What Could Go So Wrong

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Author's Note: Thanks so much for the favorites and the follows as well as the eight reviews I didn't think so many people would read or enjoy this so that makes me happy! If you read any of my other stories you may see this same note but for those of you that don't, I will not be updating any of my stories after the 27th of this month until the 11th of next month because I'll be on vacation.

Chapter 2: The Girl from the Perfect Paradise

"Addison… that's a pretty name," Zed tells her before adding in a quieter tone, "Not a zombie one though… you should probably come up with something else if someone else asks, something with a 'z' in it."

The human's eyes widen, and she starts to back away as Zed reaches out, "No it's okay I won't tell anyone, your secret is safe with me." Zed didn't know why but he knew he wouldn't rat her out.

"You won't tell…" She looks concerned, "So you won't attack me then either, right?" Addison asks cautiously.

It was Zed's turn to have his eyes widen, "No, no I like humans…" The zombie pauses as he realizes that could be taken the wrong way, "wait I didn't mean like to eat or anything, I just meant-" She giggles, "That's okay I got your meaning." He breathes a sigh of relief before asking, "So what are you doing at a zombie mash in the first place?"

"Wait, hold that thought," Zed grabs her hand and leads her away from the main area into a kind of hallway with few people loitering around, once there he lets go of her hand and she feels a bit disappointed for some reason.

The Addison glances around and once again tugs at her hood as if to make sure it's secure, it is.

Silence hangs for a moment before Zed looks like he's ready to ask the question again so the human beats him to it by speaking.

"I just… I wanted to get away from it all and go somewhere people didn't know me and well Zombietown happens to be the closest place I can do that right now." She tells him truthfully, "Why… isn't Seabrook like the perfect paradise?" It had always seemed that way from the glances he got along with the newspapers and few channels they allow the zombies to access.

"It is… but that means you have to be perfect to fit in… and being perfect all the time isn't easy." She tells him all the while wondering why she's opening up to a zombie, no a boy she'd just meet when she never even told this to her family or friends before.

Zed had never thought about that before, if you lived somewhere perfect then wouldn't you have to be perfect? That meant Addison likely felt like she couldn't be herself, that she wouldn't be accepted for being who she was. It was surreal to realize that maybe humans had problems too.

Glancing up at him she is startled to find him gazing at her so seriously, he was really listening to her. To her problems, but why?

"I'm sorry, here I am complaining about how hard it is being perfect when you have to live stuck behind a wall." He chuckles, "Yeah that's true but behind these walls I've always been able to be me, maybe you can find that here… I mean that's what you came here for isn't it?"

"Yeah… but humans aren't supposed to be here, it's not like I can show what I am without causing problems." She looks down at the floor, "I have to hide here too…" she sighs, and Zed looks around thoughtfully, "Maybe… maybe not."

Her head lifts back up, "What do you mean?" Addison asks curiously with a tad of hope.

"Well I know what you are, and I also wouldn't mind finding out who you really are, so you can always be yourself around me." He rubs the back of his head, "Anytime you want to come to Zombietown we can hang out."

She was stunned at his offer to get to know her, the real her. Not the girl in the wig, she didn't know if she was grateful or scared.

Her hand reaches back to her hood before she makes a decision, yes, she did want someone to get to know her, flaws and all.

And what was her freakish hair if not a major flaw in her eyes.

"It's my hair… it's not normal, in fact, it's freakish and I can't change it." Her eyes find his and he looks curious before he reaches up to his own hair, "Well my hair wouldn't be considered normal by your standards, either right? So, we have something in common." His grin was contagious.

It made a smile grace her own face for a moment before it falls again, "But it's normal for zombies, I've worn a wig as long as I can recall, and I even made the cheer squad this year but if they knew about my hair, that I am different I wouldn't have."

He shakes his head and mutters, "Well I guess that's one thing I can say that we do better here."

Addison had noticed, all the zombies despite having similar clothing that she knew was government issued and not their own choice still was unique in their own ways, and that was just a surface observation, so how many differences would she notice if she had the chance?

"So, can I see your hair?" Zed glances from her face to the hood she was wearing, and her hand automatically reaches up to hold it to her head, "NO!" Her words were loud and panicked before she claimed down, "I mean… sorry, I just never let anyone see it."

He nods, "Okay but if you ever want to take off your hood I won't judge you for it."

She smiles, "Thanks Zed… maybe someday."

"Deal." Zed says holding out his hand, so she extends her own and they shake on it before an idea occurs to him, "Hey let me show you something."

Without waiting for her to say anything he gently pulls her through the hallway to an area where there were lights all over, "What is this place?" She asks in awe, "It's a zombie light garden, see we don't have the ability to actually have real gardens with flowers, not enough land to plant them or enough water to spare to grow them so we came up with our own version of a garden."

"It's amazing." She tells him making him smile as he leads her around, "Come on let's take a walk around the garden." Addison agrees and the two walk through it, the human taking in the light glow of the many bulbs and Zed watching her face taking in her expressions.

Zed had spent time with girls before, one of his closest friends was a girl even but there was something different about Addison and it wasn't that she was a human or even her hair; which the zombie had no clue as to what it looked like but was sure whatever it was suited her and was just as pretty as she was.

It hit him then, the thing that made her different… he liked her... like liked her.

Normally Zed wasn't overly sappy or romantic but when he realized that it occurred to him that she might even be 'the one' for him of course if she was that would be a probably given that he was a zombie and she was a human but at the moment the realization had him on cloud nine.

The consequences could be thought about later.

That night Zed and Addison talked until the human realized it was nearing midnight and she had to leave but she promised to come back when she could, and they agreed that they'd meet up at the zombie light garden at seven on the nights they could.

So, for the next several weeks they did.

One week she got up the courage to lower her hoodie after a piece of her hair had fallen forward and he told her it was beautiful just like her, she was sure she was falling for him, for Zed who was a zombie.

There was no way it could ever work out between them, but she kept coming back anyway.

Because even if they could never be together he was still her friend and the person she felt the most comfortable around.

Now though when they weren't worried about someone seeing she didn't wear her hood up around him as there wasn't any need too, he didn't think she was a freak, in fact, he liked her hair which in turn gave her a new appreciation for it.

Zed showed her around Zombietown during her trips and she'd even met his little sister Zoey who figured out what she was easily enough but promised not to tell in exchange for Addison teaching her some cheer moves.

Other than Zoey she'd briefly met Bonzo who didn't speak anything but zombie tongue still he was sweet in his own way and Zed told her she could trust him not to say anything about her presence there not even to Eliza who was a close friend of theirs, one who hated humans.

One day after nearly a month of knowing each other something interrupted their normal routine.

It was close to nine and the two were talking inside the zombie light garden, another zombie mash was happening only the second one since she'd started coming to Zombietown.

"So, wait Eliza hacked her Z-Band to play video games?" Addison asks, and Zed was about to respond when all the lights went out startling the girl as voices started calling out, it was the Zombie Patrol.

Zed reacted quickly by grabbing her hand whispering at her to be quiet and leading her out a secret way and sticking to the shadows all the while.

Her heart was racing at the thought of getting caught by her father's patrol, what would happen if they found her there? It was forbidden to got to Zombietown unless you worked in the Zombie Patrol… if she was caught they'd never let her come back, and she's never she Zed again.

The thought made her sick and then other worries made themselves known to her as she remembered she wasn't even wearing her wig.

What would they say about her hair? Would everyone find out? Would they even know it was her without her wig on?

Luckily Zed kept a grip on her hand and was helping to ground her as well as lead her while she was having her mental panic attack.

There were a few close calls but eventually, the two arrived at the gate where the patrol was currently slack due to being spread out around Zombietown.

"Thanks, Zed… if they had found me-" He cuts her off, "They didn't. You should go, I'll see you soon?" Addison smiles and quickly hugs him before making her way outside the gate only to whisper back through it, "See you soon."

Zed smiles and makes his way back home carefully.

Laying in bed he thinks about Addison with a goofy smile on his face and is looking forward to seeing her soon like she said.

Since they meet the longest the zombie boy had gone without seeing her was four days so when the fourth day came and went, and she still wasn't at the zombie light garden Zed got worried and by the time a week rolled around he was distracted.

In school, if you could call a basement of a building that should be condemned a school the green-haired boy was lost in thought and Eliza was finally taking notice as he wasn't able to hide it as well with nothing but a rambling teacher to focus on.

His friend tries to get to the bottom of it, but he doesn't tell her, but three days later Bonzo does.

"A human are you crazy?" She nearly yells at him but is wary of their surroundings as the three of them are outside.

"That's why I didn't say anything before, I knew you wouldn't like it." The girl rolls her eyes, "Of course I don't like it! Do you know what they'd do to you if they caught you alone with a human?" Zed shrugs, "I dunno, I never really gave it much thought."

She huffs, "Of course you didn't! Do you want to be locked up in zombie confinement?" Zed tells her she's exaggerating causing her to glare at him, "I don't think I am, Zed I don't know her and I don't like her but seeing that you do I'll tell you this for the good of her as well as you, stop seeing her."

Zed protests, "Really this 'friendship' can only end badly, mostly for you but do you think people would be nice to her after she's willingly spent time with zombies?"

He doesn't know how to answer that, so he sighs, "It's not like it matters anyway I haven't seen her in almost two weeks…"

Eliza frowns, "That's a good thing." Zed looks down, "You need to just get over this, move past it. She may have realized that too."

He doesn't say anything and three days later Eliza is fed up with him and his sulky attitude.

"Zed snap out of it!" She hits him upside the head and he just rubs his head, "I just wish that I could talk to her one more time you know, at least say goodbye to her properly."

The green-haired girl sighs, "…If you could do that then you'd move on?" Zed nods slowly and sadly, "Yeah… but it's not possible."

Eliza frowns and she can't believe what she's about to say, "Actually there's a way…"

His head shoots up fast, "How?"

"I can make you look human for just a little while then you can sneak out and say your goodbyes," His eyes widen, "You could do that!?" She looks uncomfortable, "Yes… but I'll only do it once and only for a couple hours so you get out, say bye then get right back in… this is crazy I can't believe I'm even considering-" He hugs her, "Thank you thank you thank-"

"Yeah, yeah let go of me." She cuts him off and shoves him away, "Just don't get caught, okay?"

Zed nods with a grin that has been absent lately.

Eliza sighs and hopes she's doing the right thing.

Bonzo who had been listening quietly until now looks back and forth before pulling both of them into a hug.

In the movie, Zed thought she might be 'the one' or at least told his friends that pretty early on so I hope his thoughts are in character in that regard. Also, this is unlike every other story I've ever written to date where the romance pretty much moves at a turtle's pace cause that's my preferred method this romance may seem a bit fast (especially if you read anything else from me) but don't worry it's not like they're instantly in love it's just that they are falling in love so it's a very strong attraction/crush for now.

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