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I was grinning like a mad woman. I found her, just like I promised.
"Beth, come get a look at this." I say. Beth's at my side in an instant. I smile at her.
"Do you think she's been bitten?" And with that my positive mood darkens and the smile slips off my face.
"I don't know" I sigh. "What if she is? What do we do? We can't just leave her here!"
"I'm not bitten." I hear a croaky voice, rough from crying say. "I'm not sure what was wrong with that person but he just came in and tried to bite me so I locked him in the toilet and tried to ring Mum and Dad. They took the boys to a football game last night and I didn't want to go. They didn't answer and I got scared so I shut myself in here and I guess I fell asleep." Dianna says as she stands up. I open my arms straight away and she runs into them and sobs into my shoulder, the same way she would after a fight with our friends or her parents. I smooth down her waist long hair and hold her for a few minutes before Beth joins in the hug and say's something sarcastic to make Dianna laugh. So far she doesn't know the extremes of what's going on at her very own doorstep and its Beth's and I's job to let her know.
"Alright Di" I say letting her go. "I need you to go to your room and put on some comfy clothes and grab a pair of warm clothes. You need to get a sleeping bag and a pillow, some comfortable shoes and something to use as a weapon like a baseball bat or something, knives even." She gives me a weird look.
"Why?"
"No time to explain, it will be easier just to show you anyways." I say.
She nods and goes to gather everything I listed. I turned to Beth.
"You should go get the food bag and I'll raid the cupboard." I say. Beth nods and grabs her bat before heading out to the car. I turn to the cupboard and start grabbing things like biscuits and tins of milo. Beth returns with the bag and we finish loading it all in when Dianna returns with a few bags and a pillow tucked under one arm.
"Guys...Why are you taking my food? I kind of need that..." Di says.
"Don't worry you'll understand soon, okay?" Beth replies solemnly.
"Okay, Di. What your about to see is shocking, it's devastating and its going to be upsetting, but to survive in the world that is outside this house you need to be strong okay? Beth and I are both here and we'll help you, this is what we both woke up to this morning and we've got a plan so stick with us and I promise I won't let anything bad happen to you. Deal?" I say, she needs to have the support of Beth and I and I'm sure she'll follow us.
"Okay" she replies, looking extremely worried after my little spiel.
"Let's go then" I say and turn to leave the kitchen and re-enter the living hell.
"Wait" Di calls and grabs my wrist before I could walk away. "I found this in the cupboard- " she says holding up a pick-axe. I nod giving my approval for her weapon choice. "and I also found this in one of my dad's draws." She says, holding up a six shooter semi-automatic revolver and about 5 boxes of ammunition. I gape at her.
"My dead wizard God why didn't you tell me you had this? I don't think this is legal!" I say, gobsmacked.
"Oh Dad had a licence." Dianna said. You see, I own one of these myself along with two shotguns but they're all locked up out at the shooting range about three hours from here.
"I don't feel right using it since I don't know how to handle one. I know you do so I thought I give it to you." She says obviously not sure of herself.
"Oh! Um I guess so, I'll make sure to give it back to you once we find some more" I say has she hands me the gun.
"Oh and this too "she says, handing over a gun belt. I take that too and slip it on, discovering that it had a scabbard for knives too, with that I hand my make shift belt to Dianna and grab my knives out of it before replacing it with a few from her own kitchen.
I hug her. "Thanks" I say.
"Alright, let's get this show on the road!" Beth says sounding pumped as if we were going on a road trip. We make our way to the front door and step outside. Again the light is bright and I grab my sunnies again and slip them on my face again. Dianna grabs her white ones and I hand Beth my green ones. Beth and I watch Dianna as she takes in what has become of what used to be her quiet little street. Her face shows all the emotions running through her mind. Sadness, anger, rage and at last her face settles at fear. She turns to us and says "what on earth happened?"
"We'll tell you once we're safe in the car." Beth says as she walks towards the back door.
Beth chucks the bag that she has slung over her shoulder into the backseat and follows it with herself. Dianna gets into the passenger side and I grab the driver's seat. I start driving and block out Beth explaining to Di what happened. After about half an hour I tune back into the conversation just as Di says "So you're telling me that the world as far as you know has been taken over by walking corpses and we're putting your zombie plan into action?" I nod. "Damn, I wish I would have believed you when you talked about this before." Beth and I both laugh and nod our heads in agreement. "Who looks stupid now, you do!" I say giggling. Well if the world has gone to shit at least we have each other to lean on.