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"He is kicking so ed to wedge hiet a view out theHe let out a series of lols

Travis yelled soreatover their heads, loaded up hat looked like bags filled with dirt or uiding the driver of the machine to just the perfect spot, then made a doard stroke with his arht into the center of the re Most of the zo of thirty zo over their dead comrades

Travis made another motion and the men retreated down their ladders, picked up the ladders, walked to the wall, rested the ladders against the wall, and scrambled up and over into the construction site Once the ladders were back over the walls and everyone was safe, cheers erupted throughout the complex

Katie turned to Jenni and saw her face was very flushed and excited

"He’s aed Jenni to her and said, "Yep, he is"

And Travis, at that veryKatie’s, and smiled

2 Another Moehammer She almost felt drunk as she finally lay down on the cot set up for her in a se roo’s sloped roof ht a little difficult unless you were in the center of the rooet the out in portable buildings that were now doro been set up as a bo the Coht up for those taking refuge in "the fort"

Jenni had seemed wired and very awake after the zombie attack After they had talked to Ralph on the CB and he agreed to provide weapons to the fort if they could figure out how to pick them up, Jenni had slipped out with Travis to follow him around on the complex He had asked Katie, but she was far too tired and had begged off Now she sat on her cot watching Jason fix a bed on the floor for Jack using a blanket he had pinched when no one atching the supplies

She had ed to take off her boots and socks and now sat in her olive green hunting pants and her black tank top She desperately wanted a shower, but there was a sign in sheet to use the only shower located in the city hall janitor’s office She had a slot for the early

Jason looked up at her and slid onto the bed under the sainst the slant in the roof, for, examined his bed, circled three tiain, and lay doith a yawn

"Uh, Katie?"

"Yeah?"

"Uonna hook up?"

Katie double-blinked and said, "Huh?"

"My Moirl for about teeks Moirl, but I was just wondering…" Jason trailed off seeing Katie’s expression "Sorry"

"No, it’s cool" Katie sighed and ran her hands over her hair, which fell free to her shoulders in soft curls "Okay, just because I like girls does not irl In fact, it is ht women I value myself too much to be someone’s experiuess that is whatsincedeal out of having a girlfriend then it was over in weeks Then she just went from boyfriend to boyfriend until she died in a car accident a few years ago"

"Is that when you came to live with Jenni?"

"Yeah I didn’t really want to like her Mom always called her "that bitch", but she’s really sweet Kinda goofy She’s kinda like an older sister I’hed and lay on the cot "I just thought ether"

Katie laughed and shook her head "I’m not a lesbian"

Jason looked at her shocked "Huh? But you said-"

"I’irls all through high school and college It just happened that the person," Katie’s voice caught in her throat and she couldn’t talk for a moment "I fell in love with and wanted to spend one either way, but it was her: Lydia" She pulled out the ca the picture to Jason

"She’s hot," Jason decided "Where is she?"

Waving her hand distractedly, Katie stared at Lydia’s beautiful smile, then snapped the phone shut with her other hand "Somewhere out there

One of them"

Jason winced "Sorry, Katie"

"Me, too…hed and lay back on the bed "I’ve had souy"

"What happened?"

"To ement?"