman came back and quickly stabbed its head with a knife. She yanked it out when the zombie fell to the floor and looked back at them. "You were saying?"
Phil gulped, feeling AJ come out from behind him. "How far away is this group?"
The woman smirked. "Not far. I'm Amy, by the way."
"Phil," said Phil, following her. "And this is midget."
"AJ," grumbled AJ, crossing her arms.
"Same thing," said Phil.
"You guys dating or something?" said Amy, guiding them through the forest.
"No, he likes twinks," said AJ.
Amy scoffed like she was trying to hold in laughter, as Phil's jaw dropped. "Dude!"
"Well you do," said AJ, looking down at her feet.
"Do you not have a filter between your brain and mouth!" Said Phil.
AJ shrugged. "I say what I think."
"I like you, kid," said Amy.
"I'm not a kid," said AJ. "I'm 26."
"Seriously?" Said Phil. "You're not like, 19?"
"No!" Said AJ. "Why do people always ask that?"
"Because you're a midget," said Phil, getting AJ to glare at him.
Amy just shook her head as she walked into her camp. "Here we are."
Phil looked around and saw one insanely buff guy, a brunette girl, and a smaller guy.
"Who's this?" Said the buff guy.
"Phil and AJ," said Amy. "They need a lot of help."
AJ grinned and waved. "Hi!"
"I told you we can't keep taking people in," said the buff guy.
"They were gonna die out there," said Amy.
"Lots of people die out there," said the buff guy.
"Hunter!" Said the woman. "If they need help, they need it. Besides, it'd be nice to have another girl around."
Hunter sighed. "Whatever. They pull their own weight."
He walked off and Amy clapped her hands together. "So, that was Hunter, that's Eve, and that's Brad."
"Nice to meet you," said Eve, with a soft smile.
Brad just gave them a timid smile and wave.
AJ grinned and went to sit by them, immediately starting a conversation. Phil scanned their humble, little camp. Some tents, a nice fire, food. He didn't like groups, so hopefully he wouldn't be here very long, but it would work for now.
AN: Hey guys! Let me know if the formatting on this is a little weird cause I'm using a different program.
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