A/N: This beginning author's note is the same for the stories I'm uploading today so if you've already read it. Thank you for reading more than one of my stories and if not...read on.

Hi, yes, I'm not dead. I know it's been a while since I've updated but I'm here to say that this is my MEGA UPDATE which means every single one of my stories is being updated today. Sort of a Christmas Present for everyone but if you don't celebrate it well. It's a Happy Holidays treat for you. I hope you all enjoy! :D

So many gun shots. Kendall and Jo came back in and sighed as they sat down. Camille dropped from her gun and just rested against the wall.

"So many rounds of ammo, gone." Jo sighed.

"I'm sorry, we're sorry." I apologized.

"It's not your fault, you didn't know." Jo told me as she put her gun back.

"That's a lot of guns." Kendall told her.

"Thank you."

"Guys, I don't think we're safe here anymore. I mean, that was a lot of zombies and I'm sure that someone heard the gun shots."

"What are you saying?"

"I'm saying that someone could think we're out of ammo and try to hunt us."

"Camille, we can just kill them like all the rest." Jo told her.

"Wait a minute, me and Carlos don't plan on sticking around. We're just going out for supplies." Kendall told her.

"And then what?"

"We're going back to my house rest for the night and head out to southern California."

"Southern California for what?"

"They say that there's a zombie free zone set up there."

"And what if it's not? You aren't just lone ranger here. You have a man and his baby." Jo said to Kendall. She did have a point.

"I can protect them. I've been doing so since I found him."

"But you never answered my question."

"There are updates everyday. They say the same thing but they're counting down the days."

"But you've seen those resident evil movies. What if it's a set up?" Camille asked.

"This wasn't started by some government. This was because some dumbass crashed a plane and things spread like wildfire. And like I said before, there are people saying the message everyday."

"Okay, fine. Let's say you go with your little plan, wouldn't it be shorter to leave from here?" Jo asked.

"I have to go back to get Bell." Kendall told her.

"Who."

"My dog."

"Well, he does seem sure that there's this safety camp. Maybe we should go too." Camille said.

"What?"

"I'm tired of being the bad guys and robbing people out here, Jo. I just want to have some type of progress from all of this."

"Fine." Jo said before turning to Kendall. "So where are we going now?"

"Wait, who said I was taking you with me? I'm on thin ice aren't I?"

"Kendall!"

"I'm just saying. She did try to kill us."

"But she won't now." I told him.

"Yeah, and we invited you two in."

"That's because you know him. If it was just me, you two would've robbed me or killed me."

"Would you stop and just let them come with us?"

"Fine but if she crosses us and they rob us, I'm blaming you."

"They won't. Right?"

"We swear we won't." Camille said.

"I need her to say it." Kendall said, pointing to Jo.

"We won't rob you." Jo told him.

"Alright, to answer your question, we were going to head down to the store and see if we could get some supplies. I think if we can find a Target we'll be good."

"I think there's a shopping mall down the road." Camille suggested.

"A shopping mall doesn't sound too safe."

"It is, all of the malls and stuff were the first places people would go. As suspected most of them died by panicking, getting trampled, or turned into a zombie." Jo told Kendall.

"But wouldn't that mean that it's crawling with zombies?" I asked.

"Not necessarily. Once they hear something they'll go running to find out what it is."

"But it's still a probability." Kendall added.

"I mean, yeah, that's with everywhere."

"True."

"Well, we can't just stand here wasting daylight." Camille announced.

I made sure I grabbed everything that I brought with me and checked on Hannah. I covered her face with a blanket after I put on the headphones. Kendall grabbed his guns while handing me mine as Camille and Jo stocked up on their guns.

"We can't take everything." Jo told Camille. Camille nodded and grabbed two pistols and a her sniper rifle. Jo grabbed her two pistols and a machete. They put their ammo on their belts before looking at me and Kendall.

"You guys got everything?" Kendall asked them. They nodded and we made our way out of the building. We went through the back of the building and headed into an alley. We slowly moved down the alley and around the car that was sitting there.

"Follow me." Camille told us. We all followed her, looking around every corner and avoiding zombies as much as we could.

"We're here." Camille said as we approached the mall.

"The front doors are locked." Kendall said as he pulled on the double doors.

"Bust the windows." Camille told him as she picked up a rock.

"No, do you want to get killed?"

"Fine then what plan do you have blondie?"

"I say we sneak around back and find a door or something."

"That'll take forever."

"Or we can just press the wheel chair button." I suggested before pushing it. They all looked at me in shock and I smiled as I walked into the mall.

"You know, if this were like a movie or something, this wouldn't be such a good idea." Kendall said as we walked in.

"If this were a movie we wouldn't have all these guns. We would have a shitty pistol with like four bullets." Jo told him.

We walked inside and everything looked like it had been raided and there were spots of blood everywhere. We all looked down when we felt something ripple under our feet. I gasped at the huge poster that looked like it would hang from the second level. It wasn't the size that made me gasp but what was on it. It was Kendall and his band.

"Whoa, you were famous before all of this?" Camille asked and Kendall nodded while looking up.

"We shouldn't get side tracked. Yes I was in a band and we were at the top of the charts."

"I knew you looked familiar." Jo said as Kendall continued forward.

"What's gotten into him?" Camille asked me.

"His band left him to die when he got hurt." I told her.

"Oh." She said as we followed Kendall. He walked to the middle of the mall where there was a map next to the blood stained fountain.

"Keep your eyes peeled for zombies. You never know where they are so check the whole store before you start to look for stuff." Kendall said as he wiped the dirt and blood off of the map.

"Okay there's a target at the end of the mall but I think we should go there last, we'll be able to cover more. I say we start on this side of the mall and do sort of a sweeping method."

"That sounds about right." Jo said.

"But we don't have that sort of time." Camille added.

"Then only go to stores you know you can benefit from. We don't really need accessories so we can avoid most of these stores. We'll get all of the food from Target and then we'll leave from there."

"It shouldn't take us long." I commented.

"Will we be back to your house before dark?" Camille asked Kendall.

"Yeah but we have to hurry." He said as we made our way to the end of the mall.

I ignored the Game Stop and all of the food stores. I didn't want to risk heading into Best Buy so I grabbed some headphones and iPod case for Hannah from the mini carts that charge ridiculous prices. I took them out of the case and put them in the diaper bag before looking for a baby store.

"Carlos, I think this is a place you might be looking for." Camille said over the railing.

"Baby clothes?" I asked her.

"Yup."

"Looks like someone already beat us to the jewelry store." Jo commented.

"I said no accessories."

"I was just looking." Our voices really echoed since the mall was empty. I headed upstairs to the baby store.

"What size is she?" Camille asked.

"She's 5 months but I would get some 5's and 6's just in case." I told her as we checked the store for zombies. Once everything was clear we grabbed bags and began to put clothes that we liked in the bag.

"So how did you meet Kendall?" Camille asked, trying to start conversation.

"I was sleeping in an empty sewer pipe and I woke up to him with a shotgun in my face. He said he was going to rob me but he saw I had Hannah."

"Ha, so he is just like us."

"Yeah, which is why he probably didn't trust you. I didn't trust him either but I didn't have a choice. He offered me a place to stay so that was nice of him."

"Are you blushing?" She asked me. I laughed a little while nodding my head.

"Do you like him?"

"He's cute and he cares about me and Hannah."

"You're not answering my question?"

"Yes, I like him."

"Oh, just wanted to know."

"What about you and Jo?"

"We've been together since this whole thing started. We met when we were taking a self defense class in college and things went from there. She asked me to be her girlfriend about six months ago."

"Aww, you know her grandmother tried to get us to go out. It's still funny to think about how Jo reacted. She did this sort of panic head scratch thing. I saved her by telling her grandmother that I wasn't looking for anyone at the moment."

"So how did that miracle happen?" Camille asked referring to Hannah.

"I had a girlfriend and we fooled around and created her."

"Did the zombies get her?"

"No, she died giving birth."

"Aww, I'm sorry."

"It's fine. Took me a while to get the hang of taking care of a baby without her since she read all of the baby books." "I think you're doing just fine."

"Considering the situation we're in." I said chuckling a little.

We grabbed a lot of things and I slipped in a toy that I knew she would like. We had one bag each by the time we left the store. We walked past a bunch of stores that didn't have much of anything we needed.

"Hey, guys a DSW." Jo called out. We all headed there and got some new shoes.

"Don't get anything too heavy or bright." Kendall told us.

We all seemed to have the same concept of getting black boots. The girls got boots with thick heels on them, replacing the ones they had on while me and Kendall just went for regular black boots. Once everyone had their boots on we exited the store, leaving our old shoes behind. We continued our search of the mall which was just us walking into random stores, seeing nothing we needed, and walking out. I checked on Hannah and she was just laying against me, slowly dozing off.

"Hey, Carlos." I turned around to see Kendall from behind me with two bags in his hand.

"I got this for you." He said, handing me one of the bags.

"It's a baby bag. I figured you'd want one if you saw it so I got it for you."

"Thank you, you really didn't have to get this."

"It cost a ton but it was worth the price." He said, jokingly, making me laugh.

"Well, as long as you got the five-finger discount." I said, making us laugh more.

"Aww, growing love." Jo said, walking past us.

Camille was behind her and when she heard her say that her eyes widened in shock and she covered her mouth, continuing to follow her. I looked back at Kendall and he was blushing madly. I tried to force my blush away before he saw me but I knew it was too late.

"Ah, well, you're welcome." He said, scratching the back of his head.

"Why do you have two?" I asked him.

"I know you have her clothes so I figured I could use this one and put her baby food and other stuff in it and carry it for you."

"You don't have to do that."

"It's the least I could do especially after how I treated her this morning."

"You were just being alert."

"I know but I still feel bad and you're already carrying a lot."

"That's very nice of you."

"Come on, love birds, we don't need to be here all day." Jo called out and we could hear Camille giggling. We all stood at the entrance of the target section of the mall.

"Does target have any alarms?" Jo asked as we walked in. Nothing sounded off so we split up into different ways. We all agreed to meet up in the food section after we searched the store.

"Keep on the look out. You never know what's in here." Kendall told us before we got too far apart. He's so caring and sweet. I wish we could've met sooner.

"Day dreaming about him?" Camille asked me.

"Shut up." I told her, continuing my way through the store.

"And aren't you suppose to be checking the store?"

"There's nothing here except for clothes, which we don't need because nothing's really black."

"Well come with me to the electronic section."

As we walked down the path to the electronic section, we checked for any zombies that might be hiding. I walked through the DVDs, mindlessly looking at them before I moved on to the CDs. I immediately saw Kendall's face along with other guys that I guessed where his band. There was six of them all together. I picked up the CD and looked at the back of it. I took the seal off and opened it, looking at the booklet inside.

"If you wanted my autograph all you had to do was ask." Kendall whispered in my ear, making me jump.

"Ha Ha." I said sarcastically as he continued to walk.

"Don't take that CD, I don't like 5 out of the six faces on there." He told me as he walked further away from me. I chuckled as I put the CD back before I got an idea. I headed to the male shirt section. Ha! I found it. Even better luck than I expected. I found a shirt with just him on it. On the bottom it had his name in graffiti letters. I put the shirt in my bag and headed over to the food section to see that I was the last one to arrive.

"What type of food did you get?" I asked Kendall.

"I've only been picking up a lot of baby food. The girls have been getting healthy snacks."

"What type of baby food did you get?"

"I just grabbed everything and we can just go through it later." I didn't question him as we moved along the aisle.

"Do you have any little snacks for her?"

"No, I just focus on just getting food."

"A baby can't go through life without snacks." I chuckled at him as he threw animal crackers in the bag. He grabbed another box and tried to open it, only for it to explode, sending animal crackers everywhere. I felt little tiny feet move against my stomach and I knew what that meant. She was up and ready to get out.

"What's wrong?" Kendall asked me when he saw the concerned look on my face.

"She's getting antsy." I told him.

"Oh, crap. Girls, It's time to go."

"Why? What's wrong?" Camille asked, coming from around a corner.

"Hannah's getting antsy." He told her. Jo came around the corner in time for her to hear Kendall as well.

"Oh crap."

We all made our way towards the entrance as Hannah's feet started to move more. I rocked her a little but it seemed to make things worse. Everyone began to walk faster when she started to whine. I looked over at Kendall and he was fixing the bag him. He took the straps and put them across his chest before I felt him take the empty bag off of my shoulder. He opened the bag and took the other bags I had, putting them inside the bigger baby bag.

"How are you doing that and walking?" Jo asked.

"It comes to me second nature. I could still do it even if we were surrounded by people. Well, you know, people that wouldn't eat our brains."

"Okay Mr. Rockstar."

"Oh stop, Mr. Rockstar's my father." Kendall responded, making me laugh. I noticed that Kendall basically took everything out of my hands except for Hannah's old baby bag.

"Oh, crap. I forgot diapers." I said, stopping.

"Don't worry, I got those." Kendall told me.

"I bet you do." Jo chimed in, making him blush. We walked up to the Target entrance that lead to the parking lot and when the doors slid open they made a loud screeching noise.

"Fuck." Camille cursed when she noticed we caught the attention of a zombie. That's when it sort of turned into a chain reaction. Zombie after zombie came out of nowhere.

"Everyone back into the store." Kendall said, turning back around.

"What do we do?" I asked him.

"We have to find a different way out." He said as we ran back into the main part of the mall. We made our way to the middle and when we looked to the left we saw zombies clawing at the glass. Kendall ran over to the map and began looking for a way for us to get out.

"Shit shit shit shit. Okay, follow me." He said, running back towards where we came from.

"It's a tight shot but we can make it!" He yelled as we ran, following him. We could see the zombies coming towards us and they were starting to pick up speed. Kendall turned down a narrow hallway that most people would miss if they weren't paying attention. He kicked open the maintenance door before running down the stairs.

I held Hannah close to me as I ran down the steps so she wouldn't move so much. I could hear the door slam and I knew it was one of the girls. I looked down to see Kendall kick open the door to the maintenance room.

"Come on." Kendall said, gesturing for us to go inside. We all crammed into the medium size room that seemed really small with us and our bags.

"What are we doing in here?" Jo asked Kendall.

"We can't go back, we're basically sitting ducks in this small room." Camille added. I didn't say anything because I knew Kendall had a plan for putting us in this small room.

"We can't go back but we can go down." Kendall said, smiling.

"Down?" Camille asked before everyone looked down.

"We're going in the sewer?" Jo asked.

"It was either this or we run through the storage area and then run to my house. Besides, I've spent months in these sewers."

"That's disgusting."

"But I'm alive aren't I?" He asked, proving them wrong. We all took a step back as Kendall lifted up the heavy metal, sliding it over.

"Oh god it smells." Camille complained.

"Yeah. Who's first?" Kendall said, somewhat ignoring her complaining.

"I'll go." I said, taking a step closer. I took out the iPod and shined it down the pipe to see if there was a ladder. There wasn't one but it wasn't that long of a drop.

"Be careful." Jo told me as I sat down on the floor, throwing my feet into the sewer hole. I held Hannah close to me as the sound of banging came from above us. I slid forward and dropped down into the sewer. The water there gave a small splash as I landed in it. I could hear the girls make noises of disgust.

"Carlos are you okay?" Kendall asked me.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Come on."

"Go on." Kendall told one of them. A second later down came Camille. She squealed as she hit the ground. She moved out of the way before Jo came down, groaning as she landed in the water.

"This is so gross."

"And disgusting." Camille added onto Jo's complaint before there was a loud slamming. You could hear the sound of zombies coming closer.

"Kendall hurry up!" I told him before he threw the bags down for Camille to catch. He slid part of his body into the sewer and looked like he was reaching for something. From the sound of metal scrapping the ground I knew he was moving the sewer cap.

"Shit." He said as he slid from the opening, landing in the water.

"We have to close it!" He yelled. I quickly handed Jo Hannah before running over to help Kendall.

"Lift me up." I told him. He held his hands out and cupped them for me to stand on. He lifted me up and I pulled the sewer cap as fast as I could. I could hear the zombies banging on the door.

"Lower me down a little." I told Kendall as I moved the sewer cap over the hole. The door burst open and the zombies kicked the sewer cap into place. I quickly moved my fingers so they wouldn't get crushed but I lost my balance. I fell back, only to be caught by Kendall.

"Don't worry, I got you." He told me. I couldn't help but smile and blush a little.

"Alright now, you can continue this once we get back to the house." Jo said as bounced Hannah up and down.

"Right." Kendall said as he sat me down on the ground. Kendall took the bags from Camille before leading the way through the sewer pipe.

"This is the place." Kendall said coming to a stop in front of a pipe.

"Well, let's go." Jo said walking before Kendall stopped her.

"Not unless you want the alarms to go off."

"Alarms, where?" Camille asked.

"Trip wire right there." Kendall said, pointing at the thin fishing wire. Kendall stepped over the wire and everyone followed him into the pipe. I got Hannah back from Jo and put her in the carrier as Kendall climbed the ladder. I followed him with the girls behind me.

We all stood there as Kendall moved the sewer cap back over the hole. We followed him up the stairs and I could hear nails scratching against the floor and I knew it was Bell running towards the door. Kendall opened the door and greeted her before heading over to move the walls of iron in front of the window.

Once he did that with every window, Camille cut on the light in the living room and we all sat down and went through our things.

"Kendall, we should put the food away before we do anything else." I said to him as I took Hannah out.

"I'll keep an eye on her." Jo told me as I sat her on the couch. I grabbed the bags of food we had and headed into the kitchen with Kendall. We went through the bags and took out everything, sitting them on the table. All of the baby food that Kendall got was put to the side for us to go through. We separate things by weight and quantity.

"Do you have dog food for Bell?" I asked Kendall.

"Yeah." He said, pulling back a curtain, revealing tons of dog food bags.

"And if we run out, I know what things she can eat and what she can't." "I doubt you'd run out." I said, chuckling. Once everything was sorted and thrown back into bags for traveling, we started on sorting the baby food. Some of the stuff she didn't like or she couldn't eat so we took those and put them in a separate pile.

"I wonder who pitches ideas for baby food flavors because some of this just sounds disgusting." Kendall said as he pushed them to the side.

"Well, whoever they are, they aren't doing it anymore." I said, making both of us laugh.

After we had to separate piles we took the ones that she didn't eat and put them in a bag and sat them in the corner. We took the rest of them and checked the expiration dates on them. Most of them had about another year before they went old. All of the good ones were put in Hannah's baby bag.

"You know, not all of the baby food is bad." I told him as he started dinner. I grabbed one of the jars that I tried before and opened it. Kendall had his back to me as he put the food on the stove so he couldn't see.

"I doubt that."

"I'm serious. I've had some of it before."

"Ew. Why?"

"I had to try it before I gave it to Hannah." I said as I grabbed a spoon.

"True." He had his hands full so I took the spoon and scooped some of the baby food out.

"What are you doing?" He asked when he heard the spoon hit the side of the jar, turning to look at me.

"Try this one." I said, holding the spoon in front of him.

"Ew, no."

"Come on, I've had it before."

"No, it looks gross."

"Just trust me on this." I told him. He sighed and opened his mouth. I fed it to him and waited for his reaction. He made a disgusted face as he ate it.

"See, it's not bad, right?"

"Oh god, it's gross." He said, holding his tongue out like a five year old. I sat the spoon and jar down to get a napkin for him. He took the napkin and wiped his tongue as I laughed at how his face looked like he was in pain.

"You actually like that?" I nodded my head as I tried to stop laughing. He reached past me and threw the napkin in the trash. It wasn't until now that I realized how close we were. He seemed to realize it as our eyes connected.

The next thing I knew, he was leaning towards me, connecting my lips with his as his hands moved to my hips, pulling me closer. I became so entranced in the way his lips moved so perfectly with mine that my arms wrapped around his neck, deepening the kiss even more.

"Whoa." Me and Kendall both jumped apart, blushing madly as Jo stared at us.

"Don't let me stop you, just throwing a dirty diaper away." Jo said as she did so before leaving.

"M-Maybe we should start on dinner." I suggested.

"Yeah."

As we prepared dinner, I could see Kendall lean over from the corner of my eye and placed a kiss on my cheek. I couldn't help but smile at him. I was definitely happy I found him, well, he found me but you know what I mean.

A/N: This story's cuteness is beyond amazing. I realized halfway through that they aren't being any type of interested in each other so I had to fixed that as you can see. To everyone who has stayed with me with this story is amazing and this story is going to get really interesting. Especially as the relationship develops. REVIEW PLEASE! :D