AN: I am SOOO sorry it has taken me forever to update! I had a history paper, an English essay, a bunch of readings, a huge German packet, a Biology lab and test, a failed Calculus test...it just wasn't a great time for me. Stupid school. So, here is the newest chapter!

We were able to leave a few days later. We knew we would have to stay together for the first few weeks, until we reached the road Edward said he and Alice had passed. Then, well, it wouldn't really matter if we got separated. We had all memorized the route we were taking (to the point where I was saying it in my sleep), but we all knew we would stick together, no matter what.

Things were fairly quiet as we walked the first day. But we were (apparently) making good time. Edward was leading us south, and if it wasn't for the fact that I knew he was serious in his desire to get all of us to safety (one of our late night discussions had led to him admitting that he may feel like he had a hero complex-hence his desire to be a doctor), I would have assumed he had picked a random direction and started walking. But, he had told me he wasn't going to let anything happen to us. He was done with watching people die. I was too.

We had only stopped once every few hours for a few short breaks. I was fairly shocked at how well Alice was keeping up. I probably shouldn't be surprised, again, anybody as young as her that had survived on their own could handle trekking through woods, but she was just so small.

Those first two weeks were surprisingly good. Nothing bad happened. We shared watch during the night, usually Edward or I took most of the watch. Usually he would start, then wake me, and I would wake Jasper. Very rarely was Alice ever the one on watch in the morning.

"Here we are." Edward announced one day at midday. "We'll take a break, and then start following this west."

I nodded as I looked up at the highway above us. It was raised here, so we couldn't walk on it anyway. Jasper and Alice were already sitting down, talking about something.

"How are you holding up?" Edward asked.

"Fine." I replied. "We've been lucky. So far, no problems." And that actually kind of worried me. Murphy's Law and all that. "What about you?"

"I'm good. I know I probably shouldn't be, but I'm excited about seeing Carlisle and Esme again. But I don't even know if they're still alive."

"I wish I could say they are, but I can't." During our talks, he had told me so much about his cousin and his wife that I felt like I already knew them.

He smiled slightly. "Thanks. They'll love you."

Two weeks later, and we had determined that our trip was about a quarter way done. So we still had around three more months. Our encounters with the zombies were actually not that frequent. And even when they did occur, it was a small one. The largest attack had only been six. So I shouldn't have been surprised.

It was midday, and we had just recently started following our second highway. When we heard them...they were loud. There were a lot of them.

"Do you two remember the way?" I asked Alice and Jasper.

They nodded. I remembered that Jasper had the map anyway.

"Good. Now, run. Fast. Don't look back, just keep going. And don't stop until you can't hear anything, got it?" They nodded again. "GO!" They took off running, Jasper with a death grip on Alice's hand, pulling her along behind him.

"You should go, too." Edward told me.

"Not likely." I said grimly. I didn't want to leave him. Somewhere along the road, sharing stories with him, I had fallen in love with him. If we're both alive at the end of the day, I'll kiss him. I promised myself. Or at least tell him.

Luckily, Edward didn't press the issue. I began pulling ammo out of my pack and shoving it into the pockets of my pants. "Ready?" he asked as I stood. I nodded. "Let's go kill us some zombies."

IMPORTANT (okay, only somewhat important...it's a fic promotion...) My friend FlyingShadow09 and I are currently writing a new fic. It's going to be called "The Difference" and the summary is thus: "They say we are all connected, that we all change because of each other. Two girls learn the truth of this with the Cullens." It will be pretty good, and actually fairly amusing. So if you like humor (and trust me, when we get together to write things...well, we're both pretty amusing when we want to be, so us together is real amusing) put one of us on alert. We'll both be updating, and the first chapter should be up either late (probably real late) tonight or sometime tomorrow (which is much more likely).