Second Chance

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Do you remember when we were younger and we thought there were monsters under your bed or in your closet? Try being a 16 year old girl and still having that feeling. I get to live in a place where there are monsters everywhere. Where I live I can see living dead from my window. Hi i'm Chris. The people I live with are mostly family. Some are friends though. My sister, Kylie, is 11 years old. My best friends Michelle, Madison, and Patpat all stay with me. Also my cousins Rebecca and Danielle stay with me. My grandparents and my aunt and uncle stay with me also. My aunt and uncles kids are with us also. The rest of my family travel in another group but they are close always. My boyfriend Shane stays with us too. My friends boyfriends also stay with us.

Let me start with this my family and friends all travel in large tricked out semi trucks because earth has been infested with living dead. In otherwise zombies. We can't travel alone or you'll die instantly. If you get

bit you get changed slowly into a zombie. You start to crave human flesh and the pack you travel with will kill you to save the pack. We are trying to find other survivors. If your found alive and not infected you will be accepted into the pack.

So far my family has learned to kill the living dead easily. I've been taught to kill and defend myself. Shane is always on my side fighting with me. My sister is always on my side also but I keep her safe always. If you get bit there is a cure but we only use it on people who are freshly bitten. I've been in many fights and battles but it feels nice to get to relax here and there.

My family has built a fort that is really safe. Its got a large fence with barb wire around it. The place where I live used to be a small neighborhood and I live with my friends and boyfriend in a two story motel thats a pale brown. There is no electricity but we manage to live. There are sometimes violent sand storms but we go to the basement and stay there until it's done. Did I mention the world is covered in sand?

" Hey babe can you come help me for a second?" asked Shane. "Yeah I'm on my way up!" I answered. Shane was upstairs working on the bedrooms. He was adding to the windows so the violent sandstorms wouldn't get in the rooms. I was downstairs working on the kitchen trying to figure out how to get the lighting to work. I almost had it until Shane asked me to help him. " Can you hold this for me?" he asked. " Yeah sure can." I replied. He nailed in the wooden board into the window sill. " There that's the last one. Thanks babe I love you." he said to me. He looked at me and then leaned in and kissed me short and sweetly like a thank you kiss. I could feel my face turn hot and I could instantly tell I was blushing. He smiled his sweet smile at me. Madison then walked in and said, " Shane and Chris sitting in a tree k-i-s-s-i-n-g!!!" " Oh shut up. It's not like you and Blake haven't kissed!" I answered. She smiled at me and walked over to the window and knocked on the newly put in board Shane just put on. " Hopefully this keeps the damn sand from the stupid motherfucking sandstorms out of my dang room!" she said jokingly." I surely hope so and I almost got the power to come on but I need more wire." I said. Shane walked out the room and Madison and I followed him out. He walked downstairs and into the creation room. That's where we create weapons and clothing that can help us carry weapons. We have made so far a gun that can shoot and can cut with a blade. It works pretty

good.

All of a sudden we could hear the windows start to rattle. " EVERYONE DOWNSTAIRS!!!" I screamed. I could hear everyone run downstairs. I took off running to the stairwell. Everyone followed each other down the stairs. Shane was the last one down. I found a candle and lit it so we could see. " Those damn sandstorms!" Rebecca screamed over the wind. "Nows your chance to see if those boards will hold up!" I screamed at Shane and smiled up at him. He looked down at me and smiled. He leaned down and kissed my forehead. Again I started to blush furiously. I looked over at Michelle and Jason. Jason leaned down and kissed Michelle on her cheek. Michelle looked over at me and smiled. I smiled back and then turned to where Rebecca, Michael, Madison, Blake, Patpat, and Alex were all sitting. Rebecca was sitting next to Michael snuggling up to him. Madison was doing the same thing with Blake. Alex was holding Patpat in his arms resting his chin on her head. Caleb was sitting with Danielle resting her head on his shoulder.

The storm only lasted 7 minutes but I seemed like an eternity. Shane took my hand and we walked with each other to my bedroom to see if the boards held up during the storm. " Great! They held and the good thing is that we can open the boards up when we are in the rooms." Shane said happily. " Let's go see if any thing else got damaged because if not we could maybe not have to keep going to the basement anymore!" I said happily. We both walked around the house and saw nothing damaged. I was super excited that we most likely won't have to go to the basement anymore. "Hey do you want to go for a walk and tease the living dead?!" I said to Shane. He nodded his head and said, "We should ask everyone else if they want to come with. Don't you think?" "Sure why not." I replied. We asked everyone and they all came with us. We love to mess with the living dead by get dead animals we could find and throw them to the living dead so they would all get in fights.

"Hey do you think we will ever win?" I asked. "Win what?" patpat asked. "I mean like kill all the zombies and bring back some civilization." I said back. "Oh....well I don't know." She said back. That's when Blake walked in and asked, "Have you guys seen Madison?". I looked over at patpat. She had a worried look on her face. I then looked over at Blake. "No we thought she was with you." Patpat said to him. We all had worried looks.

"MADISON!" we screamed. We were lookin everywhere for her. We looked in the kitchen, at the library, even at the adults' house. We couldn't find her anywhere. "Maybe she is at the park?" patpat suggested. "Yeah I remember her saying something about going there to read." I said. "Let's go then you retards." Blake said sarcastically. We all walked to the park looking out for Madison. She was sitting on the bench reading the book I got her for her birthday. "Hello?!?!? Thanks for the heads up that you would be in the park reading!" I said sarcastically. "Well I'm soooorry!" Madison said back playfully. We all walked home joking the whole time.

"Hey do you guys want to go to the mall? I need some more stuff." Michelle asked. "Ughhhhh do we have to?" moaned Madison. Does it seem weird that teenage girls don't want to go to the mall? Well the mall is the most dangerous place because it's infested with zombies like all other places. We have to go in our tricked out cars with alot of amo to kill the zombies. We usually take the one semi we have so we can carry all of our stuff. If your wondering how we get through with out getting eating well we go through the back hall which usually only has 2 or 3 zombies. We go to our stores get our stuff we need and go. "We probably should because I need new clothes and I need to make some more carrying clothes because we are going on that trip to fort Larson remember?" I stated. "Oh yeah I forgot doesnt that take like a week to get there?" Patpat asked. "Yeah but it could be fun. Hey Michelle can you help me make the clothing?". "Yeah I can but what are the groups this time?" Michelle asked. "Well who wants to be in a group? Me and Shane are always together so how about me,Shane,Michelle,Jason,Rebecca,and Michael.Then Danielle, Caleb, Madison, Blake, Patpat, and Alex. My group will be in charge of getting clothing and food. Danielles group will be in charge of getting amo and food also. Get what you can and don't get hurt. We will leave tomorrow. " I said.

"Well, everyone ready to go for a adventure?" Madison said. "Hell yeah!" Michelle replied quickly. We left soon and arrived well armed. "Well let's go kick some zombie ass!" I said enthusiastically.

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