I wake up I my tent to figure out everyone else is already awake. I guess we wake up early considering the fact that we could die in our sleep. I get out and I see John and Wesley talking to each other near the supplies truck, Ryan and Emma are riding on their horses while talking. And Carol is still asleep.

But I see Jesse near the fire. Just siting on a log. I don't know why, but I like her. I know it's stupid to fall in love, especially at a time like this, but I just like her somehow. I don't even know her, but I feels like I do.

I feel like I've seen those hazel eyes and long black hair somewhere. Maybe I'm just being silly. She walks up to me. Guess I was caught staring at her. "Hey newbie. Let me tell you something, we wake up pretty early around here. So there's no sleeping in." I nod my head and she then starts to tell me something else.

"Andy and Bob are out hunting for food. And we need some more supplies, are you in?" I look at her for a second. "Yeah. Yeah sure. No problem. None at all." She gives me a little smile and chuckle and heads of to get the horses. I follow her smacking head for being stupid.

We take the horses and ride to wherever she wants us to go. Throughout half of the ride we didn't speak. There were so many times I could've broke the silence, but I didn't know what to say. Until she breaks the silence herself. "So, newbie, what's your story? I still don't really know you that much.

I clear my throat to answer her question. "Well, my name's Martin Cunningham, I was born in Miami." She stops me. "No. I mean how did you get end up in the hospital? Where's your family? You know that stuff.

"Well my dad died of lung cancer when I was 5. I don't know where my mom is. And my sister janet is good thanks to you guys. And I got shot from some kid in school." She looks kind of sad now. "Wow. I'm sorry. Your sisters was worried about you. But I told her that you'll somehow be fine."

I smile just a little. "Well andy and I were just fine until all this happened. My mom and dad got bit, my younger sister Julie got bit, and now andy and I are all alone." I show her that I'm pretty sad. Until I speak.

"Hey. You got the team. And me. So there's nothing to worry about." She looks better now. And we talk about some other stuff while riding out horses.

We arrive at a very deserted and broken down walmart. We park our horses and head in. "I'll see if there's anything worth getting." She says. I head out to the food isle and see if there's even food left.

I take out my backpack she gave me and start putting some beans, and water in the bag. I then later see salt and rice. Looks like we can make some rice and beans.

"Now my bag is full with rice, beans, salt, water, band aids, a knife, and my sister favorite juice that I was suprised to see. Now I'm ready to go.

I look to see if jesse was around but heard nothing. Only silence. Until I heard that same growling roar. And I heard the voice for jesse. "Help me! Help me!" Oh no. Jesse is in trouble!

I sprint to where I heard her voice. Oh no. Not her. I was just getting to know her. I thought. I see her and get out the hammer from my bookbag. The zombie is about to bite her shoulder until I push it off of her.

"I got it!" I said. Whack! The backside of the hammer went straight through the zombies forehead. He falls down and I Whack his head some more.

"Are you okay?" I say with a scared look on my face. She ignores it and gives me a huge hug. She whispers thank you about 5 times in my ear.

She let's go of me and wipes of her tears. I don't know why, but I then gently wiped of a tear from her cheek. "Hey. It's okay. I'm here." She hugs me again, but this time when she let's go of me, she slowly leans forward. As if she wanted to kiss me.

I lean forward too and just go for it. She closes her eyes. But then she stops herself and refocus herself. "Um. Thanks for saving me." She says. "Oh. Yeah. No problem." Damn it. So close. Maybe next time Martin. I thought.

We get back to the camps to see everyone talking to each other. Andy comes to us. "Hey. Where were ya?" He says looking at jesse. "We went to get some supplies." She says. "Well while you guys got supplies, we got some weapons that you little friend here should use." He looks at me and tells me to look at the weapons.

The weapons I saw were 2 machetes, a large pipe wrench, a dagger, a hammer, and a 2 katanas. "Now this is a hard decision, but you have to pick 2 of these weapons. You can pick the machetes and katanas, the machetes and the hammer, whatever you want.

I look at them and think which could be useful. The hammer and pipe wrench are very small and need to take a lot of hits. Just like back at the store. But the katanas and machetes seem like you could just slice right through it with enough strength and power.

"I'll take these." I picked the machetes and katanas. "Hmm. Nice choice new kid." He giggles and walks away. I'm kind of cool with that nickname. Jesse comes up to me and starts to whisper in my ear. "You can't tell my brother about the zombie attack. If you do, expect to wake up in hell tomorrow." I nod and walk away fast.

A couple moments later, John comes to me. "Hey. Funny question, how are things with you and jesse?" I look at him for a second. "What do you mean? There's nothing happening. We're cool." He catches my bluff. Just like the old days.

"C'mon, you can tell me anything. You've been doing that since kindergarten. So do you like her or not?" John always finds away to sneak into my brain. "No. Yes. I don't know maybe. I don't even no her that much."

Just then John starts to laugh a little. "Bro, just go for it. You don't even need to go out with her. Just tell her you like her." Of course he'd say something like that. "It's not that easy. I don't even know if she likes me." "You'll never know if you don't try." John them leaves me alone and walks of somewhere else.

Jesse then starts walking to me. "Hey newbie, we didn't really finish our discussion." She says. "We had a discussion?" She laughs and calms herself down. "Yeah. you still don't know about me." I clear my throat. "Well. Tell some stuff about you."

"Well, my brother and I lived in Georgia when it happened. You already know about my mom, dad, and sister. But I would like to properly introduce myself." She stands up all formal like she's in the military. "My name is Jesse Porter, I am 16, and my bother is Andrew Porter."

I laugh to this. Then I stand up too. "My name is Martin Cunningham, I am 16, and my sister is Janet Cunningham. Nice to meet you Jesse." She smiles. "Nice to meet you Martin" we shake hands and start laughing. She walks away lookimg happy. I take out my sword and think to myself, wow. This is what the world has come to.