Chapter five is here! It's time to cheer! Lets see how Bree and Chase do at collecting food...

Disclaimer- Do I need to repeat myself again?

With Chase and Bree…

Chase clutched his canoe paddle so tight that his fingers turned white. He wasn't exactly thrilled that at any moment a zombie could jump out and attack them. And they weren't exactly well defended with their ownly weapons as a canoe paddle and a bat.

"So… the movies become real life." Chase attempted at making small talk as they speed walked to Publix. It was the closest convenience store from the neighborhood.

"Yeah, and Chase are you sure we can even find anything at Publix? Wouldn't it just be completely abandoned?" Bree said.

"Uh maybe? But what other choice do we have? We barely have anything in our fridge since Adam already ate all our food!"Chase reasoned.

The rest of the trip was filled with stony, awkward silence. Chase sometimes tried to make more small talk but it just ended up being more awkward then before. Eventually he just stopped, realizing that he was just making it WAY worse than it should be. When they finally made it they were surprised to see that it was open. The outside of the building was completely wrecked and the big publix sign was upside down and hanging down the roof, like it'll drop any second. There was a bunch of "red paint" splattered everywhere. The teens walked in and saw that the inside still was intact and there was a teen sitting down next to a shelf with Oreos on them.

"Welcome to Publix!" The guy said too cheerful. He stood up and walked over to them.

"How are zombies not attacking this place?" Chase said suspicious.

The guy shrugged before saying "I'm Owen. I've just been using this place as a base and helping the people who come." Owen then pulled his sleeve up. "Well help them before I turn into a zombie." There was a large scratch running down his whole arm. "I figured, might as well spend the last few days of my life helping people."

"You got scratched? I did too!" Chase said while Bree looked at Owen in sympathy. "Do you know what happens!?"

"Yeah. Happened to my best friend. First you start to have headaches and sometimes muscle spasms. Then you get the feeling that you wanna eat brains. Finally, after two weeks or so, that's when you turn. It's a really slow but sometimes painful process of turning into a zombie." Owen explained sadly before going back to his happy mood. "Anyways your here for food right?"

Bree looked like she was falling for him which made Chase's blood boil. He could be just as good as this 'Owen' guy!

"Yeah." Chase snapped as he started to gather a bunch of junk food from the shelves.

Owen helped them while humming a song, not sensing Chase's hostility. There were a bunch of bags of chips, some sodas, even some tic tacs.

Owen grabbed a publix bag that was just laying around and shoved all the food the three of them collected into it. He tied it so no food would fall out on the journey back then gave it to Bree.

"Have a nice day!" Owen said smiling while looking at Bree. Chase could tell Bree was blushing. Chase decided to cut in with a curt thank you before dragging Bree away from Owen.

Chase and Bree walked out the door. He decided to complain a bit about Owen.

"Who says have a nice day in the middle of an apocalypse!?" Chase said.

"Chase he was just trying to be nice." Bree said.

"It was almost like he was happy about all of this!" Chase waved his arms around pointing at all the wreckage caused by zombies. Many buildings were splattered with what Chase hoped was red paint but it was clear what it actually was. The sky seemed to sense the change in Mission Creek and changed with the city. It was a stormy grey instead of the usual blue. The few blades of grass still on the ground were all dead and shriveled up. And it all happened in a day!

"Well I thought he was just trying to be optimistic!" Bree defended Owen. How could she defend him!? She just met the guy! Who knows what he was like before the apocalypse! Chase was about to shout just what he thought to Bree when he tensed up and froze. He held his canoe paddle even tighter. A scared look appeared on his face. Bree opened her mouth to say something but stopped seeing Chase's expression.

"Chase what's wrong?" Bree saud completely oblivious to the fact that a zombie was approaching them behind her.

"Bree DUCK!" Bree didn't need to be told twice to obey and Chase swung his canoe paddle through the air, whacking the zombie behind Bree, sending it flying through the air.

"You…saved me" Bree breathed.

"Let's just get back home before more show up!" Chase said in fear at what he just did and started running down the street. Although in his mind he was thinking I just saved Bree from a zombie! Ha take that Owen!

Bree just shook her head before following. My hero. She thought sarcastically.

Bree and Chase ran until they made it back home. They both definitely didn't want to encounter any more zombies. If they made it through the apocalypse, they could have joined a the track team!

"It's about time!" Leo got up from the couch and snatched the bag out of Bree's hands. He threw a bag of chips to Adam and took one for himself before setting the bag down at the table.

"About time!? Bree nearly got mauled by a zombie!" Chase said as he took a bag of sunchips and a coke to his laptop. Bree got her junk food lunch and sat down next to Chase on the couch and looked over at the laptop. Chase inwardly blushed. Bree was sitting next to him!

"Let me guess. Bree saved herself while you were cowering in fear." Adam joked.

"No! I smacked the zombie with my canoe paddle!" Chase said and then got back to work while eating.

Bree nodded for confirmation.

While Chase and Bree were out, Adam had found the box of tic tacs from publix.

"Who wants to see me eat all these tic tacs!?" Adam said excited.

Leo looked up at him and stopped eating another bag of lays. "You know what's weird?" Leo said to Bree and Chase. "I kind of want to see that."

Adam started chugging them down right away and tic tacs went flying. Chase was about to open his mouth to say something about him being stupid but a tic tac ended up in his mouth which had Bree and Leo burst out laughing. Some of the small breath mints flew into Bree, Chase, and Leo's hair, some flew into their food, and some you don't even want to know where they went. Adam continued chugging them down until there was no more left in the box and the floor was covered with the small breath mints.

"Oh shoot!" Chase blurted out suddenly.

"What is it!?" Adam, Bree, and Leo said, thinking it was urgent. Adam spat out a bunch of tic tacs while saying that and they all flew onto Leo.

"I got sunchip crumbs on my keypad." Chase pouted before grabbing a napkin and carefully wiped them off the keypad.

"Really!? Way to psyche us out!" Leo said shaking to get all the tic tacs off of him before continuing to eat the rest of his chips.

Bam! What do you think!? Anyone like Chase saving Bree?

School starts tommorow... :(

~ BaconPineapples